Congressman Regrets First Lady Weight Remarks

The Congressman has a point.

Ah, but we must be politically correct, mustn’t we? And so an apology is in order. Of course, no one will point out that Sensenbrenner’s primary point was not about MOo’s posterior but rather her hypocrisy. Maybe calling someone “hypocritical” is racist. Must as Holder about that.

wow…she may have a big booty but he’s obese everywhere!

Republicans just can’t keep from playing the race card, and then when caught, give a conditional apology i.e. say that he doesn’t thing the government should be telling people what to eat. Well, I bet he regrets the remark – not that it offended the First Lady, rather that it hurts his political future.,
Jim Oss
Wa Keeney, Kansas

Those Richpublicans just won’t stop!

Republicans are IDIOTS!

The comments in support of such a rude and disrespectful comment are amazing? So parents shouldn’t teach their kids not to lie, steal, eat healthy, speak kindly, get good grades etc. unless they have only been perfect in doing all of the above? I am not an Obama fan, but our country is bankrupt in part because of our health care costs – which are directly affected by our poor eating habits. She is working to teach good eating habits…not to demand that no one ever have a treat. The one who made the comment will pay the price, and he should.

The First Lady is trying to support a healthier attitude towards eating in a country where an astounding amount of Americans are obese. Her backside is as beautiful as the rest of her, and his comment was a mistake in judgement… the fact that he thinks her backside is big should be a wakeup call for WI women, a great majority of which undoubtedly have a larger “posterior” than Michelle Obama. The fact that she splurges on a shake here and there is healthy and absolutely normal. It is another reminder to do everything in moderation, an extremely healthy view on dieting!

sometimes body types are genetic…Mrs. Obama’s backside could remain the size it is even if she chose to live on carrots and lettuce. I think she looks healthy.

Hey, republicans. Again and again you keep making posteriors of yourselves.

The congressman’s comment wasn’t necessary.

I’m against personal attacks of anyone …as to Sarah Palin she paraded her pregnant daughter in the media so what did she expect when people made comments? She made a real issue of it and quit as governor to go on tour making millions. As to her looks if anyone had made fun of her I would be outraged also. As to Michelle Bauchman I know people were making fun of her eyes saying she looked wild looking. Uncalled for. People who make fun of others looks should look in the mirror. It’s not right and I don’t care who it is.

Does anyone ever think that maybe if after he was elected, if all of Congress had sat down with him and truly tried to fix things, we would be in much better shape?
Posted by: Barb | December 22, 2011, 10:11 am 10:11 am

They tried that. Obama looked at the Republicans and said, “Elections have consequences. I won.” He never had any intention of working WITH Republicans. When he doesn’t get his way on something, he starts demonizing, and hits the airways. Today is no exception.

Wheresmymoney: That is not true. He wanted to sit down from day one…and from day one the GOP said NO NO NO…as they are still doing! I’m so tired of the politics…and that’s what it is…people will vote by party or by one single issue ie if a candidate is against gay marriage they will vote for him, never mind if he is pro war, pro guns and pro taxes. People have gotten hateful and our country is going downhill…it’s their way or no way. This president brought the troops home from Iraq where we never should have gone in the first place and cost us billions. Remember “mission accomplished”? He got Osama and some people keep saying the seals got him…they do not want to give this president credit even when he deserves it. But if for some reason the seals had failed they would have blamed the president. It’s unreal and I’m done going back and forth on these boards…I don’t get on as often..it’s tiring and a waste of time. All I know is I will never vote GOP. I’m done.

Some women (blacks, Brazilians) have big behinds even if they are not obese and Mrs. Obama is NOT obese. It just seems perverted for him to mention that part of her anatomy. Plus he has a turkey neck.

I can’t believe the remark that was made about the First Lady body… when the person that made the remark have a body that support the reason why its important to do something about the way we eat here in America… There was no real reason for a remark like that about the First Lady.. especially when the person that made it is living a unhealthy life in the way of taking care of his on body health.. or is it jealousy because the fact that the President Of The United State have a First Lady that is smart and beautifully sexy to wake up to every morning.. wonder how pleasing looking that Jim Sensenbrenner wife is body type is or is it a shadow of what his body is and that First Lady Michelle Obama is the shadow of what he wish he had to wake up to in the morning, and if he don’t have anyone to wake up to in the morning then he really need to get with the Anti-Obesity Program himself and stop being a ass himself

Now he can be the butt of our jokes for a while. Ironic justice.

Barb…The GOP could say very little at least very little that mattered in the first two years Obama was President because the Democrats had control of both the House and the Senate. The GOP couldn’t have blocked a cool breeze during the first two years Obama was President so I question the validity of your point. Second, just because Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid wouldn’t allow legislation out of committee doesn’t mean the GOP wasn’t submitting ideas of their own. The media has played up the whole “Party of NO” and obviously you have bought into it hook-line-and-sinker. The GOP has submitted numerous bills that offered another way forward. However, the obstructionists were Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. I’m not saying everything the GOP has done is without criticism, far from it, but they are hardly the devil incarnate; just as I don’t subscribe to Obama being the worst President ever. He is simply a typical Democrat politician. You talk about the GOP as party above all else on the issues but aren’t you making the same choice by declaring to never vote GOP. If a Democrat came forward that was for limited government, fiscal constraint, and individual rights above the collective then I would certainly consider casting my vote for them but that is not the case. I choose to vote for what I believe is best for the country according to how I was brought up rather than simply voting for a Party.

Wheresmymoney: That is not true. He wanted to sit down from day one…and from day one the GOP said NO NO NO…
Posted by: Barb | December 22, 2011, 10:41 am 10:41 am

Google it instead of spouting off about things you know nothing about. Here is one report:

Eric Cantor went to the White house on day three of President Obama’s presidency. At the time, Obama and Democrats had total control of the White House, Senate and House. Cantor tried to share ideas with President Obama for stimulating the economy and creating jobs. When Cantor pushed for small business tax-cuts, President Obama said,

“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.”

The remainder of your 10:11was so absurd I elected not to comment on it. Older relative (Ha), You make up fake people just like Obama. Remember the “unemployed” man he paraded out at the WH who was really EMPLOYED? Throwing out the race card is really old. Get some FACTS instead of spewing your opinions as if they are the truth.

All black women have curvy bodies, just one of our many blessings. The posterior that the congressman is complaining about is the same posterior that many women are paying plastic surgeons a lot of money to get.

My point exactly! Posters telling me to get my facts straight, etc. And I’m making up the story about an older relative? Sorry I do not lie! Enough. As I said I will never vote GOP because over and over again they show their true colors. And yes some Dems are also bad, so I will not vote for a Dem just because he or she is a Dem…I will not vote for them if they are no good…perhaps I’ll vote Independent but never GOP. You can believe whatever you want and you are entitled to your opinion as am I. Hope everyone has a good holiday (can’t say Merry Christmas because it’s politically incorrect! another ridiculous thing)..so Merry Christmas everyone! :–)

Michelle Obama is the thinnest first lady the U.S. has in decades. She is physically fit and well within her weight range for height. If she were a size 0, I’m sure she would be accused of promoting an anorexic lifestyle. If the woman said breathing was good for you, there would be some idiot yelling, “Don’t tell me what to do!” The bottom line is obesity is a problem in America and if we love ourselves and our children, we will promote a healthy lifestyle.

Looks like he is against anything healthy. Hate and selfishness is what is holding the government down. That’s. Why countries like China are coming up, they just sit back and watch our government destroy each other.

I wouldn’t have a response to this BS either if I were the First Lady (classy way to go). She probably does eat healthy, and she works out. One cannot, however, change his or her body type. Some women naturally have curves, and that remark just makes Jim sound like pig.

How pathetic! This pudgy example of a heart-attack at work is throwing slurs? Look in the mirror Jim. Your arse isn’t anything to brag about.

I recently became a father of a teenager. talking to him, reminds me of trying to reason with a conservative–No connection to reality or the subject matter. One, Michel Obama never told us what to eat, just encouraged us–no mandate. She also never said, never eat what we consider junk. She just advocated moderation in everything. As a christian I find that refreshing. She is living that out. Do you see any contradiction there? On the other hand, those guys who really want to tell us about values and acting like jerks–the pharisees; those are the Republicans. Hypocrites!

NRO reports: “Today, Speaker Boehner called President Obama to discuss the Speaker’s desire to provide a full year of tax relief for American families before December 31st. With Senator Reid having declined to call his Members back to Washington this week to join the House in negotiating a full-year extension of the payroll tax cut, the Speaker proposed that the President send members of his economic policy team up to Congress to find a way to accommodate the President’s full-year request. The Speaker reiterated that if their shared goal is a one-year bill, there is no reason an agreement cannot be reached before year’s end. The President declined the Speaker’s offer.”

There is something to be said for the manners of people during the ’40s …….. were there ever unkind comments about the appearance of a First Lady? Why are we so fixated with appearance? This generation of Americans are certainly not the “Greatest Generation”, but the “Superficial Generation”. Just because I teach my children the difference between healthy eating and unhealthy eating, can we never stray once? It is all or nothing? Can I not be healthy and not 100% perfect in my appearance? He is simply rude ……… people do not need to say everything they think.

The congressman that said this is very obese and pretty much disgusting. I find that funny. Why fat men think they don’t have to be held to the same standards is beyond me. She looks like somebody starving next to him. Her body is due to genes. His is due to being a pig. Regardless, there is a complete lack of respect for the First Lady all of the sudden, and it’s ugly.

Michelle Obama is a beautiful , smart, strong woman. If you want to see skinny, wasted looking women, go to a fashion show.

People who say the First Lady is “fat” are hateful LIARS.

Our First Lady is a VERY healthy and healthy-looking American woman. Just because she’s healthy-looking instead of pencil-thin, it doesn’t make her fat.

The TRUTH here is that many of our elected officials, notable among them Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, are shameless shills for the junk food industry. Sensenbrenner was a cosponsor of H.R. 339, a bill shielding the fast food industry from liability for the health effects of its food and beverages and failure to disclose those effects. That’s why he’s insulting our First Lady, whose only crime is working hard to end childhood obesity in America.

He should get his own MASSIVELY fat ass out of any discussion of responsible nutrition, since he’s obviously opposed to it.

one big difference for Jim, He does not tell people what to eat like Obam does. Just look at the changes in school lunch’s since Obama took office. What we eat is none of their business. Some things should be left up to the states to decide on, Not Michelle or Oprah.

___”Ah, but we must be politically correct, mustn’t we? And so an apology is in order. Of course, no one will point out that Sensenbrenner’s primary point was not about MOo’s posterior but rather her hypocrisy. Maybe calling someone “hypocritical” is racist. Must as Holder about that.”
POSTED BY: CREEPER | DECEMBER 22, 2011, 9:35 AM 9:35 AM________________________Your post is laughable. It shows you have a brain just like the congressman in question. Talking about “hypocrisy,” who is the guilty party here? Is it the fat boy who secretly looks at another person’s wife butt and making comments about it? Maybe, if the congressman had taken a look at himself in the mirror, he might have been too ashamed to make such comments. And for one thing, Michelle Obama is not fat or obese. The congressman is the one who looks fat, and I bet you with that size of a body, his posterior end is larger than anybody else’s. Go figure.

___”I have a large butt. But I tell my kids to healthy foods. I am not a hypocrite. I recognize that I have a problem and would rather my kids not suffer the same. Would you Obama haters just give it a break for one day?

POSTED BY: TOM | DECEMBER 22, 2011, 10:05 AM 10:05 AM_____________TOM, having a large butt is not a health problem. Many healthy people have large buttocks. That extra flesh in the rear end was put there by nature as a cushion for us to sit.

Sexism is alive and well. The comments by the congressman is loaded with racism. The man should be ashamed of himself

It’s because Republicans DO care about people that they want to make Obama a 1 term president. And seriously, enough with the “they only care about the rich” stupidity.
Of the top 1% of earners in this country 90% donated to Obama’s campaign. The rich are OVERWHELMINGLY democrat. But that means absolutely nothing to you sheep. You’ll all excuse it away and stick to what you are told.
The democrats did many surveys and they know this is what works, so they just say it. Truth be damned.
But it’s not class warfare. Baaaaaaaaaaa.

Republicans only care about 1% of the population, they want everyone else to die, they are heartless, they are racist, they hate children…blah blah. Is that why they win elections? Good lord…THINK people. Remember that? Try and just think for once.
We bring up the economy…we are stupid.
We bring up unemployment…we are racist.
Insult, insult, insult…it’s been their strategy for 100 years. Some of you must still have some sense. I’m not telling you how to vote, I’m just saying THINK about these things. Good grief.

the “congressman” is a sexist, racist, ignorant embarrassment to Americans. he embodies so much of what is wrong with our U.S. culture. unbelievable but sadly true.

Just love it. Not one of you bashing this man for telling this in a private conversation have not done the same thing yourself. Not a single one of you including myself. I hope someday when you are saying something that you might not want to be told you have someone listening to your conversation.When Obama made his comments about the Israeli because he was to stupid to turn off the mike you all took up for him. Where is the love you showed Obama for his mistake, and why bash Jim? Both made comments in private and both got leaked to the ones they were talking about.

Nothing is as embarrassing and disdainful as a man picking a fight with a woman.

Private conversation? You’re yelling on a phone in a bar and it’s a private conversation? lol The entire story reads like he wanted people to hear him.

___”Just love it. Not one of you bashing this man for telling this in a private conversation have not done the same thing yourself.”
POSTED BY: SPECIALTY57 | DECEMBER 22, 2011, 1:07 PM 1:07 PM____________LOL! If he said it in private, how did it get on the Internet?

The congressman says the First Lady is telling people how to live their lives. Isn’t is fascinating that the congressman and his “pro life” fanatics are the ones telling women what to do with their bodies?

I don’t care what size her “posterior” is…she’s a beautiful woman who has done a great thing by starting the discussion about eating healthier. My kids aren’t obese but they have been more interested in different foods since seeing her on the Disney Channel talking about healthy choices. I can say that she has done more for the children of our country this term than Barbara Bush did…I don’t even know what causes she supported! Just sayin’! Obama 2012!!!!

I was curious…so I looked it up:
Barbara Bush: Literacy (I’m an 80′s child and didn’t know that)
Hillary Clinton: National Health Care Reform (Still not reformed)
Laura Bush: Education

While I know these are noble causes I think Michelle Obama picked the right cause at the right time. I hope our future generation shows how important it is! :)

LLADY, the fact is he was having a conversation on his phone. Weather or not he wanted it public we will never know. Would you say Obama and the French president wanted their conversation heard? I have my doubts especially with the strained relations we have lately with Israel.

Rep. Sensenbrenner’s comment was illogical. Mrs. Obama is not overweight for her height, she has a healthy BMI number and she exercises daily. It is obvious that some women are curvy, no matter their weight. Republicans try to make her encouragement to children, parents and food companies to eat healthier as some kind of mandate, but they are lying.
We should all be concerned about the rising obesity and diabetic levels of our children and adults, as they cause terrible suffering, physical limitations and early death, not to mention the financial strain on families.
Too many Republicans are taking big donations from food conglomerates who are profiting from selling sub-standard food and want to continue that practice, despite the harm it is doing.

Dabu, your comment made me laugh! I have right-wing relatives who argue the same way some teens do… short on logic and facts but lots of emotional appeals.

Her posterior is NOT large and it was totally rude. She is about teaching kids to be healthy and active and has said there is nothing wrong with an occasional “bad” food. She isnt forcing anyone, just promoting the healthier lifestyle. Anyone who calls “hypocrite” needs to get a brain check.
With that said, no one is criticizing the NFL for their “play 60″ campaign, which also promotes healthy kids.

Lets face it. She’s the ugliest first lady we have EVER had. She looks like she shops at Wal-Mart. In fact, there are photos of her on the Internet there. She is a National Disgrace. Looks like she fell out of a tree. Hey, truth hurts, I know. But she was never proud of her country anyway. Her old man is from Kenya……..check out the ears. Anyone who thinks she is NOT FAT…..must be a fatty herself.
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Specialty57, why is it that you always bring up a totally unrelated issue when an article is about something a Repub did? Rather than saying “Yeah, Sensenbrenner blew it” it is your MO to reply with “Well, but some dem did it once tooooo…how come we’re not talking about thaaaat?” We’re not talking about “that” because *this* article is about what Sensenbrenner did.

You don’t have to have a perfect body in order to promote healthy eating. The First Lady is not “the government” and she is only encouraging people to eat healthy food. There is no legislation on the docket that enforces any type of eating. When Lady Bird Johnson encouraged people to plant trees, nobody argued that the government was trying to tell people how to landscape their yards. When Barbara Bush encouraged people to read, nobody argued that the government was telling people what to do with their free time. If the senator from Wisconsin has nothing better to do than criticize the First Lady, then maybe Wisconsin voters should elect someone else next time. They are already in the process of recalling their governor. Tsk…

“Specialty57, why is it that you always bring up a totally unrelated issue when an article…”

Because there is nothing else. Specialty represents your typical Right-Less. One who has little or no facts to debate about this President except what is posted on various extreme Right-Wing blogs. We are quite aware that he dislikes this President. Should you ask him “why,” nothing tangible is revealed other than the Right-Wing sound bites. If the conversation (if you can call it that) develops further he only becomes more and more hysterical with each posting. Towards the end he of such a reparte he charges that President Obama is a martian and has come to take over the USA. By then you realize that of which you deal with and assuming that a “white jacket” which is custom fit cannot be too far away from his seating.

MYTAKE – As I watch the crazy cult people of NK cry over the loss of “Dear Leader” I find myself thinking that is how the republicans are becoming compliments of Fox, talk radio, and basically all of this bogus brain washing going on anymore. Those that cry the loudest typically recycle bogus talking points that were debunked years ago. They aren’t interested in any facts any more.

I think the President should defend his wife and deck Sensenbrenner. Why wouldn’t it be justified?

“MYTAKE, besides, I can give you a whole bunch of facts. Most of them are “historical” like three years of record fuel prices,food, commodities, hungry people, and foreclosures. Need more facts, I have a lot of them but I am sure you have read them in the paper so no need to bring them up again is it?”

(dear readers, please take note of the hysteria beginning to set in) Uhm… yes Specialty, please provide us with more facts and please specify how the President’s policies have directly contributed to these events. Yep! I read the papers but I’m sincerely interested in your perceptions (ought be good) and conclusions. I await anxiously…

MYTAKE, No need to justify anything to you. His policy has been from the start, got to have my way right now or the republicans are hypocrites ,haters and the party of NO. Slammed through a stimulus nobody read and as you can see it did not work out well. Slammed through a half a– HC bill Pelosi said”pass it now and see what is in it latter”. The classes seem to be divided . That was planned though. Take from the ones that made it and give it to the ones that never tried. I am sure you were one of the ones that blamed Bush for high fuel prices, do you hold Obama responsible for record high fuel prices this year, record foreclosures, record food prices, commodities, the number of hungry people etc? His jobs approach of throwing money at it did not work. Now he wants more to put on another band aid. His foreclosure policies did not work. Inflation has started to move in from all the reckless spending, although he was warned, he said that would not happen. Bought a gallon of milk lately? Reagan never blamed Carter for his mess, but obama has been in almost three years and nothing is his fault is it. Just when is Obama supposed to take responsibility? Today, tomorrow, or never? Goodnight.

It may have been insensitive, but it’s not like he went to the media to say this, put out a press release or anything of the sort. He was having a private conversation. Perhaps the evesdropping reporter is the one at fault for reporting on this to begin with – after all, a congressman’s thought’s about the first lady’s butt is not really news.

“MYTAKE, No need to justify anything to you….”

…and thanks for playing Specialty! There will be lovely parting gifts at the door!!! Just heretical ranting…. Where were the market indices when he came in? Where are they now? What was the GDP when he came in? Where is it now? Where were retail sales when he came in? They’re doing gang buster numbers now? What was the job loss situation when he came in? What is it now? What was the state of the banking and auto industry when he came in? What is it now?

Has it all been rosy? Has everything worked? Nope! but it sure is a heck of a lot better!!!

“It shouldn’t matter that Michelle Obama has a big butt, and is not too hot. Many women of color often have big butts, and yet they can still be valuable hunan beings. don’t be so SEXIST!!!!!”
Posted by: LexingtonLady
Absolutely, and bravo! Let me add that as an older gay man, I will still be voting for Obama no matter what. None of these silly controversies dissuade me at all.

It takes a big “backside” … to know a big backside.

OH, WHO CARES! SO MICHELE CAN’T TAKE A LITTLE CRITICISM! LOL. GIVE ME A BREAK. HE DOESN’T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE!

So, she going to tell us (dictate to us) what kinds of foods our kids should eat at school, to be “healthy”, lol, and yet she can’t even manage her own weight and plentiful backside? Odd.

Whatever happened to “freedom of speech?”

“Republicans just can’t keep from playing the race card,….”—–How was that a “race card”? I guess the poster couldn’t help himself–always about race. Yes, it was a silly remark and he forgot that nothing–I mean nothing–can be said about the Obama w/o being racial. The MSM didn’t hesitate to print criticism about Nancy Reagan and other first ladies but Mrs. Obama is off limits to ANY criticism. Irishrose, there is no freedom of speech with the Obamas. After all, MSM compared her to Jackie Kennedy–NOT!

Michelle Obama is a cow, so what the guy has the audacity to speak the truth within friend at the airport, shame on him has he not received the notice this is now Obama’s USSA, you can no longer speak freely! Lucky Obama is not sending him to a FEMA camp.

My question is why is he looking at her backside. Must have seen something he liked. And to all of who have nothing better to do than criticize her and make ugly remarks-
The problem is you are not happy with yourselves. You see something in her that you wish you had. You would probably kill to have her grace and poise and the body that you say is fat. Get a life

No, Donna — the congressman just told the simple and obvious truth. LOL, ” a full bumper”, right. Nifty euphemism for a big butt. But it is a free country (mostly) , so you are free to pretend she “looks beautiful”, but please don’t expect the rest of us with more honesty and better vision to play along with the spin.

The man can say what he wants to about Mitch if he is fat BECAUSE HE ISN’T TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY SHOULD EAT AND WHAT THEY SHOULD FEED THEIR CHILDREN. DUH!!! The people screaming about the GOP don’t seem to be smart enough to realize her remarks are not political; it is just another way Obama wants to take away personal freedom form Americans. And no, I’m not a right wing crazy.