Barack Obama's Looming Legume Catastrophe

“So does Obama have a pea problem? Mrs. Obama has given them a boost, growing snap peas in her vegetable garden, after all. But a number of 2012 battleground states grow garden peas, including parts of Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. North Dakota, Montana and Washington state lead the nation in the number of acres of dry pea production.”
 — The Los Angeles Times takes stock of the shifting political landscape in the wake of President Obama’s remark that legislators “might as well do it now; pull off the Band-aid, eat our peas,” in the fight over the nation’s debt limit. Representatives for Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Band-aids, were apparently not consulted for this article.

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