“First Lady” Michelle Obama isn’t winning any of those “most admired women” awards that routinely went to Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Barbara and Laura Bush. Her cognitive dissonance and ill-concealed – not to mention uncontrolled — urge to meddle in our and our children’s lives makes her a little too radioactive to be either admired or even tolerated by the majority of freedom-loving Americans.
Well, she’s at it again, this time telling Los Angeles public school children what they may and may not eat for lunch. Mrs. Obama’s tastes run to the latest in food fads, as reported by NRO’s Michelle Malkin:
In response to the public hectoring and financial inducement of Mrs. Obama’s federally subsidized anti-obesity campaign, the district dropped chicken nuggets, corn dogs and flavored milk from the menu for “beef jambalaya, vegetable curry, pad Thai, lentil and brown rice cutlets, and quinoa and black-eyed pea salads.”
In principle, that doesn’t sound so bad, at least to an adult. In practice, however, the intended diners, the children themselves, reacted negatively:
While the Obama administration has showered the nation’s second-largest school district with nutrition awards, thousands of students voted with their upset tummies and abandoned the program. A forbidden-food black market — stoked not just by students, but also by teachers — is now thriving. Moreover, “(p)rincipals report massive waste, with unopened milk cartons and uneaten entrees being thrown away.”
But the entire exercise in changing the children’s eating habits was not Mrs. Obama’s real goal.
No, it turns out that Mrs. Obama’s whole apparent scheme, improving the nutritional lives of the students, was all a ruse. The real beneficiaries were intended to be — surprise, surprise! — a major Obama-supporting union:
And the biggest beneficiaries of her efforts over the past three years have been her husband’s deep-pocketed pals at the Service Employees International Union. There are 400,000 workers who prepare and serve lunch to American schoolchildren. SEIU represents tens of thousands of those workers and is trying to unionize many more at all costs.
Michelle Malkin concludes her appropriately devastating condemnation of Mrs. Obama’s immoral, low-life machinations as follows:
Early next year, Mrs. Obama will use the “success” of her child nutrition campaign to hawk a new tome and lobby for more money and power in concert with her husband’s re-election campaign. It’s a recipe for more half-baked progressivism served with a side order of bitter arugula.
No wonder only five per cent of respondents in the most recent Gallup poll of admired women chose Michelle Obama. She finished fourth, behind Hillary, Sarah Palin and Oprah. How she got to fourth is beyond me.
*headdesk*
I’m surprised Barack isn’t more admired than Thunderbutt.
And thus we see the problem when we allowed government to become our moral arbiter. At first, the government needed to feed children at school because they was underperforming, so full bellies was the goal of the government. Now that the full bellies are causing other problems (some would say temporary, as no one knows how the kid would be in the later years of his life), the government must regulate more to ensure that kids aren’t eating what they’re supposed to be eating and reject food that only adults would eat, thereby creating waste, fraud and abuse.
Saul has it correct, but I think a wall would be even more sufficient.
There’s a certain suspicious symmetry when the wife of the fourth best president EVER comes in fourth in a list of most admired women. Pure coincidence, I’m sure.
I’d love to see whether the world renowned nutritionist approves of giving kids dihydrogen monoxide to drink.
Had to check this out: here’s what I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
Michelle ‘My Belle’ formerly served on the board of Treehouse Foods Inc. . There is more to this than just advantage to the SEIU. I smell more than one rat here.
Yet another argument for homeschooling! Put the public employee unions out of business once and for all!
NO recovery from the housing bubble until ALL public sector unions are GONE
She’s one stupid ass Maid… She dresses like a Maid and has a brain of a 6yr old…
I disagree: she often dresses like a 6 yr old’s vision of a superhero where the only thing they have to use as a costume is whatever they find around the house.
As for lunches, if Chicago told me my kid couldn’t eat a lunch I’d prepared I’d send it anyway, and ask them what the hell they’re going to do about it. I send kids to school — not pass off custody rights where I temporarily have no say.
Remember MO’s obvious attempt to become the country’s source of new fashion – ala Jackie Kennedy – with that ridiculous double-wide belt thing? That was the first clue.
The one word that has always come to mind with regard to her is actually appropriate here: BARF!
first off, Beef? jambalaya? that jamba is meant to be ham. So, beef, rice and what?
second off- would someone please tell her that pad thai is fast food? please? It’s not supposed to be on a steam table.
and third, quinoa is nasty-tasting. It’s why nobody with functioning tastebuds eats it. It’s covered with a poisonous saponin. You have to rinse it a half a dozen times, and then flavor it intensely.
Fourth, why are these kids being fed trendy food in the first place? T Berry Brazelton makes the point that a kid can live on pb&j sandwiches,a couple of glasses of milk, and a multi-vitamin, because there are tons of children who try to do just that. English nursery food is famously bland. And most of the world switches to some form of it, as soon as they can afford it. Or, they already have some version of bland, mushy starch.
Fifth, ewww. just ewwww.
Sixth, I’m just irked by school lunches in the first place. The kids attend a majority poor school- title ??? has probably kicked in. Most kids eat free or subsidized school lunches. The little mooches are ganging up on the kids who bring their lunches to school, and making fun of them for bringing pb & j and fruit. So the school lunch tables are segregated by kids who bring lunch to school, they look like the dot on an exclamation point, and then two empty seats on each side, and then the long line of subsidized eaters, who make fun of the normal kids. Not a fan of the whole setup.
What’s more interesting is when I went and complained to the assistant principal, she remembered having to put her kids through that same grinder- she was a working poor teacher ( this is Texas, not Wisconsin) and it is the first time I’ve heard “shiftless” used in a conversation. She was talking about the parents, not the kids, but she wasn’t too thrilled about the little section 8 housing kids showing off $100 sneakers, and making fun of her kids in their keds.
it’s 11:14 at night, and my ten year old is talking to me, from his sleeping bag on the floor next to our bed. ‘Night, ya’ll.
Regarding the “Most Admired Women” poll, why the heck aren’t any of the numerous Syrian women who were killed standing up for their civil rights listed? Oprah? Sarah Palin? Hillary? Michelle Obama? Who cares?
http://news.uk.msn.com/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=157351486
First off: isn’t it a delight to read the prose of Belladonna? I mean, it is seriously a pleasure to read what she writes.
Second: food. Man, chicken nuggets, at least the famous ones, don’t have any chicken in them. And those that do have chicken–well, those poor birds are stuffed with hormones, antibiotics, and have suffered such a dismal life crammed in 9-to-a-square-yard of wired space that they are happiest at the moment of being killed.
Beef? same story except they stand forever in their own excrement and require even more hormones and antibiotics to prevent the diseases they are prone to because they are not fed their natural food–grass.
Hey, folks, Americans and most of the rest of the planet’s population as well, are being fed crap, in many cases quite literally.
Overlay this with Michelle’s hidden agenda of bolstering her hubby’s aspirations by feeding the union/lobby gangs–well, this is a recipe for disaster. Both politically and nutritionally.