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Old 07-31-2009, 09:34 AM
 
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It's not private when you have a gaggle of people with cameras behind a cordoned off area, announce which beer was selected by each particpant, talk about the table selection process and make it an outdoor thing followed by statements to the media. If they all truly wanted to meet and talk they would have just done it without the fanfare, maybe in the kitchen.

I suspect the cameras could just look and not listen because the President didn't want an unanticipated Joe The Plumber moment from any of the other three (including Biden).
Evidently you dont know what the "Joe the Plumber moment" was, but I think this arrangement was all right. I agree, they should have met in the kitchen and then each talked about it (if he felt like it) later, but photographing for all of us to see their body language and facial expressions, showing who spoke, smiled, etc. MOS was an okay decision and maybe better in the long run for everyone, given the insane speculation and sour-grapes bad wishes that went on about it among right wingers.
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Old 07-31-2009, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Southwest Nebraska
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Why the hell not?
Not a republican and if it were Sarah Palin I most definitely would.
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Old 07-31-2009, 11:56 AM
 
Location: East Chicago, IN
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Who would say no to a White House invite? Seriously? Declining would be social suicide.
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Old 07-31-2009, 12:06 PM
 
Location: CITY OF ANGELS AND CONSTANT DANGER
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so which presidential invitation would you accept?

i would accept anyone.

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I would respectfully decline.
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Old 07-31-2009, 03:26 PM
 
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It woulda been a lot more fun with Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth quotes
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Old 07-31-2009, 03:44 PM
 
Location: FIN
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Put yourself in this cop and professors' shoes? Would you accept the invitation and waste your Friday night with this rube? Or would you decline?
Never in my life have i turned down an offer to go for a beer. So yes... but since he would have invited me.. the first round would be on him.
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Old 07-31-2009, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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I would have to politely ask to replace the beer with something non-alcoholic since I don't drink anymore. I'd accept the invitation just to see the monuments of DC and the White House itself. I don't like Barrack and Michelle Obama but I'd still like to see the White House and DC monuments.
If you like museums, there is no better city than D.C., in fact, no other city can even come close
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Old 07-31-2009, 04:31 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth Texas
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Put yourself in this cop and professors' shoes? Would you accept the invitation and waste your Friday night with this rube? Or would you decline?
Accept the beer , pee in the rose garden
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Old 07-31-2009, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Without hestitation. I would be honored by the invitation and I would introduce him to some good home brew.
I would only have a few conditions.
1. No media
2. No clintons
3. No Kennedy's
Biden could come if he promised not to tell anymore BS stories about Home depot.

Ha Ha Ha!!! Thats hilarious!
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Old 07-31-2009, 04:49 PM
 
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Hell no.
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