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Group: Michelle Obama Turning Fat Kids Into Bullying Targets With ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign

Is first lady Michelle Obama turning obese children into targets for bullies?

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance Group: Michelle Obama Turning Fat Kids Into Bullying Targets With Lets Move Campaign

The National Association to Advance Fat People Acceptance charged Monday that first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign makes overweight children a target for bullies. (AP File Photo)

The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, an organization “dedicated to ending size discrimination,” says yes.

According to CNS News, the group has charged that Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign — aimed at tackling childhood obesity — “singles out” heavy children and gives “permission to everyone to condemn them” for their size.

Peggy Howell, the group’s spokeswoman, said the “well-intentioned but somewhat misdirected” campaign focuses too much on the bodies of heavier children rather than encouraging healthy practices for all.

“When children of higher body weight hear we have to wipe out childhood obesity in one generation, for them, those words translate into ‘we have to eliminate obese children,’” Howell said. “They hear ‘thin equals good, and fat equals bad.‘ They hear ’your body is bad.’”

Watch the video, via CNS News:

In the case of bullies who target overweight children, “the perpetrators feel justified in their actions because after all, the first lady said these kids have to go,” Howell said.

“I believe it was not the intention of the first lady to cause more pain and suffering for these children, but I believe it is also one of the consequences of focusing on reducing body size as opposed to improving health,” Howell said.

Howell’s comments come as the organization is trying to encourage lawmakers to add legal protection for heavier or shorter children to a proposed anti-bullying bill.

The Safe Schools Improvement Act, introduced by Sens. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) in March, would require schools and districts that receive designated federal funding to adopt codes of conduct that specifically prohibit bullying and harassment. As it currently stands, the bill would protect children from bullying based on their race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion, according to a statement from Casey’s office earlier this year.

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  • MollyTheWhiteWolf
    Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:29am

    This is ridiculous! No one should be bullied…PERIOD! Punish ALL bullying. I don’t care why. No group should have special immunity.
    As a person who was bullied Pre-K through 12 (and beyond, but by then, it just not called bullying anymore), I know how it feels. First they pick on you for one reason. Once you build an immunity to that, they’ll just move on to a different issue about you. It’s pointless! By making “protective classes” of the bullied kids, you might as well say, “I not okay that they picked on because of this, but they CAN bully you because of THAT.” Next thing you know, THAT is now a protective class. Keep it simple, stupid.
    And don’t think for a second that I support that b****-jackal, MO (Michelle Obama, **shudders** It make me sick just to say that name). She ****** me off everytime I just LOOK at her. If she had HER way, she’d probably say that every child in the U.S. (excluding her own, of course, because she’s a “good parent”) taken from their parents to be “raised correctly” by her Marxist friends.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 7:55am

      Agreed. I got picked on when I got glasses (4 eyes) got picked on when I got braces (tin grin, railroad tracks, etc.) got picked on because my mom teased my hair for picture day (called hairspray – this was the 70′s). they’ll find something. But this does encourage the bullying for being fat. I think it was intentional. Look at the way they fan the fires of class warfare, race baiting, etc. It’s one more class to cause tensions with. I wouldn‘t think that if she didn’t have her 1700 calorie lunches and the fact that she doesn’t practice what she preaches.

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    • MOLLYPITCHER
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:01am

      I agree with everything you said. If I found out that one of my kids were bullying another, they would get their butt warmed. I don’t know what exactly I would give them for a punishment beyond a spanking, but it would be one that they would not soon forget. There is no reason at all for bullying and no excuse. I think people need to love their kids enough to teach them not to bully in the first place. I was never bullied severely, and can only imagine how it feels. I’m sorry you went through that as a kid.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 10:00am

      In Obama’s second term, perhaps she can “pivot” from anti-childhood obesity to anti-bullying, so it will all even out in the end.

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    • valricoslash
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Mrs. Obama should practice what she preaches. First have you seen her butt? Not exactly small. A few weeks ago my family visted a “famous” ice cram parlor in Dania Beach Florid. The Obamas vistied there in 2009 and there was a newspaper article on the wall that detailed what they ate that day including: Chili dogs, followed by Philly Cheesesteak sandwhichs (”Even though we are not from Philidelphia.”) and fries, all washed down with 32 oz (only one size here folks) root beer floats, This whole meal was completed with huge ice cream sundays for desert. I estimate the meal at well over 4000 calories. And she is telling my grand kids what to eat? What a hypocrite. Additionally have you seen what BHO eats every chance he gets while on the campaign trail?

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 7:58pm

      By Keith Koffler, White House Dossier

      First Lady Michelle Obama over the last year has spent a total of 42 days on vacation, or a little more than one out of every nine days, according to a White House Dossier analysis of her travel.

      Her vacations, the cost of which are mostly borne by taxpayers, include trips to Panama City, Fla., Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii, South Africa, Latin America, Vail, Colo., and her visit this week to her brother in Corvallis, Ore.

      The total does not include a nine day sojourn in Martha’s Vineyard that the Obamas will enjoy this month. Nor does it include a trip she made to Ireland and Great Britain in May

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    • beadv0125
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:00am

      I agree with most of what you say. However, “that b****-jackal”, “She ****** me off everytime I just LOOK at her”, stereotyping her friends to be Marxist?….. Sounds like you may be a bully yourself.

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  • Multiple Arms
    Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:22am

    The First Sow should take her face out of the trough if she wants to lecture about fat kids.

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    • Jack2011
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:26am

      The First Sow
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      Excellent!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Jack2011
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:32am

      http://www.michellesmirror.com/

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:36am

      One good thing about this is that it will now be ‘politically correct’ to speak openly about those big ‘hams’ of the presidents wife……Chunky, cheeseburgar eating, rib scarfing, pork chop woofing, hypocritical porker that she is…………
      I wouldn’t normally talk about someone that way, but she deserves it!
      Instead of singling out overweight kids, I think I’ll keep singling her out…………..

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    • Windwalker
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Right after her husband takes his out……she needs to get her own house in order….like her POTUS husband seen in picture after picture chowing down on everything from humongous hamburgers and french fires to to chili dogs, ice cream and need I mention her own love for ribs…..in Colorado.

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  • angelcat
    Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:17am

    after teaching 4th and 5th grade for over 30 years, I can tell you that fat kids have always been teased and bullied. I can also tell you that, from my experience, all the emphasis on being overweight(Time for Kids, Scholastic, and other kid magazines have numerous articles on this and schools are being told to nag about it) will increase this as it draws even more attention to those who are overweight. I can remember the girls who dreaded the weigh and measure days with the school nurse, even though they were done privately and the results were not seen or heard by anyone else. I also can tell you that most of those same overweight kids when I saw them years later(I taught in the neighborhood in which I live) were no longer overweight. They lost the weight as they grew taller or watched what they ate more carefully as dating became an issue.

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    • Al Gore
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:21am

      Most bullies are fat, at least in elementary school. Let’s get cereal, people.

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    • MollyTheWhiteWolf
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:47am

      @ angelcat:
      No one should be teased or bullied…PERIOD. You might as well say, **sarcastically** “Well, geez. If you don’t like being bullied for being a nerd, you should just stop being a nerd!”
      Bullying is unacceptable, regardless of what they’re making fun of. I am a nerd, a band geek, a loner, and I’ve been raising (NOT breeding) pet mice since the fourth grade. These are just a FEW of the bullying topics that I’ve had to endure.
      Bullies are merely insecure losers who try to transfer their insecurities to you. It’s true that SOME people try to “fit in” (these children often lose their identities), but other suffer even more because they’re told to be themselves…but be like everyone else (so people will like them). These mixed messages often make the bullied kid even more isolated (case-in-point: my younger self). I’m 29 and, to this day, I’m still a social misfit because of the CRAP I still get from the bullies in the adult world. I refuse to change who I am to please someone else.
      If you think that it‘s okay for kids to be bullied because you think that it’ll encourage them to change, I would have hated to be one of your kids (and my family and I would have made sure that you whould have hated having me as a student).

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:03am

      Talk to my mother-in-law about weigh-ins being private. She has always been tall, and was a bit overweight as a kid. She said they used to yell her weight across the room to the person taking down the stats. Even though she was also much taller than her peers, she dreaded hearing that number.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:41am

      I agree with you, Angelcat. Two childhood friends of mine happened to be “big boned” with what I now know as dense bone structure. They, along with myself, were teased unmercifully, but it got worse when there were lectures about “healthy eating” and “weight control”.

      I think it’s kind of sad when kids are almost jailed for bringing candy bars to school as happened in Milford, CT or the BOE reduces the drinks to water or milk since fruit juice has naturally occurring sugar. After all, are these school students or prisoners? My mother worked in a high school cafeteria for over a decade and said that the days when most hot lunches were sold were pizza days. And this was in a very wealth community.

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    • Windwalker
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 5:18pm

      …..and now they have the endorsement from our first lady and the White House drawing everyones attention to their conditions (for whatever reason it may be) and endorsing “her” solutions to changing or curing it. Hey Michelle…stay out of my kitchen, my bedroom and my bathroom…..get busy cleaning your own.

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  • hoopla
    Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:08am

    As much as I disagree with her husband, I think what Michelle is doing is for the good of the children. Children in America are so absurdly obese and it shouldn’t be acceptable. If her program makes them a target for bullying, so be it. Change your eating habits kids and you won’t be bullied. Plain and simple.

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    • Al Gore
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:20am

      You can’t be cereal! You’re really blaming the kids? Bullsh*t!

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    • Keth30
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:24am

      Change your eating habits kids and you won’t be bullied? Should my son, who struggles with his weight because of a condition he has and medication he has to take, just mand up and take the bullying because his body is different? Do you think bullies differentiate between bad eating habits and medical problems? Perhaps you should rethink your callous disconcern for those who are not “perfect” in your eyes, and who you think deserve a little bullying to get them on track. Perhaps you should fix the ugly on the inside of your own soul and spirit and you might not be so obsessed with the fleshly aspect of other people’s lives. I hope you don’t have children that you are teaching this to. SHAME ON YOU!

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:43am

      @hoopla

      Change your attitude hoopla “and you won’t be bullied. Plain and simple”.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:07am

      Bullying needs to be addressed. My younger son is thin as a rail, but smart as a whip (top 1%) and he gets bullied because he’s smart. He uses words adults don‘t know the meaning of and he’s 12. If you let kids bully because someone is heavy, they’ll say eveyone is heavy. I told my son to tell the teacher 3 times he was being bullied, and the 4th time knock them to the ground and pound their faces in. He won‘t get in trouble because I’ll stand toe to toe with the schools and say they didn’t do anything about it, so my son took care of it.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 8:32am

      A lot of the obese kids are children from lower income famiiies who are not being fed at home. Our largest city in the state recently had a case where someone from the federal breakfast and lunch program caught a child (2nd grade) who was hiding food in his/her backpack to take home to younger siblings. And that child was not the only one doing it. Sadly, it’s not a lack of money in most cases, but an issue of parental neglect. Think I’m kidding? Look at the YouTube of Felonious Munk about “MommaB**ches”. I‘d have thought he was off the wall on that except for the fact that I’ve seen the “weekend” food packs distributed to students who might not be fed properly at home.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 10:01am

      It’s always been that way. When i was growing up, there were families on welfare driving Lincoln Continentals, and the kids didn’t have shoes. they didn’t buy good food with the food stamps (back when it was actual stamps) but junk food. If they’re too lazy to work, do you really think they’ll cook?

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    • thoseontheleftwillbecast
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Hitler also wanted perfect people didn’t he? It’s the parents job to raise the children. She should mind her own business. the Bible says bodily exercise profits nothing. God requires her to become Spiritual fit. Just shows she doesn’t know anything about God. We need the ten commandments back in the schools which is more important than the outward appearance. God looks on the heart. She better get hers cleaned up before she stands before God.

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    • beadv0125
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:07am

      I agree that we really need to do something about the obesity in this country, and I hate that everyone is so against what Michelle is doing, when really… childhood obesity is a very REAL problem that needs to be addressed. However, I don‘t think it’s the children’s fault at all. I think we need to educate parents on how to ensure that their children have a healthy lifestyle. And of course, excessive weight isn’t the only thing kids get bullied for.. I was teased for being too skinny when I was younger and others get bullied for being “nerds”. Bullying is a whole other issue that we need to get to. I see where you’re coming from, but it really isn’t as “plain and simple” as you say.

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    • Erix
      Posted on August 14, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Actually, the Bible states that “Bodily training is beneficial for a little, but godly devotion is beneficial for all things, as it holds promise of the life now and that which is to come.” (1 Timothy 4:8).

      And it also says “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body,” (1 Cor. 6:19-20).

      Yeah, don’t spend your life focusing on your body, but that doesn‘t mean it’s cool to stuff your face and ignore your health.

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  • rikyt74
    Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:05am

    Mooshell should watch her own fat children. They seem to have the same problem Mooshell has. Big ham hocks and a bouncing booty

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:00am

    The Obama’s youngest daughter is heavy set. Michelle O TOLD the WHOLE WORLD her daughters BMI was too high. Michelle Obama herself has gained at least 30lbs since she walked into the White House. She needs to SHUT UP about anyone‘s child being fat until she gets her family’s weight under control.

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  • biblegeek119
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:53pm

    In case of famine the thinner you are faster you die. The goal should NOT to be thin, the goal should be being active and strong and that is something all of us need. Some people will be chunkier than others, so what? Being skinny or fat DOES NOT necessarily indicate bad or good health.

    Bullies: The rule should be “Disrespectful behavior will not be tolerated”. From spitting in the floor to hurt someone, if it is disrespecting then authority must take action.

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  • lonewolf57
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:50pm

    Hey Moochelle,are those thunder thighs and ass of yours genetic or is it the ‘vinagrette with watercress’ diet?

    You just leave people alone Mrs.First Lady.We’re all different,dont’cha know?The USA ‘s
    skinny’s,flatties,and fatties were just fine before you and they’ll be fine after you.
    Now go eat your french fries and leave us alone,Missy.

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  • NotFooled
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:46pm

    Obama has a little over a year left in office. Then they can all just shut their trap and we can get our economy going again. I just ate two deep fried butter sticks just for you Michelle.

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  • SCARY
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Look at pictures of people from before 1960.Maybe 1%,5% were fat.Were not meant to be this fat.That being said…I just got started on my food storage the other day and I’m getting an AR15 to protected it from the fat,zombie,apocalypse coming her,soon.:)

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:46am

      When I was kid, 1-2 in a classroom of 40 were fat…. We played outside and junk food was treat now and than. We had to cut grass and shovel snow…… TV was rationed

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  • The_Outlaw
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:42pm

    Thunder Hips (Michelle Obama) shouldn‘t be preaching to anyone about weight loss until she loses the flabby cellulite that she’s been sporting around.

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  • Tomfang
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:41pm

    Sorry guys, but can we learn the difference between there, their and they’re. as well as to, two and too.
    No wonder the left thinks we’re dopes.

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    • OBX
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:47pm

      Thanks for the wonderful insight into the topic. Maybe, just maybe, go form an actual opinion on the topic. Otherwise you are adding nothing. Perhaps not everyone here graduated from an ivey league school such as yourself, but their opinion (spelling,pnctuation and all) are still wanted. Go come up with some kind of original thought that’s adds to the debate

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:03am

      I feel your pain, Tomfang. I’m sure The Blaze contributors are busy people, but sometimes the spelling and grammar issues are ridiculous.

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    • Al Gore
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:16am

      OBX,
      Are you being cereal? Because if you are, and that is how you actually form sentences, then you are only proving Tomfang’s point. If you ever want people to take what you have to say cereal, you had better learn English.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 1:56am

      Pretty funny! Just like the real Al Gore, he doesn’t get it!!
      As long as we’re being critical of others, that “cereal” gag was cute in the post elluding to heavy weights eating cereal instead of fatty foods. “Get cereal”
      But putting it in everyone of your posts is really lame and not funny anymore……Just like Al Gore.

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    • UrsaMajor
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 2:15am

      Congrats, Tomfang, you win teh Intrawebz!

      Grammar Police = Thought Police.

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    • AlansTigg
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 12:14pm

      sometimes even the smart folks will have a “typo” and will use the wrong word, especially if they are passionate about the topic…life is short, way too short to be getting worked up over words, irregardless of your perfection ;)

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  • likwidlizard
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Next the lil thugs will be stabbing fat kids in the eyes with pencils for looking at food. “Oh look teacher, Tyrone just stabbed Jose in the eye with his protractor for sneaking a peek at his Mallo cup!”

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  • ProbIemSoIver
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Accept Fatness ? OK, I accept the fact that you are fat.

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  • Canada_Goose
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:38pm

    If I understand this correctly If Ms. Obama had never become first lady fat kids would never be bullied. Perhaps we should discourage studying hard so that nerds would not get bullied either.

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  • lonewolf57
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:38pm

    It would be UGLY World if we all looked the same.Thanks God,for making us all UNIQUE!

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  • fatjack
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:37pm

    Mooshelle what’s wrong with fat. Well then you should have somebody to hold a mirror to you back side.

    Calling all fellow fat people……….let’s picket her fat ash.

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    • MOTUS
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 9:25am

      No, please…I beg you…

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    • MOTUS
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 9:28am

      Don’t make me go back there!!!

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on August 12, 2011 at 10:53am

      The Fat Lady, ur uhh First Lady only uses fun house mirrors.She looks better that way.

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  • lonewolf57
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:36pm

    We’re not all perfect.For Pete’s sake,why do we all need ‘special protection’?Are we all suppose to be perfectly straight and flat????Eating our veggies and reading Steven Hawkin’s bullshite?
    Hell no!Most of us are too thin ,too fat,too stupid,too indulged,too intelligent and mostly enjoying life to take all this bullshite to heart.

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  • Aimsmallshootsmall
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:29pm

    I didn’t notice any fat kids in the photo or colored ?

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    • getalong
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:43pm

      These new anti-bullying laws are meant to scare children into silence. Unfortunately, we learn how to be stronger people through adversity. Standing up for yourself is part of growing up. While, I sympathize with children who become targets – it is the parents and churches who need to teach children to be confident and strong in who they are. Michelle Obama IS a bully. Take a look at children’s programing these days. Fat kids are portrayed as dumb, parents are portrayed as stupid, and older people are portrayed as not worth listening to or taken seriously. It is very sad. I was watchiing a kid’s show the other day, where a older lady was lying on the ground, and a kid just drove away on his bike laughing. The progressives have taken over Disney. MO’s obsession with fat children will only make things worse for them. She needs to take care of her own fat ass and diet and leave kids to be raised by their parents!

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:28pm

    Bullying will always happen till the target takes the bully out (by standing up to the bully). Parents should be the ones responsible for their children, not government entities. Look what happens when the government gets involved.

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  • OBX
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:28pm

    Once again libs trying to legislate parental responsibility. Want to pass laws about bullying pass it…….but donttry to make it the fault of the bully they eat too much. I went to school in early 80′s and people got bullied (I got bullied) I got over it. Going to have ageneration of kids who hit the real world and have no clue how to deal with mean people.

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  • Aimsmallshootsmall
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:27pm

    wow,fat chicks telling fat kids that they are fat and need special protection….liberalism is a mental disorder as is OVER EATING…push yourself from the table

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  • Aimsmallshootsmall
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:25pm

    Wow, fat asses telling kids their fat…telling fat kids they need special laws for protection…liberalism is a mental disorder

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    • momsense
      Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:39pm

      The only mental disorder here is your over whelming hate for any who is different.—–or are you justifying you self hatred?

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  • CatB
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:24pm

    M.O. is doing real harm to children .. and I noticed that her kids getting back from Camp David the other day .. were not what anyone would call “skinny” .. but I would never judge them or her parenting .. people are different .. some are tall, some are short and some people are naturally a different body type than others. How dare she target children for abuse … any children … she should mind her own business and leave others to raise their children themselves.’

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  • GABOB
    Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:24pm

    Now the fat kids know what real bullying is Chicago Style…

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