Posted on 09/01/2009 5:17:39 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The other day President Obama issued a special message to the Muslim world for the annual Ramadan holiday. Tonight, before leaving Wednesday for the rest of his stay-cation at Camp David, the president hosts a White House banquet to celebrate the same holiday.
Invited guests include three cabinet secretaries, numerous diplomats, five members of Congress including the lone Muslim, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization mission.
Here is the list of invited guests, as provided by the White House:
Cabinet: Defense Secy. Robert Gates, Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Kathleen Sebelius, Secy. of Health and Human Services.
Deputy Cabinet Secretaries: Deputy Secy. Dennis Hightower, Dept. of Commerce and Deputy Secy. Adam Miller, Dept. of Education.
Congress: Reps. Andre Carson (Indiana 7th), John Conyers (Michigan 14th), Ellison (Minnesota 5th), Rush Holt (New Jersey 12th) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN). Diplomats: Amb. Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al Hussein, Jordan; Amb. Adel A.M. Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia; Amb. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan; Amb. Erlan A. Idrissov, Kazakhstan; Amb. His Excellency Said....
...Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan; Amb. Aziz Mekouar, Morocco; Amb. Peter N.R.O. Ogego, Kenya.
Also, Amb. Roble Olhaye, D’jibouti; Amb. Michael Oren, Israel; Amb. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Indonesia; Amb. Klaus Scharioth, Germany; Amb. Meera Shankar, India; Amb. Nabi Sensoy, Turkey; Amb. Sir Nigel Elton Sheinwald, United Kingdom; Amb. Sameh Hassan Shoukry, Egypt; Amb. Samir Shakir Mahmood Sumaida’ie, Iraq and Amb. Pierre Nicolas Vimont, France.
Also the following Chargé d'Affaires: Sheikh Mohammed Belal, Bangladesh; Ilango Karuppanan, Malaysia; Mohamed O Maiga; Angela Oi Foong Shim, Brunei; Baba Gana Wakil, Nigeria and Maen Areikat, Chief of Mission, Palestine Liberation Organization.
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ping
All cultures, all religions are not the same.
All I can think of is - Bacon wrapped smoked pork loin. Pig liver pate’. Sausage balls. chitlins. Collard greens and fatback.
And then I think, WTF?
This is like a bad episode of 24.
Shouldn’t this be called a “Holiday” dinner?
Hillary must be fuming. A state dinner without those “dirty jooooooooooooooooooooos” and she can’t attend.
Lugar. The token tool.
I guess this makes it a bipartisan selling out of America.
Pretty big list of criminals.
I wonder what’s on the menu.
Impressive guest list.
I guess Mohammad Atta can’t make it.
“Angela Oi Foong Shim”
She better cover that big head and sit in the back.
ping
Gates is a whore.
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What the heck is Lugar doing there? Maybe he should move to Maine and become their third Republican Senator. Not allowed I know, but what does he hope to accomplish by breaking bread with the enemy - foreign and domestic?????
So how were the ham, oysters, and beer?
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