[Zakeet]

... and some of you silly Freepers say the First Wookie has no class ...

[Bronzy]

Well, the basket was nice though a Tupperware type sales gift.

[Outlaw Woman]

What an embarassment.

[libertarian27]

The treats include a jar of hand-picked, pickled vegetables such as sun gold tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, chocolate bell peppers and carrots.

Here's some American Botulism ladies....and they are contaminated with lead too! A two-fer....

[boycott]

Everything about these folks is clueless.

[hole_n_one]

Pa, the Wookies' pickles taste like @#$!.
I'd eat Aunt Bea's crappy pickles before
I'd ever stick anything in my mouth
that the wookie served.

[freespirited]

Pickled vegetables? Where is Mayor Bloomberg and his Salt Police?

[skintight buffoonery]

That damned white house garden causes me more anger than anything else about that family. I mean, rationally I know the whole socialism thing is more important, but ah, christ, the implied insult to the average person when these smug silver spooners set up a damned organic vegetable farm in the white house garden - it makes my blood boil. Let them eat organic arugula? Anyone know what I mean.

Also I’ll eat my hat if any of these goldbricking Obamas has ever actually had anything to do with those vegetables beyond photo shoots.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Hey, we wanted the UN out of the US anyway, maybe this is a good start ... /s

[GOPrincess]

It would be much more appropriate if the basket tags said “Made exclusively for the White House.” It seems tacky to have her own name on them. (As for pickled okra...ugh.)

[Melpomene]

How embarrassing. Keeping the “Made exclusively for Michelle Obama” tag on the baskets make them look re-gifted.

[proud_yank]

No i-pod, no DVD sets? What is this world coming to??

[maine-iac7]

I wonder if they replaced all the toxic topsoil first?

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/19114069/

I sure wouldn't be eating anything grown there.

What a hoot. (BTW, has anyone ever found out what the large tarp covering that whole side of the WH was about? Was it to get rid of the rat problem we know they had - or did they bring bed bugs down from Chi Town too?

[Sarajevo]

MO: Serfs- tend my garden...........

[FrogMom]

I thought the soil was contaminated and that you shouldn’t eat what’s grown there.

Did she buy and repackage the stuff, or is she trying to poison “foreign dignitaries”?

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Here is a link to a thread HillBuzz had up over the weekend about this...

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/09/25/michelle-antoinette-gives-un-dignitaries-things-she-didnt-want-from-her-potemkin-garden/

Two things that stand out from the HB discussion...(as the Longaberger website, FaceBook page, etc. DO NOT MENTION A ‘MICHELLE OBAMA’ Basket)...did the Longabergers donate the baskets? Or, keeping in mind that Longaberger is NOT a Union shop, was it...’you folks really don’t want an audit, do you???’ And for the record, there is also another company that makes upscale custom baskets...Peterborough in New Hampshire.

And...you are ALL going to love this...there are ‘brushed nickel tags’ on the basket that PROUDLY proclaim....’THIS BASKET WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR MICHELLE OBAMA’

Kinda like that ‘Royal Seal’ used in Great Britain??? They really DO think they are royalty.

[Ann Archy]

What a LOSER, CLASSLESS COUPLE!!

[Oztrich Boy]

The gifts were presented in a one-of-a-kind Longaberger, pricey baskets that are a staple of at-home shopping parties. According to the White House, a nickel tag is affixed to the outside of each basket

A nickel doesn't sound all the "pricey"