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Michelle Obama: White House garden ‘semi-open to the public,’ can be seen through the fence
The Daily Caller ^
| 5/7/2013
Posted on 05/07/2013 3:24:35 PM PDT by markomalley
Michelle Obama told an audience attending her book signing Tuesday that the White House garden is still semi-open to the public because visitors can see it through the fence.
She was promoting her book, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, released in May 2012.
[M]y goal in this book is to share the story of the creation of the garden, Michelle Obama said during the Tuesday morning signing at Washingtons Politics and Prose Bookstore, because while it is semi-open to the public because if you visit the White House along the South Lawn, you can see the garden from outside of the White House.
But millions of people dont get a chance to come to Washington. They hear about the garden; they dont get an opportunity to see it, she said.
Visitors standing outside the fence of the South Lawn can see portions of the garden at least 100 yards away, though the view can be somewhat obscured by a wall of trees and shrubbery.
The Obama administration stopped allowing visitors to tour the White House grounds beginning on March 9 due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration.
UPDATE: Tuesdays view of the White House garden below. (Photo by Grae Stafford/TheDC)
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To: markomalley
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:25:30 PM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: markomalley
Can we eat cake while we look in the fence at Versailles?
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:27:54 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: markomalley
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:28:28 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: markomalley
The sequester should’ve cut this b/s.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:29:07 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: markomalley
...if ANY other first lady chewie had made that comment she would have been on all the late night comedy shows..
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:29:08 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: markomalley
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:29:46 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
To: Doogle
LOL! The First Chewie. I’ll have to remember that one.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:30:37 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: markomalley
She was promoting her book, American Grown: The Story of Workplace violins in Ft. Hood Texas...,
....
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:30:37 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: DesertRhino
So Fort Knox is SEMI-Open to the Public too cause you can look through the fence...
Funny, I can’t see any gold in there.... :P
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:31:50 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: markomalley
Michelle Obama told an audience attending her book signing Tuesday that the White House garden is still semi-open to the public because visitors can see it through the fence. Well, why not? Her husband has been telling us that we are "semi-free" from his first day in office.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:32:08 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Jim Robinson
“They’re still semi-free. They can look through the razor wire with no problem.”
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:34:18 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: markomalley
So they can still afford to plant and maintain a garden, just not let anyone in to see it. It is for them, not us.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:35:30 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: markomalley
Really, I just can’t believe that these two idiots are running this country. This comment, is something a queen would say to her subjects. This is NOT her house, she is simply visiting and she should be humbled by the honor. This comment shows her complete lack of intelligence, respect and dignity that her position demands.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:36:16 PM PDT
by
Toespi
To: Doogle
...if ANY other first lady chewie had made that comment she would have been on all the late night comedy shows.. What did Chewbacca do to deserve such disrespect?
Talk about insulting...
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:36:27 PM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: markomalley
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:41:57 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: markomalley
Wow, OK I’m booking a flight to DC!
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:45:35 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Plugs would call her a Chewie knockoff.
To: markomalley
Of course the fence is electrified.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:46:20 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: markomalley
Barbara Streisand warmly semi-opens her house to the general public who own or can secure rides in private aircraft, at least since she lost her court case.
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posted on
05/07/2013 3:50:37 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Sodom and Gomorrah, flush with libertarians and liberals, short on social conservatives.)
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