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Obama Will Skip Alfalfa Club Dinner Saturday Night
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama will not be making a repeat appearance at this year's Alfalfa Club dinner, an exclusive annual event famous for its speeches and jokes but always closed to the press, Politico reports. He attended for the first time last year, just a few days after his inauguration. White House officials did not explain why the president is skipping this year's dinner. The event began as a celebration of the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday in 1913, but has since opened its membership to blacks and women. The sitting president is usually asked to give brief remarks at the end of the ...
Top Secret McCain Alfalfa Dinner Jokes Revealed
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs I reported earlier, The Alfalfa Club held its annual Alfalfa Dinner on Saturday. The exclusive shindig, held on the last Saturday of January to commemorate the birthday of confederate General Robert E. Lee, is traditionally attended by the President, along with a small group of business and political elites.The Alfalfa Club also traditionally puts forth a mock nominee for President, "just for fun," who then has to speak. Since the pool reports cite only one other speaker, it seems that Senator John McCain was the lucky nominee. Barack Obama broke the Club's code of secrecy by releasing ...
Video: Sarah Palin Arrives at Alfalfa Club Dinner
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIn case you didn't catch this fact in my previous reporting on the Alfalfa Dinner, it's exclusive. How exclusive? It's so exclusive, Alfalfa Club members have to bribe themselves to get in.So this AP video of Sarah Palin's arrival at the elite fete is probably closer than any of us will ever get. Originally, it was reported that Palin would speak at the dinner, but according to pool reports, she did not. President Obama did speak, making disarming reference to the dinner's commemoration of Confederate Genral Robert E. Lee's birthday, and needled Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.The Alfalfa Club ...
Excerpts of Barack Obama's Alfalfa Club Dinner Remarks
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate: From a pool report, McCain was also at the dinner, and spoke, but Palin apparently did not:(via email)Reports from inside the Alfalfa Club dinner are that Sen. McCain spoke, and there were several good-natured jokes lobbed at Gov. Palin, who was in attendance. Any regular readers of this page will tell you that I've had a real bug up my urethra over this Alfalfa Club Dinner. First, I wrote about its connection to Robert E. Lee, then about how nobody wanted to report it. Well, the White House has released excerpts of the president's remarks, and he does address the Lee issue, much as I ...
Who Cares That Alfalfa Dinner Honors Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAs I reported yesterday, President Obama and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be speaking at the Alfalfa Dinner tomorrow night. The annual dinner is private, very exclusive, and is a chummy roast-a-thon among the elitest of elites. Here's the thing. Every news account from prior years included the fact that the dinner is in honor of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's birthday. This year, however, that information seems to have been omitted from whatever press releases were made. Since I began reporting this yesterday morning, the reference has turned up in a few places, but only in an offhand ...
Obama and Palin to Appear at Dinner Honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyUpdate 3: Some great quotes from Alfalfa Club Dinner history: Sen. David Boren: "(Club) President (Alan) Simpson failed miserably ... to resolve the most pressing issue facing our club. He failed to assuage the powerful forces demanding that we admit women. But tonight I'm here to announce a Bush-type compromise. We will admit women ... posthumously."Pete Domenici: "My fellow Alfalfans, I have a secret weapon in our upcoming campaign. I'm blessed with the talent of ... whipping the electorate to a frenzy. Just like the singer Tom Jones, women often throw their panties at me when I speak. It ...
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