Posted on 08/26/2010 6:59:25 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Earlier this year, Michelle Obama announced she wanted to take on childhood obesity. There’s rarely been a more non-controversial topic touted in Washington, D.C. It’s like grade inflation for poll numbers.
So she rolled out this nationwide initiative, Let’s Move, earlier in 2010. She said she learned when she and Barack were working that her children’s nutrition was suffering from not being able to cook meals for them. She said she started making changes and wanted to bring those lessons to the White House.
Apparently, they were all lessons she forgot when trying to win over Iowa voters on the campaign trail with her husband. Who could guess that someone who said this on the campaign trail would suddenly choose childhood obesity as their topic of choice?
“Our main reason…at least the girls and I…we’re here for the state fair. I don’t know about you. We’re going to get some stuff on a stick. I don’t care what it is – a hot dog, a Snickers bar -- we’re eating everything on a stick today.”
I understand trying to be conversational and that occasional indulgences are a part of being healthy, but, clearly, promoting childhood health was not on her mind. If you have a vision to be a national spokesperson for healthy eating, you can find something to say besides, “We’re here for the unhealthy food” in front of a national audience.
What I do think was on Michelle Obama’s mind was getting to the White House, and she’ll use things like Snickers on a stick to get there and waging war against childhood obesity to stay there. This is from a Washington Post article in 2009, after she changed her chief of staff:
For weeks, Michelle Obama had been telling her staff and closest confidantes that she wasn't having the impact she wanted. She is a woman of substance, with a background in law, public policy and management, who found herself relegated to role model in chief. The West Wing of the White House -- the fulcrum of power and policy -- had not fully integrated her into its agenda. She wanted more.
Come 2010, we get Let's Move. I understand the desire to make a difference. But I don’t appreciate campaign rhetoric not matching up to what goes on in the White House. That’s no hope and no change.
Nanny State PING!
LaQuishaNisha Obama should do us all a favor, get the hell out of the white house, and bring her Marxist husband with her
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/item_zL2hpngMqN38LgQlgg5oUP
“There’s nothing that the first family loves more than a good burger, right?” Obama said. “And look, my favorite food in the whole wide world are french fries. I love them. Dearly. Deeply. I have a good relationship with french fries and I would eat them every single day if I could.”
“I tell my girls this: If you’re getting the right foods for most of the time, then when it’s time to have cake and french fries on those special occasions, then you balance it out.”
Obama also managed a spot-on imitation of kids whining about eating their vegetables.
“I don’t wanna eat it. I don’t like it. It tastes bad. I don’t want it,’” the first lady said in her best nasal whine.
Then she added: “We don’t want to hear the whining. We want you to eat it. Just eat it.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdL87ehVuIU
Michelle Obama: I have a good relationship with French fries
Ok, rules...where is the pic of MO with Sarkozy’s wife going up the stairs...somebody cough it up lol.
I guess Barry’s the bad influence, then. We see a lot of the vacation pictures where an ice cream stop seems to be the feature of the day! Their little Sasha is definitely not being fed correctly nor getting enough exercise. She is chubby! Let’s see you make a difference in your own home, Michelle before you start dictating to everyone else how they should live.
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She’s the female Rodney Dangerfield, she don’t get no respect.
Most of the time I see Michelle she’s saying “RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!”
“We’re going to get some stuff on a stick. I don’t care what it is – a hot dog, a Snickers bar — we’re eating everything on a stick today.”
Paging Jeff Dunham, paging Jeff Dunham, you need to keep an eye on Jose Jalepeno (on a steeck)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447688/posts
Now, some critics are questioning whether using her own daughters as examples is fair to them. “Was it hurtful to her girls?” asked one blogger who focuses on Mommy issues. Psychology Today even questioned the first lady for using the word “chubby” to describe her daughters.
While her heart is in the right place, Michelle may not have considered or been familiar with the delicate balance between preventing obesity and triggering eating disorders. She mentioned that she put her children on a diet after her pediatrician and their father felt they were getting “chubby.” Words like “chubby” don’t cause eating disorders but they are often a trigger to disordered eating behavior. As an eating disorder professional, we would strongly caution parents from using labels or prerogative words to describe their child’s weight as this has lasting impacts on a child’s self esteem.
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Ice cream ice cream I scream for ice cream.
The worst First Lady in my very long life.
Dat Wookie look faattt!!!
“She said she learned when she and Barack were working”.....
If she is working, who hired her? Is she drawing a salary?
On another note, she goes to France and takes one kid, where is the other one?
Any one know the answers?
I say lets fire her in the name of budget cutting.
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