While Obama has been on the
party circuit Standard and Poor's Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating. Credit rating agency lowered the rating from AAA, the first debt downgrade in the nation's history.
Obama left immediately after he signed the
sham debt deal for round of parties to celebrate his birthday and to fundraise.
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The
parties just keep coming for birthday-boy Barack Obama. After a Chicago fund-raiser
the night before he turned 50 and a White House party on the big ay, a third
event is now planned for New York. This time it is high-powered movie mogul
Harvey Weinstein who will host the
president at his Big Apple home, reports the New York Post.
Can Obama blame Bush on the menu choice for birthday bash? After all Bush gave BBQ'S in Texas during his tenure as President, so it must be Bush's fault that the meal was All-American..be ##
president at his Big Apple home, reports the New York Post.
Can Obama blame Bush on the menu choice for birthday bash? After all Bush gave BBQ'S in Texas during his tenure as President, so it must be Bush's fault that the meal was All-American..be ##
EXCLUSIVE -- The President's
private 50th birthday bash, not listed on his public schedule: His gift to the
press corps was a travel/photo lid shortly after 4 p.m., prompting what pooler
Julie Mason called "general cheering in WH workspace." An hour later,
the party started...
... with dinner in the Rose Garden, accompanied by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band. Then the First Lady and his daughters presented POTUS with a cake, and everyone moved into the East Room for performances that included R&B singer Ledisi, and Herbie Hancock. Stevie Wonder came up at the end and sang a medley ending in "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours." DJ Cassidy played Motown, hip hop, and '70s and '80s RandB.
--The president asked everyone to dance -- and they did!
--DINNER: BBQ chicken, ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, pasta, salad.
--DESSERT: apple, peach, huckleberry and cherry pies; chocolate cake.
--GUESTS : Al Sharpton, Patrick Gaspard, UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski, Leader Nancy and Paul Pelosi, Secretary Tim Geithner, Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Rep./DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Virginia Gov. and DNC Chair Tim Kaine, Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett, Michael Strautmanis, Pete Rouse, Bill Daley, Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, Denis McDonough, John Brennan, Rahm Emanuel, Tina Tchen, White House chef Sam Kass, Julianna Smoot, Marty Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker, Linda Douglass, and many more.
--CELEBS: Jay-Z, Hill Harper, Chris Rock, Charles Barkley, Steve Harvey, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Grant Hill, Gayle King.
--Also present: Chicago pals, law-school friends, donors - and lots of kids of friends, who stole the show by doing dance routines to the hip-hop songs, in the center of the East Room.
... with dinner in the Rose Garden, accompanied by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band. Then the First Lady and his daughters presented POTUS with a cake, and everyone moved into the East Room for performances that included R&B singer Ledisi, and Herbie Hancock. Stevie Wonder came up at the end and sang a medley ending in "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours." DJ Cassidy played Motown, hip hop, and '70s and '80s RandB.
--The president asked everyone to dance -- and they did!
--DINNER: BBQ chicken, ribs, hamburgers, hot dogs, pasta, salad.
--DESSERT: apple, peach, huckleberry and cherry pies; chocolate cake.
--GUESTS : Al Sharpton, Patrick Gaspard, UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski, Leader Nancy and Paul Pelosi, Secretary Tim Geithner, Secretary Arne Duncan, U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Rep./DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Virginia Gov. and DNC Chair Tim Kaine, Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett, Michael Strautmanis, Pete Rouse, Bill Daley, Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, Denis McDonough, John Brennan, Rahm Emanuel, Tina Tchen, White House chef Sam Kass, Julianna Smoot, Marty Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker, Linda Douglass, and many more.
--CELEBS: Jay-Z, Hill Harper, Chris Rock, Charles Barkley, Steve Harvey, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Grant Hill, Gayle King.
--Also present: Chicago pals, law-school friends, donors - and lots of kids of friends, who stole the show by doing dance routines to the hip-hop songs, in the center of the East Room.
