The Obamas have finally bowed to pressure from trowel wielding lefties and have torn up part of the White House lawn for a vegetable garden.
This a good thing for more reasons than a giddy Alice Waters could tell you in an elevator pitch.
Besides, how great is it to see the first lady with her feet in the dirt, clutching a rake? Laura Bush always appeared as though through a thick haze of surreality, but now we have proof that the new first lady quite literally has her feet on solid ground.
To state the obvious, the actions of the first family set the tone for the nation, and I have my own personal experience as proof. I can remember being in kindergarten and standing in a circle with my fellow classmates, talking about how tough Ronald Regan was. We may have gone so far as to suggest that he could beat up "anybody in the world."
I like to think that today, somewhere out there, a new crop of five-year-olds are talking about how delicious Obama's arugula will be.
(photo courtesy of the NYT)
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I don't think I even got that I wasn't American when I was five. I blame this on a steady diet of American TV being fed into Canada.
wow, look how hard Michelle is working. That doesn't look like a photo op at all.
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