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No caviar or vodka this time. It was burgers and fries, ice tea and coke, as President Barack Obama treated his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, to lunch Thursday at Obama's favorite gourmet hamburger joint in suburban Arlington, Va.

The American president went traditional Midwestern: cheddar cheeseburger with onions, lettuce, tomato and pickles. President Medvedev went spicy: cheddarburger with jalepeno peppers, mushrooms and onions. The two leaders munched away in their shirtsleeves, sharing french fries at a table in Ray's Hell Burger. Interpreters at an adjacent table leaned in to hear their conversation in the noisy restaurant.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and President Obama
Medvedev is in Washington for bilateral meetings at the White House. But after a morning session, the two presidents took an informal lunch break, entering and exiting Ray's to the cheers of other customers. And when the bill came, dollars or rubles? Lunch was on the president of the United States, the White House said.

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KEITH

It dosen't matter if Obama paid for lunch or not.
I would like for the tax payers to pay for the burgers and Obama pay the tab for the security people it took to safeguard two presidents.
Hamburgers---- $40.00
security------ $200,000.00 give or take.

June 25 2010 at 5:41 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Ruffie

I don't think Michelle Obama is going to be happy about his choice of food since she's in LA giving kids a lecture on eating right and telling them that they shouldn't eat fried greasy foods lol. I hope she slaps him upside the head for eating junk food and causing her to have to explain to the kids why the pres can eat hamburgers and fries while their being told to eat fruits & veggies lol.

June 24 2010 at 9:35 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
dc walker

....these excursions make me laugh some. The President has his own chef, who can serve ground sirloin to the President's exact request, in the privacy of a White House dining area with no on lookers and yet he takes a head of state to a burger place. There HAD to be a photo op reason for this, to me its as silly as silly can be as any woman who will cook dinner tonight can testify.

June 24 2010 at 6:53 PM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
Henry ptnm

A lot of you people were not around when Premier Nikita Khrushchev came to the U.S. to meet with President Eisenhower in 1959. There was a lot of tension between them. It was during the Cold War era. Now I see a more relax mood between these men. I prefer what is now than what was then.

June 24 2010 at 6:47 PM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
Pat Hovey

You expected something other than the normal "Do as I say, not as I do" attitude ???

June 24 2010 at 6:32 PM Report abuse +4 rate up rate down Reply
braun1994

What happened to the new health diet they preach?

June 24 2010 at 5:34 PM Report abuse +9 rate up rate down Reply
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Tom

The president doesn't display any of the problems typically caused by bad diet. Okay?

June 24 2010 at 5:48 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply

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