Washington:
Carlos Allen, the third gatecrasher at Obama's state dinner has claimed that he wanted to shake a leg with the First Lady Michelle Obama, and maybe Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, too.
Allen, who went uninvited to the White House dinner in honour of Indian Prime Minister, that exposed troubling gaps in Presidential security and launched a federal investigation said, he wanted to dance with the First Lady, a media report said.
"The only thing I regretted at the end of the night," Allen told
The Washington Post, "was that they didn't have no dancing."
He had really wanted to shake it with Michelle Obama, and maybe Hillary Clinton, too; The Washington Post reported based on an interview with Allen and his lawyer.
"With all due respect to President Obama, I know he can't dance," Allen was quoted as saying. "I wanted to show him up... I can dance. Dancing is my thing," he said.
Though the White House has not released the name of the third gate crasher, Salahi couples being the first two, US media has been saying that Allen is the third gate crasher to the White House State Dinner.
Allen though acknowledges that he has been questioned by the Secret Service, but claims that he had an invite for the State Dinner.
"He may have more chutzpah than most people," his attorney A Scott Bolden told
The Post. "He may be more naïve than most people. But he's not a gate-crasher," he claimed.
Born in Colon, Panama, to native parents, Allen who immigrated to the US at the age of six, is now a broke man. His father was in the US Army, and his childhood was spent on bases -- New York, Germany, Georgia; the daily said.
During his two hour interview with The Post, Allen said he wrote to the White House Social Secretary in October requesting an invite to the State Dinner because of the charity work he has been doing.
He said he got something in the mail, which he thought was an invite. "I was happy but I wasn't shocked because I get invited to a lot of things," he said.
Though the letter is now with the Secret Service, The Post said it is not an invite, but an inside of the dinner program which the guests were allowed to take inside the White House.
In his interview, he said he has no connection with the Indian Embassy and no one from there helped him to get inside.