Posted on 09/18/2009 9:25:32 AM PDT by ryan71
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.
Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. "Now it's time to buy some food," she told several hundred people who came to watch. "Let's shop!"
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I recall a skit on the Paul Hogan show (pre Crocodile Dundee) about the “royals” heading out for some “Kentucky fried”, about all the necessary falderal....horses, carriages, red carpets, then they need to go back because they forgot the cole slaw. funny stuff...
NOT!
let’s spend 100K securing an area so Mrs. Obama can spend $10 on veggies.
what a brilliant idea
Lots of them on youtube.
Obama, in her brief speech to the vendors and patrons, handled the affordability issue by pointing out that people who pay with food stamps would get double the coupon value at the market. Even then, though, it's hard to imagine somebody using food stamps to buy what the market offered: $19 bison steak from Gunpowder Bison, organic dandelion greens for $12 per pound from Blueberry Hill Vegetables, the Piedmont Reserve cheese from Everson Dairy at $29 a pound. Rounding out the potential shopping cart: $4 for a piece of "walnut dacquoise" from the Praline Bakery, $9 for a jumbo crab cake at Chris's Marketplace, $8 for a loaf of cranberry-walnut bread and $32 for a bolt of yarn.
The first lady said the market would particularly appeal to federal employees in nearby buildings to "pick up some good stuff for dinner." Yet even they might think twice about spending $3 for a pint of potatoes when potatoes are on sale for 40 cents a pound at Giant. They could get nearly five dozen eggs at Giant for the $5 Obama spent for her dozen.
OMG. Just I M A G I N E if Laura Bush - or for that matter Hillary Clinton - had pulled something this Marie Antoinettish in public.
This woman's political ear is so tone deaf she could qualify for disability assistance herself today & start redeeming those food stamps at the double rate for her $5/doz eggs tomorrow!
Isn’t the WP worried about losing its White House credentials? The ‘bama won’t stand for this.
Priceless! and this is by Dana Milbank, one of Obama’s most assiduous sycophants.
watch later. thanks
MO is following Marie A.’s advice of, essentially, saying about we plebeians “let THEM eat cake”. Maybe she and her husband will subsequently carry out the full history of Marie et al (we can only hope).
And she has the nerve to try to help obama force us on his obama care?
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