Kevin Horrigan in The St.Louis Post-Dispatch opines -
Nonetheless, like President Obama, I married a woman with a passion for gardening. Also, like President Obama, I hate beets. That’s pretty much where the similarities end. I have a wife who has only me to do the heavy grunt work of gardening, tilling the soil, schlepping the manure, building the beds and digging the holes. He has an entire White House grounds crew, to say nothing of legions of schoolchildren and a nattily attired secretary of Agriculture. Thus it seems profoundly unfair that the First Lady’s garden is supposed to be An Example to the Nation of Growing Your Own Food and Eating Organic. Organic gardening is just like regular gardening, only worse. Instead of using handy and effective nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, you’re supposed to buy bags of cow poop and pick the bugs off by hand and, for all I know, free them in a bug sanctuary somewhere. This is easy if you’ve got a lot of help. Otherwise it’s nothing but a lot of backbreaking work, which is why I find it strange that the photographs of Mrs. Obama in her garden always appear to show her dressed in couture leisure wear. Indeed, when she broke ground on the garden she was wearing boots from Jimmy Choo. When I see her in Red Wing boots and ratty, muddy jeans, sweating like a mule, then I’ll believe she’s serious about gardening.
Madison, IL
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