Mooch is not above using beloved children’s characters for propaganda purposes.
Via Washington Whispers:
First lady Michelle Obama will be assisted Wednesday by some furry friends (and we’re not talking about Bo and Sunny Obama) as she grabs up the bounty from the White House Kitchen Garden . Elmo and Rosita from “Sesame Street” are heading to the White House to help with the harvest, along with Washington area school children. Additionally, the “Sesame Street” characters will be part of an announcement on marketing healthier foods to kids, the White House has said.
During the government shutdown gardeners were not allowed to touch the White House Kitchen Garden, according to Obama Foodorama, a blog dedicated to the president’s food policies. “The vegetables filling the 1,500 square-foot plot are now rotting away on the vines and in the boxed beds, thanks to the mandate for ‘minimal maintenance’ placed on the skeletal crew of National Park Service gardeners who remain on duty at 1600 Penn,” Obama Foodorama writer Eddie Gehman Kohan explained.