More Cowbell! And Really Expensive Vegetables!
Now wherever could people have gotten the idea that the Obamas were elitist?
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!”
Cowbells were rung. Somebody put a lei of marigolds around Obama’s neck. The first lady picked up a straw basket and headed for the “Farm at Sunnyside” tent, where she loaded up with organic Asian pears, cherry tomatoes, multicolored potatoes, free-range eggs and, yes, two bunches of Tuscan kale. She left the produce with an aide, who paid the cashier as Obama made her way back to the limousine.
Look, I get that there’s a certain amount of security necessary whenever a member of the President’s family goes out among the unwashed masses. However, was all that really necessary for a four-block jaunt where she barely spent an hour shopping for incredibly expensive snacks?
That last sentence really is the kicker, though. She didn’t even pay for her own food. She left that for her underlings to handle while she headed back to her luxury (and environmentally-hostile) limo for the two-minute ride back home.
I wonder, did she actually cook and eat what she “bought” or did she leave those tasks up to the paid staff, too?
Oh, well. If nothing else, we can use “Cowbells were rung” as the catch phrase to celebrate yet another Obama administration excess.
RELATED: I’m guessing the $5 per pound potatoes and the $20 arugula is going to be well beyond most Americans’ means when her husband and his Democratic kick-line are done with us.
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Hey, that stuff is out of my price range and my husband and I are both gainfully employed. I'm reduced to growing my own farm-fresh produce in a sludge-free garden I actually tend rather than use as a backdrop for photo ops. I like to think that when I eat (really) locally, I'm actually reducing my carbon footprint.
Didn't she grow her own veggies? Why did the tax payers need to fund this little jaunt? Plus, if there's a cow bell within a 100 miles of DC, one of her underlings brought it as a prop. More kabuki theater.
Why?