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Old 09-18-2009, 06:09 AM
 
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like the Obama's

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market

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Let's say you're preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don't have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?
Here's how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with bomb-sniffing dogs and installed magnetometers in the middle of the street, put up barricades to keep pedestrians out, and took positions with binoculars atop trucks. Though the produce stand was only a block or so from the White House, the first lady hopped into her armored limousine and pulled into the market amid the wail of sirens.
Then, and only then, could Obama purchase her leafy greens. "Now it's time to buy some food," she told several hundred people who came to watch. "Let's shop!"
Another example of do as I say and not as I do.
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Old 09-18-2009, 06:12 AM
 
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like the Obama's

Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market



Another example of do as I say and not as I do.
Good thing they are not elitists.
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Old 09-18-2009, 07:08 AM
 
Location: Near the water
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what a waste of resources
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Old 09-18-2009, 07:12 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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The guards were over doing their job much to the disgust of the people that would just as soon see the family harmed. What she should have done is talk with the White House kitchen. That is why they are there; to provide fancy food if the residents at their request.
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Old 09-18-2009, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Unperson Everyman Land
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The guards were over doing their job much to the disgust of the people that would just as soon see the family harmed. What she should have done is talk with the White House kitchen. That is why they are there; to provide fancy food if the residents at their request.

This is a pretty regular occurance.
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Old 09-18-2009, 10:58 AM
 
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what a waste of resources
Called..."our taxpayer money"..but then again..the Obama's are on a spending spree for the next 3.5 years....
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Old 09-18-2009, 11:38 AM
 
Location: um....guess
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Called..."our taxpayer money"..but then again..the Obama's are on a spending spree for the next 3.5 years....
Then I fully expect you to be on the streets by that time. Get back to us & let us know your financial situation.
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