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Squirrels relish White House kitchen garden as shutdown sidelines staff
Reuters ^ | October 14, 2013 | Roberta Rampton

Posted on 10/14/2013 7:59:08 PM PDT by machogirl

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the famous White House kitchen garden, tomatoes are rotting on the vine. Herbs have gone to seed. And the sweet potatoes - a favorite of President Barack Obama - have become worm food. It's another impact of the government shutdown, one that only the fox and the many squirrels that live on the White House grounds could love. A foodie blog called Obamafoodarama that obsessively covers the White House "food ephemera" and the administration's food policy has posted photos of the normally immaculate garden looking more like what most gardeners' plots appear at this time of the year - overgrown. "Due to the shutdown, garden maintenance has been reduced considerably and only being watered as needed," a White House official confirmed, speaking on background.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elites; garden; littlepeople; michelleobama; obama; shutdown; whitehouse
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You have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. What a horrid example of excess that the residents of the White House can't go out and do yard work on their garden and instead let the food ROT.
1 posted on 10/14/2013 7:59:09 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: machogirl

A microcosm of everything they touch.


2 posted on 10/14/2013 8:00:43 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: machogirl; moder_ator

I did a search, honestly I did. My eyes might have betrayed me and this may be posted. Feel free to delete thread.


3 posted on 10/14/2013 8:00:53 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

They’ve sure made plenty of media productions showing Mooch out there slaving in the hot sun.

What’s next, photos of the starving first family (minus the dogs)


4 posted on 10/14/2013 8:01:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: null and void

Disgraceful. Michelle puts out a book on the garden, has children come to look at it, then they let it ROT.

A perfect picture for what they have wrought on this Country.


5 posted on 10/14/2013 8:02:21 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: greeneyes

ping.


6 posted on 10/14/2013 8:02:38 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: cripplecreek

are they still paying $100k for the dog walker


7 posted on 10/14/2013 8:02:41 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: machogirl
White House garden rots.

There fixed.

8 posted on 10/14/2013 8:03:21 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: machogirl

They still have hundreds of people working in the White House, including about 20 highly-paid assistants to Muchelle. Couldn’t they maybe put in 15 minutes a day each? Or maybe Muchelle could get out there and do a little work herself, since she keeps telling us that such exercise is healthy.


9 posted on 10/14/2013 8:03:21 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: cripplecreek

Who knows? with this bunch we never know anymore what is satire. Sad


10 posted on 10/14/2013 8:03:53 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

Everything they touch rots.


11 posted on 10/14/2013 8:04:13 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: machogirl

Symbolism.

squirrels = illegals

shutdown = paid vacation

obama = epic fail


12 posted on 10/14/2013 8:04:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: machogirl

And no towel service at the House gym. This horrendous suffering needs to end.
All Reagan’s fault of course.


13 posted on 10/14/2013 8:04:18 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Under the Democrats; the Lincoln Memorial is closed; but the southern border is open)
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To: machogirl

“......and only being watered as needed....”

So prior to the shutdown, it was watered when it wasn’t needed.

I rest my case....


14 posted on 10/14/2013 8:04:40 PM PDT by Gator113 (Ted Cruz is settled law.)
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To: machogirl

Obviously Barry isn’t the only lazy one in that family. Oh well, time for another vacation.


15 posted on 10/14/2013 8:04:49 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: machogirl

Eeggie is missing out on a good chance to get romantic with Barry. Gardening brings up the sexiness in old people.


16 posted on 10/14/2013 8:05:03 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

No doubt. The seeds were planted in 1980.


17 posted on 10/14/2013 8:05:06 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Cicero
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18 posted on 10/14/2013 8:05:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: machogirl

Fat Michelle is too lazy to care for her garden.


19 posted on 10/14/2013 8:05:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post))
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go to website and read article, then read comments..

just too funny...

for all of us who really do garden, the white house garden has been a laughing joke..for we know she is not doing a lick of any work, she doesn’t know how to work...and after this term she will be even more lazier..


20 posted on 10/14/2013 8:06:13 PM PDT by haircutter
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