Gatesgate

**Cinder & Smoke** · 07-30-2009, 10:55 PM

So, How did Joe What's-his-name get invited to the beer fest?

He didn't even have a dog in the fight!

**Medusa** · 07-30-2009, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke

So, How did Joe What's-his-name get invited to the beer fest?

He didn't even have a dog in the fight!

Comic relief.

**RICHARD** · 07-30-2009, 11:00 PM

Boy,
You all are cynical!

I can see Michelle sticking her head out of the window and saying, "Barack, your friends have to go home, Dinner's ready and the girl's need homework help...........ARE YOU DRINKING AGAIN!!!"

**blue** · 07-30-2009, 11:01 PM

Was that an ashtray I saw in the picture?

**Grace** · 07-30-2009, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by blue

Was that an ashtray I saw in the picture?

I wondered that, also. Then I saw Obama and Biden reach over a couple of times - I think it had nuts or chips in it.

And there was no smoke rising; and Obama wants us to think he's quit - so he wouldn't have done it out in front of the press. Not yet, anyway.

**Grace** · 07-31-2009, 11:04 PM

I'm thinking Professor Gates read our posts here. He sent Lucia Whalen flowers and a note of thanks.

The woman whose 911 call set in motion this week's White House "beer summit"--but who didn't score an invite to the confab--has received a "beautiful" bouquet of flowers from Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The lawyer for 911 caller Lucia Whalen, Wendy Murphy, tells me that the flowers were accompanied by "a nice note of gratitude" from Gates who has previously said he appreciated Whalen reporting what appeared to her to be a break in to Gates's Cambridge, Mass. home.

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