Posted on 10/14/2013 7:59:08 PM PDT by machogirl
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the famous White House kitchen garden, tomatoes are rotting on the vine. Herbs have gone to seed. And the sweet potatoes - a favorite of President Barack Obama - have become worm food. It's another impact of the government shutdown, one that only the fox and the many squirrels that live on the White House grounds could love. A foodie blog called Obamafoodarama that obsessively covers the White House "food ephemera" and the administration's food policy has posted photos of the normally immaculate garden looking more like what most gardeners' plots appear at this time of the year - overgrown. "Due to the shutdown, garden maintenance has been reduced considerably and only being watered as needed," a White House official confirmed, speaking on background.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
A microcosm of everything they touch.
I did a search, honestly I did. My eyes might have betrayed me and this may be posted. Feel free to delete thread.
They’ve sure made plenty of media productions showing Mooch out there slaving in the hot sun.
What’s next, photos of the starving first family (minus the dogs)
Disgraceful. Michelle puts out a book on the garden, has children come to look at it, then they let it ROT.
A perfect picture for what they have wrought on this Country.
ping.
are they still paying $100k for the dog walker
They still have hundreds of people working in the White House, including about 20 highly-paid assistants to Muchelle. Couldn’t they maybe put in 15 minutes a day each? Or maybe Muchelle could get out there and do a little work herself, since she keeps telling us that such exercise is healthy.
Who knows? with this bunch we never know anymore what is satire. Sad
Everything they touch rots.
Symbolism.
squirrels = illegals
shutdown = paid vacation
obama = epic fail
And no towel service at the House gym. This horrendous suffering needs to end.
All Reagan’s fault of course.
“......and only being watered as needed....”
So prior to the shutdown, it was watered when it wasn’t needed.
I rest my case....
Obviously Barry isn’t the only lazy one in that family. Oh well, time for another vacation.
Eeggie is missing out on a good chance to get romantic with Barry. Gardening brings up the sexiness in old people.
No doubt. The seeds were planted in 1980.
Fat Michelle is too lazy to care for her garden.
go to website and read article, then read comments..
just too funny...
for all of us who really do garden, the white house garden has been a laughing joke..for we know she is not doing a lick of any work, she doesn’t know how to work...and after this term she will be even more lazier..
Does anybody else think this first family esp. moochelle is overly obsessed with food?
Well hmmmm guess they are eating canned unhealthy stuff now....lol
Neither POTUS or FLOTUS can do real work. They expect others to do it for them and they show up to claim the credit. They are two disgusting frauds posing as useful human beings. We should deport them to Cuba where they can find their true calling — Fidel Castro and his brother won’t live forever. On second thought, this is a cruel punishment for the long suffering Cubans. Better we ship them to Antarctica for 10 years of winter fun.
thank you, much better!
Article comments are great. Michelle’s Plantation, slavery and all.
lol “” Gardening brings up the sexiness in old people...””
thank you Mrs.smith...can’t wait to inform my hubby in the morning...we didn’t do a garden this year...that is going to be my plea...lol
But we both miss the garden and bet we do one next year..just getting too old, sometimes!!!!
Gardening is RELAXING. What about the “Get Moving” campaign Michelle?
Have these people no shame? Next moochelle will be posting pictures about how she and the kids attempted to shop at the local S-Mart, but their EBT cards were denied because of the "shutdown".
What's next? They actually have to go out themselves and pick up their dog's droppings because there are not enough Majors and Captains to do it for them? Oh, the horror! They don't have enough left on their budget to afford any more Lobster, and are now forced to use only enough Fry Cooks instead of PhD'd Chefs to come up with a five-course setting instead of their normal twelve-course fare!
Shades of 'forced-to-stretch-the-budget'!
I thought this was another satire piece. Sadly, you are correct.
Absolutely. This ranks up there with Park shutdown and the Limo getting stuck in Ireland.
Great point. On the flip side, I’m happy for the squirrels.
The family of Clown Prince nobama are all lazy grifters. I bet the larda** Worst Lady moch-elle hasn’t done an hour of honest hard work in her pathetic FAIL life.
Hawaii?
My neighbor and I share a garden. She can hardly keep her hands off me!
Got fava beans, lettuce, turnips and cabbages (those get her ‘going’ the worst) now.
I’d like to see that. (maybe not)
She really messed up here. Perfect time to show off American spirit and invite some kids that never get to go to the White House or out of town and have a picnic and garden.
I’ll have to read them. I was too much in shock at the article, coming from Yahoo and Reuters no less.
Yes, but expensive food.
They are such ugly, vile people. Nothing surprises me now.
The truth is that this garden didn’t SUDDENLY start dying the moment the government shutdown occurred. Michelle got her photo ops and press releases out of it, and then she wanted nothing to do with it any more.
So... it has been going to rot for six months. Now Michelle doesn’t have to answer any questions about the garden. Nor do the Obama’s have to answer any more questions about what goes on in the White House. The public is not allowed.
The parks and monuments will remain shut down, even if the ‘shutdown’ is over.
Sooner or later, the American public will wake up. It may be too late, but soon they will realize ‘this land is not your land’ anymore.
Why don’t they all, the First Family, the Bidens who spent the weekend at Camp David, get out their with garden equipment and fix the darn garden! Is everything else going to heck also?
Not fair to the Cuban people, you are right.
Where is the lawn mower guy from the National Mall?
No no they are tired from working out with Michele on her website....lol
Good thing I’m not drinking while I read. I only have a borrowed netbook now.
No shame and apparently no reverence for the People’s House. It’s just a pit stop to the mansion in Hawaii.
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