First Lady Gifts a Taste of the White House
Email ABC News’ Yunji de Nies Reports: The G20 spouses are not in Washington, but they’ll still get a taste of the White House in Pittsburgh. The First Lady is giving all of her guests White House honey, direct from the beehive near her much talked about garden. They’ll also get an inscribed honey vase, made of hand blown glass, along with a porcelain and platinum tea set inspired by White House China from the Lincoln administration. The First Lady’s Office says, “The use of platinum on the saucer symbolizes Pittsburgh’s steel industry roots; the use of purple is the color of the state flower of Illinois, the purple violet, home states of both Presidents Lincoln and Obama. The porcelain is one-of-a-kind and made by a century old family business in Illinois.” At the bottom of each cup is a rose, the official flower of the United States.
Photo courtesy of the White House. White House Photo Office.
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Good God above, how much did that cost?
And memo to the Obamas: Enough with the stupid Lincoln comparisons. Barack Obama is NOT LIncoln and never will be.
Posted by: liz | September 24, 2009, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
Relax, liz. It is customary for expensive gifts to be given to foreign leaders and/or their spouses on visits to our country. And they reciprocate when our President visits.
Posted by: Lydia | September 24, 2009, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
I’m just pleased someone in the Protocol obviously stepped up and took charge of the gifts this time around.
Posted by: Isabelle | September 24, 2009, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
First Lady “Gives” a Taste of the White House, not “Gifts”. It’s that pesky noun vs. verb thing.
Posted by: Grammarian | September 24, 2009, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
Dear Lord, have mercy, again, it’s customary to give gifts. Everyone knows that PRESIDENT Obama IS NOT Lincoln, gee whiz.
God Bless America!
Posted by: Devin | September 24, 2009, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
Grammarian: assume the omitted “are” of headline grammar: “First Lady Gifts _are_ a Taste of the White House”.
In any event, use of “gift” as a transitive verb is also acceptable.
Posted by: Headline Writer | September 24, 2009, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm
Poor Queen Liz really got screwed with her gift. All she got was an iPod.
Posted by: MommyG | September 24, 2009, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm
That’s a lovely gift– nicely done, Mrs. Obama. Glad to see the White House staff is learning from their past mistakes. This time, they came up with classy and appropriate gifts.
Posted by: moderate | September 24, 2009, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm
Thank you, Liz. Lincoln would have been mortified to have been lionized in such a way, much less to have done it himself. I think everyone’s about had it with the Obama’s very high opinion of themselves. It’s all about AMERICA, not them. They are not deity or royalty…sheeesh!
Posted by: Marilynn | September 25, 2009, 12:21 am 12:21 am
I would just like to know which state is the true ‘home state’ of the president? I thought it was Hawaii. Or is it Illinois, or possibly Massachussetts. Maybe now it’s D.C.? Kenya?
Posted by: B. Franklin | September 25, 2009, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Michelle Obama channels Marie Antoinette:
“Everyone should have a chief of staff and a set of personal assistants.”
Posted by: Obama: I am the Change You Are Looking For | September 25, 2009, 9:21 am 9:21 am
She knows as much about honey bees as I know about deficit spending. Now all of a sudden they want to be correct, what about Churchills bust they returned to jolly old England. What a bunch of dooffas’s. Jake, get a life instead of sucking up to this pair. When they are gone your gone.
Posted by: janranch | September 25, 2009, 10:01 am 10:01 am