The White House has proven that lightening can indeed strike twice when it comes to Barack Obama’s incompetence. Meet Harvey and Paula Darden, the latest White House gate crashers who attended a White House breakfast uninvited just like Tareq and Michaele Salahi.
Remember them?
This time the couple had nothing to do with the problem. They merely showed up for a White House tour like a million other tourists each year. As they arrived at the door they were suddenly whisked away. That’s funny they thought. No lines!
Moments later they found themselves in an intimate tablecloth laden affair full of Obama donors in the East Room. When the foie gras and goose egg omelets showed up with overflowing bottles of champagne, we can imagine, they figured something was wrong. There were a few veterans attending as well since they later learned that they were mistakenly seated at what was nominally a Veterans Day event.
We hope that Harvey and Paula Darden stayed long enough to take some priceless photos of the regal affair of State for their grandchildren, and to meet and shake hands with the President of the United States, Barack Obama. The Bidens, Joe and Jill, also showed up as usual but that’s just their way. Luckily for President Obama, he did not get a fork in the back.
The incident happened on Veterans Day 2009. The Dardens lead a simple life in Hogansville, Georgia. They were just simple tourists traveling to the big city in their virtual Winnebago and proudly wearing their Sunday best for the pictures.
Maybe they sort of looked like veterans to Obama’s political appointments at the front door. When you staff the White House with party hacks and 1960s hippies, say White House critics, that’s the level of scrutiny the American people are learning to expect.
Humorously the White House is in full CYA mode claiming that it was all intentional, tee hee. The Dardens showed up a day early for the White House tour, they say, so they were just being kind hosts in the spirit of Change. Sure!
The Dardens know better. They were at first surprised to find themselves seated at a table with high-powered Washington lobbyists and donors. But trusting and perhaps even gullible, they patiently awaited the tour guide. Suddenly Obama himself made a grand entrance sporting a morning tuxedo.
They may not know the ways of Washington DC but they apparently have a keen sense of knowing where they don’t belong. They are certainly not like these guys! They even report getting out of their seats at one point and telling an Obama handler: “I told him, ‘I don’t think this is part of the White House tour.’”
So that is the story of tourists Harvey and Paula Darden, the latest White House party crashers to expose Obama’s incompetence. Unwitting White House breakfast crashers no less. Just look what Tareq and Michaele Salahi started!
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
How can these turkeys protect the country? They can’t even protect the president!
December 15th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Say it Tigre. You are obviously one of our more intelligent commenters around here. Too much Obama juice getting drunk for Christmas. Come on back anytime.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Aw, come on, MCCAIN, you have wet dreams about this sort of thing. That’s why you put it up. You don’t WANT President Obama to be protected. You want just the opposite….
Precious Bush had his share of gaffs.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Klo, you are forgetting that Barack Obama is half white. As a person of color myself, I don’t consider him completely one of us, know what I mean bro?
December 15th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
You have to be friggin’ kidding me. MCCAIN, you need some serious spell-checking and grammar lessons. When you right wing idiots start foaming at the mouth you seem to strike a cord with so many other idiots and you all start applauding each for being so intelligent. Ironic considering you are, in fact, inbred retards.
December 15th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Why do conservatives insist on sitting around talking about how retarded other people are? They don’t offer any solutions except more free trade, more deregulation, more privatization, more tax cuts for the rich and more corporate anarchy. Why don’t they put away their crusty hundred-year-old ideas and say something interesting for a change? God, they are so awful.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:00 am
D-bone, is it the spelling of “Barack Obama” that threw you off? Or do you prefer a reference to our president as “White House crashee” (one who has been crashed) rather than the predictable and distant usage of “White House crasher” in this story. By the way, the correct spelling in your comment is “chord” not “cord” but I’ll gladly defer to pointy headed liberals who endearingly value form over substance whether or not you get it right.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Well, regardless of spell-checking and the pointedness of Hilary’s head, I wonder if it’s really fair to blame the president for these tourists, who were screened and backgrounded checked, being welcomed to breakfast.
I think we start bordering on shrillness when even allowing two cleared tourists (and they were obviously tourists) to a buffet warrants a screed against Obama and the “1960s hippies” working security. I think it’d be a much bigger embarrassment if Obama actually did spend his time dealing with the guest list.
By the way, I didn’t know the Secret Service was staffed by a bunch of ’60s hippies. That I would blame the president for.
December 16th, 2009 at 1:59 am
How in the hell does the failure of Secret Service to enforce procedure reflect on the authors right wing bias, enough so to imply this have some relativity to the perceived “Obama Incompetence?!?!?!?
That statement alone demonstrates the obvious racial and political bias of the author, thereby negating any validity to his/her views.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Steve, see comment #5. I count four glaring English errors in your first sentence, enough to qualify you for a great paying job in the Obama White House where performance is immaterial.
December 16th, 2009 at 5:45 am
McCain,
Yea, that’s an intelligent retort. Can’t fight the context, so criticize the structure?
Typical right-wing….no substance, all hype.
Moron.
December 16th, 2009 at 7:07 am
“Lightening” Is that anything like lightning?
December 16th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Wow, I think you’ve broken a record for bringing in the most moronic crap in such a short space.
“That statement alone demonstrates the obvious racial and political bias of the author, thereby negating any validity to his/her views.”
Maybe we should negate any validity of your views based on complete idiocy ?
Views arent valid due to political or rac*al bias ? Thats a new one.
“Precious Bush had his share of gaffs.”
True.
But when it happens to an arrogant self centered peacock who thinks his sht doesnt stink its ten times funnier.
Hilary;
“Why do conservatives insist on sitting around talking about how retarded other people are? They don’t offer any solutions except more free trade, more deregulation, more privatization, more tax cuts for the rich and more corporate anarchy. Why don’t they put away their crusty hundred-year-old ideas and say something interesting for a change?”
You mean like…”change” ?
So tell me Hilary, what are your solutions ?
Do you really think repeating the policies of the 30s and taxing the crap out of everyone similar to all the failed socialist states in history is a new idea ?
December 16th, 2009 at 7:22 am
David.
“lightening”
To make something lighter.
“lightning”
That sht between your ears
December 16th, 2009 at 7:24 am
This is an attempt to figure out whats irking the moderation
Wow, I think you’ve broken a record for bringing in the most moronic crap in such a short space.
“That statement alone demonstrates the obvious racial and political bias of the author, thereby negating any validity to his/her views.”
Maybe we should negate any validity of your views based on complete idiocy ?
Views arent valid due to political or rac*al bias ? Thats a new one.
“Precious Bush had his share of gaffs.”
True.
But when it happens to an arrogant self centered peac*ck who thinks his sht doesnt stink its ten times funnier.
Hilary;
“Why do conservatives insist on sitting around talking about how retarded other people are? They don’t offer any solutions except more free trade, more deregulation, more privatization, more tax cuts for the rich and more corporate anarchy. Why don’t they put away their crusty hundred-year-old ideas and say something interesting for a change?”
You mean like…”change” ?
So tell me Hilary, what are your solutions ?
Do you really think repeating the policies of the 30s and taxing the crap out of everyone similar to all the failed socialist states in history is a new idea ?
December 16th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Yup, you have to moderate “peac*ck”
December 16th, 2009 at 8:35 am
What’s the big deal? The president works for the people, sounds like he was being polite to his bosses.
Seriously though, access to the president is the right of any citizen.
December 16th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Not you I hope
December 16th, 2009 at 11:54 am
This is my kind of thread! *rubs hands together*
December 16th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
aww! Don’t stop flinging crap at each other just because I showed up!
Republicans are racist idiots and will be the death of this country. Why is it that the biggest cousin-lovin’ morons are always republican?
Democrats are lazy pu$$ies who want everything handed to them. They are too big of pu$$ies to fight in war thus they will be the death of this country.
December 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
McCain,
You are a great writer of fiction based on fact. Fact: My wife and I were at the White House Breakfast, an honest error on my part, however we were there and you obviously were NOT.
Everything unfolded as reported by AP and nothing more. Your fiction about the attire, and the like exist in your ego and Right-Wing-Nut reporting. If you are going to write something, try and get your facts correct!
Harvey Darden
December 16th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Harvey.
If you can convince us its really you then you’ll be off to a real start.
Til then you’ll be as fictional as you claim McCains writing to be
December 21st, 2009 at 5:08 am
“Republicans are racist idiots and will be the death of this country.”
denverdan, do you actually know any Republicans or have you just fallen for the same racist rhetoric that has fooled poor urban blacks for so long?
When I moved from Chicago to a small Missouri town a dozen years ago it was my white Democrat friends who belittled me for hanging out with the blacks in town. So much so that I shunned their freindship and hang out almost exclusively with my black friends. As for the Republicans I know in town, I’ve never heard any of them say anything negative about black people.
What’s ironic is that blacks continue to vote for Democrats even though their policies are the cause of most of the social ills of blacks.
If you ever want to read an eye opening book, try “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell. He puts things into perspective.