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Where's the Michelle Obama Who Said This?
Human Events ^ | August 26, 2010 | Elisabeth Meinecke

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2008; campaign; childhoodobesity; iowastatefair; letsmove; michelleobama; nannystate; obesity; whitehouse
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To: quantim

“Ma Baby’s got Back”.


41 posted on 08/27/2010 12:17:00 AM PDT by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: elephantlips

“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.”

If she keeps eating like that, the next “Air Force One” will have to be a C-5.


42 posted on 08/27/2010 12:38:40 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: maggief
"We want you to eat it. Just eat it.”

Cue Weird Al finishing with, "I don't care if you're full just eeeeat iiiiiiit!" LOL

43 posted on 08/27/2010 1:48:47 AM PDT by mbennett203 ("Bulrog, a tough brute ninja who has dedicated his life to eradicating the world from hippies.")
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To: ottbmare

“You know that picture is Photoshopped, right?”

Yep.


44 posted on 08/27/2010 2:08:01 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief
OHMIGAWD!!!!
45 posted on 08/27/2010 5:49:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

hag with a big butt


46 posted on 08/27/2010 6:41:35 AM PDT by barbarianbabs (Liberty 5-3000)
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To: Ready4Freddy
What is the context of that pic?

Just a goofy pic of Michelle...pulled from my FLICKR vault.

47 posted on 08/30/2010 7:15:22 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: ScottinVA

I never did understand what that “wide spread” was all about. Her and that gay senator that resigned have a “wide spread.”


48 posted on 08/30/2010 7:21:32 AM PDT by decisis
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To: maggief

I can’t watch her. Beyond the patronizing, arrogance and hypocrisy, she has an awful, awful voice and no charisma or charm at all.


49 posted on 08/30/2010 7:30:57 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ScottinVA

I remembered seeing it some time ago, but could not recall the event that it was taken at. She’s such a heifer.


50 posted on 08/30/2010 2:07:13 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Am working on plans for a Knights Templar Community Center next to the Kaaba in Mecca.)
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