Shhh, Don’t Tell the First Lady: President Obama Digs In to a Southern-Style Lunch, Says He Doesn’t Want ‘Lectures’ About Cholesterol
EmailABC News’ Karen Travers and Sunlen Miller report:
Just days after his doctors expressed concerns about his rising cholesterol levels, President Obama dropped by a family-style restaurant for an authentic – but perhaps not so healthy – Southern style lunch in Savannah, Georgia.
In between events, Obama paid a visit to Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room and made it clear he did not want to hear it from the press about his choice of lunch.
“I don’t want any lectures about my cholesterol,” Obama said. “Don’t tell Michelle.”
On the table before the president were huge bowls and platters overflowing with food including fried chicken, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked beans, and potato salad.
"When you're in Georgia you have to have sweet tea!" Obama said.
Obama worked the dining room at the “Oldtime Family Style Dining” restaurant, going table to table greeting people. “Tell everyone back home I say hi,” the president said.
Obama said he knew that folks in Savannah were going through tough times but he said he is confident the nation will bounce back, adding that that is the American spirit.
-Karen Travers and Sunlen Miller
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He doesn’t want lectures ?
Posted by: nat turner | March 2, 2010, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
He has no problem lecturing us about how we live.
Posted by: Artie | March 2, 2010, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm
How about if Michelle spends her time worrying about her husband’s eating, smoking and alcohol intake? I’ll worry about what my own kids eat.
Posted by: The MediaBlog | March 2, 2010, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
It is indeed nice to be the King! Obama can drink alcohol, smoke his cigarettes, and eat unhealthy foods (usually served by servants paid for by taxpayers) even when his doctors tell him to cutback or quit! But he lectures the peons incessantly about being healthy and changing lifestyles! He even wants an unelected “Czar” to have ALL our private health information so he can dictate to us via his Obamacare plan! He also has no problem lecturing insurance companies and businesses about who they can cover and at what price.
Posted by: Ed | March 2, 2010, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm
Can’t he just eat his waffle? Typical liberal…do as I say NOT as I do.
Posted by: karen | March 2, 2010, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
My feeling is let him keep smoking. Rather have him relaxed instead of a lose cannon. He’s lose enough as it is. I gave up smoking recently and sure would not want to be responsible for any major decisions.
Posted by: Kari | March 2, 2010, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
“….President Obama dropped by a family-style restaurant for an authentic – but perhaps not so healthy – Southern style lunch in Savannah, Georgia”
FCOL I heard the RUMORS that Obama was starting his 2012 campaign early but this is nuts. Get back to work and quit schmoozing people on our dime.
Posted by: Denbo | March 2, 2010, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm
I agree with Obama. I don’t want any lectures!!! Lectures from anyone, specifically him and any other nosy “I know what’s best for you and the country control freaks”
Posted by: Pete Rieck | March 2, 2010, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm
GoBama!!!
Posted by: Tom | March 2, 2010, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
He has no problem lecturing us about how we live.
Posted by: Artie | Mar 2, 2010 5:49:10 PM
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Oh you poor little thing . ..
Posted by: tierra | March 3, 2010, 2:51 am 2:51 am
Appears to me, that Michelle needs to focus her attention more on her husband’s eating, drinking and smoking and clean up her own household, before she tries to tell the nation what they need to do to be healthier!
Posted by: Nancy | March 3, 2010, 8:31 am 8:31 am
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The overhall of our healthcare system includes cost savings from lifestyle changes. It’s great to see that President Obama has FAILED in making his own lifestyle changes – with his own problems with smoking, drinking and cholesterol.
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Healthcare savings based on lifestyle changes is a sham and Obama demonostrates his own hypocracy. But that’s the beauty of being a socialist – you spend other peoples money and tell everyone else how to live.
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Posted by: N Waff | March 3, 2010, 10:47 am 10:47 am
He should probably have a gnarly convo with Bill Clinton about the long term health effects.
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | March 3, 2010, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm
I guess this explains why he wants socialized medicine…So he can have everyone else pay the bills for the healthcare needed to keep him going years from now, after all this “good living” catches up to him? Hey- It’s the American Way: Get yourself in trouble and get others to bail you out! (that means the “government” which is of course actually the money from the taxpayers).
Posted by: Justin Time | March 3, 2010, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm
The President is in better shape than about 90% of Americans, if not more. Give him a break. He is admitting that he strays from the ideal diet/lifestyle sometimes. Keep in mind that it is his wife who is really pushing the healthy eating subject. It is her whom we should look at to set the standards for healthy eating, if we look to anyone in the WhiteHouse as an example. But I think it is much more important that each and every one of us tries to set the highest standards as individuals, and set a good example for others, most importantly the children around us.
Posted by: Healthy Guy | March 3, 2010, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm
Obama said, “I don’t want any lectures about my cholesterol,”
Oh but he can sure lecture us about what light bulb to use, how to spend our cash, what we should think about health care, how we should believe about abortion, and what latest jetsetting science theories he thinks we should jump on the bandwagon with.
On second thought, let him eat cake.
Posted by: Tom | March 4, 2010, 10:29 am 10:29 am
I like this post a lot. This is the kind of article that allows the American people to see that Barack Obama and the leaders of our country are human. Whether I agree with his politics or not, everything is put into perspective when you realize that the President is still a man with limitations and imperfections. By reading this it allows Obama and my expectations for this mere man to be brought down to Earth when discussing his health care bills or stimulus packages. A different light is cast onto the issue because he is a flawed man, doing what he deems is right or necessary for the good of the country. Whether, what he does is always what is best for the country, or that I agree with him, is another issue however. But for someone who has to worry about being shot by assassins or lunatics with guns, but is more concerned, and has the ability to joke, about a lecture he is going to receive from his wife concerning his cholesterol levels, shows a lot about his “humanness”. I just enjoy that even though his mind is consumed with nuclear weapons, a war in Iraq, and a deficit that is growing every day, President Obama is still willing to appreciate the simple things such as southern cooking and his wife’s wishes concerning his health.
Posted by: biolafrosh | March 9, 2010, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm