First Lady Unveils “Road Map” to Tackle Childhood Obesity

“We don’t need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend,” – Michelle Obama
That’s right, all we need to do is return to common sense.
Let’s start with our School Playgrounds.
When I was young, you could go anytime to the School and play.
Weekends, afterschool, holidays, you could go and play catch or use the swings or the dreaded thingamabob that went round and round and made ya dizzy.
My local school is locked up tighter than a drum, even during school hours.
Weekends? Forget it, you have to climb a locked fence to get in.
You can thank do good lawyers like Edwards and the Obamas for this.
Schools are all afraid of being sued if, by happenstance, some child gets a boo boo.
So Michelle, you are right, we don’t need anything new.
Let’s start with getting back to the old.
Let’s go back to the day when you didn’t file a lawsuit because your kid fell out of a tree.
How about reforming the broken legal system which is screwing up our way of life and helping to make our kids fat all so there can be more worthless lawyers making a buck.
Our legal system is a government sponsored jobs program for lawyers.
Fix that, and you help our kids, the economy, our standard of living, a whole slew of things.
But,
there’s this little voice that tells me this is not part of The Plan™.

You can thank do good lawyers like Edwards and the Obamas for this.
Schools are all afraid of being sued if, by happenstance, some child gets a boo boo.
Noz | May 11, 2010 1:07:40 PM
We get it, you hate the Obamas. But can you provide ANY citation at all for accusing them of being to blame for ANY litigation that resulted in playgrounds being locked up? Michele Obama worked in marketing and intellectual property; Barack Obama Constitutional and civil rights law.
Neither of the Obamas ever worked in liability law (ambulance chasers) like Edwards as you dishonestly imply.

How will she solve the obesity problem?
Since eating is an individual choice I’m guessing
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Same way you address the drunk driving problem, or the tobacco smoking problem – through a public education program. Ignorance is battled through information and education.

I sooooo LIKE this initiative!!!!

She also gave herself a generation before the results show up. Sound familiar? Until now, I’ve never seen a flotus that’d consider being Betty Crocker. These people are too desparate that she get her name on something.

Is this the same bunch who says you
have the right to privacy??? Stay out
of my uterus, my wallet and my kitchen.
Mind your own damn business !!!!

How will she solve the obesity problem?
Since eating is an individual choice I’m guessing
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It’s not that complicated or sinister paranoaics.
Same way you address the drunk driving problem, or the tobacco smoking problem – through a public education program. Ignorance is battled through information and education.

perhaps michelle should ask the new supreme court nominee her secret to controlling obesity. mrs kagan has all the resources anyone could ask for( other than 10 billion)and that hasnt helped her.

Same way you address the drunk driving problem, or the tobacco smoking problem – through a public education program. Ignorance is battled through information and education.
Tierra
Which means taxing or regulation which means less freedom. Unless you are a progressive and are not capable of making decisions for yourself and you need the government to hold your hand.
Posted by: Scott | May 11, 2010 2:45:14 PM
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Yes, its tough when they take away your freedom to drive drunk. Pfff.
Do you even know what a public education campaign is?

tierra…10 billion for an education program that teachers could talk about for free. i am for having a more sveldt society but it doesnt cost money to eat less. why is the only answer to a liberals problem someone elses money?

Is there any aspect of our lives that the Obama administration doesn’t try to control? Making Chavez proud.

Blah, blah, blah. She can educate all she wants but if people don’t like it they ain’t gonna eat it.
smartlillena | May 11, 2010 3:00:22 PM
The only citation I found for money being invested is a request to increase funding to the National School Lunch and Breakfast program, a proven effective program instituted back when many WWII recruits were rejected due to the effects of childhood malnutrition.
What are you talking about? Just more unsubstantiated “Obama is evil!!11!!” blah blah blah? Or can you cite REAL supporting evidence for your opinion?

I think there are 40 million that are dependent on food stamps. Make it mandatory that food stamps can only purchase nutritious foods.
I want to see POTUS/FLOTUS try to ban junk food.
There will be rioting in the streets that will make Greece look like a walk in the park.
Who will take away his cigarettes and pies. Their $100/lb steak and Chicago style pizza?

A public education campaign calling out fat people, fat kids even. The sensitivity, WOW.

It’s a crisis!!
Money is not a concern.
Who cares if America is going bankrupt.
It’s another crisis.
The time to act is now!

Kids might walk or bike to school if we would bring back neighborhood schools and quit bussing to achieve artificial racial equality.
mj | May 11, 2010 3:22:20 PM
? Are you aware of any statistical link between bussing and childhood obesity? There are actually very few kids who live in cities with active integration busing programs.

It’s so wrong for the Obama administration to profile overweight people.
Will the Food Police harrass a family while they are standing in line at the Dairy Queen?
Wow.
Harrassing a family for having ice-cream.
Sounds familiar.

GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE! Why is it such a bad thing to encourage and HELP people to eat healthy and excercise more? If people insist on staying fat, don’t ask for government assistance for your diabetes treatment! If that is your choice…don’t cry when you suddenly find yourself in the hospital for a heart attack at age 25! USE SOME COMMON SENSE!

Not only are they profiling fat people they’ve threatened to put people in jail for not buying health insurance from them. Now we’re being threatened against using that health insurance. Sorta.

Doesn’t Michelle know, we the taxpayers, still have to bailout Greece, Fannie and Freddie?
We might need her $10B.

We might need her $10B.
ollie | May 11, 2010 4:02:00 PM
Her $10B? As long as you’re making up lies, why not say her $100 trillion or something? You’re apparently not tied to the truth – lie big!

The Obamas need to seek counseling to help with their spending addiction.
It’s like they are on a never ending shopping spree, checking items off their wishlist.
But it’s not their money.
It’s our money.

It’s our money.
hank | May 11, 2010 4:07:08 PM
And we think that spending a penny a person to fight childhood obesity is a good use of it. Welcome to a majority rule society, the most prosperous free nation the world has ever seen.

Let’s face it. This isn’t an awareness campaign or an education campaign. And it’s not just a let’s eat more healthy and excercise program. This “task force” (and yes we are paying for it with our tax money) will seek out ways to limit foods they deem unworthy. Those solutions will either be increased taxation or regulation or both. And it will surely add to government bureaucracy.
At some point we need to stop thinking that government needs to be involved in every aspect of our lives.

It takes a Task Force, a roadmap, and billions of dollars to tell people–if you eat more calories than you burn, you will get fat?
Why doesn’t Michelle hire personal trainers and chefs for each targeted family. They can literally spoon feed people.
When will the Nanny-In-Chief and his wife stop enslaving the poor?

Let’s Move has a $10B budget.
One of those pesky facts Obama probably doesn’t want us to know.
ollie | May 11, 2010 4:32:32 PM
That’s a lie. Doesn’t matter how many times you tell it, it’s still a lie. WHERE IS YOUR CITATION? What is the budget title?

“Yes, tackling the childhood obesity epidemic is a silly whim. ”
Yes as a government job, it is.
“And such whims of First Ladies have indeed played a part in getting us here for over a generation (even before Elanor in the 40′s). ”
Sorry, their whims don’t hold a candle to the entrepreneurial spirit of the american people.

“America from our successful government of the people, by the people, and for the people. ”
and I find it funny that you think the government inserting itself into the lifestyle choices of our still free society somehow adds to the greatness of our nation.

There is an interesting post on the Health Journal Club that makes the case that people should just not eat anything that wasn’t a food a 100 years ago.
Sure gets rid of all the aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, GM foods, trans-fats, etc, etc that they try and pass off as food these days.

“Neither of the Obamas ever worked in liability law (ambulance chasers) like Edwards as you dishonestly imply.” – One Short of 540
Sorry, wasn’t meaning to imply that, I was just grouping them with the bleeding heart do good lawyers whose unintended effects are ruining society and the American Way Of Life™.
I noticed you didn’t address the root of our declining standard of living, a broken justice system that is fueling too many leechie lawyers. If this wasn’t a rampant decades old plague, then perhaps we wouldn’t be saddled with Mr. and Mrs Lawyer in the White House.
btw, I don’t hate the Obamas, I like them.
I just wish they were working for some .org as social activists instead of occupying the positions of Potus and Flotus.

“FLOTUS Fashion Watch: Mrs. Obama wore navy blue slacks, with a three quarter length sleeve blue patterned silk jacket over a blue and white floral print blouse, topped with a navy patent leather belt and silver flats.”
NOBODY GIVES A RAT’S BEHIND WHAT SHE’S WEARING. Seriously, Jake — reign your staffers in on this ridiculousness.

When will the Nanny-In-Chief and his wife stop enslaving the poor?
Posted by: mick
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And stop hating on fat people. Especially fat kids.

“Since when is education and advocating accurate labeling some sort of nefarious “inserting itself into the lifestyle choices” of our nation? ”
Never said it was nefarious, just a waste of money and something the government should not be involved with. And if you think that is all this task force is about you’re deluding yourself.
“You do understand this is a fluff education project by the office of First Lady, and it is as worth as the promotion of education or working with DARE. ”
Yeah, we’ll see. It’s still not something worth one single penny of taxpayer money. DARE is over-rated and a waste of money too, but that is another topic altogether.

Michelle has skin in the game in the food business…she was on the board of treehouse…google it if you want the long story.
I think she should stick to her “garden” and fashion…anything but policy. We are way over regulated and way over controlled at this point that I resent any dietary “advice” coming from a woman who was pigging out on ribs and mac and cheese on her recent vacation….
pass the kobe beef.

Nothing they stick their fingers into has any effect on them financially, whatsoever.
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Actually, the crusades against processed foods and obesity would indicate otherwise–kinda, sorta– according to Malkin, yes? (If the skin in the game thing as another commenter put it is to be believed and taken as that commenter took it.) As well as the crusade against Wall Street, too, at least when it comes to campaign contributions.
Contradictory talking points seem to be circulating here.
Not a surprise. It is what it is, I guess.

Posted by: smartlillena | May 12, 2010 10:56:13 AM
I absolutely wrote it with a straight face. I find the right’s logic very peculiar.
It goes like this. A or B used to do this, or be associated with this. So we should be upset that A or B is now fighting this. (Unless, of course, we’re talking about a conservative. Then, of course, it doesn’t matter that Sowell hung out with Marxists and was one himself, or that Glenn Beck had friends in low places — or was a drunk or whatever. To be clear, I don’t think the latter two things matter, but that’s not my schtick. It is the schtick of right wingers– and the logic is twisted, to say the least about it.)
To be clear, fighting against special interests, despite past ties, is exactly the change of heart I’d like to see. Otherwise, we’re doomed to the status quo and special interests ruling.

Posted by: smartlillena | May 12, 2010 11:55:57 AM
As usual, you miss the point, exaggerate and turn the conversation into something not worth the time.

Posted by: progressive mama
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Ain’t missed nothing, darlin’. You believe in a progressive tax rate, right? When this man starts paying – as a percentage of income – what he has mandated every working person in this country pay, I’ll listen to him. Until then SCREW HIM and his God complex!