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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Did they do the required environmental impact statement? Did they comply with the Wetlands Act, Endangered Species Act, and the Clean Water Act? Did they us union labor? Did they pay at least the minimum wage, plus union wage scales? Was there an appropriate notice and hearing period for public input?
If not, rip it all out with a D-9.
Pssshaw! She forgets that even Mr. Trump’s kids can run a bulldozer.
LOL!
Farming in the agrarian utopia of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
Organic poop composter, I like it.
:)
< Rochester voice on> “””But I mean it Mr Benny ....:o)”” “ < / Rochester voice off>
Surprised the Secret Service didn’t shoot that kid with the knife sneaking up on Moochelle ....
Cement it over and put a taco truck on it. Be sure to do voter registration drives from it.
That is the exact spot that I would put my triple life-size statue of Winston Churchill.
I hear that Trump is building a hotel in that very spot!
BJ would plant peter peppers.
Y’all will have to find a picture because I don’t want kicked off. Yes, they are for real. Bought a package of Burpee hot pepper seeds once but some peter pepper seeds were mixed in. The family had a great laugh.
How about a Trump adds a plaque that says “Wookie Gardens” or would that be too much?
Secret Service police at the White House only shoot unarmed black women in the back while they are driving their babies.
Leave the garden alone. Neglect it, let it get overrun with weeds. Put a plaque in front of it saying, “Barack Obama’s legacy to Black America”.
Obviously preparing her husband for stone soup,
after loosing 'entitlement' for wagu beef and lobster.
+1
I thought she gave up the Garden years ago
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