"You're wife's a bigfoot, isn't she?"
Posted on 02/15/2010 2:54:07 PM PST by AJKauf
Last week, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at childhood obesity and placed his wife, Michelle, in charge of the effort. Apparently bored with giving first lady-type speeches, and digging up turnips and spinach in the White House garden, Mrs. Obama will head up a national campaign tabbed “Let’s Move.”
To be clear, fat kids are nothing to be celebrated. Obesity among children is connected to all sorts of aliments, including heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, asthma, and diabetes. There is little disagreement about this.
But beyond encouraging healthy behavior, what is the government’s role in decisions that rightly belong to families? I argue there is none.
In announcing the White House initiative, the first lady described how she dealt with her own children’s supposed weight issues, which included making sure her daughters ate more vegetables, drank more water and milk, and viewed less television. So, by her own admission, the solution for her family’s issues was more parental responsibility for her children’s food choices. What her approach didn’t include was the involvement of the government.
But that’s exactly what Mrs. Obama is suggesting for the rest of us, since she seems to think the unwashed masses are unable to do what she did — step up, accept parental responsibility, and make the right decisions for our families.
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"You're wife's a bigfoot, isn't she?"
I have no doubt Barry loves Michelle ...
She could campaign against high fructose corn syrup. Fructose metabolism to muscle work and glycogen storage is slow. Nerves don’t use fructose. Liver converts fructose overdoses to belly fat.
You are so right- what a booty Michelle O. has ...wow.
She needs to take her own advice.
Lets Move their commie asses off to Kenya where they come from.
Go back to Kenya ...............and stay there!
Nothing like placing Miss Congeniality in charge of kids.
...and then came the hot chocolate with whipped cream and the chocolate chip cookies.
Fat on one side, flat on the other.
“Mrs. Obama will head up a national campaign tabbed “Let’s Move.”
It would do a lot more good to call it, “Let’s have a Movement”.
I saw MO on an interview and she has about as much passion for this project as a limp fish. Somebody must have thrown this project at her...out of spite? Hmmmm...
LOL LOL!!!
Do you want fries with that?
Hey, who sells that bumper sticker?
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