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Michelle Obama Won’t Campaign For Democrats Because She’s Mad Over Letter About Potatoes
The Daily Caller ^ | 10-6-14 | Eric Owens

Posted on 10/06/2014 10:43:12 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

First lady Michelle Obama believes that Democrats running for Congress eagerly desire her presence on the campaign trail during the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections. However, she has avoided helping some Senate Democrats because she’s mad at them for failing to show adequate support for her deeply unpopular attempt to change people’s diets.

The Daily Caller is not making this up. The New York Times has reported it.

The first lady has expressed frustration with Senate Democrats because they didn’t do enough to fight Republican attempts to weaken the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,” explains the Times. The 2010 law is a complex body of meal regulations implemented by the Department of Agriculture that has long been her signature issue.

Michelle Obama was also especially furious after nearly a dozen Democrats from states where potatoes are a commercial crop joined Republican lawmakers in opposing a decision by the Obama administration to ban white potatoes from the list of foods which recipients of Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program assistance can purchase with federal funds.

Obama aides and Democratic operatives downplayed the rift, saying the first lady has other reasons for laying low this election cycle. She wants to spend time with the first daughters, they say. She doesn’t like Washington politics.

An unnamed Democrat strategist also gently alluded to the possibility that Democratic candidates don’t really want the first lady around.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; michelle; michelleobama; potatoes; schoollunch
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1 posted on 10/06/2014 10:43:12 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Hissy fit hissy fit


2 posted on 10/06/2014 10:44:32 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I believe Moosechelle carries a 25 lb bag of potatoes in her underwear.


3 posted on 10/06/2014 10:45:28 AM PDT by boycott
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To: boycott

on each side.


4 posted on 10/06/2014 10:46:47 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: boycott

Yeah, it is a little lumpy.


5 posted on 10/06/2014 10:47:07 AM PDT by jonsie
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To: jonsie

guys are like that. y’know


6 posted on 10/06/2014 10:50:08 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Apparently, she thinks she’s the queen, rather than the spouse of an elected official, whose ramblings are for some reason believed to be more significant than those of the average private citizen living in government housing.

Besides, during the Bush administration, I learned from Democrats that vocal dissent was the very essence of patriotism.


7 posted on 10/06/2014 10:50:10 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: BigEdLB; afraidfortherepublic
BigEdLB:" Hissy fit hissy fit "

If Chellie has a Hissy fit hissy fit ...
What can Zero have ?? A Sissey fit , sissey fit ?

8 posted on 10/06/2014 10:50:16 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“An unnamed Democrat strategist also gently alluded to the possibility that Democratic candidates don’t really want the first lady around.”

Uh huhhh...!

She can’t open her mouth without saying something horrid.

You’d think that by now, she would have got rid of that 800lb. chip on her shoulder!


9 posted on 10/06/2014 10:52:08 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Pot...kettle...black

Don't care if it's Photoshopped, the pieced-together pictures tells it all, anyway.

10 posted on 10/06/2014 10:52:15 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Some might say she’s a wee bit vindictive...


11 posted on 10/06/2014 10:52:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

She must be one seriously racist person if her hatred reaches all the way to white potatoes...


12 posted on 10/06/2014 10:53:48 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: BigEdLB; All
Hissy fit! Hissy fit!
(about Evil 'WHITE" Potatoes)
OH! WOW! ..it's about "WHITE" potatoes, ...

Can this veggie be Raaaaacist?

13 posted on 10/06/2014 10:54:05 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...Pres. E'Bola/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
She is even less popular in Idaho than potato blight.
14 posted on 10/06/2014 10:54:18 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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She's miffed about kids eating potatoes and her suggestion to add kale to school diets went over like a lead balloon....so she's using that as the reason not to campaign for Democrats.

The truth is despite the endless PR hyping her fashionable First Ladyship....Mrs O is a huge political liability.

An unnamed Democrat strategist gently alluded to the possibility that nervous Democratic candidates just don’t want the first lady around.

15 posted on 10/06/2014 10:54:20 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: WayneS

Typical _____ _____.

Just using their phraseology.


16 posted on 10/06/2014 10:55:09 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: boycott

Maybe that’s why she doesn’t want anyone else eating any. We might run out!


17 posted on 10/06/2014 10:55:15 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: right way right

on each side.


I was originally going to write “a 25 lb bag of potatoes in HER PANTIES.” Even the thought of that made me a little ill.


18 posted on 10/06/2014 10:56:02 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

If she tries to go to Ohio, they ought line the street with those kids munching those deluxe pink cookies she had the School Board ban.


19 posted on 10/06/2014 10:56:07 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Liz

As far as I am concerned, kale is a weed.


20 posted on 10/06/2014 10:56:16 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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