Posted on 07/09/2013 5:04:37 PM PDT by lbryce
President Barack Obama made an unscheduled visit on Tuesday to the second annual Kids' State Dinner, a healthy lunch children's event hosted by first lady Michelle Obama in the East Room of the White House. The president greeted the 54 kid guests and made a few brief remarks.
"Food can be fun, it can be healthy," Obama said, according to a White House pool report. "You are setting up habits that are going to be great your entire life."
As he left, Obama was asked what his favorite food is. His answer: "Broccoli."
Related slideshow: Barack Obama not eating broccoli
Not surprisingly, Twitter erupted in mock scorn over the commander-in-chief's purported vegetable enthusiasm. Broccoli was soon trending on Twitter, and a full-on faux "Broccoligate" began to boil.
"Obama tells kid journalist his favorite food is broccoli. And his favorite activity is lying to children," Comedy Central's Indecision blog tweeted.
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Obammy loves children....especially with ketchup!
Of course it is that is why we see all those photos of him eating broccoli all the time.
All the state dinners always have broccoli too!
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do muslims eat broccoli? who knew.
I thought it was watermelon wif fried chickin?!
Liar, it’s pork swords, er, pork steaks..
I thought that the era of ‘Bush Bashing’ by our President had ended but I guess I was wrong.
I get the feeling that Mr. Obama has a reflex response to remind people of how much more evil his predecessor was for any criteria.
We have it on Michelle’s word that the family’s favorite is hot wings. Paula Deen said so. If Deen said broccoli, she’d still have a job.
Binged “images of Obama eating food” .... I didn’t see anything green in the vicinity of his mouth.
I thought he liked MANwich.
After you’ve eaten dog meat, broccoli must be like a piece of cake.
He C A N N O T tell the T R U T H about A N Y T H I N G.
The Middle East is on fire, we have a rogue spy on the loose, a tanked economy, two wars and this is all this chucklehead has to do??
Well, George Bush hesitated for a second or two, then began to resume reading to the kiddies on 9-11. George Bush should be impeached.
Even people who LOVE broccoli don’t claim it as their favorite food. Even Broccoli producers and ‘broccoli millionaires’ if there is such a thing wouldn’t claim that it Is their favorite food.
Broccoli is NOBODIES favorite food.
He is just a complete liar!
After a long session of shooting skeet, Barack likes to chow down on a plate of Broccoli...
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