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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Now that’s creative!
Perhaps he can build a luxury hotel on the plot.
Pissing our money away in the name of her “legacy”. That’s all these poseurs think about, is their precious legacy.
Bring in the dozer.
They were probably rooting for the kid.
Moochelle is "bitch" personified.
I suspect they (the Secret Service) suffer in silence.
Yeah, I’ve got news for Michelle, no amount of steel and stone and concrete will prevent Trump from ripping out that stupid, symbolic garden if Trump wants it gone.
OTOH, maybe Trump could use it for his own propaganda purposes, like turning it into a George Washington Carver tribute by planting sweet potatoes, yams, peanuts, collard greens, and black-eye peas, and corn! Some REAL soul food! Yum!
Yup, Donald could ask Ivanka to saddle up a Cat D9 and level the Flag Hater’s garden.
“Ha. Trump has spent his LIFE building stuff. He can destroy that in a week or less.”
Ha ha, try before noon Jan 22.
“That little girl in the picture looks like she’s moving in for the kill. LOL”
Post of the day !
“The Hispanic kid, in the garden with the Ice pick ! I WON!”
Reagan ripped out Carter’s solar panals at the White House.lol
Looking forward to Trump’s arrival on Jan.20,2017.:)
Perfect place for a cigar bar!
Actually I believe the vegetables were inedible because the soil was enriched with recycled human fertilizer.
Everything this woman does is founded on spite.
I've been circumspect, so I can post 'em...
lol
Oh please, people will have forgotten about Obama by April 15th.
Trump will have to completely rebuild the White House in order to get the carterclintonobama stink out!
Trump has ALWAYS wanted the White House to have a YUGE beautiful ball room instead of using a tent, he offered to build it at his own cost years ago I would say the garden WILL BE under the floor of the ballroom!!!
y’all are missing a BIG opportunity here.
Don’t pull up the Garden, don’t bulldoze it...
Turn it into...a pig stye. Not only will “they” tear the garden up, but no Muslim will EVER want to go there.
Problem solved, you’re welcome.
Michelle’s Marxist Victory Garden
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