First Family Quotes
The two young girls, 16 and 13, were in the background of the White House ritual Pardoning of a Turkey for Thanksgiving. Lauten, one of the extremist right wing hyper partisans of the day became the first political figure to attack the children who had been prior to that “out of bounds” even for the Tea Party Partisans. This attack was so petty and cruel that she was forced to resign the next day. However, many of the rabid Republicans reading the attack agreed showing how far the anti-Obama feeling had spread amongst some on the extreme right. Many other rightists condemned the attack as both immoral for attacking young children who really had no part in politics and incorrect and petty in her criticism. It was a time of hyper partisanship where any attack was a good attack, independent of whether or not it was true or justified.
The agency was supporting a program to recycle human feces which were treated in communities by sanitizing them and removing most of the water and packaging the dried sludge as a fertilizer for lawns, gardens, parks, and farms. The treated biosolids were marketed under many names such as ComPro, BioEdge, Notrohumus, Vital Cycle, etc. To promote the concept and overcome the bad image of human feces, the agency arranged to have it spread on all the lawns and gardens of the White House. The decided that “poo” and other descriptive nouns would not fit the desired image. See {635106} for their solution.
