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White House 2010 Governors Ball: Menu, Wines, China, Flatware (What recession?!)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 22, 2010 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 02/22/2010 7:10:37 AM PST by maggief

The room was very elegant, with candles, gilt-edged plates, gold embossed name cards and such.

The menu: French Onion Soup with Croutons Rib Eye Roast with Shrimp Scampi Roasted Potatoes, Carrots and Mushroom Caps Seven Layer Salad Baked Alaska

Wines offered: Sugarleaf Vineyards Petit Manseng 2008 Landmark Vineyards Syrah "Steel Plow" 2006 Fenn Valley "42 Ice Wine" 2008

Governors' Dinner Table Settings 2010 SERVICE PLATES - CLINTON STATE CHINA SERVICE, made by Lenox Inc., Trenton, New Jersey, 2000. Commissioned to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the White House.

KING CHARLES SILVER FLATWARE, made by Gorham, Providence, Rhode Island, 1974; supplemented in 2006 by Lenox Inc., owner of the Gorham molds.

KENNEDY GLASSWARE, made by the Morgantown Glass Guild, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1961; supplemented in 1991 by Lenox, Inc.

CREAM SOUP CUP AND SAUCER - JOHNSON STATE CHINA SERVICE, made by Castleton China, Inc., New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1968

WATER GOBLET - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT STATE GLASSWARE SERVICE, Tiffin Glass Co., Tiffin, Ohio; cut by T.G. Hawkes & Company, Corning, New York, 1938-1955; and later reorders

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (C) and first lady Michelle Obama (L) at the 2010 Governors Ball at the White House in Washington February 21, 2010.

1 posted on 02/22/2010 7:10:38 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (C) and first lady Michelle Obama (L)

(C) - Centerist and (L) - Leftist?

2 posted on 02/22/2010 7:14:06 AM PST by Pan_Yan (Is the sarcasm tag really necessary?)
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To: Pan_Yan

LOL!


BARF!

http://www.necn.com/02/21/10/Cheers-Obama-delivers-Governors-Ball-toa/landing.html?blockID=184176&feedID=4215

Cheers! Obama delivers Governors’ Ball toast


3 posted on 02/22/2010 7:15:21 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
There's too much China in this White House!

The 2010 election will feed this Obamination its just Desserts!

4 posted on 02/22/2010 7:16:59 AM PST by Young Werther (wtih)
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To: maggief

The menu made me hungry!

Pawlenty the global warmer is seated next to Mechelle!!!


5 posted on 02/22/2010 7:18:24 AM PST by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: maggief

Nothing but the best.

PUKE.


6 posted on 02/22/2010 7:19:24 AM PST by bergmeid (Gas up the truck and pedal to the metal!)
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To: Young Werther


7 posted on 02/22/2010 7:20:04 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

8 posted on 02/22/2010 7:23:59 AM PST by They'reGone2000 (Palin 2012 * No teleprompter required)
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To: maggief
Michelle: "Let them eat cake!"
9 posted on 02/22/2010 7:25:02 AM PST by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: maggief

welcome to communism


10 posted on 02/22/2010 7:25:21 AM PST by television is just wrong
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To: maggief

Those tables are too small, and I don’t care how expensive they were (well, yeah I do) they are supposed to have tablecloths.


11 posted on 02/22/2010 7:26:06 AM PST by txhurl
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To: They'reGone2000

RINO extraordinaire.


12 posted on 02/22/2010 7:27:00 AM PST by maggief
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To: MrChips

13 posted on 02/22/2010 7:27:02 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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“Let them eat cake!”

http://www.daylife.com/photo/07Pf5mkepU4jA?q=michelle+obama+governors+ball


14 posted on 02/22/2010 7:29:07 AM PST by maggief
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tell me it ain’t so......is she proud of her country now for the first time?

Now i get it~~~Demand your country to do for you NOT what you can do for country.

yup, i got it-Thanks ‘chelle /s


15 posted on 02/22/2010 7:32:56 AM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: paulycy

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


16 posted on 02/22/2010 7:35:04 AM PST by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: maggief

Were there any governors who refused to go?
Curious.


17 posted on 02/22/2010 7:40:34 AM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: maggief
These F bunch of rotten communists are just taking America and milking it with fun and games. King Obama won the lottery and he is destroying America. They are all rotten to the core.
18 posted on 02/22/2010 7:42:22 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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They should have stayed home. How can they go and hang out with the devil knowing full well what his intentions are.
20 posted on 02/22/2010 7:45:21 AM PST by angcat (GOD SAVE US!)
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