Posted on 04/23/2010 10:22:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog
First stop for the first couple's weekend vacation on Friday was a roadside restaurant that President Barack Obama visited during the final month of his White House campaign. First meal on the trip: barbecued ribs.
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama landed in the Blue Ridge Mountains and made a quick stop at Twelve Bones Smokehouse on the way to their resort. The White House said the first couple ate ribs, mac and cheese, greens, baked beans, corn bread and corn pudding before motorcading to their mountaintop hotel.
Deputy press secretary Bill Burton said the couple -- vacationing without their two young daughters -- washed their midday meal down with sweet tea.
This trip was meant to be vacation, and Obama didn't even plan to make calls on the fierce debate over financial reform legislation in the Senate, press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at the White House on Friday.
"Knock on wood," Gibbs said.
On Obama's previous visit to the city, in October 2008, the then-senator prepared for a debate and rallied supporters -- and lamented he couldn't play golf.
"What a spectacular place," Obama said during the Oct. 5, 2008, stop in Asheville.
"The only thing I don't like about it is that I had to drive by the golf course, and it looks really nice. And my staff won't let me play. I'm going to have to come back."
Back, he is. And not just for the golf: The president always keeps his eye on politics.
Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976. He defeated Republican Sen. John McCain by just 0.4 percentage points in a state that favored President George W. Bush's re-election by 12 percentage points four years earlier.
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Eating Barbeque in Asheville is like eating fried chicken in Tokyo
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Yeah, I have been waiting for that one myself. Maybe he had beef ribs.
“but something told me not to go that route.”
Young Jedi; the Force was with you; protecting you.
And something about a fish taco just doesn't sound right (although I've never tried one).
Good thing I did’t see that picture before I went to bed last night.
Anybody know what happened to the thread with the photos of the worst couple walking in the woods?
Someone altered that table sign, it was 666 but they removed one of the 6’s, bent the sign and turned the it upside down - Presto 99.
The real picture, not shown, is that mac daddy is waving at himself in a mirror.
Old guy behind him is thinking, “What the F is this moron waving at there is nobody else here”.
His head has to be large to hold all that ego he carries around. He looks anorexic to me.
Why are the diners in the background fawning all over him? If I’d been in that photo, I’d have taken full advantage of it by scowling and/or holding up a sign.
Oooh. Interesting observation.
Michelle is so cool. She ate a whole pig and never even used her hands.
Um, there were many photos and I didn’t see much fawning, in fact, quite the opposite.
Ridiculous that got taken down!
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