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President Obama and Mitt Romney met today for the first time since the president’s sweeping electoral-vote reelection Thursday over lunch at the White House.
Over an hour -- and white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad -- the once-bitter rivals talked about "America's leadership in the world" and "pledged to stay in touch," according to the White House.
Here’s the official White House readout:
This afternoon, President Obama and Governor Romney visited for an hour over lunch in the Private Dining Room adjacent to the Oval Office. Governor Romney congratulated the President for the success of his campaign and wished him well over the coming four years. The focus of their discussion was on America's leadership in the world and the importance of maintaining that leadership position in the future. They pledged to stay in touch, particularly if opportunities to work together on shared interests arise in the future. Their lunch menu included white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad.
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Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama, right, shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House. It was their first meeting since Obama won reelection Nov. 6 by defeating Romney.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this wasn't a "Beer Summit".
Three proteins in their lunch? I wonder if the turkey they used was left over from Thanksgiving!
Glad they had a nice lunch. Next.
How can you tell the difference between "white turkey" and crow? lol
I see the White House chef had enough common sense as to NOT serve something which required a "knife"...
At least this is out of the way, and soon Willard will be nothing more than a bad memory! ;o)
Willard was served leff-overs from Thanksgiving........
President will have a great evening meal, fresh!
What a beautiful beautiful office. So colorful.
Can't wait for President Obama's 2nd inaugeration. Still so happy he won.
Countdown to that very very very special day:
Tidbit: John Tyler, our 10th President, was Harry Truman's great uncle. 20 years after he left office, he joined the Confederacy which made him a sworn enemy of the United States. He was so poor 5 years after leaving office, that he was unable to pay a $1.25 bill until he sold his corn crop.
It was his wife who thought it would be a great idea to play "Hail to the Chief" whenever the president made public appearances.
I coined the phrase "Sneer Summit" yesterday, but it was late in the day and buried in other snark...
I still like it.
Pat Boston: love the triva.
This was a nice gesture on the part of the President. Certainly not something he has to do. However, it is likely, now, to be repeated by future Presidents.
It is worth noting, not everything that Mitt Romney said during the campaign was wrong. For example, capping the amount of deductions for the wealthy is a good idea. Combine it with getting rid of the Bush tax cuts for capital gains and dividends and you have a start. There might even be room to cut the amount of the tax increase.
During Thanksgiving dinner, Pres. O loved thurkey breast - all yummy white meat, that is. Let's have more, stay in touch, the President then said to the Turkey.
Me too! ☺
Very fitting... lol
Pat, thanks for the trivia! I can always count on you for "Positive Presidential thoughts by Pat!" ;-)
Hopefully this is the last we see of Mittikens for awhile ....
Hi Pat,
Are you going again this year?
Ditto THAT! ☺
Obama totally cooked Mittens during the campaign..now time to meet the loser - the sacrificial lamb (muttons...that's what Obama had together with Mittens). President O used fork and knife ... cutting into Mittens' ribs during the meal.
This was a nice gesture on the part of the President. Certainly not something he has to do. However, it is likely, now, to be repeated by future Presidents.
dirp, I hope so.
Thank you Layton. I love to share info that neither me nor most people are aware of.
Hi Feisty, not this time. I couldn't get a hotel in time. But as I tell people - perhaps once is enough.
I have to say - I can't wait for this one though. The campaign was a tough one and I'm just so thrilled he will have two terms, particularly after we found out what the GOP planned the night of his first inaugeration. The media as well was pretty disrespectful during his first term.
So I'm glad things turned out the way it did. Very grateful Americans saw the decency in this man, our president.
Pround of our President...such as gracious host...so it's all worth it for Mitt to have run for president just to get a chance to eat a meal inside the White House with the winner.
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After the meal, Mitt stole some napkins...typical vulture capitalist...Mitt, that is...always about ripping people off, even inside the White House.
If we all remember, this President and First Lady have been nothing but class from day one. They brought a gift to the Bush's when they first went to the White House - not a tradition but a touch of total class.
Pat,
I had the same thoughts about being downtown in Chicago on election night.
There was NO way 2008 could of been replicated!
President Obama should've left the door open to the Oval Office to remind Romney that he will never occupy it. LOL! Rub it in, baby! Rub it in!
What also went unreported is that President Obama directed his chef to put some chocolate flavored Ex-Lax into the brownies that were served to Willard.
"Let's stay in touch" = so what will they do, exchange Christmas cards? Do Mormons DO Christmas cards (I honestly don't know!)
Seeking ...
From your resident Utah ex-Mormon friend ... yes they do Christmas cards ;-)
"Let's stay in touch" something I've said to a few men that I've dated in the past while deleting them from my phone and blocking them from my e-mail! ;-)
you can tell when an article is sensless as well as pointless when pigotry gets involved.
Jesus invited Judas to break bread with him too.
Let's hope Obama's relationship with Mittens turns out better. ;)
I read an article yesterday on the Huffington Post that suggested that President Obama offer Mr. Romney the mission of figuring out how to reduce the costs of health care. I thought it was a really good idea. Mr. Romney could apply his economic genius to something that would really make a difference to the country. Other countries manage to spend much less than we do on health care and still produce better results. How do they do that? Cutting benefits will not do as much to fix Medicare as reducing costs. If Mr. Romney really does want to help the country, this would be a good way for him to do it.
Why, Heartlight3? Didn't Hussein already solve health care costs with 0bamacare? Are you saying Hussein needs advice on 0bamacare? Are you saying 0bamacare costs are too high and need to be reduced?
Okay, Oscar now you are just being a jerk.
As if Romney knows anything about leadership. His campaign, which he was in the leadership role, was a hot mess.
President Obama: can't think how you could stand to be in the room with someone so totally without moral core. You are a very gracious man, and Romney did not deserve the kindness.
hmmmmmm........"jerk"........hmmmmmm.....wonder what that is "code" for........ lol!
I don't think we got the full menu... I see no mention of Obama having a cracker at lunch.
Hey there Alaskagirl... Remeber when calling a boy a jerk meant you might like them? I think it was around the 3rd and 4th grades...
How Racist chick binder... grow up!
healthcare cost....ask Mitt the Vulture...those insurance companies have artificially raised costs to take unfair advantage of the transitional phase of the ObamaCare reform. So not only have such insurance companies made obscene profits, but also did they blame on the President.
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filthy ... capitalists (insurance companies, that is)! But there are some good capitalists, such as Warren Buffet, who has been willing to pay more taxes.
Warren isn't exactly squeaky clean Pigotry, he was a stock broker that also made insane profits.
and taxes, when he was just 13 years old, he wrote his bike off as a tax deduction.
How do you think he got that rich, paying fair amounts of taxes?
Oscar - your continued reference to our President as Hussein shows you lack any real though or integrity. I'm sure you think it is clever but it just shows you to be a real lowlife - the pride of the Republican party!
OHHH Yeah, I hope sweet Romnesia can finally settle my mind.
what? sweet? sweet what? U see, I am still suffering from Romnesia - Mitt too poisonous,
Kinda reminds me of my younger days, where you kinda play coy with a homely girl you banged, but you really can't wait to get the hell out! Hey, let's keep in touch. Call me!
I can see the big O thinking, OMG, I have to sit here and play pretend with the village idiot. The only thing worse would be having Dubya over- thank God he is hiding. Oh yes, you had so many good ideas, like the vouchers for Medicare and SS in the stock market. Oh, and the unpaid for wars, invading Iran, yes, hmm- I'll have to mull that one over. Oh yes, another 20% tax break for billionairs- I'll look into it. Hey, gotta catch a flight, but keep them ideas coming!
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Paliban, THAT was funny! Thanks for the giggles!
Why do people keep saying Bush is hiding? Where exactly would he be hiding and why? Him and his wife are out and about all the time, sorry it doesn't make national news. I didn't vote for him but I like them, they're very nice people, just like retired General Petraeus and Mrs. Petraeus.
Southwestern grilled chicken salad....YUCK!
Bush Derangement Syndrome.
"Romulian Romney" looked like a total 'fake.' His smile looked pained, and he must have planned it in front of a mirror. One wonders if "Romulian Romney" eats like this on his home planet of Romulus? "Romulian Romney" will not communicate much when he is back on his home planet of Romulus. Everyone just wave as the Romulian's Bird Of Prey flies away. Watch out for any crows on your ship "Romulian Romney!"
I think it was great that Obama invited Romney in after the election, would love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.
"Romulian Romney" is out of touch, out of his mind, and really out of this world. Everyone wave as the "Romulian's Bird Of Prey" goes speeding back across the Neutral Zone.
It is a case of the worst candidate LOST.Period
They say they served turkey, well maybe to the President but it was crow in the sandwich served to Gov. Romney or maybe the crow was in Romney's salad. Not as easily detected in the salad.
Nice gesture on the part of the President. This isn't the first time. That actually happened when JFK invited Nixon to lunch after defeating the then vice president in a close race. Paranoid Nixon was finally convinced by aides to go.
In some countries if the loser is summoned to dine with the winner they don't come out alive. Not here, what a great country we live in. They can fight like crazy during the election and bury the hatched afterwards. (Except, of course Republicans in Congress and more specifically the tea baggers).
Pat in bean town, thanks for the tidbit. I know a lot about John Tyler (a distant relative of the Mrs., but these are things we didn't know).
Glad to see that the President is classier than his supporters posting here. "Willard"? "Eating crow"?. It would seem that Governor Romney deeply...DEEPLY offended many of you by having the gall to run against the President. The difference between conservatives and most of you...we respect the President, whoever it may be. You pick and choose which President you respect...or in this case, worship
Wow, read some more comments...you liberals really hate anyone that dares to have thoughts other than what you approve of, don't you?? lol And oh by the way, Adler...one buries a hatchet, not a "hatched". But what do I know...I never went to a liberal college like you did...
More intelligent liberal reasons why Romney was not fit to be President: "Because, like, you know, Romney is sort of like Romulian, and kind of like, you know, Romulians were bad, and it kind of rhymes, and because, he's not black either, like Obama is, which means he's not really cool, either, you know....and we can call him Mittens, and he won't hit us, because he'll get in trouble, you know...". Think I'll hop off this board since Dad just yelled down in the basement and told most of you to go to bed...and get a damned job, lol....
nevermore
obama wants 1.6 trillion more tax payers money, more billions in stimulus spending (the 870 billion that was initially spent is now part of the budget EVERY YEAR) UNLIMITED DEBT SPENDING. The social communists democrats have the gall to put forth an ASSinine B/S stupid proposal like UNLIMITED SPENDING. TRILLIONS in MORE spending.
obamas socialist budget. Kill the taxpayers if they dont pay or are , raise the retitement age to 70, work 12 hours aday 6 days a week. Start childrens sweat shops at age 8, make them pay early, keep them in the . Tax the pee-ons make them die and if they wont we'll kill them with obamacare.
obama socialists communists have never supplied the American people with a budget and refused to.
How moronic are democrats the article explains it all. The only thing we're missing is a stupid goof-ball dumb ass remark from biden.
Mike in Afganistan
I hope Obama is like my wife. Spend it while you got it. No one will ever know 100 years from now.
If you don't loike it here stay put.
really? that's it? why do I feel we learned more about the menu than what they talked about? does no one have any more detail?
Anyone catch today's CNN interview with the mayor of Detroit and the idea of dissolving the city? I believe the mayor called it the "Environment of Entitlement". The City is so heavily burdened with entitlements, they turned off the street lights to save money.
A sign of things to come for more U.S. cities. I don't have to wonder why the shwooboogie got re-elected after watching the reality show "Hard-Core Pawn". The sense of entitlement depicted is HUGE, sadly they vote and we'll suffer through 4 more years of shuck & jive.
Lol...lol..lol..shuck and jive is far better than the pale-faced rich trailer trash liar that Mitt would have been. It is nice that you republicans are such good losers, stay classy until your next loss...get use to being angry and mad, it will now be your new way of life. When the poor, minorities and women vote their own best interest, white men call that "voting for entitlements", but when white men vote for what they assume is their own interest it is called democracy. Such idiotic ignorance. That "sense" of entitlement is like every other republican delusion...it's all in your head.
I can see why this country is in so much trouble. I came in to see what people are talking about. What a dissapointment. No intelligence or grace behind anything posted. Just weird school yard communication.
Sorry, I am neither Republican or Democrat. And things like this give me good reason to stay that way.
Romney watch out he wants to stay in touch because he wants to know how to get us out of this mess. He likes your ideas. Do ot tell him anything because he will lie to us and say they were his doings.
I wonder how the next Qualified Republican Presidential Candidate will be vilified by liberal posters and the Democrat National Media ???
get used too it, RIGHT yeah, 4ward----> ho
The President served this idiot a 47% meal, something people who live on shoestring budget eat. LEFTOVERS! Gotta love it. I hope Mitt appreciated all the work that went into fixing such a great meal, at least the President fed him turkey, instead of the "fowl or crow" he should have been served. Great going Mr. President, you gave Mitt more than he rightfully deserved.
Romney: I ain't coming back here until they get something I can eat. What in the hell is chitlins?
It's what poor white mountain trash eats for every meal. The Obama were never poor, and such idiotic statements like your show how unintelligent folks like you are...in Greece, where the white folks come from, they tell me "chillins" are a gourmet meal....I guess black folks are not the only ones eating chitlins...If they had served Twitt chilins, that was far more than he deserved to get, they should have served in rations.
Obama to Romney: "I'll let you sit behind the desk just once..."