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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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Oh, look dumb is going to meet with dumber
Was Christopher Columbus a conservative?
Ya'll are honestly pathetic. To not support Mitt Romney is one thing, but to attack him and call him an evil liar is unnecessary. Obama has lied on many accounts as well - that's part of politics. Mitt Romney is obviously a good guy, and his wealth does not mean he is "evil". He has donated MILLIONS to various charities. I don't think that's something an evil guy would do.
I do not support Obama nor do I support his policies, but I would never attack his character. I'm sure he is a wonderful person. To attack someone personally, when you don't even know them, makes you ignorant.
The Mormon church is not a legitimate charity. If you have the millions that Romney has you just can rest assured that making millions was one of the most important things in his life. What is that the Bible says about laying up your treasures?
Why is the mormon church not a legitimage charity. Doesnt it fall under the same guidlines as say the Catholic church?
Did I miss something?
It does not share its money but uses the money to further the Mormon cause or to purchase shock treatment to change gays and lesibans back into straight people. As Bishop Romney was not able to help an unmarried woman because she would not get married.
You are equating religious beliefs with charity.
with a little luck the ass obama will ask romney for help with job creation and the economy.....obama doesn't know jackshiat about either........obama won the election on the backs of freeloaders and naive libs.....obama sucked before the election and still sucks.....
Troops serving in combat zones do not pay Federal income taxes. Are they freeloaders?
Re-Elect
Our troops should not pay any Federal Taxes since they are paid such horrible wages to begin with, and they are putting their lives on the line to protect the liberties and freedoms that everyone else enjoys.
Re-elect.....no, and I think this is why Romney got 80% of the active troops vote..........
HopeisGone- can you source where Romney received 80% of the military vote because when I look I see no national breakdown.
Is this another RepubliCON mirage.
It wasn't exactly 80% (though we don't know the numbers) of 3,100 military personel polled:
66% voted for Romney
26% voted for Obama
I guess having lunch at The White House is a consolation prize for Romney losing the election!!!
NAH BO-DUmbo just needs some advice on how to fix HIS economy
Actually, I am a guy that likes making money. I am still pissed about the Iraq Fiasco, Plame, Tora Bora and the big meltdown in 2008 that cost me a bundle. Just get a little tired of watching idiots vote against their own interests.
I guess the even bigger meltdown in 2000 didnt hurt you?
Obama just wants to rub it in.He is telling Mitt Iam your president, like it or not.And Mitt wants to know how in hell did Obama steal the elections after being assured by karl Rove and Dick Morris that he was going to win in a landslide, you, "by a factor of 7".
Mitt will disappear to irrellivancy after this meeting.He will never amount to anything politically.Democrats don't like him, and republicans can't stand him.They just voted for him because they hate our president, president of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama.The losers need to live with it, or not.- Iam talking to you Ted Nugent.
You mean he's going to ask Obama how he got Anonymous to suppress the vote and also how George Soros' company was counting so many of our ballots overseas, with no paper trail, of course. I mean, lets face it, this was a "contest" and "competition" and had nothing to do with voters. High level politicians are fine line psychopaths with no regard for anyone else but themselves.
Was Louis Pasteur a conservative? Was the drug penicillin developed by a conservative?
Actually Louis Pastuer was considered to be a conservative.
Poison the bastard before he take over a few more companies, makes more unemployed and steals a few more millions from pensions....
Gavril...don't speak of our president like that! Yes, more jobs have been lost and going over seas since Obama took office, but......well, who needs jobs with the increase in food stamps anyway?
The most intolerance from the most tolerant? Ignorance abounds in the godless party of democrats
Was James Madison a conservative? Was King George the III a conservative?
Madison was... dont know about King George III
Very few of the founding fathers were conservatives. The ones that were conservatives did not make it all the way through the Constitutional Convention because they wanted to create a government with king rather then a chief executive. Madison was a very radical progressive. Who do you think wrote the Federalists Papers?
Madison was liberal of his day. Look up what liberalism REALLY means and it is not what todays liberals are. LIBeral comes from the word LIBERTY, but every thing todays liberals are doing is not LIBERTY. You can not grow government like this and expect the keep LIBERTY.
On the same token, Alexander hammilton was a Conservitive of his day. He believed that we should form a monarchy and argued for no limits on govwernment in the Federalist papers.
prog.1
Where do you get your information?
More than half of those that were considered leaders in this country when we separated from Great Britain were conservatives. Some that were liberal even transformed into conservatives, such as John Adams.
sonman
I doubt prog.1 meant it that way.
By todays standards many of the founding members of this country were considered to be Conservative.
Romney had asked the President if he could bring his friend, an Architect, so they check out the interior architecture of the White House. He plans on making an exact replica of the WH for Anne, up on a lot he just bought in Wolfboro NH, on Lake Winnepausaukee. He promised the bitch she could live there, and now he feels like crap, that he blew the opportunity. I'd say better luck next time, but you know that'll never happen. So, the replica will have to do. He's gonna use the cash he saved on paying legitimate taxes, to build it. I bet it'll cost a bundle. Ah.. he's got it!
surprised Obama didn't ask to meet in Hawaii, on the golf course, in Europe, or on the set of The View......I don't think Obama knows what the inside of the White House even looks like being he rarely spends time there......
@Hope - Obama likes to be in the Situation Room smoking on his cigs.........watching innocent people be murdered.
Golf course? No way Hope, these two are both terrible golfers! and Mutt just came back from Malibu, why would he want to go to the beach. Been there, done that!
Its the White House that he will never get to have lunch in. Bon Appetite!
Actually Obama wants Romney to come in to see if he is interested in buying the WH to raise money for the government, provided that Romney will provide a low cost, and open ended lease back to the government.
Shawn no need, he could buy it and with the value of housing get it a one third the price!
This is the closest to the Oval office Willard will ever get. I'm sure it's Barack's X-Mass gift to him.
Bo-Dumbo "Mitt WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THIS ECONOMY?" and CLIFF thing??"
Why? Romney just needs to go home...and stay there...
Romney probably is curious to know why President Obama did not leak the truth about his (Romney's) tax returns and related negotiations.
So Romney is finally benefiting from Obama's give-aways by having Lunch at the White House at Tax Payer's expense. Welcome aboard.
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This just demonstrates how willing the president is to sit down with republicans.
It is these repugs who are and have been the obstacle to meaningful progress on the budget, the deficit and entitlement spending.
Mitt the meathead will probalbly ask that his taxes not be raised.
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Joe Biden in 2016.
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Joe Biden? I hope you are kidding... Only if he picks Sarah Palin as his running mate
Whoa.. I'm an Obama supporter, But I hope the hell Jokin Joe Biden dosen't run for President in 2016.
You are kidding, right? I do like the dude, and I laughed like hell at his antics in the Cryin Ryan debate. That was hillarious. I think they should replay it on ComedyCentral. I actually thought Ryan was gonna drown in that water glass.
But, please, NO JOE.. for President.
But then again, if Ryan runs on the GOP ticket, I guess Joe would be a sure bet to keep Democrats in the WH, because that fool Ryan is as sure a loser as Romney. Well, Palin could be easier to kick, I guess.
If people think Obama is lost and has no idea, Biden is a magnitude of 10000000 times worse, especially since the man isnt smart enough to know half of the things he even says are stupid or make no sense.
The best selling book on politics mis-speakings.. Bushisms. Number 2.... Bidenisms
FYI, I supported Obama the first time partly because of his energy and message and partly because having Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency scared the hell out of me.
Mr. Romney don't forget to bring your shovel and wear a good pair of boots to the meeting.
I heard that Obama is serving Romney and all Republicans CROW for lunch, is that true?
Obama will get a taste of CROW at the meeting..........so, he can get used to it when the sh*t hits the fan over Benghazi........he will be eating a lot of CROW then.
wasc....Dude at least be original that was on the first page of this thread from Fiesty the wicked witch of the north.
And just wait until they find those WMDs in Iraq.
I heard Obama will be serving hot dogs. Kind of ironic that over the weekend Obama visited an animal shelter where he "rescued" a handful of canines, and claimed they were holiday presents.
The election was a choice between the lessor of 2 political evils. We live in a "rock'star" celebrity driven country and Obama is the celebrity so he won. Let him have his due and hope that the country survives. We survived Bush and Obama is just as bad. In the last 50 years we've had 2 real leaders (Kennedy & Reagan) that inspired us but now the political whores (both parties) just feel like their job is to stick their thumb in the other guy's eye rather than doing something good for the people. How long did Rome survive??
I would possibly add Clinton to that list of Reagan and Kennedy
Clinton knew in order to have a thriving country he had to work with both sides of the aisle... a trait that has been lost for the past 8 years.
Reagan was a great republican president. He tripled the national debt, tried his best to kill Medicare and avoided going to prison over Iran-Contra.
He actually was a great President. He brought an end to the cold war with the USSR and duped the Russians into spending themselves into bankruptcy (SDI was mainly a myth created for this sole purpose and it was played brilliantly by the Reagan administration).
Inflation was out of control (inflation rate was in excess of 10 to 11% where it is currently 1.5 to 2%) when he took office, and unemployment was all over the place. The economy was in the midst of a double-dip recession where we actually had a negative GDP. During his first three years, the economy grew at an average rate of 5 to 6%. It has grown at an average of 2.2% for the first 3.5 years under this administration.
His debt ratio to the GDP never exceeded 53% where as of this year, it is currently in excess of 100% (First time in the history of the US)
Both Presidents came into office during economic turmoil, but one was able to get use out of it. Obama still has a chance to do so, but his window of opportunity is closing.
Ever think....what the hell did we do???????:
Here's just a sampling of what we've learned since voters decided to give Obama four more years to "experiment" with the economy.
Earnings falling: The Labor Dept. reported on Thursday that real average hourly earnings dropped again in October for the third month in a row, and are now down 2% from when Obama took office.
Poverty rising: A new Census Bureau report, also released after the election, finds that the number of poor people in America climbed 712,000 in 2011. The "official" report that came out in September had the number dropping by 96,000. So much for Obama's claim that things are getting better.
Food-stamp enrollment skyrocketing: Another government report conveniently timed after the election found that food stamp enrollment exploded by more than 420,000 in August. The number of people getting food stamps has climbed more than 15 million — or 47% — under Obama. That's a bigger increase than in all of President Bush's eight years. Today, almost 15% of the population is collecting food stamps, up from 7% just a decade ago.
Jobless claims jumping: The number of new jobless claims shot up to 439,000 last week, up 78,000 from the week before, due largely, it's said, to Hurricane Sandy. But the two states with the biggest increases in jobless claims the week before that were Pennsylvania and Ohio, thanks to layoffs in the construction, manufacturing and auto industries.
Inflation creeping up: We also learned that the annual inflation rate climbed to 2.2% in October, according to the BLS, which is the third consecutive monthly increase.
Coal plants closing: A report by the liberal Union of Concerned Scientists, released (naturally) a week after the election, finds that as many as 353 coal-fired plants will close as a result of Obama's environmental rules.
Small banks disappearing: Fortune reported three days after the election that the "overwhelming conclusion" of industry analysts and consultants was that Dodd-Frank would cause thousands of small banks to disappear. As a side note, one month before the election a Fortune "fact check" (by the same reporter, no less) blasted Romney for saying during one of the presidential debates that Dodd-Frank was "killing regional and small banks."
Meanwhile, stocks are down about 5% since Election Day as the mainstream press tries to blame it on anything but Obama's re-election. The latest culprit is supposed to be fears about the fiscal cliff. But even if that were true, it shows how little confidence investors have in Obama's ability to avoid taking the country over it.
Obama keeps saying that his top priority for his second term is jobs and growth, but the only thing he's pushed since his re-election is a massive tax hike on the so-called rich.
That's despite the fact that Obama knows these tax hikes will hurt economic growth. He admitted as much in 2010, when he extended the Bush tax rates, citing the harm a tax hike would cause a weak economy. And now, thanks to an Ernst & Young study, we know that Obama's tax hikes will kill 710,000 jobs.
Obama got re-elected largely by blaming Bush for everything bad that happened during his first term. So who's he going to blame now?
On thing I note on the employment figures.
If you look, when new unemployment enrollee figures come out, they always seem to be adjusted upward later (almost all the time too), and when the jobs figures come out, these almost always seem to be adjusted downward.
With regards to the press and the fiscal cliff, it is part of the reason for the stock fears, but the press doesnt mention who is driving the bus.
Hope- are you shocked that during an economic downturn economic statistics will be down.
Isnt that why increased govt assistence is needed and helpful to speedinbg up a recovery.
Can you name ONE COUNTRY that has tried your sides austerity is the soilution to economic recovery where it WORKED?
Name one.........
obama got elected for the second time by an illiterate society that depends on the goverment for everything and it is not going to stop till the govermnet goes broke and the chinese take over.
dem...can you name one indication of current policies working?
How about a little apres-lunch nap in the Lincoln Bedroom, Mitt? You could dream about what might have been - were it not for the disdain and the lying.
I don't think Mitt's lies hurt him. It's a proud republican tradition started by the Bush administration. Actually, the Jeep lie might have cost him some votes.
Yet another fact filled and supported post. Congrats..... not
its at least a step..i never have liked obama,,but this is a good move,,,maybe ill give him some more time,,,
just a little,,,but ill cut him a break for now
I sure hope he don't sell out to the muslin ni$$er
billc - the meeting is at 8 PM tonight. Be sure to bring your white sheet and hood.
LOL.... (even though the original comment isnt funny)
Conservatives cannot accept the fact that this country was founded by progressives and some of them being radical progressives.
Cite some examples?
Washington.... Conservative
Madison - Conservative
Adams started as a liberal, and transformed into a conservative
John Hancock - Conservative
It appears as thought there were as many conservatives as there were liberals that founded out nation.
Prog.1
If you are going to make a point, you should actually read the entire website to see that the definition of liberal and conservative as well as progressivism at the time was much different, and nothing to do with the definitions of each in todays terminology.
Their idea of progressiveness back then was to allow people to make choices for themselves and to vote for people to represent them and their needs in a democratically elected congress, and not be totally beholden to a reigning monarchy or ruling class.
The definitions have changed -
Liberal is now conservative
Conservative is now batsh*tcrazy.
You mean they have switched.
Liberals of the Continental Congress era wanted liberty and freedom from oppressive monarchal rule.
Conservatives of the time wanted to style the system of government more along the lines of the monarchy in England and wanted George Washington to be King or Emperor, and he flatly refused.
So if Bush was King, he wouldn't have had to lie about WMDs to attack Iraq?
Romney hopes to get a free cel phone and we are paying for the lunch.