Otherwise, I’m sure I would’ve received an invitation for tonight’s big event:
WASHINGTON — President Bush, a leader known for his informality, is welcoming Queen Elizabeth II to the White House with an uncharacteristic display of high pomp.
The British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, are being greeted Monday morning with a 21-gun salute and a parade by the U.S. Army’s Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps attended by 7,000 guests on the White House’s South Lawn.
An exclusive few will return in white tie and tails for a state dinner among 13 damask-clothed tables set with gold-trimmed ivory china and gilded silver candelabras.
It will be the Bushes’ fifth state dinner in six years, but the first in white tie. The event may come as a welcome distraction at a time when Bush’s approval rate has dropped near all-time lows and he battles Congress over funding for an unpopular Iraq war.
Well, sorry I can’t be there.
Update: Hmm, well apparently I’m not on the guest list at all.
