Obama Sends White Pumpkins To The “Back of The Bus”…
Racist.
(US News/Washington Whispers) — There was a cute scene from today’s Ground Force One First Family bus tour through Virginia. Shortly before noon, the motorcade pulled over at Woods Orchard Farm Market in Hampton to shop for pumpkins.
As Michelle Obama shopped, the president made sure to tell shopkeeper Billy Wood that his wife is the nation’s top advocate for veggies. “You know Michelle does a good job promoting produce,” he cheered. “She tries to get everyone to eat their vegetables.”
As the prez talked, Michelle began inspecting the pumpkins, seizing on the unusual white “full moon” variety, including one massive 70-pounder. Mrs. Obama, also well known for being a fitness buff, had no problem hefting one onto a cart, according to the White House pool report.
The president quipped: “Don’t hurt yourself now.” Then he called out to an aide: “[Where] are you going to put it? In the back of the bus?”
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You never pick up a pumpkin by the stem.
If it breaks, your pumpkin will rot twice as fast.
And look at his goofy stance. This is a man that has never worked a day in his life.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he hurt himself during the procedure.
@Bumr50
>You never pick up a pumpkin by the stem.
were you expecting him to know this? that’s for us peons who grow punkins and such.
worthless fuck he is.
fubar says:
October 20, 2011 at 11:11 am
I’d love to toss one to him.
A wet one, and stem first.
Cause I, like, “didn’t know any better.”
@Bumr50
overhand fastpunkin >:D
How much is obamas little ego-trip aboard the TRAGIC FOOL BUS costing the tax payers?
He can’t resist turning everything into a racial issue, can he?
Were they from the Pumpkinhead farm?
Not to be petty, but I don’t think pumpkins are vegetables. I believe they are considered fruits.
And I doubt either Obama or Michelle knows the difference. The only thing they’ve ever planted were seeds of discontent.
“The white pumpkins, nicknamed Johnny and Edgar, were found smashed on the side road several miles outside of Mount Pilate.”
@Katherine
correct. they are fruit.
and.
total photo-op of course. because they are SOOOOOOOOOO human and common.
BARF
Katherine says:
October 20, 2011 at 11:24 am
Pretty sure the white ones are considered squashes, as are the giant ones.
Gourdian philosophy?
@ Clark Narkulis: Winter pumpkins?
“…the president made sure to tell shopkeeper Billy Wood that his wife is the nation’s top advocate for veggies.”
OMG. I am not feeling well right now, coming off two days of possible food poisoning or stomach flu, exacerbated by my office’s insistence on blasting the heating when it’s barely 60 degrees outside, but this has just got me incensed. I imagine that it took all of the shopkeeper’s diplomatic skills not to say, “Thanks, Captain Obvious. Yeah, she never leaves us alone, does she?”
Because NOBODY knew vegetables existed until the Obamas came along!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin
“Pumpkins are a squash-like fruit that range in size from less than 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) to over 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms).[4]
Since some squash share the same botanical classifications as pumpkins, the names are frequently used interchangeably. In general, pumpkin stems are more rigid, prickly, and angular (with an approximate five-degree angle) than squash stems, which are generally softer, more rounded, and more flared where joined to the fruit.[5][6]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(plant)
The squash fruit is classified as a pepo by botanists, which is a special type of berry with a thick outer wall or rind formed from hypanthium tissue fused to the exocarp; the fleshy interior is composed of mesocarp and endocarp. The pepo, derived from an inferior ovary, is characteristic of the squash family (Cucurbitaceae). In culinary terms, both summer and winter squashes are generally considered as vegetables, even though pumpkin may be used for sweet dishes
gee. that doesn’t clear anything up does it?
fubar says:
October 20, 2011 at 11:36 am
gee. that doesn’t clear anything up does it?
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I don’t care what they are as long as yuppies buy them.
O’bummer the “girly man”, let’s the Mooch and everyone else do the heavy lifting… She probably whips his @$$ if he doesn’t toe the line!
@Bumr50
I KNEW IT! YOu are one of those damn Capitalist pigs!!!!!!!!!! ///
fubar says:
October 20, 2011 at 11:41 am
Well, seeing as I haven’t worked on the farm for 20 years, I’d like to think of myself as being altruistic in this case.
But yes, oink, oink, I am.
And do they see that china man sneaking on the bus?
….and the President adds pumpkin shopping to golfing…..
The first Wookie needs veggies now and then to stay regular.
Man-child in daddy shoes.This guy is a freak.
Excellent, @Noelegy!
White pumpkins to the back of the bus, eh?
What a fuckstain.
The fruit lifts the fruit. Jeez just look at the way he`s standing – he can`t even lift properly.
I hope he pulled his back out.
Wouldn’t have cared to be sitting in the huge traffic gridlock nearby, while they enjoyed their little “pumpkin pickin’ “–
Here’s hoping we get enough good people to go on election day November 2012 and KICK HIM OFF THAT BUS.
@ fubar…
TMI on the pumpkin lore….smashing pumpkins will never be the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQtLoJlQD6E
you’re welcome.
Fubar LMAO. Yep, that really cleared things up. I just know I like pumpkin bread, coffee, milk shakes, cookies etc. Just don’t like pumpkin pie. Go figure.
Sweet potato pie, now that is good eatin’.
I swear that man-child looks like he has AIDS.
Hu? LMAO! I just got it! Gosh I love Zipperites.
@Axel
>Just don’t like pumpkin pie
ME NEITHER!
btw; the seeds overwinter. i don’t plant every year. leave them to rot in place and you have a volunteer crop of pumpkins in the summer following.