Breaking news: Fun Couple Crashed Obama’s State Dinner

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  • November 26, 2009 6:33 am at 6:33 am #590858
    ronrsr
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    I wish I were making this up.

    Last night (Tuesday, that is) – Tareq and Michaele Salahi attended the State Dinner thrown in honor of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Two people who were not on the official guest list attended, a pair of Virginia Socialites.

    The Secret Service was asked about this breach after a media inquiry asked about the Salahi’s online boasts on Facebook. They posted some nice photos of themselves at the dinner, with dignitaries include a smiling VP Joe Biden.

    They could face charges of trespassing and lying to the secret service.

    Her facebook entry: I was honored to be invited to attend the First State Dinner hosted by President Obama & the First Lady to honor India. In June 2010, the America’s Polo Cup will be between INDIA & the UNITED STATES. Please join me in this cultural celebration of politics, diplomacy, fashion, sports, entertainment & family fun.

    November 26, 2009 4:43 pm at 4:43 pm #670860
    Josh31
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    Rule number one when crashing an event:

    You must fully conform to the dress code Mehadrim min HaMehardim!!!

    November 27, 2009 5:27 am at 5:27 am #670861
    tamazaball
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    yes that was really funny, supposedly obama has lots of security? doesnt seem like it after all.

    December 1, 2009 6:02 am at 6:02 am #670862
    pookie
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    There is clearly more to the story that we don’t know, a couple can’t just hop right into the white house.

    December 1, 2009 6:48 pm at 6:48 pm #670863
    bein_hasdorim
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    I think the lack of security was due to the man presently residing there.

    December 1, 2009 8:03 pm at 8:03 pm #670864
    ronrsr
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    Do you believe the lack of security is his choice? or perhaps the nefarious doings of someone or something else?

    December 1, 2009 8:13 pm at 8:13 pm #670865
    ronrsr
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    What would make the couple try this in the first place. I would presume that I wouldn’t get in, and I wouldn’t even try.

    December 1, 2009 8:27 pm at 8:27 pm #670866
    arc
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    According to a former secret service agent, since homeland security has taken over the secret service their quality has gone down.

    December 1, 2009 8:28 pm at 8:28 pm #670867
    aryeh3
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    The story is even stranger, the man, Tareq Salahi is a prominent Palestinian lobbyist, and board member of American Task Force on Palestine (although they have edited him out of their website since this party crashing story broke). The ATFP is an organization that promotes Palestinian issues and is active in the discussion of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

    The group was formerly called American Committee on Jerusalem and was headed by Rashid Khalidi. Obama and Khalidi are friends, having eaten at each others’ homes often.

    This information comes from an article “White House party crasher ties to radicalism and Obama knows him” in the Hartford Conservative Examiner.

    December 1, 2009 9:56 pm at 9:56 pm #670868
    ronrsr
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    I had the honor of being a guest on the White House in June, 1977, to help greet the President of Venezuela, Manuel Perez, and his wife. I was not invited into the house, but was one of those people on the lawn, waving flags and holding babies, etc., to help President and Mrs. Carter make the Perez’s feel welcome. Venezuela is an oil-producing (OPEC) nation, and we really needed to make them feel very welcome.

    I know that the Secret Service does not usually fool around in these matters. In fact, it was a rainy day, and I left a fold-up umbrella on the grounds. Despite numerous calls to the White House, I never saw that umbrella again. I presumed it had been X-rayed, inspected and detonated, just in case.

    I was invited and vetted because I was working for the government as an intern that summer, and had already had security clearances, etc. I’m not sure how real the security was, but the Secret Service certainly put on a good show to make us feel the President was safe.

    December 1, 2009 9:57 pm at 9:57 pm #670869
    ronrsr
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    I had the honor of being a guest on the White House in June, 1977, to help greet the President of Venezuela, Manuel Perez, and his wife. I was not invited into the house, but was one of those people on the lawn, waving flags and holding babies, etc., to help President and Mrs. Carter make the Perez’s feel welcome. Venezuela is an oil-producing (OPEC) nation, and we really needed to make them feel very welcome.

    I know that the Secret Service does not usually fool around in these matters. In fact, it was a rainy day, and I left a fold-up umbrella on the grounds. Despite numerous calls to the White House, I never saw that umbrella again. I presumed it had been X-rayed, inspected and detonated, just in case.

    I was invited and vetted because I was working for the government as an intern that summer, and had already had security clearances, etc. I’m not sure how real the security was, but the Secret Service certainly put on a good show to make us feel the President was safe.

    December 2, 2009 1:08 am at 1:08 am #670872
    Josh31
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    Rule number two when crashing an event:

    You must know at least some of guests / hosts.

    Rule number three when crashing an event:

    Know when to leave.

    December 2, 2009 1:55 am at 1:55 am #670873
    ronrsr
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    Rule number 4: Don’t brag about it and post photos of it on your Facebook page the next day.

    December 2, 2009 2:01 am at 2:01 am #670874
    ronrsr
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    In the good old days, pre-2003, The Secret Service was part of the Treasury Department.

    December 3, 2009 4:23 am at 4:23 am #670876
    tamazaball
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    come to think of it the story does seem a bit fishy!! even the couples last name , maybe secret service wants the president murdered.?

    December 3, 2009 6:46 am at 6:46 am #670877
    ronrsr
    Member

    I would hope not.

    If the president is hurt, the people who look the worst, whether their fault or not, are always the Secret Service.

    There is a story of presidential protection that I heard in Washington. I have no idea if it is true.

    In the early 60’s, the French equivalent of the Secret Service sent a delegation to Washington, DC, to see the storied American Secret Service in action, protecting President Kennedy.

    The French returned to France chuckling, since they found they had little to learn from the Americans.

    As for their respective protectees, Charles de Gaulle died in his own bed.

    December 25, 2009 6:51 am at 6:51 am #670878
    Halelujah
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    Well now there are two ways to meet with Obama:

    First, Crash his dinner party by telling the secret service that you left the invitation in the car and you’re Obama’s cousins.

    Second, get into a racial fight with a Harvard Professor and then drink a beer with Obama.

    Who wants to go first?

    December 28, 2009 1:57 am at 1:57 am #670879
    chofetzchaim
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    Yeshiva World has a picture of the couple who got into the White House without credentials (with the wife removed for tznius purposes) click here for pic

    December 28, 2009 4:42 am at 4:42 am #670880
    bombmaniac
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    um…thats a pic of obama…

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