Posted on 05/19/2010 7:16:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama Wednesday deployed the full pomp of a White House state dinner for only the second time, honoring Mexico's President Felipe Calderon with a sumptuous menu and elaborate decor.
The White House was also road testing unspecified extra security measures, after the inaugural Obama state dinner last year for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was marred when a socialite couple gatecrashed the festivities.
Key members of the US-Mexico community were expected among 200 guests at the glamorous black-tie gala evening at the White House, as well as actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Eva Longoria, and Mexican billionaire business mogul Carlos Slim.
R&B Diva Beyonce topped the entertainment bill for the dinner, taking place in the East Room of the White House, with the action later moving to a luxury marquee on the South Lawn of the presidential mansion.
The marquee, the size of two-thirds of a football field, decked out in elaborate black decor and nightclub-style lighting, featured a stage and baskets of flowers and models of Monarch butterflies dangling from the ceiling.
The Monarch butterfly migrates from Canada, across the United States each year to Calderon's home state of Michoacan in Mexico.
Beyonce was to be supported by Rodrigo y Gabriela, a flamenco-celtic rock band famed for cover versions of heavy rock bands like Led Zeppelin, and the US Marines Band.
The menu mixed Mexican flavors -- with a starter made of Jicama, a turnip-like vegetable popular in Mexico served with oranges, grapefruit and pineapple -- with Obama's own heritage -- a Hawaiian Opah fish from his home state.
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And he didn’t get dinner either. He sat there while Obama had dinner.
What the heck is a flamenco-celtic rock band?
notice neither one of them looks even mildly interested in stepping toward her to lend a hand, which would be reflexive in normal people I know
meshell looked particularly glum and angry this evening
The stuff doesn’t match or go together, colors and/or style.
They were donated to the Goodwill years ago- and they were my grandmas.
While Rome burns.
so did the dalai lama
Lets see, two state dinners so far, Mexico and India.
Lets see...its OK for Bambi to check ID’s at the gate but wrong for Az. Ca. Nm. and Tx to do the same. I get it.
And how about the way he treats the governor of the state just north of the Mexican border? That is the most insulting of all.
GROSS
You mean he was checking papers to be sure no undocumented guests arrived at his party.
It's nice when the prom committee from Hoboken gets a chance to decorate for such a big event.
I realize the man is the President. But they have been way overboard slobs from the get go.
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
I wish they would invite old man Bush... he could puke on her.
LLS
And the worst part... someone bedded that ....... SEVEN TIMES!
LLS
LLS
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