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Michelle Obama sets her garden in stone
politico.com ^ | Oct. 5, 2016 | HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH

Posted on 10/05/2016 4:19:40 PM PDT by PROCON


First lady Michelle Obama is making sure that whoever inhabits the White House next doesn’t rip out her iconic vegetable garden — at least not without a big fuss.

Obama Wednesday afternoon unveiled a much bigger version of the garden that uses cement, stone and steel to make it a more permanent fixture on the South Lawn. The updates are seen not just as preserving Obama’s garden — recognized globally as a symbol of local food — but also as a way to dissuade, say, a President Donald Trump from scrapping it the way Ronald Reagan tore out Jimmy Carter's solar panels after he moved into the White House.

“I think people would be really upset,” said Marta McDowell, a landscape historian who recently wrote a book on White House gardens. She called Obama’s preservation plan “brilliant,” adding, “If it were taken out, it would truly just be a political statement.”

Unlike Obama's sweeping school nutrition reforms, the garden has largely escaped GOP ire, but it has not been without controversy. Just days after she planted the garden in 2009 — the precursor to her childhood obesity campaign — the pesticide lobby was piqued by media reports calling it organic and wrote the first lady, urging her to use conventional agriculture techniques. The White House did not write back.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Gardening
KEYWORDS: garden; grifter; michelle; michellegarden; michelleobama; moochie; moron
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Obama Wednesday afternoon unveiled a much bigger version of the garden that uses cement, stone and steel to make it a more permanent fixture on the South Lawn.

Hopefully on President Trumps's first hundred days list.


1 posted on 10/05/2016 4:19:40 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Is that the Rachel Corrie signature model bull dozer?


2 posted on 10/05/2016 4:21:26 PM PDT by llevrok (Lies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous.)
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To: PROCON

Nice location for a swimming pool or beer garden.

Trumpf!


3 posted on 10/05/2016 4:21:34 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: PROCON

Better first ask The Caterpillar about that there ‘garden’.


4 posted on 10/05/2016 4:22:27 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: PROCON

Everything this woman does is founded on spite.


5 posted on 10/05/2016 4:22:55 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: headstamp 2

I’m thinking a couple of oil derricks.


6 posted on 10/05/2016 4:22:56 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

Make it difficult to tear out? I guess she forgot he’s in construction.

And get that Churchill bust back


7 posted on 10/05/2016 4:22:59 PM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: PROCON

Yes!!!!!


8 posted on 10/05/2016 4:23:12 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: PROCON

What a clod.


9 posted on 10/05/2016 4:23:39 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: PROCON

That little girl in the picture looks like she’s moving in for the kill. LOL


10 posted on 10/05/2016 4:23:41 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: llevrok

Cold as ice

I like it


11 posted on 10/05/2016 4:23:59 PM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: llevrok

Rachel Corrie aka “Pancake”?


12 posted on 10/05/2016 4:24:09 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

“iconic vegetable garden”

Iconic?

geeze


13 posted on 10/05/2016 4:25:04 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: PROCON

The New Ballroom...how impressive!!!


14 posted on 10/05/2016 4:25:18 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: PROCON

Nothing eats a garden like a Deere.


15 posted on 10/05/2016 4:25:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: PROCON

I doubt Melania will be using it for photo-ops come harvest time after costing the taxpayers $50 bucks for that handful of arugula


16 posted on 10/05/2016 4:26:01 PM PDT by digger48
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To: PROCON

17 posted on 10/05/2016 4:26:27 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PROCON

Strip Club......


18 posted on 10/05/2016 4:26:50 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: PROCON

‘Organic’? Dump weevils, aphids, white flies and grubs all over it. Kick back with a cold one.


19 posted on 10/05/2016 4:27:45 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Squantos
In my best Jack Benny voice...

"Now stop that!"

20 posted on 10/05/2016 4:28:13 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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