You do realize its a Recession Mrs. Obama

From the Washington Post:

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!"

So i can't even begin to put a price on what this certified organic Tuscan kale cost us taxpayers. Why not just have some intern go out and get you some? It is this kind of showboating and wanton spending that drives me nuts especially during these hard economic times. Now I realize that Bush was a huge abuser of his privileges as president and spent more time at his ranch and in Kennebunkport than he did in the White House, but people are more willing to overlook these things when times are good. You are supposed to be setting an example for the American people. Exercise some restraint as everyone else in America is doing so.