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August 21, 2009
Let Them Eat Arugula
Clarice Feldman
Like a child who wandered into an adult cocktail party and tried to seem precocious by mouthing clichés he doesn't really understand, Obama once again made a fool of himself as he did during the campaign when he told his rich backers in San Francisco about those bitter clingers to their religion and guns .
Thursday he reprised Marie Antoinette's charming dairy where cosseted in unimaginable luxury she could pretend with the connivance of her well-heeled friends to be a milkmaid:
President Obama said on Thursday that he and the First Lady are looking into setting up a farmers market just outside the White House, which might sell food from the White House garden or from local farmers. The president said it could give the city of Washington, D.C., "more access to good, fresh food, but it also is this enormous potential revenue-maker for local farmers in the area."
Obama mentioned the idea while answering a citizen question at a health-care forum;
For the record, Washington D.C. has many outlets selling good fresh food , including numerous well-attended farmers' markets selling locally grown produce .The President might have known this if he hadn't spent most of his feckless tenure jetting about the world apologizing for the "sins" of his country.
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