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[del]

Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?

Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.

Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. "Now it's time to buy some food," she told several hundred people who came to watch. "Let's shop!"

Cowbells were rung. Somebody put a lei of marigolds around Obama's neck. The first lady picked up a straw basket and headed for the "Farm at Sunnyside" tent, where she loaded up with organic Asian pears, cherry tomatoes, multicolored potatoes, free-range eggs and, yes, two bunches of Tuscan kale. She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine.

There's nothing like the simple pleasures of a farm stand to return us to our agrarian roots.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market

 

[pete]

What she didnt take grandma?
Wouldnt it have neen easier to send 1 secret service agent. LoL

 

[Article 15]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

 

[del]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

that's what i was thinking.

it really must suck having to live like that.

 

[strollingbones]

there was an article about the "carbon footprint" left by this. what became of her garden?

 

[Modbert]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

This, it's not worth it. By the time they were finished, sending someone who's job is suppose to do exactly that would of been back by then.

 

[Article 15]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

This, it's not worth it. By the time they were finished, sending someone who's job is suppose to do exactly that would of been back by then.

Shouldn't you still be in bed passed out from Thirsty Thursday?

 

[pete]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

This, it's not worth it. By the time they were finished, sending someone who's job is suppose to do exactly that would of been back by then.

Exactly

so we can assume its the power/prestige thing? She tripping!

 

[Ravi]

That is pretty stupid.

I wish we had farmer's markets, though. Instead the farms have all been plowed under for housing estates.

 

[Article 15]

Wouldnt it have neen easier to send 1 secret service agent. LoL

If they could I think they would.

 

[strollingbones]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

o cry me a fucking river....surrounded by buff men willling to take a bullet for ya...someone else pays....i could get use to it.

 

[Barb]

Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?

Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.

Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. "Now it's time to buy some food," she told several hundred people who came to watch. "Let's shop!"

Cowbells were rung. Somebody put a lei of marigolds around Obama's neck. The first lady picked up a straw basket and headed for the "Farm at Sunnyside" tent, where she loaded up with organic Asian pears, cherry tomatoes, multicolored potatoes, free-range eggs and, yes, two bunches of Tuscan kale. She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine.

There's nothing like the simple pleasures of a farm stand to return us to our agrarian roots.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market

I thought it was a nice way to put in a nationwide plug for farmers markets, buying from local growers, and the importance of good nutrition. It isn't the First Lady's fault that the requirements of her security detail make such endeavors more complicated and expensive than it would be if a news anchor (for example) made such a pitch, but she probably has a greater impact to go along with the higher cost of production.

 

[Modbert]

Shouldn't you still be in bed passed out from Thirsty Thursday?

No such thing for me. Got Early Friday Morning classes. Western History 9-1 PM.

 

[Article 15]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

o cry me a fucking river....surrounded by buff men willling to take a bullet for ya...someone else pays....i could get use to it.

lol ...

I'll pass.

 

[dilloduck]

That is pretty stupid.

I wish we had farmer's markets, though. Instead the farms have all been plowed under for housing estates.

Are you officially classified as an 'irritant' by the EPA ?

 

[Article 15]

Shouldn't you still be in bed passed out from Thirsty Thursday?

No such thing for me. Got Early Friday Morning classes. Western History 9-1 PM.

There's almost nothing worse in college than having an early class on Friday ... well any day for that matter.

That class is a gimme. You'll kill it.

 

[Skull Pilot]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

that's what i was thinking.

it really must suck having to live like that.

hey, she wanted to live like that so if she wants any sympathy, she can look in the dictionary between shit and syphillis.

 

[strollingbones]

That sucks that they have to do through all that to ensure her safety.

Send the help from now on, Miche.

o cry me a fucking river....surrounded by buff men willling to take a bullet for ya...someone else pays....i could get use to it.

lol ...

I'll pass.

o take your best shot....i am never upset with you...i will take it out on pilgram lol

 

[sitarro]

What a load of hypocritical, elitist garbage this asshole is full of, I can't stand her or her giant ass. For that matter, I can't stand her lack of style, her "white girl hair" wigs, her idiot entourage, her incredibly stupid ideas. There is no way Barry's a heterosexual.

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market

Hi-Ho, the Derry-O
By Dana Milbank
Friday, September 18, 2009

Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?

Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.

Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. "Now it's time to buy some food," she told several hundred people who came to watch. "Let's shop!"

Cowbells were rung. Somebody put a lei of marigolds around Obama's neck. The first lady picked up a straw basket and headed for the "Farm at Sunnyside" tent, where she loaded up with organic Asian pears, cherry tomatoes, multicolored potatoes, free-range eggs and, yes, two bunches of Tuscan kale. She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine.

There's nothing like the simple pleasures of a farm stand to return us to our agrarian roots.

The first lady had encouraged Freshfarm Markets, the group that runs popular farmers markets in Dupont Circle and elsewhere, to set up near the White House, and she helped get the approvals to shut down Vermont Avenue during rush hour on Thursdays. But the result was quite the opposite of a quaint farmers market. Considering all the logistics, each tomato she purchased had a carbon footprint of several tons.

The promotion of organic and locally grown food, though an admirable cause, is a risky one for the Obamas, because there's a fine line between promoting healthful eating and sounding like a snob. The president, when he was a candidate in 2007, got in trouble in Iowa when he asked a crowd, "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?" Iowans didn't have a Whole Foods.

For that reason, it's probably just as well that the first lady didn't stop by the Endless Summer Harvest tent yesterday. The Virginia farm had a sign offering "tender baby arugula" -- hydroponically grown, pesticide free -- and $5 for four ounces, which is $20 a pound.

Obama, in her brief speech to the vendors and patrons, handled the affordability issue by pointing out that people who pay with food stamps would get double the coupon value at the market. Even then, though, it's hard to imagine somebody using food stamps to buy what the market offered: $19 bison steak from Gunpowder Bison, organic dandelion greens for $12 per pound from Blueberry Hill Vegetables, the Piedmont Reserve cheese from Everson Dairy at $29 a pound. Rounding out the potential shopping cart: $4 for a piece of "walnut dacquoise" from the Praline Bakery, $9 for a jumbo crab cake at Chris's Marketplace, $8 for a loaf of cranberry-walnut bread and $32 for a bolt of yarn.

The first lady said the market would particularly appeal to federal employees in nearby buildings to "pick up some good stuff for dinner." Yet even they might think twice about spending $3 for a pint of potatoes when potatoes are on sale for 40 cents a pound at Giant. They could get nearly five dozen eggs at Giant for the $5 Obama spent for her dozen.

The rest of her hypocrisy is detailed at the link.


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~A15

 

[strollingbones]

everyone ignoring your thread sitarro? had to come on here and trash this one too?