Report on Arrakis: The Obama's first state dinner.

All I can say is, these people have NO shame...and I include the Washington Post for publishing these three pages of absolute drivel.

From WaPo:

The history-making Obama White House can't say enough about how it's more open, more adventurous, more of-the-people than administrations past.

An airsickness bag can be found in the seat pocket in front of you.

The Obamas have set the bar high on matters of culture, aesthetics and political philosophy. The first couple has attempted to engage the world in a broadly catholic (Ed. Note: small 'c') way. When the president travels internationally, he regularly emphasizes his personal story of meager beginnings and his United Nations-of-a-family. Michelle Obama, the girl from the South Side of Chicago, wears her working-class background as prominently as her many brooches. She chooses an international wardrobe on state occasions, for formal portraits, to visit a school. Her very person serves as evidence of a worldview in which creativity trumps nationalism, and opportunity is the currency of success.

I don't think I can go on any more. Read the rest here if you have the stomach for it. Please note: All the Hollywood A-listers are rumored to be invited. House GOP leadership? No invites for them. Don't you just love this post-racial, post partisan Obama reign?

Hold up. What's up with this? It's the first state dinner but it's not the first state visit? How Obamaesque.

While this is a state dinner, the Prime Minister's visit is not considered a "state" visit but an "official" visit. The Prime Minister is not a head of state. India’s head of state is President Pratibha Devisingh Patil. Her position has relatively little Constitutional power though she is considered the Rashtrapati, or lord of the realm. The President is elected by members of the Indian parliament and the state legislatures.

And so much for that transparency thing: Details of state dinner scarce: White House mum.

I am happy to report that Jennifer Hudson sang. Wait til I get the menu and we realize how we are being hoodwinked.

Possums, you know I love you, but I can't take anymore, especially after Lynn Sweet tells us this: Obama Nov. 23 schedule update: Meeting with war cabinet tonight.

UPDATED: Tonight, the President will meet with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room. This meeting is closed press. Expected attendees include:

Vice President Biden
Secretary of State Clinton
Secretary of Defense Gates
Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General James E. Cartwright, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General David Petraeus, U.S. Central Command
General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Commander in Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (via videoconference)
General James Jones, National Security Advisory
Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan