First Lady Promotes Healthy Living

I agree with Michelle.
I’ll take a pound of that hundred-dollar steak, please.

I have no problem with promoting and encouraging healthy living. However, I am vehemently against imposing taxes on products and mandating healthy living.

i think balance is in order and so does michelle “i love french fries, i like a good burger, i like pie” obama. she confessed these food loves to prevention magazine earlier this fall and was also seen recently at Good Stuff Eatery, spike mendelsohn’s hip d.c. hamburgery. oh, and btw, spke named an organic turkey burger after the first lady. it’s called the michelle melt. that’s cool. let’s all keep it real people and understand that EVEN the first lady (FIRST LADY!!) eats some grease now and then (and loooooooves it, apparently) and so we can all push back on the food police.
that said, i am a little shocked that barack and michelle specified which daughter was getting to be a “cute plump black kid” (that IS a quote). if i were the fat one, i definitely wouldn’t want my mom and dad naming names in public. just saying.

who has time to eat right and excercise in this economy. good advice but us non elites are to busy paying taxes and trying to keep the creditors at bay and working harder than ever. perhaps school teachers and government employees have this luxury but most folks are hanging on by a thread or unemployed. when your starving excercise is not high on the list and a dollar meal at mickey ds will have to suffice.

“good advice but us non elites are to busy paying taxes and trying to keep the creditors at bay and working harder than ever.”
catman | Oct 13, 2009 7:45:18 PM
Non-elites? Last I heard you were a practicing attorney who represented a number of doctors (who all suffer horribly from malpractice insurance). But sure, tonight you’re a poor suffering non-elite indeed.

From the Chicago Sun Times Jan 28th – Kass, who was the Obama family’s personal chef in Chicago, has been named an assistant White House chef, a spokeswoman for first lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday.
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Danny, why would you post at 7:08 that you knew about this chef, but at 8:50 you didn’t? Paid partner with jhw539 tonight?

i ve never felt like an elite nor entitled to anything other than the oppurtunity to work hard.i see every day whats happening to the real people who employ people…they are getting crushed and i am not far behind.this bunch is out of touch.
Posted by: catman | Oct 13, 2009 9:04:50 PM
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Well said Catman. Working hard to make money has always been the AMERICAN way. This regime is doing everything in its power to see to it that people no longer have to power to make their own fortune. It is sickening to see that BIG businesses are AFRAID to stand up to them.
1. Pick a target
2. Focus on it
3. Personalize it
4. Polarize it
This is the government tactic on anyone who disagrees with them. You are trying to “explain” your case to one of their goons, jhw.

wheresmymoney…thanks for your support. i dont regard jhw as a goon but merley as someone who has not walked the path of an entrapreneur and signed his own paycheck.some of his comments make sense. in the meantime..YOU CANT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT( not my quote but it sticks in my head), something an engeineer can mathmatically understand.

YOU CANT MULTIPLY WEALTH BY DIVIDING IT( not my quote but it sticks in my head), something an engeineer can mathmatically understand.
catman | Oct 13, 2009 9:30:25 PM
Human resources are not engineering, they are more like farming. And you often multiply plants by dividing them.
Actually, you can frequently multiply wealth by dividing it. You’re better off giving $10 million in tax breaks to a hundred small businesses than a $10 million tax break to Exxon.

goodpoint jhw539…so where are the breaks for small businness that even newsweek suggest are absent from this administrations agenda? the question even newsweek asks? could it be that most small businesses are owned by consrvatives? is it true that the chrysler dealerships closed by the car czar did not contibute to or support this administration? is it true that those spared were supporters? not saying it is or isnt but asking the question.

What? I like hamburgers, who doesn’t? I’m a little chubby but not fat and slow. I ride my bike everyday and walk without hesitation when necessary. Bad thing about all this is not that Michelle Obama has to say this to parents, but that Michelle Obama HAS to say something that parents already know they supposed to do. And after all, they just comment about which daughter is this or that, because they don’t want to hear something they “already know” Like when you say a teenager they have to do their homework and they say “I knooow moom!” But never get to do it.

HEAR ME AND HEAR ME WELL!!!!
We, can pay for universal health care and have money to spare. If the U.S Gov. taxed each dollar traded on the on the U.S Stock Exchange by a one-tenth of a percent, that’s (0.1) of a penny on each dollar traded, (2 Trillion Dollars Daily) we could pay for universal heath care. If the U.S. GOV. do this we could also send thousands of DR. to school for free, and build more medical facilities. Why won’t they do it? Hell i don’t know why no one else thought of this? can you get my message to the president. TELL HIM. I can help!!!! Tell him we would not put big Health care insurace companies out of business, we would give them new roles. That same taxes could pay them to managae it.
DID YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fast food by itself is not unhealthy,it is the generally poor overall diet of Americans and our inability to restrict portions.I suggest reading “Evolution Rx…” by William Meller,M.D.-he outlines the evolutionary basis for our dietary habits.Mrs. Obama is ignoring the two greatest threats to health in America,despite living with them in the White House.Her husband is a cofirmed tobacco addict;the free and excessive use of alcoholic beverages in this White House should be condemmed.

By the way, here’s a citation for the AP poll, mentioned in an article 10/8/09:
“The public is split 40-40 on supporting or opposing the health care legislation, the poll found. An even split is welcome news for Democrats, a sharp improvement from September, when 49 percent of Americans said they opposed the congressional proposals and just 34 percent supported them.”
And some interesting analysis from Nate Silver on the same day:
“Meanwhile, two more good pieces of news for Obama. First, a new Quinnipiac poll shows voters moving toward him and away from congressional Republicans on the health care issue. Second, and perhaps relatedly, the latest AP-GfK poll shows Obama jumping from +1 net approval a month ago (50 percent approving, 49 percent disapproving) to +17 (56 percent approving, 39 percent disapproving) now. As for his specific ratings on health care, he’s net-plus again (but narrowly, 48 percent to 47 percent), after being down 10 points a month ago.”
I imagine reform may also get a bump from the Senate Finance Committee vote today.
Still a long fight, but it’s looking better for reform, at the moment.
And by the way, “wheresmymoney”, I’m not out to get you or Republicans in general. I applaud the skewering of hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle.
I’ve agreed with Republicans on here that there is reason to be skeptical about the reform bills’ approach to penalizing employers.
I haven’t yet heard the formula that would make it more appealing for employers to continue to provide healthcare coverage for their employees rather than just pay a penalty and opt out.
Looking forward to more details on how this would work.

“who has time to eat right and excercise in this economy. good advice but us non elites are to busy paying taxes and trying to keep the creditors at bay and working harder than ever. perhaps school teachers and government employees have this luxury”
The schoolteachers I know are some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met, and many are underpaid for the hard work they do under difficult conditions. It’s just plain wrong to insinuate the profession is part of some kind of indulgent “elite.”

I think it’s a good start, let’s wait which measures will be taken.

Whatever happened to that garden? Isn’t it past time to harvest it? Get it ready for winter? Show us how!

Ok, right wingers, so don’t even try eat healthy or exercise, and don’t encourage that behavior in any of the millions of kids at risk for diabetes.
That’ll sure teach Michelle Obama a thing or two.

Why would the Columbia/Harvard grad, Barack Obama, have bomber William Ayers write his autobiography?
Posted by: Colonel Rebel | Oct 14, 2009 9:31:04 AM
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LOL. Gotta love a diehard ghoster. Shouldn’t you be off finding more tangible proof so that Ayers can get his royalties? You and “the bomber” seem to be in cahoots on this. Perhaps, you pal around.

===This includes $373 million dollars announced last month that would be available for communities that put together comprehensive plans to reduce obesity,” she said.===
I wonder if we couldn’t use this money to put recess and physical education back into school? I wonder how closely obesity in children tracks with reductions in both areas?

I wonder if we couldn’t use this money to put recess and physical education back into school? I wonder how closely obesity in children tracks with reductions in both areas?
Posted by: Axey | Oct 14, 2009 10:01:45 AM
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Good question.

And good point, Alyson, about the personal responsibility aspect of what the First Lady is saying here.
Seems like some people on the right imagine that the Obamas are drastically worse than other first couples.
It might be worthwhile for some of the harsher critics to imagine how their life, or anyone’s for that matter, might fare if picked over by people eager to find fault without restraint.

May I suggest to our First Lady that she stop this continuing drawing on the Obamas personal experiences as the way of the world. My mother …. my grandmothers……40…..50….years ago, knew that their young ones had to “eat well”…. regardless of the reasons …some probably even undefined as they sought that objective, so I do not accept Michelle’s rationale that families are sooo busy and sooo tired..
With little adult direction, with little physical excercise, and with fewer and fewer mental opportunites to sustain them (“Hey, ma….can I use the Kindle….how about the cellphone…can I watch MTV….Wii…playstation…you name it”….whatever they want and we buy because they want it……..sure as hell is not contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Michelle, you gotta do what you gotta do…….mothers have been doing it for a long, long time.

===Posted by: Alyson | Oct 14, 2009 10:43:09 AM===
What about Andersen? Is he a right winger too?

on the other hand, it’s extremely important to move the country forward so that we do have more genuine and authentic leadership at all levels.
So in that sense I don’t ultimately mind people challenging Obama on anything they find relevant.
Posted by: Danny | Oct 14, 2009 10:26:43 AM
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I agree with you on both counts, though I do wish the opposition would stick a bit more to the relevant, and less on distractions for partisan purposes and the sake of the 2010 elections (not that I want to censor anyone or that I disagree with dissent or marches or any of that) If they did, without exaggeration, distortion, inflation of numbers and the irrelevant sideshows , they might even find that occasionally progressives or others agree with their points and want to press or look into the same things, without the ginned up vitriol that some ( I said “some”) rely on.

All good points, Alyson. Though I’d have to say politics is pretty polarizing in general. Seems very difficult to engage in it without dealing with a lot of heated conflict.
I’ve been trying to find ways to make it less like that, though can’t say I’ve figured out much, yet.

What about Andersen? Is he a right winger too?
Posted by: Axey | Oct 14, 2009 10:46:04 AM
Darn, I shouldn’t have gotten into this, because I think it’s a distraction, and it’s irrelevant, and it’s a pretty silly conspiracy theory– and also I just had to pick up my nephew from school cuz he’s sick. Anyway…
I have no idea about Andersen. Seriously. I know every bio of him pretty much says he writes “controversial” celebrity biographies– so that’s his schtick– and that he uses a lot of unnamed, secondhand sources, and on Reliable Sources (CNN), Kurtz did a pretty good number on him. Andersen said to Kurtz that he doesn’t claim Ayers wrote Obama’s book. But I don’t know, I haven’t read it. I’m just taking the author’s word for it.
He is also the same guy that claimed certain folks had very unlikely affairs, isn’t he– see Hillary and Jackie Kennedy.
As an aside here, I’m sure you’ve read about the Oxford professor who was hired by a Republican to “prove” that Ayers wrote Obama’s book, right?
From the Sunday Times of London back in November of 2008, an article titled “Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama,” a reference quote to google:
“Fox contacted Millican, who said: “He was entirely upfront about this. He offered me $10,000 and sent me electronic versions of the text from both books.”
Millican took a preliminary look and found the charges “very implausible”. A deal was agreed for more detailed research but when Millican said the results had to be made public, even if no link to Ayers was proved, interest waned. ”
Gotta roll.

It’s about time that a first lady help to educate her fellow Americans, instead of some other country. Obesity is high on the list for chronic illnessess starting in childhood. Our children do not have the Physical education classes that I had, and on their way to the bus stop, corner stores are “strategically” placed along the way…..selling every thing from candy to marijuanna equipment. Good for our country…..and if it doesn’t apply, let it fly. It applies to others. Simple. Unless, you have another agenda…..then say it instead of talking down reality.

I’m sure glad Michelle made the trip to Copenhagen to pitch the Obamalympics. She said she “sacrificed” to make the journey, but she did it “for the children”….because they’re fat.

“Oh, and just so my position is clear, I believe Ayers wrote or heavily edited Dreams. I’m waiting for the next time Obama says he has written two books. I suspect he won’t say it again.”
Posted by: Axey | Oct 14, 2009 11:35:51 AM
Darn! Does that mean Slick Barry will have to share the Nobel Prize for Literature with Ayers??

“Oh, and just so my position is clear, I believe Ayers wrote or heavily edited Dreams.”
ROFLMAO!
No wonder Rush and the right winger talkers had adds for things like buying gold, hair restoration, male enhancements and other snakeoil stuff.
Those companies realize that right wingers listeningng are incredibly gullible.

===Those companies realize that right wingers listeningng are incredibly gullible. ===
And to think, I never bought any of their products. I’ll have to rectify that, I suppose.
What if you find out someday that Ayers did write, or heavily edit, the book Dreams? Will that change your opinion of Obama?

===It would also help if she would spreak the language correctly. Or is this her form of talking down to us?===
Are you referring to this: “We can pass on a whole ‘nother set of habits…”?
If so, I think that is just normal for anyone. Bush did it too. It didn’t bother me from him and it doesn’t bother me from her. It is probably how she talks when not in “speaker” mode.

===And “spreak” is correct in what language?===
The language of typing and not proofreading. It happens to the best of us.

I notice the comments On”Dreams”. How do you explain the similar comments in Ayers’ book and “Dreams…” about Frantz Fanon, an obscure anti-colonial psychiatrist?Does Barack Obama even know who Fanon was? Is it just coincidence? Remember, the authorship of “Profiles in Courage” was covered up for 40 years. It was the same basis for gravitas that “Dreams …” is supposed to be.

Did anyone remember a couple of months ago when she said she slips out to five guys for a burger. How do you stand up and tell people to eat healthy, when you are doing the same things everyone else is doing.

I’m glad that our First Lady is bringing media attention to healthy living. It feels so good to be energetic and alert. And trust me, after eating less junk, eating more veggies and fruit and getting some exercise daily (like walking to start)you’ll get ‘addicted’ to being healthy. Just make one small change at a time, when it is a habit, add another healthy small change. It feels great to lose a little weight and have pep in your step!
Greg, no one is a saint. An occasional hamburger isn’t what is making many Americans obese and out of shape. It is the daily choices you make at each meal that add up. It’s sitting in front of the t.v. for hours, instead of putting on some music and dancing with the spouse and/or kids or taking a walk together.
Michelle is a good example of how to turn your family’s health around. When one of the kids was getting a little heavy, she weeded out the junk food and substituted fruit and veggies for snacks. Both parents show the value of moving your body daily by having a fitness routine. Michelle is entirely sincere and qualified to talk about healthy living.