Posted on 05/29/2014 5:40:10 AM PDT by Gamecock
The anchor is Carol Costello, and apparently Hillary is wasting her time chasing her shot at equality with Bill, when it turns out First Ladies actually had presidential powers all along. Who needs Schoolhouse Rock when you can learn from clips like this?
The easy excuse, and the one I'm sure CNN will offer, is that she "just misspoke." You know. It was Michelle's initiative. The dude is her husband, after all. The Bible says husbands and wives become one flesh so it's sort of like she was guiding his hand, or maybe there was a quid pro quo about which we need not know.
But I don't think Costello should get off that easy - or should I say, whoever wrote the teleprompter copy she was reading. It's a basic matter of actually engaging your brain in some sort of connectivity to what is coming out of your mouth. You do know that under no circumstances can the First Lady sign anything in law, don't you? Don't you? Yes, she's a famous celebrity who lives in the White House and who fascinates us (well, maybe you) with her fashion and so forth, but she has no more constitutional power than my 13-year-old son.
Could there really be members of the media who think Michelle Obama wields executive power, seeing as how she's so famous and we see her on the news a lot? You'd have to be pretty shallow to think such a thing, and surely no one that shallow could get a job on a major national cable news channel. Right?
Think long and hard before you answer.
By the way, as to Michelle's healthy kids initiative itself, it's not going so well. Turns out the vaunted salad bars cost the schools a lot to stock and operate, and kids don't want to eat salad. So the snack racks are back!
The School Department has refused to stock the salad bar since September and — to the horror of the school’s health and wellness committee — has reinstated the sale of snacks, including cookies and Doritos, during lunch.
As Michelle Obama campaigns across the country to get more salad bars into public schools, many educators, students, and parents are befuddled by Boston’s decision to weed out salad bars from its cafeterias. Nearly all of the six salad bar stations that once operated in Boston schools were donated by a foundation pushing Obama’s cause.
“It is outrageous,” said Susan Trotz, a guidance counselor at the Curley and cochair of the health and wellness committee. “There’s an epidemic of childhood diabetes and obesity in this country. We need to give our students healthy and good-tasting choices. We need to give our students real food not processed food.”
Cost is part of the calculation. The school system’s food services program has been quietly shutting down the salad bars over the past two years as it has struggled with millions of dollars in financial losses. The program racked up a $3.6 million deficit last school year and is on track to incur similar losses this year, according to a review the School Department released last week that also unveiled widespread mis-management and dysfunction in the program.
Pretty good example of the inherent limits to government's power to make us healthy. Sorry to inform you of this, Mrs. Obama, but kids don't want to eat salad. Hey, I love salad! I eat it every day. But I'm 47. When I was a kid I didn't like it any more than these kids, and yet you goaded the public schools into putting millions on the line sticking it in front of them, only to see the food and the money wasted because, duh, kids don't want to eat salad.
Nice try. Remember that next time you, uh, sign a bill into
more like tied it to funding.
Shut up and eat your salad the QUEEN has spoken.
Carol Costello-—probably the stupidest news babe out there today.
Carol said this?
Hell, I use to think was hot.
Now it seems she’s just plain stoopit.
kant stand stoopit people.
Zot
Just curiously, MO not being duly elected to ANYTHING and legally NOT representing ANYONE... what standing does she have to SIGN ANYTHING INTO LAW??
Don’t they remind you of the characters of Mr. & Mrs. Bumble in movie adaptation of Dickens’ “OLIVER”:
“MORE, YOU WANT MORE???!!!!!”
The Mrs. does seem to have gotten a bit heftier since the December 13, 2010 clip in the link.
BULLY PULPIT(MOO MOO)?
Truth be known... Moochelle probably DID sign the bill into law.
“Yo Barry...dem guys bring up my food bill yet? They did? Let me hold your pen a minute. This should get dem white folks all wee-weed up.”
I’m surprised Mariechelle Obamanette put her fork down from her $200 meal long enough to sign it.
Can't prove it, but I think that many pastors who go on about the sin, week after week after week, may have had or even still do, have issues with that sin.
Maybe self-appointed Empresses do the same.
Can't prove it, but I think that many pastors who go on about the sin, week after week after week, may have had or even still do, have issues with that sin.
Maybe self-appointed Empresses do the same.
If that really happened, then there is no law to violate.
Arrest that woman for impersonating a government official!!
Sign on Carol Costello’s forehead: “Ample Room for Sewage Storage Inside—Lowest Rates! Inquire Below!”
and they think one meal, 180 days a year is going to solve this epidemic...
I propose that the elimination of the whole concept of First Lady be in order. The fault goes both ways with this vestige of royalty. The wife of the President should have no say in anything. She is not elected, and should not hold any office, real or pseudo. Congress should allocate zero dollars for the office of the First Lady, from now until eternity.
Maybe she’s a Co-president like Hillary was.
The divine right of kings also applies to Empress Michelle. Let it be written...let it be done.
Government schools are part time youth internment camps, designed for education and reeducation in communist ideology, and all the people are forced by the power of our communist government to pay for it.
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