Bush attends Alfalfa Club Roast ?

[Catchawave]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060129/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_alfalfa;_ylt=Auss9jPPz8ZKrRo_BTKbI.Ws0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

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The president and his wife, Laura, were attending the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual black-tie event where the capital's political and business leaders give humorous speeches.

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The event, conducted at a hotel a few blocks from the White House, was closed to the media.

The club's sole task is to put on the dinner. It is so named, according to club history, because the alfalfa plant's roots will reach far for liquid refreshment.

Founded 93 years ago, the club was off limits to women until 1994 when first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton attended the event with President Clinton.

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[stevedeshazer]

1. I can see the resemblance

[stevedeshazer]

2. This line is hilarious, it describes the Bush/Alfalfa connection perfectly

"The club's sole task is to put on the dinner. It is so named, according to club history, because the alfalfa plant's roots will reach far for liquid refreshment."

Okay, maybe you had to be there. :)

[Historic NY]

3. Any talk of horses by Laura..........

we know she likes to tattle on George.

[susu369]

4. This little tidbit caught my interest

(His Imperial Highness, although in top physical shape, cannot lift his bike from the van). :puke:

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"Before the dinner, Bush took a mountain bike ride in the morning on the grounds of a Secret Service training facility in Beltsville, Md. His deputy chief of staff and top political adviser, Karl Rove, accompanied him but did not bike.

Bush rode for about an hour and 45 minutes with a friend, Mike Wood, and a few other people.

"It's hard to keep up with him, though," Wood said on the driveway along the South Lawn as agents removed the bicycles from a rack on a black van.

[chimpymustgo]

5. WaPo: "banquet...to honor the birthday of ROBERT E. LEE." (caps mine)

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You began to understand more about the purpose of this dinner organized by the Alfalfa Club, an exclusive circle of the rich and the powerful founded in 1913 for no real purpose except to organize a banquet each year to honor the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee. (The club takes its name from the legume whose roots probe deeply for liquid. An Alfalfan, it is said, will do anything for a drink.)

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On the guest list: Chief Justice John Roberts, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida. Vice President Cheney, who seems to emerge from wherever he goes when there is something really important to be said.

We learned that the powerful and the rich sit next to each other at a head table spanning the length of the ballroom. President Bush was to sit next to Roberts, who was seated next to the ambassador of Germany, who sat next to Rice, who sat next to O'Connor. In between was the secretary of the Treasury and the ambassador of Japan. Then came Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. According to a seating chart, to the president's left were places for George H.W. Bush, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Mayor Anthony Williams. And down the line was Laura Bush, who was to sit next to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and OMB Director Joshua Bolten and Alan Greenspan, who was to sit next to Barbara Bush. And somewhere in the room was Karl Rove.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801419.html

Vernon Jordan and Condi Rice both there?


:wtf:

[susu369]

6. Thanks - that article is a hoot

I know, on one hand, it is not a laughing matter - but that author's tongue-in-cheek writing is dead center.

[Catchawave]

7. This was funny too....

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To President Bush, McConnell said: "Mr. President, it is good to see you. I was distressed to read press reports that there was a rift between you and your father and that you are now speaking only at Bush family functions such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, the Alfalfa dinner and invading Iraq."

We assumed they laughed because it was a pretty funny line. Get it: Iraq has been a family affair.
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Maybe not funny, but certainly a bizzarro event !

[stevedeshazer]

8. kick

:kick:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. A "He-Man Girl Haters Club?"

Which IIRC Alfalfa bailed on when he met Darla.