I'm not going to judge a guy getting a scone.

Rather than getting served by THE WHITE HOUSE in a meeting with the President, he stops and grabs something from Peets.

That was pretty ungracious.
figures.

I guess it just kind of fits, in a very Bernie way. lol

IDK. Maybe the White House coffee is not to his liking?

They used to say that the Carter White House really skimped on food for guests, but I don't think the Obama White House is that way.

You know, the ones Laura Bush fired and brought in the guy who wrote "Desserts For Dummies"? (I kid you not. You can't make this crap up).

Anyway, the White House begins serving small bites of food for meetings, beginning very early in the morning. To bring your own fast food to a meeting there is incredibly rude, and it insults the skilled chefs who work almost all night long to prepare exquisite morsels for guests.

Very interesting.

Who would ever think he could be Rude?????

Geeze.

Since it looks like the President ate his lunch and drank his milkshake...

he won't eat anything served by the establishment. ė
Both rude and phony.

Weird!

Also to feel like there was a variable he could control. Which also is comforting.

People are very funny about food sometimes. The older we get, the funnier we are about it too.

He was going into a HUGELY symbolic situation.

The people's house that will not be his
Occupied by a man who, Sanders knew, was endorsing Hillary
By a man he sought to have primaried in 2012
Not his house, not his territory, not his rules, not his comfort zone

Breakfast was probably the one thing, consciously or not, that he figured he could still control.

Let the guy have his scone I guess. Hopefully he was gracious enough to bring extra. That's how I was raised. Bring enough for everybody if you bring food somewhere.

Dear Bernie Supporter -

As you know, President Obama invited Bernie to meet with him this morning at the White House. While one would expect the WH to provide breakfast for such a morning meeting, Sen Sanders could not be sure of that, based on his experience that President Obama "coulda done more" for the middle class.

That's why Bernie stopped by Peet's Coffee on his way to the WH to get a cup of working-class joe and a scone. But then, the DNC stepped in unfairly and asked WH security to double check the sustenance that Bernie brought with him. This resulted in a delay that not only allowed his coffee to cool down to room temperature, but dried out his scone to the point where it was uneatable.

In the meanwhile, it was reported that Hillary Clinton was eating a substantial breakfast that was no doubt paid for with $ raised through our corrupt system of campaign financing.

That's why we're asking you once again to support all that's good in the world by donating an additional $27 to St Bernard's campaign. Doing so assures you that he will take the fight for free college, free cars, free healthcare, free mansions and free X-Boxes all the way to the convention.

Bernie needs you now more than ever. Don't allow the DNC to be successful in their quest to cool down everyone's coffee, and to turn your breakfast danish into a dried-out work of art.

Donate, NOW!

(the above is intended as a parody of a Bernie Sanders fund-raising letter and is not an actual request for funding from the Sanders campaign, DU or Kevin Trudeau).

and not a real letter?

Good one, stopbush

I wish I had that strict eating regimen!

Can't imagine packing a snack in to the WH like it's any other old meeting. No time to eat before he goes?

The WH staff would accommodate a guest's dietary restrictions, wouldn't they? I can't relate.

i gave my wife a jar of homemade fig preserves on our first date.

As if the President would not be gracious and cordial enough to offer refreshments.
As if the neither President, or his staff, would be courteous enough to welcome a guest with a food service.
As if the President lacked the social graces to be an attentive host.

At least he didn't bring a pot to piss in... did he?

... Woody Allen in "Bananas", when he's invited to a dinner at the President's palace - and shows up with a box of pastries from the bakery.

"Who brings pastries to a state dinner," asks one of the president's aides after Woody leaves, "and doesn't even bring an assortment?"

There's an old joke: two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such small portions."

... of Jackie Mason talking about eating in a "regular" deli as opposed to a Jewish deli: "If you served a Jew a portion that small, you'd spend the rest of your life in court."

Brava!

and its not unknown for people of his age to avoid eating certain foods, certain ingredients and having a healthy eating regime that can only be regulated by having full control of the food itself.

The WH staff feeds kings, diplomats, and every other guest from every country in the world. Do you think they're not good enough to serve Bernie Sanders? Do you think they don't find out who's coming for meetings and what will be needed, if wanted? It's incredibly rude to show up for a meeting with the POTUS and bring your bag of crap and your paper cup of coffee.

and a hassle, and also embarrassing to be asking for special items for food because of medical issues for example. Everyone is different.

(Did make me hungry for scones though)

I hope you will consider self-deleting.

I thought he was for the little guy?

maybe his tastes have evolved.

just referencing the translated meaning of your name.