Posted on 09/18/2009 6:11:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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.
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Egregious enough for even the Washington Post to report. You’d think she’d have the good sense to send a staffer. Shoot, they could even flash images of the stuff to her over a cell phone.
I think I am going to vomit.
How much did that cost???
Lordy.
Michelle descends upon a market in Washington and holds up traffic for several hours.
She makes Marie Antoinette look like a hard-nosed realist.
Sheesh!
When people who can’t find a job and are surviving off the food shelf watch this extravagantly privileged person lecturing them on how to eat, I think Pelosi is right. God forbid but we are going to see some extreme violent if the Obama agenda isn’t stopped.
What was she wearing?
The traffic had just better be advised that Her Highness will be out there every Thursday!
At least she keeps it a local affair, and so most of the country is spared Michelle-weariness. How much more gagulous would this circus be if it were televised and reported all over the country?
Noting unusual. Blue jeans and a lei of orange flowers. Pretty much what most people wear to the shops.
lulz the comment section on that story is 12 pages long already
The people who worship her and her empty suit of a husband don’t stop to think that huge gobs of taxpayer money are going into the security and transportation for them to just casually leave the White House like they are regular private citizens. Imagine if the first lady’s last name were Reagan or Bush. This would never be tolerated.
Gagulous, LOL.
I would also have accepted ‘Gagtastic’ and ‘Gagifacient’.
I have no words adequate to convey my contempt for this exercise in pseudo-aristocratic, delusional ostentation.
No Republican first spouse would ever be a celebrity in Washington.
(Things will get interesting if Sarah Palin makes it. First Gentleman Todd Palin will get mobbed as he visits the sporting goods stores in Virginia.)
I hate these people more and more every day.
Rummy, that is priceless
Oh how sans goût!
What blue jeans
No....freaking.....way!
Who wears a lei when they’re not in Hawaii?
What a complete and utter fool this woman is!
I noticed this wasn’t your average Safeway either. If the president blamed for everything could set up teeball on the White House lawn, she could have had this set up on PA avenue where it is closed outside the White House.
I do support her campaign for good nutrition, done properly it is a great focus area for any First Lady. However, I think there is enough common sense in the world to realize that the “carbon footprint” from all the security cars and the limo offsets the farmers market.
Red beans and rice didn't miss her!
Don’t put it past her/Barry to stage this to draw the heat off him
She can barely help from blimping out from all that free government food. Will she eventually go under the nationialized healthcare knife or let loose?
I agree with the majority of posts here. There is an obvious tinge of racism in this story, and I am sad that the Washington Post editors allowed it to see the light of day.So now we have to stop going to the grocery store. Don't wanna be racist. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.The clear implication here is that, as an African-American woman, Ms. Obama should ride the bus to do her grocery shopping, and that it should be at the Safeway, not at an upscale farmer's market.
Accept the fact that an African American family is in the White House, Washington Post!
I expect vile criticism of our First Family from right-wing hate radio, not from a (I thought) venerated progressive newspaper.
Ridiculous. There is NO one in the world who wants to hurt Michelle Obama,...or for that matter her fascist husband. Shheeessshh! Why doesn’t she just get in her Suburban and drive there herself,.....whoops, I meant Prius,....whoops I meant SmartCar!
Not near as much as her old man spent on the AF1 FLEET yesterday.
Million dollar Tuscan kale.
I think she just gets a kick out of disrupting whitey’s activities, but having streets blocked, and places shut down.
I’m looking forward to future complaints by feminists, after they strip away all history and context, that ‘Michelle Obama can’t even do something as simple as shopping without being criticized by racist misogynists.’
Of course, the best part was about the prices of the produce the lovely and cultured Michelle with the beautiful, sculpted arms was looking at, including dandelion greens at "$12 per pound from Blueberry Hill Vegetables." Good Heavens! I was at Sam's yesteday and they were sellling USDA choice whole beef tenderloins for $7.99 a pound.
Michelle certainly has the common touch in these recession days when the government has cut off the water and livelihood for 40,000 California central vcalley farmers, mostly Hispanic, to protect a 2" minnow.
To be fair (and I am trying hard!) - the lei of flowers were apparently given her by one of her worshipers at the market, and nobody should be worried about the mythical horror we call “carbon footprints”
But I am annoyed that she stopped the traffic for her shopping spree. Also: her tone-deafness in closing traffic to buy ludicrously expensive vegetables.
She's working her way up to shopping in a bathrobe with fuzzy slippers and hair curlers.
"What, the peasants have no iceberg lettuce? Well, let them eat organic Tuscan kale!"
It looks like she’s got a mouthful of ‘chew’ and she’s looking for a staff member to get her a soda bottle to spit it in.
Isn’t it a shame that people like Larry David can’t bring themselves to lampoon all this?
No, there is a much more obvious streak of disgust that our elected officials view themselves as some kind of low-grade royalty.
Oh dear. Our favorite little teletubby is looking......well.........tubbier.
“She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine”
(cue giant eye roll)
*sigh*
I like that!
Or maybe Michelle Anto-bama, pronounced An-twough-bama. I fear the average person has no idea who Marie Antoinette is.
What? You mean she didn’t pick up a chicken for her mother’s next Santeria sacrifice?
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