Posted on 03/19/2011 6:28:31 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
First Lady Michelle Obama has inked a deal with Crown Publishing Group to write a book about the garden she started at the White House and her efforts to promote healthy habits. Mrs. Obama is receiving no advance and will be donating the proceeds to charity (the specific charity has yet to be decided).
The Christian Science Monitor reports the untitled book will be published in April 2012 and will include photos of the White House garden, as well as other gardens from around the United States. The book is also expected to include an explanation as to what inspired her to plant the first edible garden on the White House's lawn since Eleanor Roosevelt's "victory garden."
An added bonus: Some of the Obama family's favorite healthy recipes will be included. Now you can eat like an Obama!
Mrs. Obama has been an advocate of healthy eating and exercise; she launched her "Let's Move!" initiative in February 2010 which aimed to beat child obesity and improve the quality of food in US schools.
No class government fed Pig, telling everyone what to eat.
Yeah, I’m sure she is an agricultural wonder!
When I was little my mother taught me all about gardening, she would say here is your hoe let’s go. I had my own size hoe just about wore it out, no it wasn’t a toy one, regular hoe with small handle. In later years she would really get on my rear if I did not have the tractor in her garden by the 15th of January.
Bertha, bertha butt.
If no one buys it - how many will starve?
One page? Scrape the ground, churn up the dirt. Plant the seeds. Water. Wait. Pull weeds. Water. Wait. Dig up the stuff. The End.
The way to a great garden and associated book:
Step 1 - Hire a ghost writer since you can’t write worth a damn.
Step 2 - Make sure you don’t spend a penny of your own money on this project.
Step 3 - Get yourself some free land.
Step 4 - Have the Park Service people till it.
Step 5 - Have them fertilize it.
Step 6 - Have them buy seeds and plants.
Step 7 - Call a press conference and pretend you, your kids, and some prop kids are planting the garden.
Step 8 - When the press is gone, get those damn kids out so the Park Service people can finish planting.
Step 9 - Have the Park Service water, weed, and lovingly take care of your garden.
Step 10 - When it seems like a good time, send the Park Service people to a good market and have them buy some really nice veggies.
Step 11 - Call a press conference and tell them this food was grown by you and your girls.
Step 12 - Yell at the ghost writer and tell her to finish up the damn book since you need to get it on the market.
Step 13- Sit back for a while and relax some more since you will have a lot of TV appearances to make to show of the veggies from the market and to hawk your book that all of the libs and all the schools in America will buy.
Step 14 - Smile, you’ve conned them all again! You a genius, girl! Oh, I mean your PR people are geniuses to turn you into the reincarnation of Jim Crockett of “Victory Garden.” Victory - ooh, what an evil word! Only good when you and the unions win elections.
The “gardening” part was most probably written by National Park Service Civil Servant.
2008
Need I say more?
As Taggart said in Blazing Saddles:
"What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?"
Just what is that appendage on the front of that dress anyway?
Picture linked from the Drudge Report
Are those french fries from her garden?
Note to self: remind BO to bury some more bones this week.
What is the name of her book?
I GOT MY TWO ACRES AND A JACKASS
On the contrary, her lucky rabbit foot helped in 2008. It had nothing to do with gardening.
Plenty, call a staff meeting and have people truck in grown plants in the dark of night.
See how easy gardening is?
Nothing except photo ops.
so she has moved on ... from the curtains to the sofa. check.
What a con job. She'll have someone on her staff (government employee) ghost write it and apply all proceeds as charitable deduction from taxes. What a racket.
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