Posted on 05/08/2013 4:07:50 AM PDT by markomalley
At a book signing event in Washington on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama urged her fans to "buy away" for Mother's Day. "It's coming up," she said, adding that "American Grown" is a "great gift."
The book tells the story of the White House garden -- and others around the country.
"It's not just the story of the White House Kitchen Garden; it's the story of community gardens all across this country, because the truth is, the idea of the White House garden is not unique. Community gardens are a mainstay in so many communities across this country, from rural America to my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago," Mrs. Obama said. She mentioned that until she started doing research for her book, she didn't realize that there was a community garden in one of the parks she "grew up using."
"But community gardens are a significant part of the history of this country, which is why we thought it was important to incorporate these stories in the telling of the White House garden story."
Mrs. Obama said her goal in writing the book was to share the story of the White House garden, which she described as "semi-open to the public."
"Because if you visit the White House along the South Lawn, you can see the garden from outside of the White House. But millions of people don't get a chance to come to Washington. They hear about the garden; they don't get an opportunity to see it. So we wanted to use this as an opportunity to tell people about how we started it and how we thought about it, who all is involved, what kind of role Bo (the dog) plays -- he's a very significant part of the book."
She said the book also allows her to plug her "Let's Move" initiative to end childhood obesity:
All proceeds from the book will go to the National Park Foundation, which supports the White House Kitchen Garden and other community gardens across the country.
Still totally inaccurate, but truer to her intent.
LLS
Yeah...them community gardens worked out great in Jamestown, wherever. IIRC, workers, no matter how hard or little they worked shared equally. It was only when the rules were changed so that each could grown their own plots that the food situation improved.
The Wookie’s idea of community gardens is to take everybody’s money (the ‘rich’) and dole it out to HER HUSBAND’s constituents (for votes), and let them go buy their Ding Dongs and Twinkies to go with that Forty.
She doesn’t keep her garden and she didn’t write that book.
What book signing event? Whose book?
She has time to dictate a book during her years as FLOTUS?
Is that a ‘first’ amongst all the “first’s” these couple created?
I’ll wager that she never sets foot in that garden to “tend” it. The only way she would be there is far another photo sessions. Disgusting cow!
That’s a factor but that was hardly the only reason. The harsh new climate and inability to quickly resupply were probably the biggest factors.
Absolutely. The great pretenders, that pair.
“what kind of role Bo (the dog) plays — he’s a very significant part of the book.”
Heh. Fertilizer?
So you’re saying that had the first colonists settled in a more hospitable place like say, Cuba and if they had good resupply from someplace like, the Soviet Union, their collectivist ideas would have worked just fine. Is that what your saying?
MO demonstrating ONCE AGAIN, how utterly idiotic and unfit both she and her ‘husband’ are to occupy the WH and to hand the rest of us THEIR BS view of the world.
They DO occupy an absolutely REMOVED universe!
They both need to STFU and GO AWAY!
Its a simple fact. Growing separate gardens wouldn’t have made much difference. They would have all likely failed for the same reasons they failed collectively.
This from the woman who claimed her grandparents rode the Underground Railroad.
Good Lord.
She and this warped commie she’s wedded to have much in common. They’re both incredibly boring and stupid.
Brilliant!
she is talking about victory gardens during wartime, she is so wierd
It’s just like the garden where she shows up for a couple photo-ops and then turns it over to the White House groundskeepers. She wrote “once upon a time...” and handed it off to the ghostwriter.
It’s just like the garden where she shows up for a couple photo-ops and then turns it over to the White House groundskeepers. She wrote “once upon a time...” and handed it off to the ghostwriter.
Which were actually privately owned gardens necessary because the government was rationing food. Maybe a better comparison would be building secret doctor's offices to make up for the rationing under Obamacare.
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