USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council Loves Obama
Message to President Obama: give peas a chance.
That's the reaction of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council to the president's urging of budget negotiators to make the difficult choices necessary to reach a "grand bargain" to raise the nation's debt limit.
"It's not going to get easier, it's going to get harder. So we might as well do it now; pull off the Band-aid, eat our peas," Obama said at a White House news conference.
A spokesman for the pea council said it wasn't interpreting the remarks in a negative context.
"We take President Obama's comment on the need to 'eat our peas' as a reference to the first lady's push to get all Americans to eat a more healthy diet as part of the Let's Move campaign," Pete Klaiber, the council's director of marketing.
"We know that if tasty and nutritious meals featuring peas are served more frequently in the White House and in the cafeterias of both Houses of Congress, it will contribute to a balanced diet, if not a balanced budget."
More news from the First Lady's Let's Move Campaign, courtesy of the Washington Post's 44 blog: "Michelle Obama orders 1,556-calorie meal at Shake Shack."