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Subscribe to RSSAfter a long and -- at times -- contentious campaign, President Obama and Mitt Romney sit down together for lunch at the White House on Thursday. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
President Obama and the man he defeated in the 2012 presidential contest -- Republican Mitt Romney -- will have lunch Thursday at the White House, Obama's press secretary announced.
It will be the first meeting since the election's end.
The White House said there will be no press coverage of the meeting.
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This must be the "man date" Obama was talking about a couple of weeks ago.
Good one
obama will be asking romney how to save the economy.
Wall Street and Investment bankers messed this country up. Where do Investment firms (which Willard ran) get their money from? Do you know, do you know, do you know?
The GatewayBull - Who allowed banks, investment firms and insurance companies to merge into the to big to fail banks that brought the economy to it's knees? Do you know, do you know, do you know? I'll give you a hint. They have D's and R's in front of there title and they work in Washington DC.
The sincere thing I find sad is people are actually happy that Obama won. I have news for you if you voted for Obama you not only FAILED your country!!! You failed your family, your children, grandchildren and down the line, your neighbors, your friends, coworkers, people you don't even know. It is sad that you follow someone that has zero alligence or even 1/2 decent ideals. But congrats you have sentenced this country and the rest of us to for more years of failures!!! Have fun trying to sleep while you think of your kids and grand kids standing in a bread line because of your stupid mistake
Examples please. Also, examples of where the Republicans helped.
Ahhh... Progressing right on schedule... Good,... very good...
From the denial stage to the anger stage...
Classic psychological progression after a traumatic event...
Wow solid, I wish I could think of something clever to say but to tell you the truth, I'm stunned by your comments. However, your angst is exactly the way I would feel if Romney had been elected.
Solid waste...
Obama won, because he faced an opponent who "isn't worried about 47% of the American people"
I'll bet YOUR friends, coworkers, children, grandchildren and people YOU don't even know, are part of that disposable group.
He said so, why wouldn't you believe him?
Ironically enough, Romney got 47% of the vote. What's that tell you?
Obama's sole purpose is to use the Governor which is another way of grandstanding before the American people. He's skilled at this and is one reason folks fell for his BS and was reelected despite his disgusting first 4 years.
And low and behold when the White House called, Romney went running. lol
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People still don't get it.
Two parties - but the same games and good ole boys behind closed doors.
Obama is going to ask Mitt to help him setup an investment account, since he has no clue about finance. Furthermore, he'll ask Mitt to hide everything offshore and in foriegn investments so his IRR goes up after Obama ruins the country.
Willard is a smart guy when it comes to stealing money. The last guy like that spent 8 yeears in the WH and did a world of hurt. History has proven twice that business CEO types don't make good Presidents.
Neither do "community organizers", whatever that is, with affirmative action educations.
Since you don't know dont knock it. To be frank it is an investment firm thats about helping people get their lives together. With out money being the principal.
Right, a bull$hit artist, what I thought.
Willard is just that.
Why in the Hell would he want to talk to him....
Out of the Blue: Probably because Pres.O failed his first 4 years on the economy and he wants to pick Romney's brain on what to do in the next 4.
Because Odumbo doesn't have a clue
Exactly!! Why would Romney want to have lunch with the Socialist in Chief?
I hope that the President is a gracious host and Thanks Mitt for going out of his way to help the
residentI mean the President get re-elected.Your right Stan he really should thank Romney. Never has there been a more vulnerable sitting President. Romney (and the rest of the Republiclowns) basically gave him another term. Had there been a real, viable candidate (not Bachman, Santorum, Gingrich, or any of those other idiots who tried) Obama could have been beat. Clinton beat an incumbant Bush Sr., Reagan beat an incumbant Carter... If you want to beat a vulnerable incumbant, you need a true candidate who relates to ALL Americans, not just a select few. Romney was just not the guy.. Obviously!
Obama's first question to Mitt, "so what is it like to actually have a real job?" Obama's second question, "so what's it like to actually run an enterprise successfully?"
Really...
Except for losing elections... What has willard been doing for the last 10 years??
Except for rounding out his stable of dancing horses...
President Obama third question, now can we see your tax returns?
Third question after the first two are answered:
"OK, so what is this deficit thing every one is talking so much about and how will it effect my spending?"
K1200RS: Romney didn't lose only the American people lost. Ronney had the solutions BUT that's not what the American people wanted. So we just have to deal with it.
Did he every put them forward. him and Ryan could never get it straight for a while. Never heard him say a plan. Heard him say he had ideas. Never a plan.
Interesting Gateway, because the only plan I heard from Obama was how to save Big Bird.
Yup, you guessed it....more spending
Based on some of the posts here, it appears there's alot of "buyer's remorse" in the US. Romney has the solution to our economic woes and Pres.O wants to pick his brain. Pres. O and his advisors (Geithner) couldn't figure it out in his first 4 and I'm fairly confident theh won't be able to figure it out in his last 4. Knowing Romney loves his country, I'm sure he'll try and help the Pres. for the sake of this country.
Sore losers! lol.
The President will most likely throw him a bone and implement some sort of minor Romney campaign idea and a gesture of good will to the losing party.
Unfortunately, as is quite obvious from the posts in this discussions, Republicans and the Tea Partiers will ignore it and continue with their obstruction of the truly important issues.
Re-Elect: Republicans aren't sore losers. Based on these posts it appears liberals are still campaigning for Obama even though he won. The Romney bashing continues and yet Romney has moved on but many liberals haven't, I wonder why???
Heck yeah we're campaigning. We won the election and we will campaign against conservative obstruction to implement the policies that the American people chose.
Romney's campaign was bad and the vast majority of his ideas were bad, and the American people knew it, period.
Republicans on the Hill are still acting like they won and are trying to implement the ideas of the losing campaign.
That has to stop.
Funny how you think Republicans have been the only ones to obstruct anything.
I guess you guys can only look at things one way.
And good job getting 20% of the actual U.S. Population to vote for your guy. Well done.
Funny how Senator Harry Reid has faced faced 385 filibusters during his leadership while Lyndon Johnson had to deal with only one when he ran the Senate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/filibuster-reform-mitch-mcconnell_n_2193840.html
One can only hope that "Jobs and Economy 101" is a part of their lunch date
That should have been priority 1 when Obama took office in Jan 2009.
If job creation were the primary focus, just think of the additional revenues that could have been generated by more people working, instead of disappearing from the workforce rolls.
Obama and his advisors missed the most important page from the Clinton playbook. "Its the economy, stupid".
But policiticoguy.....Obama didn't have Gore as his VP to create the internet that created all those jobs when Clinton was in office.
It's a unfair advantage that Clinton got lol
Look this President is about mending fences, he's that type of guy and the AMERICAN people are aware of his FAIRNESS and honesty and so 51% of the electorate RESPECTS this president, irregardless if you don't like his policies.
I wouldn't be surprize to learn-- the President offered Gov. Romney a position in his cabinet, because the president is that type of guy.
You're joking right? Fairness? Like for those with actual jobs. Mending fences, like telling the GOP to get in the back of the car, or that certain Americans don't pay their fair share? Wake the phuck up!
You don't listen well. It was the bus and he said they could get in the back if they did want to work with him. Neer said they had to. Seems that they ended up there anyway.
Get help mentally or get off the drugs, your man LOST get over it, lets move forward america and STOP giving WAL STREETL PERKS to sell our JOBS OVER to foriegn nations as BUSH did..and this is what WE AS A NATION are are revovering FROM, get a CLUE!
America let's LEAVE those behind who ARE STILL pissed off because of the election..let's leave them BEHIND to their OWN misery ans America can move FORWARD with energy efficient jobs ans infrastructure jobs such as re-building our roads and bridges, and mainly items MADE in AMERICA by americans.
Again get a CLUE!....or be miserable american.
The Gate Keeper: Romney has a job already working at his son's business plus he has more than a dozen grandchildren. Romney has already moved on and I'm sure he's happy doing what he's doing.
Hey you lost. Elections have consequences.
The American people said the President gets the keys for another 4 years. So, you don't get to drive.
The 1% can afford to cough up 4% on income above their first $250k for the benefit of the country.
@Believe in America..
What does Gov Romney working anywhere have to do with the fact the president could offer Gov Romeny a position in his administration? Nothing, who wouldn't want to have a position in any president's administration as apart of one's career resume?
Obama should have invited Ryan also... that way both Romney and Ryan could wash the dirty dishes for real this time... ;-)
I hope the first words from Obama are- naa ,naa, na ,naa ,naa. How's Karl Rove's PAC's working for you now. Maybe your here to buy the U.S. for Bain Capital so you can outsource all the Democrats, maybe? BTW Mitttens , have you found your income tax returns yet? Hey, Willard how's you house with the elevator in the garage coming along? Better yet, Obama should ask him , sure glad your not you are not going to occupy the White house , you A-HOLE.
You should change your picture - The DUKE was a republican
And don't bother with an actual Democrat like JFK in your pic either. The left is so far removed from greatness it is truly disgusting
60's: Hello, you don't need to be campaigning for Obama anymore, remember he won so move "forward"
Change Needed,
The Duke WAS a Republican.. Back when being a Republicans meant that you cared about the country, and ALL of the people living in it. Not just a select few of extreme right wing conservatives who only want whats in thier wallet to get bigger and fatter. Republicans used to be the party of the people, not the party of just some people. Shame..
I work and pay taxes, so that folks like Mitt and his friends, don't have to.
It's still disturbing how bitter and angry the liberal left now seems.
Maybe it's a case of they lost the enemy in Romney and a new one has not been officially identified by the left yet? A transition of hate target not complete?
They did win the election if I remember correctly
Oh, I'm quite happy.
You're just projecting your own frustration after losing the election.
Now put on your big boy pants.
They are bitter because they thought Obama could destroy the country in 4 years, and it will actually take 8. They hate this damn resilliant country.
LOL!!!
Nice... Transfer the delusional frothing of teapublicans here to other targets..
Amusing,.. yet lame...
Next...
We still have the house - you aren't the big winners you think you are and that's where the bitterness comes in.
Damn, that's a coincidence that is also the same thing I thought on election night.
You got a job? If so what do you do?
Marcus, WHO exactly is "bitter and angry" You need new reading glasses.
From what I've been reading since the election, it dosent seem like its the liberal left.
@Marcus
Yes I do. Fortune 20, healthcare, market analysis.
What's your point?
Sounds like you're one of the wealthy that we need to put a squeeze on then.
How much taxes do you pay each year, actually pay in?
Obama has no idea how to fix the economy or how to prevent the fiscal cliff so he is asking Romney how to fix it.
I told you we should have elected Mitt in the first place!
We already had a dozen teapublican goons try to float that one ...
Time for some fresh material billy bob...
Good luck !!!
The cliff is a political issue, not a financial one.
The President doesn't have to do anything. If the Republicans don't compromise polls show that they will take the blame for the negative consequences going into the 2014 midterms.
Republicans in Congress are painted into a corner on this one and they're stalling and distracting as much as they can instead of taking care of business.
Who cares who takes the blame as by the time the next election cycle rolls around, it will be too late as we will be in a severe recession with unemployment well into double digits (even with the workforce participation rate at historic lows).
Also, not much will change as with the redistricting, many Democrats and Republicans are safe in their districts which is why the run unopposed.
You know I hope the Republicans do lose the House in 2014 that way they can wash their hands of this enormous cluster #$%@ about to befall the American people!
re-elect, Repubs cannot take any blame here. The dems won right? Is it not their responsibility to come forward with some plan for compromise? and by compromise, I do not mean dictate.
Since when do the winners cave in to the losers? Democrats have all the leverage.
Republicans seem to think that since they lost, their policies should be implemented. That is most backasswards thing I have ever heard.
Their candidate lost, their policies were rejected. The American people don't want them.
Just remember winning with 50% of the vote is not a mandate. You Dems screw this up and I promise you won't sleep in the white house again for a very long time.
This meeting will probably be more personal than about policy. Although they WERE candidates for office, now that the race is over, they are just men again. Two men who beat the ever loving sh*t out of each other on the campaign trail and now need a moment of personal reconciliation. Doesn't anyone here remember the end of Rocky IV?
Instead of a welcome mat, there will be a banner saying "eat your heart out" at the front door of the white house.
Incidently....why is romney even invited? He was and is a nobody with nobody ideas who lost because of his lack of everything except a @!$%# eating grin.
It is thought processes like yours that are to blame for the situation this country and our political process are currently in.
If your words indicate you still support romney and his litany of lies and flip flops i would suggest your alarm is as backward as your thinking.
Obama has been surrounded by worthless souless sellouts for so long, he just wants to meet a man with values and principles to see how the other half lives.
Then he should have meet with Bonhner.
Romney will go home and save a stool sample from the meal and have it placed in a glass case as a token to remember his only time occupying the White House.
Lunch at the White House with Obama: I wonder if they'll be playing Twister or Chutes and Ladders...
I think its a good start. I couldn't support Romney for President, but I was a fan of some of his ideas. If he really does have a plan to put folks back to work, as he claimed, he should share it (he didn't seem to want to during the campaign) As another American citizen, who cares about the country (which Romney obviously does) he should help by sharing his recovery plans. Those beyond tax cuts for the wealthy, which never will create jobs.
And hopefully, President Obama can be receptive, and open-minded enough to consider all of the good points.
One of the few sane posts on this board about the topic!
ShawnD: You voted for Obama because????
Because I'm from Massachusetts, Romney was my Governor for a term, he was an A-hole then, and he is still one now. Besides, I'm one of the 47% of Americans, Romney dosen't care to worry about.
(he told me so, I believed him) I work and pay taxes, so that he and his friends don't have to.
Also, I actually like Barack Obama. And I don't like Romney at all. Seems many others feel the same. Because ROMNEY LOST!!!! remember?
First, Mittens will say to himself, as he enters the White House and walks into the Oval Office, "This could all have been mine. All mine......Drat!"
I sure hope President Obama is not considering giving him a position in his administration. I think Mittens would jump at the chance. He'd get to spend a lot of time in the White House and pretend it all belongs to him and he'd find a way to move money around, in a quiet way, to his offshore accounts.
I've heard a GOP political pundit say this is NOT what the GOP want. Romney has no official position in the GOP and in no way shape or fashion do they want him to say anything since he is not considered a spokesman for the GOP. Like to be fly on the wall for it.
ofelian: Romney already has a job working with his son at his business and he has a dozen+ grandkids. He doesn't need another job.
You absolutely right, Believe. He dosen't need the job. He never needs the job. He only needs the TITLE, to feed his wealthy ass, elitist ego.
He really didn't want to be Governor of Ma. He liked the name, but not the actual work it involved. He spent less time in the State House then he did at his summer home in Wolfboro, NH. Lt. Governor Kerry Healy ran the state while he ran around the country with his White House aspirations. He is a political loser. Always was, always will be. I'd hire him to run my company, he certainly knows how to make money, but nothing else. He's Muttster the Clown. A rich one, but still just a buffoon. After this WH lunch, he won't get the ink of a newspaper again. He's done. Blew his load.. Sent to bed without supper. Bye, Bye, Mitty Believe'n THAT!