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The Obamas To Eat What They Grow [Kenyan White House]
BBC News ^ | March 20, 2009

Posted on 03/20/2009 2:34:51 PM PDT by Steelfish

The Obamas to eat what they grow

The Obama family plan to eat what they grow in the White House in the future

US First Lady Michelle Obama is set to break the ground for an organic garden on a patch of the south lawn to grow produce for the White House kitchen.

Local primary school pupils will help her with the planting and harvesting of the vegetables, herbs and salad crops.

Promoting healthy eating for American families has become a part of the first lady's agenda.

She has promised her whole family will be getting involved, and even President Barack Obama will help with weeding. Mrs Obama hopes that inspiring children will help spread the healthy eating message to others.

"My hope is that through children, they will begin to educate their families and that will, in turn, begin to educate our communities," she said in an interview in her East Wing office.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhofamily; bhowhitehouse; dontbelieveit; food; gardening; victorygarden
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To: Steelfish

All they need to do is knock out a few windows and get a mule.


81 posted on 03/20/2009 3:11:24 PM PDT by genetic drift
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To: Robe

Thank you so much!


82 posted on 03/20/2009 3:11:57 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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To: Steelfish
Honestly how does this woman find the time what with feeding the homeless serving on the women's forum just created, helping the military families, hosting conga lines on Wed. nites, poising for O magazine . Please this hack will have one of her many servants do all the gardening the only thing she will do is put on a big summer hat and pose for a magazine cover. What a joke and what liar's her and
her husband are.
83 posted on 03/20/2009 3:12:04 PM PDT by bzybee
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To: Gabz

Wonder if the 0bama’s will be registering their garden plot with the ‘Food Safety Administration’?


84 posted on 03/20/2009 3:13:20 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Never has so many been owed so much by so few)
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To: MilspecRob

Do the Obamas have a backyard garden in Chicago? That ranch was President Bush’s home.


85 posted on 03/20/2009 3:13:26 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: Steelfish

86 posted on 03/20/2009 3:13:38 PM PDT by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: Steelfish

1100 square feet and they plan to grow 55 varieties of produce. What a joke.


87 posted on 03/20/2009 3:13:57 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: Paige

Just begging for a Photoshopping.

88 posted on 03/20/2009 3:14:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: Gabz; Grammy; Diana in Wisconsin; gardengirl

ROTFL.

Now the news releases the WH sends out about the garden there ought to be good for some laughs.

After a week of 70 degree weather (last week) I have to now go out and cover everything. We have a freeze warning tonight.

I’ll check this thread later, and be laughing all night.


89 posted on 03/20/2009 3:14:32 PM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: goodnesswins

The number one black person is still living in government housing and now sharecropping.


90 posted on 03/20/2009 3:15:01 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: Steelfish

Are they going to breed giraffes and hyenas for meat?


91 posted on 03/20/2009 3:15:50 PM PDT by albie
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To: Steelfish

When will there be chickens be running around on he WH grounds.


92 posted on 03/20/2009 3:16:54 PM PDT by jslade (People who are easily offended......OFFEND ME!)
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To: Steelfish
Local primary school pupils will help her with the planting and harvesting of the vegetables, herbs and salad crops.

Is that the Khmer Rouge Agricultural Reeducation School?

93 posted on 03/20/2009 3:16:56 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: Steelfish

Will the homeless be coming to take pictures with their 2.0 megapixel cell phone cameras?


94 posted on 03/20/2009 3:17:23 PM PDT by albie
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To: MilspecRob
Did you think that about Bush’s photo op’s on the ranch?

He actually owns a ranch and works on it when the cameras are off too.

He didn't bring his horses and cows to the White House for a photo op!

95 posted on 03/20/2009 3:19:05 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Steelfish

Squash, etc. etc.


96 posted on 03/20/2009 3:21:21 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Steelfish

The 0bomos won’t be working that garden except for a few publicity shots with the kids raking and hoeing for a few minutes. The illegal aliens with take care of it. The White House will hire a few more


97 posted on 03/20/2009 3:22:29 PM PDT by dennisw (0bomo the subprime president)
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To: Steelfish
The Obamas to eat what they grow

What a novel idea!

98 posted on 03/20/2009 3:24:52 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: Steelfish

99 posted on 03/20/2009 3:24:57 PM PDT by Cooter
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To: papasmurf

Thanks but I don’t really need the advice of children who have been propagandized by Socialists to provide me with advice on what to eat and how to garden. There are better sources of information if I feel the need for further enlightenment on those subjects. Nor do I need well indoctrinated children lecturing me on global warming and other such nonsense. They are using their wretched children, pure and simple. That woman has no clue how difficult it is to garden in DC’s clay-laden dirt. I had to basically replace all of the top soil in my yard to a depth of 18 inches to be able to do what I wanted to do with it. I am waiting to see Michelle and the girls removing the lousy, sticky soil that is there, lugging hug bags of good topsoil and organic matter to the site and then spending a week or so spreading it around and working it. Not gonna happen.


100 posted on 03/20/2009 3:25:51 PM PDT by La Lydia
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