Wow I would of love to Dine with Queen Elizabeth. How Awesome!!!!

Feh. I'd rather dine with her chef.

i would like to dine but how can queen dine with poor.

And I guess ABC and Robin Roberts never contributed to the Republican party? And NO Democrats were there or invited. Great news story.

Dinner with the queen is one thing. But don't expect these hypocrites to have dinner with the King.

How hypocritical? How could the zealots out to discredit Bill Clinton years ago, spin this one now? Washinghton is all about pay offs. Both parties do it.

I believe that Robin Roberts looked exquisite and did an excellent job of representing GMA and ABC News! Robin and Diane give all of us women an excellent vision of what is really out there for US! Congratulations Robin! Diane, you ROCK! I am from Louisville, Ky and you give me inspiration!

Paula/Louisville, Ky.

Hail to the Queen of England...She was absolutely beautiful and her hats were awesome...What a lady! Robin, you did a very good job of reporting and you were also a knockout little fox yourself! Too bad only those with the big bucks can attend such events. Imagine how a Walmart employee of 20 years would feel to be invited to such an event! Money and the lack of it are what seems to be the key to political choices! Seems so sad!

There have been so many examples of corruption and malfeasance in the Bush administration that this barely earns a shrug. See the Condi Rice connection with Chevron today, for example.

I thought Laura's dress was BEAUTIFUL.

Selva or whoever
Speak for yourself!!! I have the money it's call IRA's, Stocks/Bonds but I'm a demo.

Isn't it unfortunate that these things have to be based on money. Wouldn't it have been nice if attendees had included oh, say, artists, musicians, scientists, and representitives of America's great achievements in medicine, and literature. The queen could have met the best and brightest of America, not just the wealthy ruling class...but then again, isn't that what the monarchy represents??

There were Democrats invited and a few attended, like Speaker Pelosi. Small minded Harry Reid acted like a spoiled brat rather than accept the White House invitation. Sounds petty and partisan.

The ABC coverage was respectful of the Queen's vist and gave a fair report. Too many remarks in here from the naysayers, too much venom flying out of their fingers.
I guess they will get the payback from the Republicans if and when a Democrat makes it back to the White House.
Same old game playing, and the Democrats offer zero end to it.

Who attended the JFK dinners? I recall it was the cultural elite, not donors. It's been downhill since then.

I heard Payton Manning was there. Why not Eli? Is a QB from the NY too liberal to dine with a Queen? And her majesty?

It would be a great shame if no Democrats were invited. Why do I get the idea none were and that Bush didn't have the grace to extend an invitation to them? Did God tell him who to invite?

Just asking.

No culture, no class, just oilmen, car salesmen, corporate bagmen, athletes, and some politicians. Yeah, George, that'll impress the Queen all right. I'm surprised he didn't serve barbeque.

The Bush Regime represent ZERO class and does not have a clue what culture (ART MUSIC ETC)represents - money has never equaled culture or class especially in Texas - Besides the cultural elite are all liberals -

I'm from Tucson and recently bought a car from Jim Click. My husband and I discussed just how much it cost Jim (a good ol' boy in the GWB tradition who does his own TV commercials) to get such a privaledged invitation. My husband guessed right, about $1M. So I found this "silly story" newsworthy. Seems you can't buy a car in this town (between Click and/or Tuttle) without supporting this adiminstration.

Even though I may not agree with Kinder's politics or the field of work he is in, Kinder is a legtimate businessman, who did a good job at Enron when he was COO until 1996. All the antics that happened at Enron, happened after Kinder left and Jeff Skilling became COO in 1997. Performance Review Boards, mark to market accounting for the entiire company became de facto, and cause much of the problems for Enron's demise. Kinder was more of a standard Oil and Gas executive, who saw that his business model was much more feasible than Enron's criminal hijinks of Skilling, Lay and Fastow.

This post isn't suppose to be a clean bill of health for Rich Kinder, but he has made his mark as CEO of Kinder Morgan rather than Ken Lay's right hand man at Enron. (Pretty much all the books on L'Affaire Enron paint a hardnose but above board businessman and lawyer that Kinder was at Enron)

Uh... can someone clarify... was Reid really invited and turned it down as a scoff to Bush? That sounds rather... unfounded. In fact, the Seattle Times says: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was a guest at the gala dinner Monday night, although Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., declined his invitation because, his spokesman said, "He's not really a white-tails and dinner sort of guy and would just as soon spend a nice quiet dinner with his wife." Yep... doesn't sound like a scoff to me. But I guess folks have different senses of reality these days.

The Queen, state dinners, ex-Enron execs?Is this Alice in Wonderland? Welcome to the United States of Distraction. Bush is running the country into oblivion and this is what is news. Robin Roberts? Who?

118 people .... 18 of 'em contributors.

FDR would have done the same at the signing of the Warsaw Pact. Don't need all them sailors and stuff on deck, make room for the donors and my daddy's 'bidness' friends frum the oil companies.

bush is so crass and arrogant. we could not give a darm that you don't like what he does. he is going to do what rove tehlls him to do, smirk, give speech, fly here, sign this, smirk some more.

bush has the title but is not the Guy in Charge as he is so proud to flaunt.

Oh yeah, you forgot the "Katrina victims". The little boy's mother didn't teach him hygiene or take him to the dentist. Why is that the taxpayer's burden? Homeless people have a 60-70% substance addiction rate. Why is this something I should give money for? If "millions are starving in this country, why do we have an "epidemic of obesity" among the poor, and how can this be their children when the government ponies up a breakfast every school day for the poor kids? Please..

The only surprise is that Dubya and Rove didn't pull some strings and get their most- favored contributor Abramoff to the dinner.

But at least Dubya didn't disappoint. Once again - true to form - he embarrassed and shamed this country.

Great coverage of the event Robin! Your dress was perfect and a better choice for you than the red, especially since Condi showed up in a red dress. This monring's foray into the kitchen was interesting. Where were George's fruits and veggies for lunch?? Hasn't he heard of Strive for Five--or does he think that applys to the bakery department?

Bush is sooo classy. Remember he said he would bring character to the White House? He meant "characters".

Leasing out the Lincoln Bedroom was one thing, but even Clinton couldn't think of selling Queen Elizabeth II for political donations. Then again, Tony Blair has been selling titles from the Queen for years.

And what did America get for all these "donations" - unprecedented corruption, a contracted out economy, and an imperialistic, elective war that has shamed American ideals, killed thousands of Americans, wasted trillions of tax dollars, and earned the hatred of the world. Set up the guillotine and let's give the aristas what they deserve. Liberty, equality, fraternity !

I don't see the story on this. If a Republican/Democrat (pick either one) is in the White House, they will invite their Republican/Democrat supporters to a function like this. Always has been like this, always will be.

It's a non-story, no matter how much or how little money they donated to/for their party.

Those of you out there blasting the president, get a life! He invited a wide variety of people to join him at the dinner. He even invited two of his harshest critics to join them -- Pelosi and Reid. These two are regularly in the media (and even in other countries) publicly denouncing and trashing the person who we as a country elected to be the president of the United States. And doing it for their own poliitcal gain. For whatever reason, Reid passed up the opportunity. His loss.

Peyton Manning was probably invited because he was the QB of the SuperBowl champs. Eli wasn't invited likely because he WASN'T the winner, not because he was from a liberal state.

According to authors who served in the Clinton White House, Hillary Clinton used several state dinners at the White House to further her campaign for the senate seat in NY during her time. The tone of using the White House for personal gain was set in stone and punctuated by the most arrogant, pompous President and first lady we have known.

So, yeah, the Bushes invited a cross section of people -- including supporters of his -- to a state dinner with the Queen and Prince Phillip. I'm sorry it didn't meet your preference for who should have been invited. I guess George Soros didn't make the cut like you would have liked. Too darn bad. It wasn't YOUR dinner.

Your party couldn't field a candidate for president that was sound enough to beat the guy you vilify daily. That should give you some sense of pride.

I'm glad that we live in a country where we all have the freedom to make choices not available to us in the world.

Those of you who don't agree with the guest list are free to host your own party and invite the Queen and NOT President Bush. John Kerry is available, I'll bet.

You'd better not be disrespectful of our Queen she came visiting didn't she?

The late Texas governor Ann Richards often remarked that George W. Bush was born with a silver boot in his mouth. Why must he prove her correct so many times?

Quick Correction ABC: Queen Elizabeth II is NOT the queen of England but of the United Kingdom. England is not the UK. I'm suprised a news organisation like ABC couldn't get that little bit of detail right. No wonder most people outside America don't have respect for Americans!!

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. She resides, alongside the British Royal Family, in the United Kingdom where the Monarchy is historically indigenous.

Apart from the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, where she is represented by Governors-General. The sixteen countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth Realms, and their combined population is 128 million

Gosh, I'll bet the Queen was bored to death with the company. Hopefully the food was decent. The ultimate faux pas? Bush winked at her yesterday! What a simpleton! And how embarrassing!

Wow I would of love to Dine with Queen Elizabeth. How Awesome!!!!

Posted by: Lori Sinn

Why? So you could tell her how "awesome" she is? I don't think that she needs YOUR fealty. In fact, I don't think that ANY AMERICAN SHOULD EVER pay any sort of tribute to royalty. We have enough problems in this country with people thinking that they are somehow "better" than others.

I guess we're not a democracy after all ahem..otherwise the dinner would have been attended by a cross section of people from our nation...

Is anyone really surprised at the hypocrisy of the Repooplicans for condemning Bill Clinton's invitations to state dinners of Democratic mega-donors while doing the very same thing? Repooplicans are shameless.

///Small minded Harry Reid acted like a spoiled brat rather than accept the White House invitation. Sounds petty and partisan.///

NO ONE should be having a royal feast at the White House while our brave men and women are eating k-rations in Iraq.
But then when did the Bushies sacrifice???

shame on them all!!

Little did the Queen know, she was dining with a bunch of CROOKS.

Now, who says that big campaign contributions don't buy access? If it buys access to the queen, it must buy some kind of access to the president. The difference is that the former rules an ocean away, the latter is enthroned here.

Yeuk! Vomit!
What nauseating hypocrisy. People are being killed right and left around the world, and these pompous painted blobs of poison feast themselves in honor of.. what?

Personally, as a Republican donor I'd make it a condition that I will NOT be asked to attend. ESPECIALly if Diane Sawyer - the Queen of Vomit- is also there

Queen Elizabeth deserves to dine with better people and better food. Does she realize what a CROCK all these people are?

Much like George Bush, what good is having a queen as a figurehead leader anyways? After all these centuries, how can people be deceived by the illusion of LEADERS, versus the reality of Leadership. I don't believe or trust in any of these fools.

The Republicans accused Bill Clinton of "selling overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom," but this bunch sells everything from ambassadorships to dinners with the queen. Want to have dinner with the queen? Just fork over about $900,000 to the Republicans and become a Bush "Ranger." That'll do it.

Bob Burford

A comment for Mizpah:

Yes, she is the Queen of all of those countries and it looks like our government is going to try and make the United States a commonwealth country also. I could have sworn that We had an american revolution, so that we would break those chains of bondage. I was just reading where Queen Elizabeth owns 9,900,000 sq miles of property and land, suppose the USA is next? Thanks Clinton and Bushie, "you both have done one heck of a job". Looks like our USA is also buying in to the Queens "sustainable development" theories too. Remember what prince Phillip stated,'If I believed in reincarnation, when I die I would like to come back as a bacteria so that I could "ELIMINATE" 2/3 of the worlds population." WOW!!! this is what we americans have to look forward to? Please God, I pray that you will give me my old country back and this is all just a bad nightmare.