I'd be laughing if this wasn't so scary.
There are people who believe President Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate is forged. And those who are convinced he was schooled at an Indonesian madrassa and is a Muslim mole.
But a fake vegetable garden?
And the point of faking a vegetable garden would be ... what? To trick the American people into believing that the first family is eating nutritious food when they are really sneaking out for burgers?
Wait. The president already did that.
I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, to keep the vegetable analogies going here, and I know the White House vegetable garden is more than a good example of being a good example.
While the fifth-graders from Bancroft Elementary School waited patiently to chow down Tuesday, Mrs. Obama addressed the attending press on the role a healthful diet plays in good health and - ba-da bing! - the importance of the health care reforms her husband is undertaking.
But to secretly truck in full-formed vegetable plants and plant them when no one was looking seems like a long way to go to make a point. Mrs. Obama could have just visited a D.C. farmers' market and saved herself some dirty knees.
Well, if all politics is local, I guess all local vegetables are political.
Susan Reimer's column appears Mondays.
