'Eat our peas': Pea growers react to Obama remark

L.A. Times ^ | 7/11/11 | Michael A. Memoli

[Nachum]

That's the reaction of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council to the president's urging of budget negotiators to make the difficult choices necessary to reach a "grand bargain" to raise the nation's debt limit.

"It's not going to get easier, it's going to get harder. So we might as well do it now; pull off the Band-aid, eat our peas," Obama said at a White House news conference.

A spokesman for the pea council said it wasn't interpreting the remarks in a negative context.

"We take President Obama's comment on the need to 'eat our peas' as a reference to the first lady's push to get all Americans to eat a more healthy diet as part of the Let's Move campaign," Pete Klaiber, the council's director of marketing.

[Nachum]

Imagine Whirled Peas

[Nachum]

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(give peas a chance?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM

[traumer]

What he really meant was EAT S^%#@ .....

[al baby]

and die !!!

[silverleaf]

obama is trying for the Nobel Peas Prize?

[Raycpa]

This is going to become a real peaing contest.

[southernnorthcarolina]

John Boehner should bring some of these to his next meeting with Obama:

[MrB]

You pea people are just oversensitive.

[MrB]

Better yet:

You peaple are just oversensitive.

[JPG]

War or peas? Peas in our time? Eat up, Barry.

[Kartographer]

[maggief]

[tet68]

Imagine Hurled Peas.

[Las Vegas Ron]

"the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council"??

They sound po'd

[Persevero]

Eating peas is not difficult. They are starchy goodness.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Obama is a chump. Just another element of the population he has offended. Maybe next he’ll say the pea farmers “acted stupidly”.

[Gondring]

[blue-duncan]

[mdittmar]

“I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.”

[econjack]

"We take President Obama's comment on the need to 'eat our peas' as a reference to the first lady's push to get all Americans to eat a more healthy diet as part of the Let's Move campaign," Pete Klaiber, the council's director of marketing.

Really? That what you take away from his comment? Then, Mr. Klaiber, you're dumber than Obozo.