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As her time in the White House draws to a close, Michelle Obama is doing what she can to set her legacy in stone. On Wednesday afternoon, the First Lady — one of America’s most popular public figures — unveiled an improved and expanded version of the vegetable garden that she’s maintained on the South Lawn since 2009.
Politico quotes the author Marta McDowell, who recently penned All the Presidents’ Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses — How the White House Grounds Have Grown With America as saying that Obama’s steel, stone, and cement fortification is “brilliant” and will deter future first families from altering the area.
“I take great pride in knowing that this little garden will live on as a symbol of the hopes and dreams we all hold, of growing a healthier nation for our children,” Obama said at the dedication ceremony. Even in its smaller, earlier state, the garden has been seen as broadly representative of the First Lady’s policy goals, which have centered on childhood obesity and nutrition.
While the future configuration of the South Lawn will be at the discretion of the Obamas’ successors, arrangements for the garden’s maintenance have been made with the National Park Service. Additionally, the Obamas have secured a $2.5 million private fund to cover costs, so as to move the burden off of taxpayers.
(via Politico)
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Her legacy is that she caved to the food industry and labels still aren’t required to state what the sugar contents percent daily value is.
Then blame the food industry you moron, not the person who’s done more in the last eight years to make nutrition and healthy eating part of the national conversation than probably any other public figure.
You probably also think the shortcomings of the affordable care act are Obama’s fault, and not the GOP who actually gut it to hell.
Sorry I don’t need the government to tell me how to eat. She caved to the food industry, its well documented in plenty of documentaries I’ve seen on NF, due to their money contributions. and please stop with the name calling you fucking asshole. this has nothing to do with the GOP, the ACA, or party lines.
“Sorry I don’t need the government to tell me how to eat.” LOL. I can’t. I guess warning labels on cigarettes also offend your clearly-not-a-republican sensibilities.
You’re seriously implying that the unelected spouse of a president not up for re-election, was bought off?
The sugar industry has been actively suppressing research and basically any information that paints sugar consumption in a negative light for decades. That seems to be the far more logical culprit to blame to me than an unelected public figure who’s efforts have been stymied by one of the most powerful and deeply-entrenched special interests in the country.
But sure, I’ll take your word for it because the issue has been ‘well documented’ in the “plenty of” documentaries you’ve watched.
“Stop with the name calling you fucking asshole.” LOL
@DeezNutz13 it is amazing how terrified the right is of Democratic First Ladies. Waiting for the “Michelle Obama Murder List” memes.
@witty name, they are absolutely terrified because Michelle Obama will most certainly be running for president soon. I’m pretty sure the very much beloved Harvard Law grad and former college administrator could easily hold her own in a presidential election. It doesn’t hurt that her husband will end up leaving office with the highest approval rating of any exiting president in the modern era.
@General Bluth – I think she may have burned her bridges with the youth by ruining their school lunches.