LMAO!
Posted on 05/03/2005 5:53:41 PM PDT by wagglebee
RUSH: Former President Bill Clinton and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee today announced the launch of a ten-year initiative to combat childhood obesity; they call it a national epidemic. This is what Clinton said about it today.
CLINTON: I think having a lot of support and having easy options and also having parents and school officials regard guide their eating habits. I think the system is now rigged to aggravate obesity, and a lot of school diets and vending machines and the quality and the kinds of food offered in eating establishments, particularly in fast food establishments, we have to change that. The environment has changed for our children, the eating environment, over the last 20 years, and it's made a huge difference. And if you just reduce the number of calories that our children are taking in by 50 a day, it would make a huge difference to them over the course of their childhoods.
RUSH: Oh, man, talk about micromanaging life. Just reduce their caloric intake by 50 calories a day? He's talking to the "eating environment," 50 calories a day. The eating environment. So we've got a new term that will be launched into our lexicon now, the eating environment. What is the eating environment in your home? Well, Bill Clinton wants to know, and he has embarked on a ten-year plan to change it. He says he became concerned about childhood obesity after his recent heart surgery. He said, "I'm more sensitive to it because of my recent heart problems, because I had to come to terms with the fact they came about not only because of my predisposition to high cholesterol, but because of decades of poor eating habits. I was overweight as a kid so I struggled with it on and off all my life. I think consequences are enormous. You have the onset of adult diabetes and children now plainly because of their eating habits aggravated by the lack of exercise. We've got to change the eating habits of America's young people."
I mean, he's not president anymore but he hangs around with a lot of former presidents. He's getting together with the governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, who went on a huge weight loss regime. He's now a big jogger and runner. So these guys turn into evangelists and they take their own life experiences and they project them on everybody else. A ten-year plan to combat childhood obesity. If you really wanted to do this, if you really wanted to combat and defeat childhood obesity, number one, could you? But let's assume that you could. Let's assume it's a reachable project. Why ten years? What in the world about this is going to take ten years? This just typical of the way bureaucracies work. "We need ten years." That's ten years of work for some people. There will be a think tank that's associated with this at some point. They'll build a building, "The Obesity Against Children" building or something, and they'll hire a staff and they'll get a bunch of researchers in there probably from Harvard and the UN and they'll start churning out research papers. They'll start applying for government grants and before you know it, it's going to become a budget item, and pretty soon it may even become a cabinet level position, the Department of Childhood Obesity, and it will be subject to Senate confirmation and if you've got a track record of ever being obese you're not going to be qualified. This is a job that parents should do. And it's assumed once again that parents don't know what they're doing; don't have the ability to do it or what have you.
So now guess what? A former president under the auspices of his association with a governor is going to set up some foundation, some organization; it's gotta have some apparatus here behind it to combat childhood obesity. You know, pretty soon they're going to figure out you don't know how to give your baby a bath, there are too many dirty kids running around, so they're going to have a Department of Baths. Well, I know most of you are saying, "He's a good guy. These people care," and so forth. Look, there are just certain things that are, and once you open the doors to a giant bureaucracy to come in and manage your life and tell you how to parent, because that's what this is ultimately going to have to do, tell you how to parent. Otherwise you're going to have to surrender control over what your kids eat to these people and what they think is right and good for them, and then you're out of the equation altogether. One of these two has to be the solution as these people think about it.
I am so confused. Wasn't it just last week they told us that you live longer if you're a little overweight? Now they're on this obesity kick to end it and here's Bill Clinton, who for eight years of his presidency and all of his life stood for super size at McDonald's, is now coming out for moderation. Next thing you know Bill Clinton will be advocating celibacy.
So as I say for eight years, there was Bill Clinton out there who basically stood for super size at McDonald's. Now Bill Clinton stands for moderation. As I say, the next thing you know he's going to come out for celibacy. Let's listen to this sound bite. It was on Good Morning America today. Diane Sawyer was interviewing the former president along with the Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, and Diane Sawyer said to Clinton, "A ten-year initiative to combat childhood obesity?"
CLINTON: I think we have to be prepared to do this over ten years. The trends are what really bothers me. We're dealing with massive health care costs in America today, an enormous percentage of the Medicare-Medicaid costs are directly related to diabetes. Staggering. And this is something that is going to just swallow up our society in terms of human loss and financial loss.
RUSH: Whoa, stop the tape! I just heard the word. I just heard the word. You know, Nancy Reagan had her "Just Say No," in her fight against drugs. A number of people have had slogans to go along with their initiatives and programs, Bill Clinton here, ten-year initiative to fight childhood obesity. I got the phrase. I have the phrase. "Just don't swallow." Here's the rest of the bite.
CLINTON: I hope we'll get a lot of help. I'm encouraged by messages I've already seen from doctors who are working with various food establishments that are trying to change the content of their diets. It's not just as simple as offering one healthy meal in a big long menu. We need to change, reduce the fat content and the sugar content of a lot of what we're offering to our young people.
RUSH: So it's a ten-year initiative to control what's on restaurant menus, in school vending machines, and a number of other things. Well, it works. (Interruption) Brian, what are you laughing about? Just don't swallow. You know, a lot of people are saying, "Is he is he going to suggest this diet to Monica?" Well, we'll just have to wait and see.
That was perfect!
Another gem from El Rushbo. Unlike Hannity who's trying to out-Greta Greta, Rush has something to say that's worth hearing.
I've been wondering about Hannity the past couple of days, he seems to be the only person in the country who wants to give the "runaway bride" a pass.
I have to give Clinton some recognition here. He was once a fat little bastard, so he is qualified to speak on the subject. He will empower every little fat kid in the US into expecting Miss America will put out for them at some point.
Who cares what a former "president" has to say?
Give him his Nobel prize and another BJ and perhaps he will shut up.
.. Oh, wait, there's still Jimmah.
CALL IN THE RABBITS!
Hey,...I'm not yet a member of Rush 24/7 so,if you are please let his staff know that there is a priceless Chuck Schumer soundbyte from today,...Schumer comments on the wrangling and problems that prevent the Freedom Tower project from moving forward ,...it could easily be about Congressional DemocRATS
...10 years of guaranteed ADDITIONAL income being paid by the government. Here I have worked my entire life and havent even come close in my entire lifetime to what he is now making in salary for 1 year.........What a racket!!!!
LMAO!
Next thing you know Bill Clinton will be advocating celibacy.
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Expect ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING from the Clintoni mob over the next three years. ANYTHING! It will be a endless stream of absolute CRAP thrown at the wall, hoping something will stick for 2008, which is their ONLY OBJECTIVE.
Hannity is right on this issue. So she cost society some money. Big effin' deal. The same people clamoring for an arrest because of that fact habitually ignore the millions of dollars wasted by the federal government on much more dubious projects, because they have been acclimated to it.
Massive malfeasance of federal tax dollars by our politicians, yet society wants to lynch a frightened young, repeat young, woman who couldn't cope with an impending marriage. People have killed for much less fear than this girl was going through. She deserves a break, no matter what amount of public funds were expended on this case.
And before you flame me, just put yourself into her father's shoes.
The girl needs a hug, not a pair of handcuffs.
I heard it and passed it along. Say, didn't the impeached *Bubba & *Bubbette have a chef for eight years - at everyone's expense? Why is he bitchin' about it now?
I AGREE,WHAT'S HIS PROBLEM? Sorry to be rude but Hannity's wife isn't pleasing to the eyes,I was alittle surprised.
No, she need to be taught a lesson,this was not the first time she did this.Wrong is wrong.
Her Father should have spoke the truth and stated she had done these things before,therefore is he wrong too!
Sooo, the poor starving children are getting fat. Hmmmmmm!
Time for new gonevermind program.
I have never seen a picture of her.
#9
I just emailed that whole quote.
Nicely done.
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