The First Lunch Lady: Barack Crowns Michelle Fat Czar
Last week, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at childhood obesity and placed his wife, Michelle, in charge of the effort. Apparently bored with giving first lady-type speeches, and digging up turnips and spinach in the White House garden, Mrs. Obama will head up a national campaign tabbed “Let’s Move.”
To be clear, fat kids are nothing to be celebrated. Obesity among children is connected to all sorts of aliments, including heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, asthma, and diabetes. There is little disagreement about this.
But beyond encouraging healthy behavior, what is the government’s role in decisions that rightly belong to families? I argue there is none.
In announcing the White House initiative, the first lady described how she dealt with her own children’s supposed weight issues, which included making sure her daughters ate more vegetables, drank more water and milk, and viewed less television. So, by her own admission, the solution for her family’s issues was more parental responsibility for her children’s food choices. What her approach didn’t include was the involvement of the government.
But that’s exactly what Mrs. Obama is suggesting for the rest of us, since she seems to think the unwashed masses are unable to do what she did — step up, accept parental responsibility, and make the right decisions for our families.
At her press conference, the first lady lectured us about the importance of her “Let’s Move” initiative, saying:
It’s going to require us working together … not just the administration, but Congress, governors, mayors, parents, teachers. Anyone who has access to children in their lives is going to have to work together. And one of the things that’s also very clear is that this problem won’t be solved by any single federal solution. This is going to require national action.
One of the things the first lady said she wants to do is “empower” parents to make better food choices. But what tha’ hell does that mean? Short of the notion of a “food police” — who might snatch French fries and cans of Coke from youthful hands — why should the government insert themselves into choices, good or bad, that Americans make about the foods they consume?
Now they complain the kids didn’t eat during the blizzard because schools were closed and the meals were not served. So what is wrong with parents spending money on food instead of cable and cell phones?
We have several hundred kids that come to church on buses. I ask them and they have not had breakfast. since parents don’t have to prepare breakfast during the week, they don’t feed them on Sunday either. I think Michelle has her work cut out for her. If she plans on being the fat/health czar, she should command her roomate to stop smoking. Good luck on changing a culture which values pure sugar and deep fried foods.
Michelle Obama = The Fat Czar. Excellent.
For a humorous look at this issue:
http://awolcivilization.com/?p=1599
what joke “empowering the parents”.
…why would you need too ? did some one dis-empower them?
how are the turnips growing now ? ice turnips.
as to trans fat …it isn’t you for you and I was aware of this for decades. I always use butter, lard or bacon grease for cooking.
does this make _ . _ ass look big ? Is that why they try to say something nice ….like what nice arms you have. lol
I guess it’s nice that Michelle Obama is trying to stop obesity in kids. It’s a good cause. And she could certainly promote a better lifestyle for folks through her high profile example, and all that. But what’s annoying about her is she’s always wanting to get all aspects of government involved in people’s lives. I remember when they were running for the Whitehouse and she said something like “Barak will never let you be uninvolved again” and I just went “yikes lady, what the heck are you saying?” Americans do not like the government telling them what to do. That’s how whole ball of wax (the revolutionary war) started in the first place. And we especially do not want any sort of official government involvement re the snacks we eat.
However, appropriate or not, government involvement in child obesity has never proven to be effective. According to a 2009 congressional report, child-nutrition programs cost taxpayers in excess of $19 billion in 2007. How much more will the Obama administration’s “Let’s Move” program add to the taxpayers’ tab? The first lady didn’t bother to tell us about the cost.
Whether government involvement in childhood obesity has been effective is almost immaterial. Per PJM commenter ‘kazooskibum’, Remember. The issue is never the issue. The issue is control.
According to Michelle Obama, It’s going to require us working together … not just the administration, but Congress, governors, mayors, parents, teachers. Anyone who has access to children in their lives is going to have to work together. And one of the things that’s also very clear is that this problem won’t be solved by any single federal solution. This is going to require national action.
IMO Michelle and her ilk started with the statement above and came up with childhood obesity as a pretext to justify it. If an inexpensive, appealing miracle cure for childhood obesity suddenly appeared, they would concoct something else without missing a beat.
Michelle Obama, The First Lunch Lady? Priceless.
At the risk of being banned for life by PJM, I’ll step up to the plate and take a big bite out of this one.
First, she ought to leave her kids out of it. They seem like nice young ladies and her mother has done a nice job raising them. Michelle could use herself as example instead. She signed on for this no privacy deal, just consider it a little payback for us taxpayers supporting her for a couple of years. And date nights appear to be taking their toll. (Suggestion: ixnay the shorts; whether we see you walking the dog or walking down the steps of Air Force One, not your best look)
And the slogan is “Let’s Move”? I am delighted to help and can be right over, with two boxes and a roll of tape.
Seriously, whose brilliant idea was this? Is this what he got her for Valentine’s Day? Honey, I think I will make you Fat Czar. Good grief, I’ll give her credit, she has a better sense of humor than me.
When will we see organizations such as ACORN, SEIU and Teachers Union receiving public funding in support to the Michelle Obama Lunch program for the little children. We all know, parents are too stupid to feed their own children.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER SCAM TO PROVIDE TAXPAYER MONEY TO THE LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING AS DEMOCRAT POLITICAL WINGS FOR GETTING OUT THE VOTE.
It is nice to see nice people in the whitehouse for once aint it?
There is little question that Michelle Obama wants the government to take a leading role in the “fat” crusade. She will fully expect a large bureaucracy employing countless graduates of the Ivy Leagues schools to save Americans from themselves. I can easily imagine in a few years the arrest of parents for letting their children eat hamburgers and french-fries.
For niceness compare the personal charitable contributions. Do that in an honest fashion and get back to me.
Michelle is a despicable mother.
She has raised her daughters to hate white people and embrace communism along with Islam.
Sorry, but I’m, I’m sick of this PC BS about how she raised two lovely daughters – NOT.
Their hearts must have absorbed so much of the racial hatred and anti-Americanism that their parents sought to become part of.
I’m getting sick of her telling us what we are going to “have” to do.
I don’t have to do any such thing.
She obviously has some sort of fantasy where we all work together to do what she and her husband tell us we should do. In fact, in her fantasy, we all HAVE to do it, and this, to her, is a good thing.
When someone tries to make my decisions for me, I generally tell them to forget it.
Children at play is somewhere between Kittehs and Healthcare. It’s the perfect “harmless” cause for a Marxist FLOTUS.
I don’t for a minute think she cares about the children.
If she or her husband did then they would not be indoctrinating them.
Just another fraud. Another control issue.
You ain’t gonna change parents that don’t wanna change…they have every opportunity in the world to feed kids breakfast.
Welfare, wic, you name it..yet many obviously do not feed their babies
breakfast before they leave the house, and Michelle, no matter the good intentions, is not going to change them. They are lazy, self concerned trashy losers, i don’t care the color..they’re still trash not to care for the kids at home, and I’m not talking “pop tarts” for breakfast folks.
Oatmeal and grits are cheap, It’s a good thing to talk about…but the parents need to have their heads examined first.
#12,,right on
12. steve:
Well, you’ve provided a valuable service to the free world, SteveO – that ignorant rednecks raised by racist parents have no choice but to hate the world around them that remains so far beyond their grasp to understand. You’re an embarrassment to your race, to your gender, to virtually everything in the civilized world – except your parents.
Much as I hate to agree with skeeziks (it makes me feel like I need a shower) I am afraid I have to. This is the sort of thing First Ladies involve themselves in, historically. The exception was Hillary and the advocacy of HillaryCare. Nancy Reagan encouraged children to read (nanny statish, perhaps?), Ladybird Johnson wanted to plant flowers on the verges of the Nation’s highways. Health, welfare, and education of children is one of the hot button areas of concern for married women, so a married woman who has a bully pulpit will of course take up one of the issues, and make it her own. So what?
All of the silliness about how badly she’s raised her children (personal attacks on people are despicable, and bringing their children into the occasion is below that, imho) and the idea that she and her husband are trying to control everyone’s lives is just overblown, at least in this instance. In the health care debate, you (we) definitely have a point. But here? Was Nancy Reagan trying to control everyone’s lives by trying to encourage children to read?
People need to get a grip, and get over themselves. Kids do need exercise; what the hell is the point complaining about it when an obviously very fit First Lady encourages children to be more active?
What a great idea, lets fine the fat kids! This could help balance the budget.
WE could plant cams in televisions and see which parents are not feeding their kids adequately and fine them too! We come a long way baby , this is change you can believe in!
18. DavidN:
What can I say? When you set aside ideology, you’ll find that I’m right most of the time. Moreover, I think this thread is a pretty good case study of how right wing extremists view Obama – the facts, the issues, the intentions and motivations, the outcomes, they’re all irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the attack.
“Michelle Obama = The Fat Czar. Excellent.”
“And we especially do not want any sort of official government involvement re the snacks we eat.”
“Remember. The issue is never the issue. The issue is control.”
“Is this what he got her for Valentine’s Day? Honey, I think I will make you Fat Czar.”
“THIS IS JUST ANOTHER SCAM TO PROVIDE TAXPAYER MONEY TO THE LIBERAL ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING AS DEMOCRAT POLITICAL WINGS FOR GETTING OUT THE VOTE.”
“I can easily imagine in a few years the arrest of parents for letting their children eat hamburgers and french-fries.”
“I don’t for a minute think she cares about the children . . . If she or her husband did then they would not be indoctrinating them.”
Folks, I’m gonna help you out here. This kind of stuff is what will doom you to irrelevance. The virulent negativity you show makes typical moderate Americans cringe with disgust (and apply that disgust to the Tea Party movement). There is no reason for these attacks. And yet you persist because this is the role you play, the willing and embittered “heroes” of patriotic principles. Well, the last time I checked, a mother and her children stepping up and trying to improve the quality of life for other Americans was a good thing. Frankly, I’m guessing that half of you are obese and riddled with guilt and self doubt as a result. And so you deny and overreact to those things that strike closest to home, those things that reveal your biggest weaknesses and regrets. It’s why fat parents have fat kids.
But why bother with such meaningful and positive truths when Orly Taitz is on Fox?
(Right DavidN?)
The US government should manage body fat for Americans? I don’t think so.
Let’s first make the approved genuflections about people who are fat but it’s not their fault. Then let’s point out that kids who spoil their own childhood because they choose to be so fat they can’t run, jump, climb trees, or swim in the ocean, lakes or rivers are, intelligence wise, a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Even so, they should be free to become human zeppelins if they want to.
The right to be fat is analagous to the right to free speech. I may not like what you say but I’ll defend your right to say it. Similarly, I may not like the way a fatty looks, but I’ll defend their right to look that way. I’ll also respect their aesthetic preference for the butterball look over the skinny look.
Back off Michelle O.
won’t be long til the govt tries to tell us the correct method of wiping our asses
THE US GOVT IS OUT OF CONTROL
THROW THE BUMS OUT
#20 Skeeziks – “The only thing that matters is the attack”. You obviously were out of the country during President Bush’s two terms, or you would have seen what ‘real’ political attacks are like. Democrats have made political attacks (and lies)into an art form.
And no skeeziks, I don’t find that you are right most of the time. I do find that you are pompous ALL the time, but other than that you seem to be just an ordinary left-wing stooge that can’t think for himself – relying on democratic talking points to lamely make your point.
Back to “Barack Crowns Michelle Fat Czar”. I heard that he did this because he was tired of seeing the TWENTY-THREE (23) members of her personal staff sitting around with nothing to do except take up space and use oxygen that productive persons could be utilizing.
number 12 you are getting hysterical.
So you ate what you wanted, that is what I think of really fat people.
The fat issue is a moral issue. In the past, it is not just that people walked more and did more physical labor. People had beliefs that it was wrong to eat as much as you wanted, that you should not be greedy and stuff yourself. They had a feeling of restraint. If you had a hamburger and fries, you would not have another one. Why not? Because it was somehow unseemly. No, you cannot eat what you want. Have one or two doughnuts. Don’t eat the whole tray. Have a dish of ice cream, not the whole box. Why? Because that was the right way to act. Don’t just eat to be eating.
The fat is the result of the liberal taught mentality that everyone should do what they want and that any kind of restraint is imposed by an evil patriarchal system that wants to deny us pleasure in life. Then having created the problem, liberals look for the government to solve it by controlling people and treating them like babies.
Eating is fun. We no longer have the kind of moral system that puts a brake on fun.
Michelle should start with her own; her backside is quite large, and wide. That would be something.
18. DavidN:
are you serious. he (troll) is only referring to white people.
this is a reversal of the previous plot to have a large section of the society become the future bio-diesel.
but since these ideologs in the white house are global warming believers they now don’t want to reduce them …well at least not into bio-diesel.
“Poor Citizen: It is nice to see nice people in the whitehouse for once aint it?”
Are you serious? So when Laura Bush promoted reading, that wasn’t “nice”? Just because she didn’t insist on being given a made-up title and pics in every paper doesn’t mean she wasn’t doing nice things to help people.
I have no objection to Michelle Obama making health her pet platform, and encouraging people to make healthy decisions, but she doesn’t need a special title bestowed on her to do so, and they don’t need to allocate more tax-paper money to be wasted on it.
…why should the government insert themselves into choices, good or bad, that Americans make about the foods they consume?
In a recent speech, Michelle named a completely new victim group in America, “food refugees” which, apparently, are people who don’t live within reasonable distance of a grocery story.
No sh!t sherlock.
This isn’t the first time the Obamas have used their children in their example making. In pumping “healthcare”, both Michelle and Barack told of a scare with their younger daughter Sasha, small detail was that their slightly melodramatic versions of the Sasha story didn’t match.
You’ve got John Brennan, deputy nat’l security advisor, saying a couple of days ago…”hey, what’s the big deal with a 20% recidivism rate among guys released from Guantanamo” and you’ve got Michelle (paired with nutty Kathleen Sebelius) on a self-righteous food thing.
Truly, we’ve entered the Twilight Zone.
DavidN #18
For heaven’s sakes, did you notice this?
It’s going to require us working together … not just the administration, but Congress, governors, mayors, parents, teachers. Anyone who has access to children in their lives is going to have to work together. And one of the things that’s also very clear is that this problem won’t be solved by any single federal solution. This is going to require national action.
This is just another excuse for collectivism and government control! Of course, the stated goal is as harmless and pure as can be and next door to cuddly puppies. You’ve fallen for it, sorry to say.
I’m not an Obama fan, but, quite frankly, I can’t understand why conservatives have their knickers in a twist over this issue. The obesity issue is a huge problem (pun not intended), and it is driving up healthcare costs–I see it everyday in the office where I work. And I don’t have a problem with the Obamas using their own family as an example.
If the government really wants to do something productive, how about quit subsidizing corn and soy farmers–who sell their crops to carbohydrate refining companies to be turned into high fructose corn syrup and other additives–this giving us cheap food with little nutrition and the urge to eat even more. How about helping to make healthy food affordable.
When I fill up my grocery cart with fresh fruits and vegetables and “healthy” stuff, my grocery bill is about $20/week more than if I fill my cart with processed foods and refined carbohydrates–even if I focus on cheap fillers like beans. The farmer’s markets in my farming state charge twice as much for produce as the local grocery store. My secretary opens a sodium and fat-laden TV dinner or can of Chef Boyardee every day for lunch because it is cheap–it is all she can afford.
Unfortunately, this problem will never be solved because most people (even doctors) do not understand a thing about nutrition and about the dynamics of our agricultural economy. Moreover, with the internet and other technologies, people aren’t forced to be as active as they used to be.
But, as a First Lady, Michelle Obama needs some kind of a platform, and this is certainly a worthwhile one.
mmm mmm mmm
31. mariecurie:
My secretary opens a sodium and fat-laden TV dinner or can of Chef Boyardee every day for lunch because it is cheap–it is all she can afford.
………..all she can afford ?!! ¿ ? that is not only incorrect but insulting. one can make lots of good food choices without buying heavily processed foods.
and conservatives agree that obesity is a problem.
……..but not a government mandate. look how they fixed the issue of poverty. since they stated fighting poverty the government(s) everywhere have increased poverty.
mariecurie #31, I agree that obesity and healthcare costs are linked.
Afaic it doesn’t follow that the government should get involved. There’s a spurious argument (which you haven’t made) that because the government is involved in healthcare, it “needs” to get involved in prevention, nutrition, etc. So, faster down the slippery slope we slide; so, even more of the camel gets into the tent. The alternative, of course, is that government involvement in healthcare should be circumscribed or reduced.
I agree with your suggestion to reduce or eliminate subsidies to corn and soy farmers. Unfortunately, my fear is that we will retain these economically and socially counterproductive subsidies–and offset them with other unnecessary expenditures like the obesity initiative.
A huge chunk of money going to school lunch programs over this. Probably most of it going to SEIU lunch ladies.
They need sick days, insurance, etc. So they can take better care of the poor children. After all, we don’t want them serving our children when they are sick because they can’t afford to take any days off, do we…sarc.
My secretary opens a sodium and fat-laden TV dinner or can of Chef Boyardee every day for lunch because it is cheap–it is all she can afford.
She can’t afford some carrots, some celery sticks, other “rabbit food” ? She can’t afford to buy a cheap yogurt maker and make her own yogurt with simple milk, thus getting around the cost of prepared yoghurt ? (Tell her to mix in some inexpensive fresh fruit, in season).
Don’t you pay her enough that she could buy some varied oats, nuts, raisins and so forth in large quantities from Sam’s Club or something, bulk buying, & make quantities of snack food she could store in her home, to be eaten as needed ?
Prepared, processed foods like you name are wildly expensive, proportionately. TV dinners, geez, you pay a lot for wasteful packaging right there & get crappy, sodium filled portions that taste like cardboard.
Quit making excuses for your secretary, it sounds condescending, at best.
Do a “Michelle” on her ! Preach to her ! Save Her !
For the record, somebody needs to tell both Obamas that the mandate of the United States federal government doesn’t include preachifying at the population as to their, uh, habits. (Lest we rag on Barry for smoking, and so forth. How many people die ugly deaths from lung cancer ?) Also, somebody needs to tell HHS sec’y Kathleen Sebelius to find something better to do than spend TAXPAYER MONEY traveling around the country making “Obesity Maps” by region.
Thank you.
When I worked at the Heart and Stroke Foundation, they received a ton of tax-payer money to launch a huge anti-obesity campaign for kids. It seems that parents need Big Brother to help teach them how to feed their kids. What a friggin joke….this is what my hard-earned money gets wasted on? Stop treating adults like kids and stay out of my private life. I am sick of being told what to do by the government!! (I have to buy my alcohol in a state-run store for gawd sake)MIND YOUR OWN DAMNED BUSINESS MICHELLE and don’t tell the American people how to raise their kids.
Just look at all those fine, trim citizens of North Korea, Cuba and Iran – those totalitarian dictators really know how to starve their people while stealing the loot. 10 billion for the Obamas to fight fat. Well, well, well could Lady Macbeth please tend to her own husband first. Seems like she can’t get him off the smokes(and God knows what else.)
#31 and #36
The secretary in question buys cans of chef boyardee and other such things at the dollar store–yes, the dollar store. Yes, you can buy a small bag of carrots for 99 cents, but what do you do with it, and such a puny amount? You still need buy the rice/beans, other veggies, meat and such to make a complete meal. With some of these packaged/canned foods, you have a complete meal (albeit an unhealthy one). Our university pays its clerical staff a minimum wage, while the professors live quite high on the hog, especially those in engineering and sciences. So, no, “we” do not pay her a living wage). The secretary in question is the single earner in her family, supporting a husband and two kids. The economy in our town stinks. Things like yoghurt can be expensive. Yes, could make your own, but you still have to buy the yoghurt maker, the milk, etc. Do you realize how expensive nuts are, and raisins? You can buy several loafs of Wonder Bread at the local surplus bakery store for the same price as a bag of nuts or raisins. That membership to places like Sam’s Club costs money? I don’t think middle-class folks realize the struggles of the working poor when it comes to a simple act like going to the grocery store. There is also the issue of education. A lot of people just don’t know that what they are eating is bad.
I agree that the government needs to butt out. I also think Michelle Obama has a worthwhile platform as First Lady in confronting obesity.
The secretary in question would have an easier time of it if the government would worry about job creation via tax cuts to small businesses. Then, perhaps she could get a better job, her husband could get a job, and she could afford better food and a higher standard of living.
Apologies for mis-spellings in previous post. Been a long day.
39. mariecurie:
The secretary in question would have an easier time of it if the government would worry about job creation via tax cuts to small businesses. Then, perhaps she could get a better job, her husband could get a job, and she could afford better food and a higher standard of living.
………..now that is a comment I can get behind..
I grew up in what would be called abject poverty by todays standards but I never felt poor.
The government doesn’t help anyone but insiders and people who don’t want to work.
Well I have three daughters the youngest being over 30 years old and non of them are obese nor am I or their mother. Could It be that none of their children (my grandchildren) are obese either and they ate pretty much whatever they wanted.
All of us are active and meals were whatever we wanted during the day I certainly do not need someone to teach me or my wife or my children about proper diets. Being active and eating sensible meals (I like possum, and corn bread with gravy (just kidding)) will keep you from obesity unless there is a health problem.
Moderation is the thing but you must also be sensible but after maintaining my welterweight of 135 to 145 at 5’6″ since 1968. I must also state that any of my girls except one can whip most men that outweigh them by 100 pounds.
My liberal sister-in-law has used her liberal policies to raise her son, and he is obese and lazy. Eveytime she gets tired of taking him to his latest activity, she claims, he is no longer interested, and pulls him out. She has allowed this poor 10-year old to become a total momma’s-boy, who has no perception of competitiveness. He has won trophies in every sport he has played, despite the fact that his teams have never won. This kid will never be able to compete in the real world, and he will continue to be fat and lazy. My wife and I get him every Saturday, and we try to encourage him to eat right, and we take him out running an biking (very moderately- trust me), but he has absolutely no passion for anything. If he continues on his current path he will become a life-long Democrat living off welfare. It is harsh to say about a relative, but that is what liberals do. It is so much easier to be lazy than it is to work for something. Can’t keep a job? Not my fault, I’ll just go on welfare. Right there is at least 15% of the left.
Back on the subject. Michelle- Just tell your kids to get off their butts and go out and play. Stop with all the food talk. It is about activity, and kids today just don’t play anymore (this does not include playing video games). No new gov’t programs needed, just go play!!! It is as simple as that.
Inge,
your comment about mrs. Obama’s rear is not fair. Genetics plays into her figure. Any one who cares to look would see that she puts here time in at the gym. Her arms are toned and other than her ample rear, she is rather slim. I applaud any woman who is willing to work with what God gave her. Many black women will never be able to fit the accepted image of beauty because they are not able to attain those standards do to birth. Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, I would say Mrs. Obama is in goog company when it comes to the big rear club.
By the way, I think Mrs. Obama’s full rear is attractive. Many black men including OHM agree.
Michelle O’s rear end is not a bother to me, either. What’s in her head, on the other hand, troubles me to no end, because she is obviously intent on making the rest of us suffer for her gloriously misguided worldview.
Ahem …
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg1713.cfm
“Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave. He has two color televisions, cable or satellite TV reception, a VCR or DVD player, and a stereo. He is able to obtain medical care. His home is in good repair and is not overcrowded. By his own report, his family is not hungry and he had sufficient funds in the past year to meet his family’s essential needs.”
So if they can afford all of the above, they can certainly afford healthier food. It’s what one chooses to spend one’s money on.
Oh please, Michelle’s fat back side is not the result of genetics. If men and women find it attractive, terrific. She just seems an odd choice to be preaching to everyone about eating habits.
Typical communist mentality coming frothe Obama`s. The ultimate purpose of this `Fat Czar` nonsense will be a backdoor attempt to raise taxes on everything considered `junk food` which to the Obama`s is every type of food.
First Michelle will have to hire a dozen new gov`n workers to get the ball rolling. Then they`ll need office space, computers, perhaps a building, weekends off, vacation time, health and pensions, etc. There will be a demonization campaign against `Big Junk Food` to get the public outraged. Then will come the new rules, regulations and taxes.
For a POTUS who promised transparency this is so easy to see through so i guess he was telling the truth about this crusade….
Leigh;
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatopygia
It is more common among African women.
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First Lunch lady? You guys should be ashamed of yourselves for such a not-so-subtle racist swipe/tripe aimed at the FLOTUS.
How low can this get? This isn’t a political program nor does it involve taxpayer’s money -except perhaps remotely, incidentally.
Would you criticize her for taking up hospice care next? whats wrong with you people? shes the PRESIDENT’s wife. Tthe PRESIDENT symbolizes the UNITED STATES. He’s not just the head of government.
Yeah, I voted for McCain, and… McDonnell and will vote for Romney and yes I suspect M.O does hold some grudges against this country, though, after reading this post and the UNIFORM responses I’m beginning to wonder if shes right. “First LUNCH Lady?”
Get a GRIP, people.
23. Walt:
“Democrats have made political attacks (and lies)into an art form.”
So, Walt, if you learned that I had a black child out of wedlock, would that change your opinion of me?
A little under ten years ago, the obesity horse went galloping down the thin-American-children trail as, simultaneously,
various national, state and locally sourced fight childhood obesity programs were initiated. So Michelle is very late
to the party, and we all realize that all the good that’s already been accomplished she’s ready to take credit for.
The fact is, the train has left the station, and now Michelle, because obesity has a high concern and awareness ranking due to the
in place programs, wants to jump aboard and gobble up all the credit, while possibly helping her husband stop his approval numbers from bleeding.
Actually, I hesitate to criticize Michelle because, number one, she is the first lady and number II, President Obama sternly has told his
mainstream press that, when it comes to criticism and negative media attacks, his wife and children are off limits.
Since Seth McFarlane is a big Obama supporter, I felt that both Obama and Michelle would realize they’d better criticize the Family Guy episode that
made fun of the Sarah Palin family, trying to get at Sarah through Trig, her Downs Syndrome child. But, surprisingly, not a peep
out of them. Which is worrisome because a lot of people believe this goes way beyond the bounds of decency, reminding me of the time
about six months ago that David Letterman joked on his show that Sarah’s 14 year old daughter went to a Yankee game only to ”
be impregnated by Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.
I’m also reminded that just after the inaugural David Letterman made what I thought was an unseemly joke; that when he first saw
Michelle walking down the street in her bright yellow dress that his first instinct was to hail a cab.
I’m also told that these jokesters like Letterman and McFarlane on Family Guy are equal opportunity offenders. Yet, I’m loathe to
turn on the TV next week and watch a family guy episode where, say, Obama is sitting in a study reading the Saul Alinsky book, “Rules
for Radicals”when he hears what sounds like the family dog, Bo, drinking out of the across-the-hall toilet. That distinctive lap, lap lap sound.
Hearing Sasha and Malia nearby, pretty Muslim names for cute as a button little girls, Barack calls to them and when they appear, bright
eyed and bushy tailed, their father asks them to stop “Bo” from drinking out of the toilet. So they take a few steps across the hall only to come back seconds to tell their father that “It’s not Bo drinking from the toilet. I guess mommy got real thirsty.”
The moral to the story is this, Mr. President. If you’re going to turn a blind eye to one of your most avid supporters degrading the Palin (a political rival) family and, in particular, their Downs Syndrome little boy, then guess who becomes fair game. Right.
Consider this a shot across the bow. You and Rahm and David can joke about “retards” all you want, but realize there’s going to be
a price to be paid in some of the most satirical writing you’ve ever laid your big browns on. As a parent, and someone very involved in politics,
I suggest you come out with a statement deploring the attack on a Downs Syndrome child on family Guy first chance you get.
Here’s the skinny on my take on Michelle being put in charge.
It just might have been a bad mistake to put Michelle in charge of the child obesity program.
As a professional weight guesser, there’s no doubt in my mind that Michelle’s either at the top end
of her weight class or would be categorized overweight. I put her at 160 pounds.
I think the best thing the press can do is ask her how much she weighs because if she’s as heavy at I
think, she’s no one to be a spokesman for this program.
Just my opinion. Chew on it.
As Michelle always does, she will do a wonderful job heading the anti-child obesity program. She is a wonderful, compassionate first lady.
Separately, I’m so glad McCain didn’t win. I know he was a war hero, and I give him credit for that, to think about putting up with that wingnut, Sara Palin, as vice president almost makes me physically ill. With a Downs Syndrome child no less.
And I thought the Family Guy episode was hilarious. It just goes to show the Palin family has no sense of humor and can’t take a joke.
What’s more, the voice-over woman has Downs Syndrome which fairly inoculates her from criticism.
But make no mistake, this gives no license to make fun of the Obama girls or their beautiful, compassionate mother.
You see, around the time Obama became President,
he informed us that his family was outs of bounds when it comes to critical media stories. Of course, that included,
his shapely wife, Michelle and two cute children. Trig is why abortion is legal. Palin is the direction educated Americans will
never turn to.
President Obama is the head of what I consider to be the perfect, and perfectly healthy, first family.
And one of the things that’s also very clear is that this problem won’t be solved by any single federal solution. This is going to require national action.
Our system of government is federal, with powers apportioned between the individual states and Washington DC, any powers not specifically granted to the federal government are reserved to the states etc.
Does Michelle even know what she means by this statement ?
Something bigger than federal is national ? I know this current President and his spouseperson don’t have much respect for the Constitution, but it seems they’re really going for some kind of dictatorial power grab here, with childhood “obesity” yet another angle to employ.
Both Obamas are of very limited intelligence, so you’d think they’d have a little more humility when it comes to all this jazz.
No self-awareness, Michelle ?
How soon can we rid ourselves of these prétendeurs ?
“But beyond encouraging healthy behavior, what is the government’s role in decisions that rightly belong to families? I argue there is none.”
Obviously one third of American have no idea of what ‘healthy behavior’ is. So the government has the duty to educate a sick group of people.
And it’s sad to read the mockery here (fat pajammers obviously) for an effort to be commended. Enjoy your diabetes and heart attacks.
She would make a good skank czar, too.
The only thing more stupid than a stupid person is the one that believes and follows that person.
The First Lady has good intentions, but is misguided in her approach.
The entire Obama administration has good intentions but has acted in a very elitist and demeaning attitude toward the American masses.
I am an Ivy League graduate and a physician so I do have some insight on this matter.
It is not as if obese Americans are lazy, irresponsible yokels, as the administration has not so subtly been implying.
POVERTY, or a tight budget at the very least, is a major culprit for obesity. This was one of the fundamental tenets taught in Sociology 101 at my very liberal undergraduate university.
Ever compare the prices of healthy foods (high protein foods, natural whole, non processed foods, vegetables, good quality fruit) vs processed junk food filled with salt and fats?
Ultimately, the Obamas mean well, but due to their incompetency with human physiology or some other agenda to maintain the status quo, they are not giving the entire story to the masses.
The quickest way to lose fat would be to work out and eat a high protein:simple carbohydrate ratio.
Perhaps the best and most effective way for the government to prevent obesity is to implement a sports physiology course in high schools and promote the image of a good physique and how to obtain it for teenagers.