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Michelle Obama: 'I can't stop eating French fries. But eat your vegetables.'
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Posted on 06/23/2011 3:06:01 PM PDT by traumer

During her visit to South Africa, First Lady Michelle Obama stopped by the University of Cape Town for an event with young people. She told the audience how she came from modest circumstances and was able to attend top schools and build a career at a big law firm, saying they too can achieve their dreams if they try hard enough. After her speech, she was asked a series of soft questions like, "What advice can you give the youth today?" But at the end of the session, one young person in the audience asked Mrs. Obama, who has devoted much of her time in the White House to promoting nutrition and healthy eating, what her favorite foods are.

"My favorite?" Obama said. "Oh, this is a tough one. "It is tough, you know, because if I say something not healthy, people will be, like, you aren't really committed to health. If I say something healthy, you know -- I do -- honestly, I like all kinds of foods."

Obama mentioned Indian food, and then Mexican food, and then said: "No, if I picked one favorite, favorite food, it's French fries." The audience began to laugh. "Okay? It's French fries," Obama continued. "I can't stop eating them." As the students laughed more, the First Lady quickly returned to her role as advocate of health eating. "But eat your vegetables," she said, to still more laughs. "And exercise."


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To: maggief

I hate that she’s always pointing her finger at someone, like the girl in the photo.

My parents taught me that it isn’t polite to do that. Maybe I’m wrong, but she’s got that finger pretty close to that girl too! That would have made me want to smack her hand away.


41 posted on 06/23/2011 4:52:41 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: maggief

I am so sick of all those people partying on my dime. I have had to cut back and cut back and cut back. And they’re all there stuffing their faces while the band plays on.

November 2012 can’t come soon enough for me.

Sorry for the rant.


42 posted on 06/23/2011 5:04:23 PM PDT by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: traumer

Julia Child told us to eat carrots AND French Fries and told us how to make them so we’d want to eat them. She was comfortable in her skin and size and didn’t preach. Julia Child was a role model for good, nutritious eating. Michelle Obama? On what basis?


43 posted on 06/23/2011 5:56:44 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now (From 1963 Congressional Record http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm)
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To: maggief

That pic really disgusts me, party all day, party all night while the country burns.


44 posted on 06/23/2011 6:12:30 PM PDT by erod (Unlike the President I am a true Chicagoan.)
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To: maggief
listening to a live U.S. Navy band

It'd have been great if those sailors would have played Metallica's, "Don't tread on me," while those pigs were stuffing their faces.
45 posted on 06/23/2011 6:27:26 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: bigbob
"I can't stop eating them,"

Obviously!!


46 posted on 06/23/2011 6:35:54 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: ml/nj; maggief; null and void; Rushmore Rocks; mojitojoe; NoGrayZone; azishot; Velveeta; ...
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47 posted on 06/23/2011 6:52:13 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

How many vegetables does she really eat?

48 posted on 06/23/2011 7:03:07 PM PDT by azishot (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Looks like a pair of saddle bags hanging off of her behind. That or a pair of satchels.


49 posted on 06/23/2011 7:08:25 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter ( ma)
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To: Doogle

Thanks for the link. Great column.


50 posted on 06/23/2011 7:31:54 PM PDT by Faith
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To: traumer
Great caricature!!! Did you create it? So appropriate!
51 posted on 06/23/2011 7:54:04 PM PDT by CitizenM (He who is silent is understood to consent)
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To: traumer
"Okay? It's French fries," Obama continued. "I can't stop eating them."

Well, at least french fries are vegetables...potatoes, LOL. And...they go straight to the woman's lower half. The part that doesn't get exercised as much as her mouth.

52 posted on 06/23/2011 7:56:26 PM PDT by CitizenM (He who is silent is understood to consent)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Julia Child would not have been in favor of Michelle Antoinette’s food police mentality. She really hated the food police.


53 posted on 06/23/2011 8:23:28 PM PDT by iceskater (11/2/10 - the beginning of the beginning of restoration.)
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To: maggief

I see Wookie Wide Load is giving the evil eye.


54 posted on 06/23/2011 11:21:56 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: traumer
The first classless first lady.

Michelle says: Put that meat back in the case. Uh-uh... no soda allowed, put that back, too. Grab some arugula and collards and no more than one turnip... STOP! Put that milk and cheese back, you ain't allowed to eat that! Now, get in your electric mini-car and go home... and remember to watch your thermostat... you know Barack don't want you bein' too hot or too cold and if you don't set it right we'll set it for you from the White Hut. Now, turn off the lights and go to sleep. We'll let you know what to do in the morning. Americans will learn to submit. One big socialistic village.

Mooshell is hoping she can have 4 more years of publicly paid multi-million dollar vacations, designer wardrobes, private celebrity entertainment and gormet food.

Check out Obama's Pie

MO PIE

Pies and Holidays for me but not for thee...

55 posted on 06/23/2011 11:27:40 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Gore has to be taking some kind of medication with steriod. That just doesn’t look natural.


56 posted on 06/23/2011 11:33:11 PM PDT by swheats (America, America God shed His grace on thee.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
If the presidents’ wives would just mind their own business

I don't recall her getting a single vote in the last election.

57 posted on 06/24/2011 6:18:33 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

I really really miss Laura Bush. She was a class act, loved her country, respected the office of the presidency and respected the position she was given as first lady. Truly a fine lady.


58 posted on 06/24/2011 7:15:28 AM PDT by murrie (For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son..........)
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