Posted on 07/15/2010 7:13:35 AM PDT by opentalk
In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obamas personal Chicago cook as Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.
Its no joke, even though is sounds like a bad one. The Chicago chefs rapid ascension, reported this week by a conservative Washington D.C. newspaper, has been kept under the radar for the last month. Sam Kass went from being a 20-something, Windy City gourmet cookprivately paid by the Obamas to feed themto big-time White House adviser in a matter of months.
In between, Michelle Obama made Kass a Food Initiative Coordinator for her new healthy nutrition program which is supposed to eliminate childhood obesity within a generation, especially in the nations inner cities. The First Lady claims that childhood obesity is a threat to national security and a crisis equivalent to AIDS and youth violence.
Because its such a dire situation, she has convinced her husbands administration to spend $400 million a year to bring healthy foods to low-income neighborhoods and $10 billion to revise a decades-old federal measure that already feeds tens of millions of poor children at school for free.
This culinary revolution no doubt requires a trusted senior policy adviserlike Kasswho is an expert in healthy cuisine. The First Lady refers to her cook as a partner in crime and says its just pretty powerful to see what started out as talk in her South Side Chicago kitchen turn into a major initiative that hopefully will change the way we think as a country.
Makes you wonder what Kass, who also doubles as a White House chef, has been putting in the Obamas food all these years. Incidentally, the most transparent administration in history doesnt want Americans to know how much the famous family cook earns. Although hes an important administration wonk, Kasss salary is excluded in the Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff because hes considered residence staff and those salaries dont need to be disclosed.
If the survival of our country weren't at stake, it would be a comedy.
If the survival of our country weren't at stake, it would be a comedy.
I would settle for Secretary of Balloon Doggies ;)
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