Posted on 12/28/2010 1:15:45 PM PST by Maelstorm
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has taken Sarah Palin to task for her overreaction to Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity. This is not only notable by itself, but it has sparked similar criticism from other conservative sources. It’s interesting that she’s drawing this kind of fire from my fellow righties.
Palin, the Journal writes, sees a big government plot in Mrs. Obama’s campaign. On her reality show, she served her family “smores,” saying, “This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.”
The Journal editorial drew echoes from a couple of the writers over at Commentary magazine’s blog, Contentions, including former Bush staffer Peter Wehner, who pointed out that Palin’s hip-shooting reaction could undermine the case for smaller government.
Wehner: “Mocking the First Lady and portraying her anti-obesity campaign as several steps on the Road to Serfdom is exactly the type of thing that will turn the public against the legitimate efforts by conservatives to rein in the reach and scope of government. Ms. Palin might consider this before she takes yet another unfair shot at Mrs. Obama.”
A few days earlier, there was a shot from another writer at Contentions, Jonathan Tobin, who noted her gratingly defensive response to columnist Charles Krauthammer’s remark that her reality show appearances are unpresidential. Palin’s reaction: “Oooh. Sorry that I’m not so hoity-toity.”
In Palin’s defense, Michelle Obama has gone much farther than merely urging parents to provide healthy food for their kids, as when she blurted out, “We can’t just leave it up to the parents.” This isn’t mentioned in The Journal editorial. Still, the point of the piece was valid: Palin overreacted, and in the process raised even more doubts among those (such as myself) who don’t believe she’s electable.
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I believe what you say about Huck, but I wont hold my breath, Huck is all about Huck
Did she win with all that money you gave her?
She certainly did. Sarah Palin and the TEA Party voters brought the biggest Republican wins nationwide since 1928, and the biggest conservative wins nationwide in the history of the USA.
The significance of the 2010 midterm election wins in the US House, State Legislatures, state governorships, county and local elections has been downplayed in the Lamestream Media like no other election wins in our existence.
2011 is a redistricting year. Conservative states came out way ahead in the reapportionment from the 2010 census, and redistricting in states with conservative controlled legislatures will set the Democrats back tremendously.
Sarah is right about this. If the WSJ editors think that the racketeers and grant junkies will stop at health warnings and public service announcements didn’t learn the pattern from anti tobacco zealots.
If they told you what the real agenda is, all Americans would be appalled. It’s called incrementalism. Start off with “reasonable” warnings (for the chilruns) and advice...then when the sheeple don’t heed the warnings (and they won’t)...more draconian legislation and coercion is coming.
I like Sarah, but as far as POTUS.
Not really a new face, but I’ll say it now...
Mitch Daniels for President.
Just look around FR and see most of the Sarah haters are men who can't get past their little egos, and some of their followers are women who love the male dominance in these areas (for whatever reasons). On the other hand, people who are free of these neuroses and hangups are mature, intelligent people who aren't swayed by the media propaganda, and see Sarah Palin as someone who is at least equal to any potential male candidate and choose to fairly judge her by her own merits.
As governor of Alaska she did more during her short tenure than many other governors have done for their states. Arnold comes to mind – what a mess has he created in California. Sarah's conservative values and her common sense leads her to do what is right, making her a decisive and potent leader in a time when we really need decisive, potent conservative leadership.
When you have Marxist Michelle offering up billions of the US Treasury money to “helP” fat public school kids, that is a problem.
They don’t have money to pay off people who “invested” in socialist insecurity! We need to take over the diets of the Marxist masses? No!
RINOs are getting nervous about 2012?
Well, regarding Krauthammer . . .
What’s up with him? He just said on Fox that the new congress should NOT defund Obamacare because that would invite criticism for “leaving holes in the system”. Instead, the new congress should leave it alone to be studied and rejected on it’s own merits by the American people.
Talk about trying to be hi-falutin and hoity-toity! Sarah should tweak him on this one in her next Facebook post.
Sometimes I just don’t get Charles.
She serves her family s’mores and suggested that Michelle Obama stick it?
Ha ha ha ha heeeeeee! That’s a riot. Sarah, that alone is worth another contribution from me!
THANK YOU!
I certainly vote with your observations!
Hear! Hear!
No offense, but since she's pretty much staked out a position on everything else (the others either follow her lead or we're still waiting to hear ANYTHING from them).
Would not the 2012 primary be the right time?
just askin...
I totally agree with Sarah Palin on the obesity thing and it looks like the Bush RINO crowd has its long knives out already.
Palin was right. Desserts are not the source of the obesity problem.
However, Michelle Obama was right to take on the school lunch problem. It’s really too bad she took the easy way out, because she could have made a real impact. That would have involved using some of BO’s political capital and as we all know, he’s a chicken shit.
I’ve been researching this whole school lunch thing for months, due to some dietary issues in my own family. The first thing I realized is that school lunches are NOT the way most of us FReepers remember them from our own school days. Nearly gone are the friendly lunch ladies who actually prepare the meals. They’ve been replaced by lunch staffers that simply that & reheat prepared food that’s been delivered to schools. Essentially, what we used to call “TV dinners.”
Another thing I’ve learned is that local schools are as big a problem as anything. And they do it for the money.
Fast food chains have been allowed to set up in school cafeterias & the districts get a commission. These compete with traditional lunch choices. Schools not only set up banks of vending machines with junk food, soda, & candy but they also set up separate lunch lines that sell nothing but goodies to compete with usual lunch choices. Again, the schools do it for money toward the school. Please don’t assume that “good” school districts don’t do this; many of them do. You’ll have to do your own research.
While you’re at it, find out if your district has contracted out their meal service. This could take a bit of time and your best detective skills. Now HERE is where Michelle Obama could have made a difference, but chose not to.
1. She could have insisted that the USDA stop categorizing a potato as a vegetable for the purposes of school lunches. It would have saved a lot of kids from the spectacle of ordering the pizza meal, which comes with a side of FF or tater tots. Have you ever served that at home? Me neither. We recognize that that is too many starches/carbs for one sitting. But to the USDA, those taters count the same as broccoli or carrots. But this would have pissed off the potato lobby in DC.
2. She could have insisted the USDA regulate nearly all the high fructose corn syrup out of school lunches, in order for the meals to be eligible for reimbursement. In fact, this should have been the first change made. Most dieticians believe the ubiquitous use of HFCS in all kinds of foods...from soup, spaghetti sauce, gravy, chili, chicken nuggets, mystery meats and of course, sweets is the cause for the steep increase in diabetic kids and adults. There are almost none of the breakfast items that don’t contain HFCS. But, BO can’t upset the farmers in Iowa.
Let me give you a vivid example. Here is a menu from a Chicago Public School, and how they describe their meals. Now, a CPS teacher went on one year experiment, eating the same meals the students get. This is a December menu. Following is a link to the teacher’s blog, start with her December 1 meal. You can follow along the menu, and also the teachers actual photograph of the meal, and her description of it.
http://www.cantyschool.org/cpsDECmenus.pdf (2nd menu is lunch, 1st menu is breakfast so scroll down a little)
http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-151-chicken-nuggets-and-murphys-law.html (from time to time, you’ll run into snarky political remarks made by commenters. Ignore them. This is not a political blog, it’s about kid lunches. Everyone that is beginning to worry about this knows this is a Dem/Rep problem, but even more than that: a lobbying money problem, a bureaucrat problem,a corruption problem, etc.
And this affects you, even if you pack your own child’s lunch. Because the other kids, eating all this crap, are in their classroom. And they have two guaranteed “sugar crashes” a day. One after breakfast, and one after lunch. My sweetie & my brother in law are both teachers and they can tell you plenty about trying to teach 35 kids virtually all on a sugar high at the same time. It’s impossible. And it goes on every single day of the school week.
As a taxpayer, you should feel cheated. As a conservative, you may be as enraged as I am. We understand that families are going through rough financial times and are benevolent in allowing our tax dollars to help feed schoolkids who need it. Yet it is an outrage that the poorest of the poor are being served this utter crap with our tax dollars. And mind you, this is 2 of their 3 meals each school day! meh
If you haven’t already done so, I urge you to watch all six episodes of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. I missed it when it first aired, since I don’t watch network TV.
Each episode has 4 segments, about 10 minutes each. The entire series can be watched here, no commercials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eaHytpJWQ&feature=&p=DAAC39B20FCE8E2F&index=0&playnext=1
And, he found the same problems in the UK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkAszCA9dI&playnext=1&list=PL558F03BD812C914F&index=15 (this is a 2 part sneak peak of his Jamie’s School Dinners project in the UK. I’ve been unable to find the whole series online, however)
When you see what these politicians and bureaucrats (from DC down to your local school board) have been up to, with YOUR tax dollars, your conservative blood will be in full, rolling boil.
I promise.
Fore told and Schitsefrentic fears ago...
Also the Romneybots.
I also will not vote at all or for a 3rd party candidate if Romney is nominated. I’d rather have Obama on lockdown with a Republican House than the Rino’s running roughshod over us.
Re: your tagline... may I add.. Duncan Hunter for SecDef.
She has no power, it would be like taking on Laura Bush.
Mrs Palin may or may not be the answer but she sure scares the crap out of the problem
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