President Obama “Fit For Duty”

Can’t quit smoking but his wife wants to carp about your fat kids ? Weak .

Can’t quit smoking but his wife wants to carp about your fat kids ? Weak .
Posted by: nat turner | Feb 28, 2010 1:46:59 PM
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Not as weak as your comment. Obesity is a major problem and it will impact on us financially if the push doesn’t become stronger.
You’re the one carping.

Fit for duty but couldn’t get a security clearance if he needed one.

Why are we being lectured by Michelle Obama about the dangers of obesity in kids when her husband can’t even quit smoking? Talk about a terrible example for young kids and teenagers.
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It’s your type who drag the image of a ‘smoking’ President into the glare – you’re the ones parading the fact he smokes and trying to make political ground of it.

Then why did the Obamas serve hot dogs and pizza at the WH Super Bowl party?
Posted by: For the Record | Feb 28, 2010 2:19:44 PM
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Why not?
Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 2:22:32 PM
Hot Dog & a Bun:
Calories 460 Calories from Fat 170
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 18.9g 29%
Saturated Fat 5.1g 26%
Monounsaturated Fat 9.1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3.5g
Cholesterol 79mg 26%
Sodium 973mg 41%
Potassium 263mg 8%
Total Carbohydrate 55.8g 19%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 0g
Protein 16.8g 34%

Why are we being lectured by Michelle Obama about the dangers of obesity in kids when her husband can’t even quit smoking? Talk about a terrible example for young kids and teenagers.
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It’s your type who drag the image of a ‘smoking’ President into the glare – you’re the ones parading the fact he smokes and trying to make political ground of it.
Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 2:21:39 PM
I see nothing political in Alison’s statement. It’s about the kids and teenagers. Where is the politics in that?
If somehow the statement was tied to the liberal health care agenda, then it would be political. But it’s not.
Maybe you should think before you drink, eh?

Talk about a terrible example for young kids and teenagers.
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It’s your type who drag the image of a ‘smoking’ President into the glare – you’re the ones parading the fact he smokes and trying to make political ground of it.
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Clearly the President keeps any tobacco use very low profile.
Allison states he’s setting a poor example – and yet it is people like her who are giving any Presidential smoking a HIGH profile – so kids can see it.
Stupid tactic. And mostly to score political points against the President, with no real concern for outcomes for children.

Clearly the President keeps any tobacco use very low profile.
Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 2:52:33 PM
Maybe that’s the problem. What or who is he hiding his cancer-causing actions from?

lol Tierra, do you even listen to what your saying?
smoking is smoking not matter whether I am claiming he is smoking and it is bad for the childrens sake because it is a bad example or because i think it will help damage his public reputation.
Either way, he still is a chain smoker and tries to hide it. We all have our little sins we try to cover up and hide which is thus the reason we shouldn’t have 1 person in charge that wants to expand government and raise taxes in order to pay for all these government “projects” and laws.

smoking is smoking not matter whether I am claiming he is smoking and it is bad for the childrens sake because it is a bad example or because i think it will help damage his public reputation.
Posted by: chris | Feb 28, 2010 3:17:18 PM
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You’re not thinking clearly chris.
Clearly the President keeps any tobacco use very low profile.
Allison states he’s setting a poor example – and yet it is people like her who are giving any Presidential smoking a HIGH profile – so kids can see it.
Stupid tactic. And mostly to score political points against the President, with no real concern for outcomes for children.
And there is no evidence at all to support your claim the President is a ‘chain smoker’. Try to understand the difference between the truth, and what you imagine to be true. Hard as it might be.

“thus the reason we shouldn’t have 1 person in charge that wants to expand government and raise taxes”
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Yeah, that’s the reason I’d rather have someone who sneaks the odd smoke (Obama) in charge, rather that someone who thinks God talks to him in the bathroom (Bush).
Also, the Republican promised smaller government and an eliminated deficit and instead doubled the national debt and exploded deficits – as well as presided over the almost complete collapse of the economy. It’s no contest.

so kids can see it.
Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 3:25:30 PM
Definitely. I’m sure a lot of kids read this blog (no offense Jake).
But they might read headlines… or listen to their friends (Hey, Obama smokes – what’s the big deal?) Obama can try to hide it and keep it low profile, but kids are kids and they may draw the wrong conclusions – regardless of whether Alison mentions it or not.
If he would just quit, then he would be an example for the kids – including his own.

Clearly the President keeps any tobacco use very low profile.
Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 2:52:33 PM
Clearly the President is hiding his cancer-causing actions.
Posted by: For the Record | Feb 28, 2010 3:32:51 PM
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You don’t have any idea what the President does – you don’t know how many cigarettes he smokes, nor how often – of if he’s actually managed to not smoke for days or weeks.
You just make up stuff. Typical Republican right approach. If it serves your cause, make it up.

“Obama can try to hide it and keep it low profile, but kids are kids and they may draw the wrong conclusions – regardless of whether Alison mentions it or not.”
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More nonsense. It is the Republican right who attack the President for smoking – and publicize the fact – which is picked up by kids.
The President keeps his smoking VERY low profile – it’s you Republican right wing fools who publicize it to try to score political points – regardless of the outcomes for kids.
No tactic too shoddy for the Republican right. Shameful.
Pathetic.

Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 3:47:13 PM
Poor tierra. Even defending a cigarette is a life or death struggle on this blog.

we should be electing people
Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 3:50:07 PM
Think you mis-spoke there, tierra. “We”? I think you meant “You.”

tierra,in this day and age cigarette smoking is in defensible.Period.Why you defend Obama’s use is beyond me. And you are defending his use.Are you a Newfie?Nobody in this country watches CBC programing(except maybe “Little Mosque);frankly nobody in Canada outside of Ontario watches it either except for news and hockey.

tierra,in this day and age cigarette smoking is in defensible.Period.Why you defend Obama’s use is beyond me.
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I was criticizing the Republican right who drag any tobacco use by the President into the light so kids can see it.
The President is discrete with any tobacco use – it is the Republican right who publicize it and then pretend they’re trying to protect kids from a bad role model – when its THEM who publicized it.
Very hypocritical.

I also feel like I am having
a colorectal exam everytime I hear where
my tax money is going.
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Your tax money is targeted to paying back the $10 trillion dollars in national debt in place when Bush left office.

105/62?? Wow, that’s amazing for someone in such a high stress job.

Poor tierra. Even defending a cigarette is a life or death struggle on this blog.
Posted by: For the Record | Feb 28, 2010 3:54:10 PM
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It’s hilarious in a pathetic sort of way.

tierra nova,who on the Republican right is a smoker?Who has a documented history of cocaine and alcohol abuse(see “Dreams”)?Who is still using nicotine gum to deal with his addiction?When is the last time that we had a prominent Republican who has been a smoker?

who on the Republican right is a smoker?Who has a documented history of cocaine and alcohol abuse
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Nephron, do some real research. The answer to this question is as close as the last President – George W. Bush.
Not just someone who dabbled, but a confirmed alcoholic and cocaine user.

No, the Republican right message is ‘we can publicize the President sneaks the odd smoke even if publicizing that leads more kids to know because we score political points’.
Hypocrites.
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LOL. m’K. Maybe you should direct your disgust at the right wing owned Asoociated Press:
“Obama yet to kick smoking habit, should eat better”
By STEVEN R. HURST (AP) – 1 hour ago
You must not have children or you’d know better. You may think you’re hiding things from them, but you’re not. They just end up thinking you’re a hypocrite for continuing on with the charade while lecturing them on the “right way” to live.

LOL. m’K. Maybe you should direct your disgust at the right wing owned Asoociated Press:
“Obama yet to kick smoking habit, should eat better”
By STEVEN R. HURST (AP) – 1 hour ago
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Just because the AP is sensational enough to publicize this does not excuse the Republican right, and how they belabour this.
The Republican right message is ‘we can publicize the President sneaks the odd smoke even if publicizing that leads more kids to know because we score political points’.
Shoddy.

Ronald Reagan was also a smoker, and starred in advertising for Chesterfield cigarettes

Obama should postpone his quit attempts until after his term is up. I quit smoking cold turkey a little over a month ago and I was utterly insane for a week and still have not recovered my attention span or mood stability! The last thing we need is a mental patient behind the wheel. ;)

Obama gets the best of everything and he wants to rest of us to have the worst of everthing. What a terrible man.
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Your comment speaks for itself.

I suspect Obama still smokes Marijuana. I find it hard to believe that Obama could quit Pot smoking but not cigarette smoking.
Posted by: MisterGuerilla | Feb 28, 2010 5:40:31 PM
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You don’t know much about the relative addictiveness of the two substances.

Do you all think his medical report is legit? What else has he lied about? Don’t you think he has the power to put out whatever report he wants? Think voters!

Since when is it proper to call the President of the United States “Mr. Obama”? In a piece about the Presidents health he was called Mr. Obama. Not once but at least twice during the commentary. He may not have the best numbers right now but he is the President. The video report was on at about 5:35 to 5:40 PM on 2/28/2010….
Where is the respect?
K

tierra, you know what you remind me of: a little lap dog barking at everyone, back and forth, trying to intimidate, but with no results. Calm down, get a cup of chamomile tea and may be you would be taken more seriously. Or are you being paid “big bucks” for
defending this administration? Sometimes I really
wonder about you!

We have got to stop saying “quitting” smoking. It’s a mind game but I never say I quit smoking. I just say I’m seeing how long I can go without one. I was raised to never quit anything. Just like an alcholholic. Why does someone who quit drinking still say they’re an alcholholic. I still say I’m a smoker. I just don’t chose to do it any more.

President is on of the most physically fit presidents in the past century. Believe it or not, of probably equal fitness was George Bush – a bit older, but avid runner and biker.

Who has a documented history of cocaine and alcohol abuse
Posted by: Nephron | Feb 28, 2010 4:37:11 PM
He does seem obsessed with beer summits and beer bets. He also mentioned breasts a lot during the HC summit.

Did he have his head examined?

George Soros says Obama has failed…Matt Damon is disappointed in him…a year in office and zero.

tierra,you seem really smart in regards to health issues.What Canadian Medical School granted your M.D.? You are Canadian,aren’t you?

Posted by: tierra | Feb 28, 2010 9:23:21 PM
Zakaria asked, “Are you satisfied with the job Barack Obama has done?”
Soros said he wasn’t. Soros wanted the banks nationalized, but added that Obama “made the political decision that that is un-American, will not be accepted.”
[leaving out the part you cherry-picked]
But Obama “got the message” when Massachusetts elected Scott Brown, a Republican, as Ted Kennedy’s successor, Soros said.
“I hope that, actually, now, he’s [Obama's] taking the health care back to Congress and overcoming the filibuster — the 60 percent vote requirement,” Soros said. “I think that’s the right reaction. So he’s sort of taking a tough stance. And that may be the turning point. It depends on how he follows it up.”
[uh oh. Not looking good for the 60%, but don't worry - George will be in favor of the reconciliation choke-hold.]

tierra,I should have realized that you were Canadian when you cited the Canadian Pembina Institute as a Global Warming reference.What a clossal phony.

Uh oh.
Real Clear Politics has Obama’s Approval/Disapproval Rate at 47.8% / 47.0%.
Looks like the red and black lines in the graph are almost touching and getting ready to change places! The little red line continues to rise and the little black line continues to fall.

After eight years of the Bush aftermath, no wonder the first year was a dud, the whiners club have all the answers, but no solutions…But I do agree Obama is way off the mark and has polarized the government with the help of his fellow Democrats. palin should be a palm reader, the pundits sound like a broken record everyday, what happened to Scott Browns vow to block everything. the tea parties are late.Bush started the stimulus, got a $600 dollar check that did nothing for the economy worst offender of all time for creating this mess, no wonder he’s in recluse.

“I’m a space cadet when it comes to the Middle East”-Barack Obama,February 28.2010.Is there need for more proof that we have an absolute moron in the White House?My God!

ForTheRecord-very precise statement regarding malpractice reform. Defensive medicine costs BILLIONS; but, why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs (ABA lobby)and alienate your law school buddies?

And from the Daily Beast, titled Obama’s Middle-Class Meltdown by Joel Kotkin
“By cozying up to Wall Street and pushing climate change, the president is playing to the coasts—and losing middle America.”

And from Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard:
“President Obama spent seven hours last week acting like a committee chairman, not a president. Rather than preside over the nationally televised health care “summit” of Democratic and Republican members of Congress, Obama was a participant. He big-footed Democrats and responded to Republican statements himself. He talked and talked and talked, considerably more than anyone else and for a total of two hours. When Obama delivered a concluding monologue, the TV cameras panned to a drowsy and bored group of senators and House members, the Republicans especially.”

I am glad that Mr. Obama is healthy physically. At least now he cannot blame it on his health for his failures the way he has been blaming Mr. Bush.

At least now he cannot blame it on his health for his failures the way he has been blaming Mr. Bush.
Posted by: young_voter | Mar 1, 2010 12:42:04 AM
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Bush seldom gets mentioned by the President. However, Bush gets credit for what he deserves. During Bush’s presidency the national debt doubled to $10 trillion dollars, the deficit exploded, the economy crashed, over 700,000 people began losing their jobs every month, major banks and financial institutions collapsed, major auto companies collapse, Bin Laden and al Qaeda escaped in Afghanistan, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon on his watch, Iran developed a secret nuclear facility, no weapons of mass destruction were found, Scooter Libby was tried and convicted of criminal activities in the office of VP Cheney . . . and so on.

I wish the President would bring the country together. He promised he would in his Inauguration speech. After over a year, the country is still split down the middle.
Posted by: For The Record | Mar 1, 2010 1:11:54 AM
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Soros could have it absolutely right . ..
“He wanted to be the great uniter and he wanted to carry the country, sort of bring it together. But the other side has absolutely no incentive to do it. So it takes two to tango.”
Republican slogan: Get Re-elected First. Country Second.

Oh, good. Glad to see all the Kool-Aid drinkers are still here.

On smoking.
It is difficult to quit smoking. I quit cold turkey. I have not held a cigarette for 25 years. I will not touch cigarette, they are too addictive for certain personalities. In order to quit, the habits that tend to lead to smoking must be quit altogether, at least for a while. No drinking alcohol or coffee. At the first week it will be particularly difficult. But remember you can always have a cigarette tomorrow if you really have to, but lets try and wait until tomorrow, and each day remind yourself that you will feel less pressure/addiction to smoking. After a month add back a little pleasure, but no excess. A little sip of wine a tiny small cup of coffee. You are still really vulnerable to relapse. Tell yourself if you want to smoke you will wait until you are 65 then crank up the stogies, but not today. Remind yourself it is about your children and go for a run and enjoy the lungs starting to clear.

Meanwhile, Bunning shows very clearly how little the GOP has changed and the scorched earth b.s. they’re becoming well known for. His hold on jobless aid could end up impacting thousands of workers and construction projects around the country– at a time of mass unemployment.

I wish the President would bring the country together. He promised he would in his Inauguration speech. After over a year, the country is still split down the middle.
Posted by: For The Record | Mar 1, 2010 1:11:54 AM
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Soros could have it absolutely right . ..
“He wanted to be the great uniter and he wanted to carry the country, sort of bring it together. But the other side has absolutely no incentive to do it. So it takes two to tango.”
Republican slogan: Get Re-elected First. Country Second.
Posted by: tierra | Mar 1, 2010 2:02:45 AM
I hope you realize the utter foolishness of using the opinion of a rich left-wing ultra liberal who wants to nationalize the banks as your proof that it’s the Republican’s fault.
And it doesn’t help that outsiders like yourself continue to show prejudice and partisanship.

Ok, a lot of you are getting off track. This article is speaking about the president’s health. That’s it, nothing else.

… we will be handing our paychecks over to the government.
Posted by: Wha-wha-whatttt?? | Mar 1, 2010 2:39:18 PM
The White House budget review issued in August projected that by the end of the decade, the National Debt will hit $24.5 trillion.
Not good – no matter who is in charge. I find it unacceptable to allow Obama to roll up massive debt because “Bush was worse.” I realize that the story goes all the first world countries are using stimulus spending, or something. I disagree with that process in our case. The Beast must be starved at all costs. The people are tightening their belts and paying down their debts – doing without. It’s time the government did the same.

.the Democratic Congress was in control for 6 of his 8 years in office
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Untrue.
Senate
2001-2003 50 D/50 R
2003-2005 48 D/51 R
2005-2007 44 D/55 R (and people started feeling the coming recession)
2007- 2009 49 D/49 R
House
2001-2003 212 D/221 R
2003-2005 205 D/229 R
2005-2007 202 D/ 231 R (and people started feeling the coming recession)
2007- 2009 233D/198 R
Incomes and real wages continued to decline, poverty rose, the gap between the rich and the poor grew, medical inflation continued to escalate, the stock market performed mediocre at best, the number of uninsured continued to rise.