Dinner With The President
On the invitation it says “dinner with President Obama” and the tickets have cost you (or, more likely, someone else) $30,000 each. Except when it comes down to it, you eat in one room, but he eats alone in a different room. You wouldn’t be impressed. Fun from the New York Post:
The big spenders who shelled out $30,400 a head for dinner with President Obama at the Four Seasons restaurant and at Anna Wintour’s house didn’t actually break any bread with him.
After starting Tuesday night at a dinner for 60 high-rolling Democratic supporters hosted by hedge-fund billionaire Marc Lasry, Obama headed to a private room at the Four Seasons to wolf down steak, potatoes and broccoli with two aides before heading to Wintour’s Greenwich Village home.
Obama arrived at the Four Seasons at 5 p.m. Spies said he gave a short speech and schmoozed with 60 attendees, including Lasry and Joan Ganz Cooney, wife of Blackstone Group’s Pete Peterson, and ex-Martha Stewart CEO Sharon Patrick, sitting briefly at each table before dining alone.
For $30,000 if you’re hungry TheEye will happily head off to the pub and leave you alone. You can borrow the barbeque on the patio but please clean up after yourselves, and no feeding the dogs.
$30,000 ? … are these people simply insane ?
I wouldn’t pay 30p to be anywhere near that shyster .. let alone eat near him ..
Like they say .. “There’s one born every minute” …
PJ O’Rourke once wrote that ‘People are seduced by proximity to power’ – and he referred at the time to the Washington elite.
Besides, even restricted access isn’t a washout. If one of the attendees tells someone that they dined with Saint Hussein, the other party is unlikely to say – for how long’, as they probably have had even less access.
I appreciate what you’re saying NN ..
But why would anyone in their right mind voluntarily admit to being in the same room as this fuckwit ?
I mean .. would you volunteer that you’d been in close proximity to B’Liar or McSnot ? .. I know I wouldn’t ….
In fact, I’d sooner shove Acupuncture needles into my own eyeballs than admit to the ignominy of having been near any of ’em ..