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Michelle Obama Agrees: Obesity Is ‘Absolutely’ a National Security Threat

Sep. 13, 2012 11:53am Madeleine Morgenstern

Michelle Obama to Dr. Oz: Obesity Is Absolutely a National Security Threat

First lady Michelle Obama plays with children as part of her "Let's Move - London" event in London on July 27, 2012, hours before the official start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Getty Images)

First lady Michelle Obama this week repeated her assertion that obesity is a national security threat, telling daytime television host Dr. Oz that obesity is the No. 1 reason holding young people back from joining the military.

“From my perspective, the number one greatest national security threat that we have is obesity,” Oz asked the first lady in an interview broadcast Wednesday. “Do you ever think about it that way?”

“Well absolutely,” Obama replied. “Shocking information, I do a lot of work with military families, and spend a lot of time on military bases and the the number one thing that prevents young people from the ages of 17 to 24 qualifying for the military is obesity.”

She continued, “the military is taking this very seriously and they’ve implemented some really fascinating and successful programs, so they have found that they’ve got to do a whole lot of re-educating in the military just to get soldiers ready for combat. So yes, it is absolutely a security issue for our country.”

The first lady, who has made tackling childhood obesity one of her signature issues, made similar remarks in December 2010 when she said military leaders have said “more than one in four young people are unqualified for military service because of their weight.”

“Childhood obesity isn’t just a public health issue, it’s not just an economic threat, it’s a national security threat as well,” she said in 2010.

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Lordcsmith
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:15pm
Glad she cleared that up. I didn’t know it was fat people that yanked our Ambassador out of a car and stormed our embassies.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:29pm
  Is obesity her pet name for Barry?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:44pm
  Hey, Michelle. How we as individuals choose to eat is not of you damned business. Spend your effort controlling your husband, you have nothing to say that I have to listen to or follow. In short, go to hell, your arrogant bint.
  
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- ErinLindsey
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:48pm
  someone tell Michelle Antoinette to st fu. Her lobster is getting cold.
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:52pm
  Ok Michele , then explain to me why people who weigh 350 pounds are on foodstamps …………….why ?????????
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:57pm
  If voting for the GOP is the “path to prosperity”, why are the most GOP leaning states the fattest, the poorest and most un-educated? Not only that, with the exception of Texas, the GOP leaning states take more out of the federal treasury than they put into it.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:19pm
  I was confused too. I was thinking our weak leader bowing and apologizing to the rest of the world was our security threat.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:20pm
  Whineydude, you can spout MSNBC talking points all you want, but that doesn’t make anything you just posted anywhere near true.
  
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- lovenfl3
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:28pm
  And we all know what a huge supporter of the US military that this family is (he says rolling his eyes so hard it hurts). So don’t worry about the $16 trillion dollar debt, or the terrorists killing our officials overseas, or that her husband is destroying this economy, just eat less and we’ll all live happily ever after. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGYIgfdEA-M
  
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- CMDR6
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Sorry Ma’am, with all due respect, you are dummer than dirt. With Christian love I ask you to refrain from talking for the next 3 1/2 months as no one wants to hear this bull crap.
  FYI- Brits did a study on tankers (those that serve in military tank corps) and locked an overweight guy and a very fit guy into a tank to simulate having to live in the tank during a nuclear fallout situation. The fat guy did fine, the fit guy went bonkers…… oh well.
  Not saying fat is good, but it has its advantages sometimes
  
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- Leadthemtothelight
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Michelle Obama Agrees: Obesity Is ‘Absolutely’ a National Security Threat…..The national debt just hit 16 trillion plus and obesity is a national security risk…………..hmmmmmm…….which is worse?
  
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- MetalPatriot
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Her and her husband’s treasonous policies, bureaucracy, & alliances are OUR nation’s number one security threat.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:21pm
  @Detroit paperboy
  “then explain to me why people who weigh 350 pounds are on foodstamps”
  1) The cheap food is often the unhealthiest.
  2) Food deserts (google it)
  
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- acidovorax
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:48pm
  “1) The cheap food is often the unhealthiest.”
  
  SOME cheap food is higher in fat and sugar (“unhealthy” is a loaded term), while SOME cheap food is not. The former tends to taste better, but it is the choice of the individual.
  
  “2) Food deserts (google it)”
  
  Bogus idea that has been refuted. http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/18/nyt-food-deserts-are-not-real-also-we-ca
  
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- AzThunder
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:02pm
  @GONZO “Is obesity her pet name for Barry?”
  
  No, I think I’ve heard her call barry “Little Sheet Head”
  
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- standuppeople
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:13pm
  @VANCEUPPERCUT 2) Food desserts (gobble it)
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:33pm
  @Ghost,
  
  You are very concise: “In short, go to hell”…..lol.
  
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- db321
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 10:02pm
  Next she is going to make all of us ware an Air Bag in our **** like she does.
  
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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:01am
  OHHH!!! Now I get it! Now I understand it was obesity that knocked down the Twin towers! (After all… the planes did weigh several tons!) Blame it on Bush!
  
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- USACommoner
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 9:54am
  OMG DB! I laughed so hard at your comment! Just what I needed on a Friday. Thx.
  
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- Wayner
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:52pm
  Does she get advice from Lawrence O’Donald and the rest of the zaney crowd from MSNBC? I’m referring to remarks such as golf is a racist snub suggesting Obama chases cocktail waitresses or that mentioning a government check is a racial statement aimed at blacks. So a 2 liter Coke is as dangerous as a suicide vest.
  
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- The Jewish Avenger
  Posted on September 17, 2012 at 10:29am
  She’s just scared that 75% of time a person who weighs more has a fighting advantage… so once they ban knives, then the guns, then the blunt or threatening looking objects, now they have to make sure everyone is too thin, weak and sick so they can fight back.
  
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huey6367
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:13pm
Moochelle is a threat to national security.

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- ksue
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:46pm
  That was my thought exactly!
  
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- smudgercat17
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:29pm
  Actually, I have always been of the opinion that SHE was a threat to our national security.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:46pm
  If this were anybody else’s wife, Saturday Night Live would have had their husband laughed out of office by now. Don’t even get me started on Joe Biden.
  
  And I do mean to use superlatives there.
  
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- acidovorax
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:50pm
  “National security” is the latest catch all phrase used by the State to justify any and all expansions of power. Whenever I hear it being uttered by some politician, I know he/she is lying. Then again, if they are speaking, I know they are lying.
  
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- MistieRoze
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:59pm
  Winedude you are a typical Dim-o-cat. Repeat what Obutts says without any facts. Back up your statement with facts. Oh, I am a registered Democrat and I am leaving the party because of Dims like you and the Obutts. There she sits on TV, looking like hell, talking about Obsity while she appeared in a photo op at Arlington Cemetery with a dress that showd a huge expanse across her hindy.Did you see her at the Olympics with the white pants doing a wedging up her Dim-o-crat fat asshat? The Obutts are the problem with our national security. MooCow uses the military to recruit trained military personnel for Obutt’s civil army. Don’t be naive to think that the Obutts care about our military families or about the security of the United States.
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:36pm
  I don’t know if Moochelle is, but I’m pretty sure her appetite is!
  
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Simpleman78
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:11pm
If obesity is a national security threat the MO is sitting on a weapon of mass destruction!

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- huey6367
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:18pm
  a$$ destruction
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:22pm
  I’d like to hear her elaborate on that statement, this is laughable
  
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- sawbuck
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:42pm
  She’s one big bean burrito away from melting the polar ice caps.
  with that big bottom. lol
  
  All kidding aside.
  With everything coming to a head ,I look for grocery prices to
  skyrocketing along with everything else, do to the devaluation
  of the dollar .I believe shades of the Weimar Republic is rapidly
  approaching this country. When hyperinflation kicks . I think the
  last problem anyone will be worried about is being overweight
  . In fact it might not be a bad idea to put on a couple extra pounds
  to Pre-empt the coming chaos .
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:42pm
  I love how they go around saying that our kids have an obesity problem but then turn right around and say they are starving and need more food stamps. Does anyone else see the irony in that?
  
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- Aaronicus
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:29pm
  That was hilarious!
  
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- MistieRoze
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:48pm
  Absolutely humorous!!! Love it!!!
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:10pm
  Maybe Israel should bomb it
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:45pm
  “You do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale,” – Barack Obama, May 5th 2011, Cinco de Mayo reception in the East Room, White House.
  
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flsnipe
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:11pm
Am I dreaming? This shxt is out of controll. I was behind a fat A$$ welfair rat at he grocery store she only had soda chips and hostes cakes lets reform what the welfair rats can buy and leave us independent consumers alone.

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- loriann12
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:36pm
  I totally agree. If you want government assistance, they should be able to tell you what to eat. you want to eat what you want? Get a job and make your own money. What I eat does not affect the government, as I’m not on Medicaid. But all these Welfare Queens, black and white, don’t care, and stuff their faces with junk, while I want healthy food and can’t afford it.
  
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- BryanB
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:37pm
  @flsnipe
  
  How do you know that person was on “welfair” ?????
  
  Food Stamp recipients only get $ 125.00 a month, and thats only if there is at least 5 people in their family living in the home.
  
  A single person on Food Stamps will receive $15.00 a month.
  
  Not a lot of money to get fat on………..
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:43pm
  @Lorain,
  
  There it is. That’s the “in”. You’re on gov’t assistance then they should be able to tell you what to eat right? What happens when we are ALL on government assistance through Romneycare/Obamacare? Does that extend to ALL of us? The progressives LOVE that you say that. You’re disgust at the welfare queen simply opens the door to total government control.
  
  The problem isn’t controlling what is in her cart. The problem is that we are paying for it. You take away the mechanism then the control can’t occur.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:47pm
  BryanB,
  
  That is not true. Took 30 seconds to go to USDA website. Average monthly benefit per person is 133.85.
  
  http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/SNAPsummary.htm
  
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- BryanB
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:57pm
  @Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  
  I don’t care what the USDA tells you.
  
  I get Food Stamps, their are 5 people in my home and I get $125.00 a month.
  
  Don’t ever believe the government web-sites………
  
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- acidovorax
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 5:53pm
  ROTH wrote: “There it is. That’s the “in”. You‘re on gov’t assistance then they should be able to tell you what to eat right? What happens when we are ALL on government assistance through Romneycare/Obamacare? Does that extend to ALL of us? The progressives LOVE that you say that. You’re disgust at the welfare queen simply opens the door to total government control.
  
  The problem isn’t controlling what is in her cart. The problem is that we are paying for it. You take away the mechanism then the control can’t occur.”
  
  ^^^THIS!!
  
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- amandapanda
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:37am
  Why is it that no one holds the men responsible for taking care of their children? Most women would not need government assistance if they received help from the fathers. I know this because MY mom received help when I was younger. No one says anything about the fathers… just how they want to punish the moms for staying with their children. We never had a lot of sweets or soft drinks, and we could never afford high-priced items such as steak.
  
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blackyb
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
Her **** is the wrong color to be a “ditzy” blonde. How did she make the grade?

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:09pm
Cut Food Stamps for ADULTS. Problem Solved!

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- grayling646
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Then the kids would starve.
  
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jimmy49
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:09pm
michelle needs to shut up! im sick of hearing her and that jerk off obama. they both need to move out of this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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- mtnhimike
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:13pm
  Agreed, Agreed, Agreed !!!
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 1:04pm
  Let’s not forget her next goal: tell us how to go grocery shopping!
  
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mersey
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:06pm
The real threat to national security is the stupidity in the Democratic Party. Our liberty is jeoparized by a people who are so uninformed and so apathetic to the current state of our nation.

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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:14pm
  Only an Obama would think Obesity is a national security threat and Islam is not.
  
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- stablepar
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:48pm
  mtcountrygirl…good call but don’t forget marxism. semper fi
  
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biohazard23
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:04pm
And if anyone should know all about being fat it’s Moochelle Antoinette. Pass the fries, the milkshakes, and the ribs pronto! Can’t keep Her Highness waiting, you miserable little peons.

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Flagwaver
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:03pm
Here I was thinking that the greatest threat to national security was the extremist Islamist jihadis or perhaps the open border that they are crossing… or both. Actually, the greatest threat to national security is the person who is doing nothing to protect our country… the President.

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- blackyb
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
  She must be hiding of those Islamists in her booty.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
  She just called herself a national security threat. She is an amazon which I am sure makes her obese by the standards the government uses. Time to throw the threat in jail.
  
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TexasCommonSense
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:02pm
No, Michelle, the Muslim Brotherhood is a security threat. You know, the ones your hubby invited to the White House for a meetin while denying to meet with Netanyahu.

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moreteaplease
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
“From my perspective, the number one greatest national security threat that we have is obesity,”
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Wrong again ol’ girl. The greatest threat to national security is your husband.

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- booger71
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Good call Curly
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:22pm
  Maybe we know what the hollowpoints are for now…fat people.
  
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- countryfirst
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:30pm
  You are so right but let’s not forget the population thought process that got him elected.
  
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GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
I think I need to get off the internet today. Things are getting crazier by the damned minute…………Michele thinks obesity is a national security threat and the Middle East isn’t? WTH?

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kevinthewriter
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
I could give 2 sharts what this woman says.

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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:40pm
  You should. Those words will stick.
  
  We didn’t get our police state overnight. It was the frog boiling in the pot. If we went from freedom to what we have today in one swoop there would have been riots. There’d have been civil war. But, we all sheepishly smile while the mouthbreather holds our brat and potatoes now.
  
  TODAY, obesity is a threat to national security. How long until the obese are a threat to national security? A year? 5 years? 10 years? Once people accept the premise, the extension of that thought is secondary. Why else would we all do nothing when the government tracks our purchases and facial recognition, etc. Somewhere earlier the seed was planted that SOMETHING must be done to keep us safe. We all accepted the SOMETHING premise and now ANYTHING is reasonable.
  
  This doesn’t end well. History shows that it never has.
  
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woodyee
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:01pm
Embassies are burning; personnel are dead and wounded…

But in the itty-bitty minds of the Leftists, the most important things are the bans on super-sized soft drinks in New Jacked City and being told that obesity is a national threat, absolutely, by a budunkadunk…
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Watcher1952
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:00pm
How can this be a National Security issue….. If a person does not have the personal integrity or drive to loose weight so they can join our military then why on earth do we think they would have the drive to excell in todays Military. Michelle Hussein Obama is just as much a bafoon as her Muslim loving husband.

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Cabo King
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:00pm
Isn’t she just beautiful??? i have the sudden urge for a banana

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- Little Johnny
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:43pm
  Would you describe yourself as a kind and loving Christian?
  
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MrButcher
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:59am
Obesity is storming our embassies.

Obesity is making us bankrupt.

Obesity is eating our constitution.
——————

Ugh, the cognitive dissonance!

We are ruled by idiots!

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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:00pm
  We have a nation of idiots willing to elect these idiots.
  
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- smudgercat17
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:32pm
  Part of the problem is too many people are listening to this IRREVELANT bink and buying what she’s selling. Would somebody PLEASE tell Michelle no one gives a rat’s whatever what she thinks?
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:59am
“National Security” is just a phrase they toss around to feed people with as much as politicians campaign on “No new taxes.” What they really mean is “Personal security”, just not your personal security.

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70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:59am
Its the OBowMaos and progressive commie friends how are Americas number One security threat.
TEA PARTY UNTOUCHABLES!!!!!!!!!!

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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:29pm
  @70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
  
  Hey, why don’t you and the rest of your Tea Party friends go and bring the nation you claim to love to the brink of economic collapse again by threatening not to raise the debt limit–which, contrary to the beliefs of uninformed idiots everywhere, does not give the Federal government permission to take on more debt, but rather gives them permission to pay for debts already incurred. Not raising the debt limit is like going into a nice restaurant, racking up an $80 bill, and then telling the manager that you’re only going to pay $50–and that’s what the Tea Partiers were trying to do. Not too smart, me thinks.
U.N.hater
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:59am
I agree mooochelle you and your FAT A$$! are a national threat!

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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:24pm
  @U.N.hater
  At least Michelle Obama never killed an ex-boyfriend in a car “accident”.
jayster
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:58am
She needs to work on her weight first.

Just saying.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:58am
Moochelle, look behind you, there is a great big security threat in your pants.

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DimmuBorgir
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:56am
Um… There are plenty of fat kids that join the military and come out in great shape.

These people have no idea what they are talking about

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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:23pm
  Perhaps you are the one who doesn’t know what they are talking about:
  “U.S. military-age youth are increasingly unfit to serve — mostly because they’re in such lousy shape.”
  http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/11/military_unfityouths_recruiting_110309w/
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:55am
Oh come Michelle say what you really mean: Freedom is a National Security threat.

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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:17pm
  If only we had flooded the muslim world with 44 oz. Mt. Dews several years ago, by now the diaper headed douche bags would have been to fat to storm the embassies.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 12:33pm
  Edit note: to = too
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 2:00pm
  so are they gonna put fat people in concentration camps or gulags now?
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 4:30pm
  @Individualism
  Yes, that’s exactly what they’re gonna do. No one can get anything by you.
  
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