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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1132862" data-attributes="member: 1246">I&#039;d rather have my chocolate covered strawberries for Mother&#039;s Day.........Yeah, no.Via <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/05/michelle-obama-briefly-restarts-book-tour-stalled-163403.html" target="_blank">Politico</a>:First lady Michelle Obama briefly returned to promoting her 2012 book “American Grown” on Tuesday, telling a Washington crowd that her husband’s re-election campaign made it tough to do much when the book was released a year ago.

“If you recall, when the book came out, we were in the middle of this campaign or something or other,” she told the crowd at Politics and Prose, a bookstore the leafy Northwest corner of the city. “So we were a little busy.”

When the book was released almost a year ago, Obama did several TV interviews and one signing to promote the book, which tells the story of the White House kitchen garden and also traces the history of community gardens in the United States.

This second signing came just in time for a holiday when the book might sell well. “Buy away, it’s Mother’s Day coming up,” she said. “I would say I was going to give this as a gift to my mother, but she already has like 10 copies. But I might buy her another one, just for the heck of it.”
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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1132862, member: 1246"] I'd rather have my chocolate covered strawberries for Mother's Day......... Yeah, no. Via [URL='http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/05/michelle-obama-briefly-restarts-book-tour-stalled-163403.html']Politico[/URL]: [INDENT]First lady Michelle Obama briefly returned to promoting her 2012 book “American Grown” on Tuesday, telling a Washington crowd that her husband’s re-election campaign made it tough to do much when the book was released a year ago. “If you recall, when the book came out, we were in the middle of this campaign or something or other,” she told the crowd at Politics and Prose, a bookstore the leafy Northwest corner of the city. “So we were a little busy.” When the book was released almost a year ago, Obama did several TV interviews and one signing to promote the book, which tells the story of the White House kitchen garden and also traces the history of community gardens in the United States. [B]This second signing came just in time for a holiday when the book might sell well. “Buy away, it’s Mother’s Day coming up,” she said[/B]. “I would say I was going to give this as a gift to my mother, but she already has like 10 copies. But I might buy her another one, just for the heck of it.” [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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