Who says you have to elect the queen? Racists.
CNS:
Asked by Parade magazine, “What do you hope to accomplish in your second term?” First Lady Michelle Obama said she wants to “impact the nature of food in grocery stores” with the aim of cutting sugar, fat and salt.
“With ‘Lets Move!,’ our goal is to end the problem of childhood obesity in a generation,” Mrs. Obama said. “And while we’ve seen some very profound cultural shifts, we still have communities that don’t have access to affordable and healthy foods. We still need to find a way to impact the nature of food in grocery stores, in terms of sugar, fat, and salt.”
Mrs. Obama also discussed the challenge of “educating families” on healthy lifestyles in a society where “TV is rampant.”
“[W]e need to keep educating families about how to structure a life that is healthy in a society where TV is rampant and communities don’t have enough resources in terms of sports and activities,” she said.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, Mrs. Obama’s “Lets Move!” campaign has published an online guide called “Supermarket Shopping 101” that provides tips for shoppers on the importance of making a list and how to navigate a grocery store.
“Steer clear of the cookie, snack and soda aisle until after you’ve collected everything on your list–at that point, your cart should be full, which might make you feel less tempted to buy things you don’t need,” the guide states.
During her time as first lady, Mrs. Obama has made her anti-obesity campaign a top priority. But in the interview with Parade, Mrs. Obama said that in a second term she would add “women’s health issues” to her list.
Honestly. I don’t understand how any adult human can stand to be spoken to this way by a gassy, entitled scold and academic hustler who routinely stuffs her own face with delicacies from across the globe — all on our dime. Supermarket Shopping 101? Really?
I mean, it’s not bad enough that much of Obama’s base needs him to purchase their food for them — now they need Queenie to teach them how to navigate a grocery store and what to put into their fucking carts? Who are the Obamas to tell us what we do or don’t need?
Worse still, how did a nation built on self reliance and rugged individualism devolve into a giant national kindergarten helmed by a petulant, painfully unhip man child and culturally lorded over by some unholy Claire Huxtable concentrate in designer shoes?
Seriously. Can we put an end to this freak show once and for all? Clean up the mess, and then pretend it never happened? Please?
Fuck off, Michelle. If my family wants full fat milk I’m buying it.
Another thing a government doesn’t need to be involved in. Looking forward to “Playing 101” and other helping hints from the government on how to structure a life that is healthy.
That Claire Huxtable comment was like totally unfair. She earned that partnership. And she didn’t go around telling other people how to raise their kids. And she was classy.
The only resources my community needed to ensure activity among its children were front doors they could boot us out and close behind us and maybe some bikes. If you can’t do that because your neighbors like shooting each other too much, the problem you need to fix is your neighbors.
If your neighbors are stupid, you can’t fix that.
How much resources do you need to play stickball??!? A stick, and a ball. Unless you consider the stick a weapon, and then there are zero tolerance policies to deal with. And the ball might not meet Federal Council of Small Sporting Equipment guidelines, so there’s that…
When I was a kid we self organized to play baseball every day in the summer. Didn’t need our parents to do it for us, much less the government.
Is it fair to say that the primary impact to the nature of food in grocery stores will be that it will cost more?
Lots more meals centerd around beans and rice. That’s the impact that they’ve had on food.
and motivation that sounded like “Don’t even think you’re going to sit around and watch TV all day. Go outside and do something. Or I’ll find something for you to do. And you’re not going to like what I find…”
This from a woman who couldn’t manage to keep fruit in the house while making over $300,000 for a “no show” job.
Yes. You never, ever told your parents you were bored. Never.
Clearly Ms. Obama doesn’t know how to raise children. When your little darlings inform you that they’re bored, well that’s the time to have them straighten up their rooms or wash the cars.
My folks never had a problem finding quick cures for boredom. One afternoon of pulling weeds was usually enough to get us never to say the “b” (bored) word for weeks.
Apparently we were all raised in different homes together.
She seriously believes we’re all idiots. Makes me want eat a king-sized Snickers and mail her the wrapper.
If this were a typical first lady’s pet project consisting of some speeches and feel-good visits to school cafeterias, I’d be annoyed but OK with it. However, Michelle is not content to just give advice, she’s been actively pressuring (and rewarding) food manufacturers and restaurants to limit what food is actually available to us. She’s also been using taxpayer money to fund her Let’s Move program, and pressuring schools to serve inedible “healthy” food (which ends up getting tossed by kids). That’s completely different from just advising us to make healthy choices.
Supermarket Shopping 101 makes me think of Michelle’s college thesis. For instance:
Does Michelle Obama have great contempt for the black lower class as a result of internalizing white goals at Princeton?
Well, ya got me but I’d love for someone to ask her this question on camera.
I’d applaud the consistency if people on welfare were forced to live on high vegetable/low meat diets. Do you know how hunger eating perfectly actually makes you?
Of course, they’re all allowed to buy bread, butter, and beer because the media refuses to pay attention, but I’m dreaming here.
Go to the letsmove.gov/blog and you’ll learn that
An award! An award! A major award! It could be a bowling alley!
letsmove directs you to http://www.presidentschallenge.org, where you can purchase a “Presidential Active Lifestyle Award Lapel Pin” for only $4.50, or a “President’s Challenge Gym Mat” for $49.95, “A gym mat with handles—what will they think of next?”.
No, I’m not kidding. Really.
How many cartons of Marlboro Red come with a President’s Challenge?
OT, take this short quiz, then speculate on which constituency falls at the left end of the graph…
” One afternoon of pulling weeds ”
Oh god, how I hated that chore more than any other. There was no way to make that fun. Only sorting screws into jelly jars in my dad’s wood shop in the basement was worse than pulling weeds.
more than ALMOST any other
Sounds like the scam they run on kids to get them to sell candy and giftwrap door-to-door after school. You could win a ride in a limo! A limo!
Darth, I have all kinds of awesome swag I got with Marlboro Miles before the earning of swag became verboten.
steph, my mother had a box of silverware and a coffee service that all needed to be polished whenever anyone got bored.
I’d rather pull weeds. At least they were outside.
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Picking the dead petunia blossoms, weeding the garden, scouring the yard and picking up dog poo, vacuuming, etc. All were the “I’m boooorrreedd!!” cure in our house.
– She simply never got over the great Arugala incident.
– In other news……
– The wicked witch of the WH dodges the press silver bullets in Charlotte: Jarrett, clad in a pink blazer, white skirt, and a string of large pearls, did offer a brief glimpse of her view of her own role as the keeper of Obama’s core.
– Let the clutching of pearls and screeching begin,
Ugh, we had to do all of that: pulling weeds, sanding and re-painting the fence, polishing the silver, regular housecleaning (’cause mom worked). We could not get out of the house to play fast enough. And we walked, biked or took the public bus to most places – mom was not our chauffeur.
Democrats: “we’ll stay out of your bedroom, but everywhere else is fair game”
I think the Claire Huxtable concentrate comparison was dead on.
Given the excerpt of Michelle’s writing posted by bh, I know one thing. That woman cannot write worth a damn.
And about that saying out of your bedroom? That’s now. Tomorrow is coming.
Beat them at their own game? Say that fat, sugary foods are your bedroom foreplay?
Firstly, I bet there’s not much childhood obesity in North Korea.
Secondly, her second term?
– Apparently there just wasn’t enough Lefturd abortions in the 60’s and 70’s, particularly in Hawaii.
We’ll all be living in one room efficiencies soon enough, so what’s the difference?
I would give her props for maintaining her composure and giving a straight answer when asked that question. Obama’s numbers get any lower and that question might get a slap upside the head.
Hey now — she’s married to the Food Stamp President, after all. It’s their oeuvre!
Prepare for the latest instance of Blasphemy Against the Narrative.
That article is all over the place, Darth. The commentors are going nuts.
Does this impossibly stupid bitch have any idea how much garbage we ate as kids without – for the most part – being lardasses? I was reading an article the other day about the decline in the percentage of teenagers who get DRIVERS LICENSES! It’s pathetic enough that these kids have a childhood of video games and faggot play dates, but now computers and cell phones have reduced them to not even caring about getting out of the house for human interaction. Pathetic.
Dude, my niece is 20 and still has no driver’s license. She has no money for gas, and her parents can barely afford their own insurance, much less the megabucks that adding their daughter would add to their premiums.
Besides, the Dems need a crop of sympathetic ID-not-havers if they’re going to sell their vote fraud bill this fall.
(I sold my old beater to her boyfriend for a song, on the understanding that he had to serve as her chauffeur. It’s working out better than I could have hoped.)
When Barack gets nervous, he has this knee jerk reaction to say something that he thinks everyone can relate to: “Don’t get between Michelle and her burrito. ”
I mean, we all can relate to that right. Aren’t we all married to a woman who would trample a baby to get to just one more hot, steamy, cheesy blob of beans and shredded meat wrapped in a white flour tortilla like a goddamned Mexican Navidad present?
So now, Michelle, who, when she sees a box of doughnuts and Barack is in the line of fire, charges like a rhino on its way to stamping out a campfire, is going to lecture people on filling their shopping carts with healthy stuff before going down the cake aisle.
Yeah. Pose naked and let us see that chocolate tapioca pudding you call your lower thighs and then maybe we’ll give you a tidy 2 minutes on Schoolhouse Rock. “Sugar For Me But Not Thee” I believe is her song (set to the music of Pour Some Sugar on Me)
The Obama Administration is already working to cut obesity with its war on the American farmer. No food, no fat Americans. Worked balls in the Ukraine.
Prepare for the latest instance of Blasphemy Against the Narrative.
I really question the organophosphates study they briefly mentioned (more organophosphates in a woman’s system during pregnancy resulting in a lower IQ trend in the kids). Aside from all the garbage that gets thrown around about whether or not IQ tests measure anything real or are just a metric for one’s cultural savvy, I want to know if they controlled for factors like parent income (because guess who’s less likely to have organophosphates in their system? people who can afford food made without pesticides! guess what other trend we see in IQ tests? smarter kids from higher income families!), parental intelligence, amount of parental care the kids received, … etc. There’s way too many factors in play for that to have been done with proper controls.
“We’ll all be living in one room efficiencies soon enough, so what’s the difference?”
Single occupancy in efficiencies? Are you mad? You never heard of the three families to an apartment/condo scenario ? Y’know, until the high rise mega-dorms are built?