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Michelle Obama: Gov‘t Won’t Tell You What to Do Regarding Food, But…

ABC Interviews Michelle Obama for New Book American Grown | Dismisses Concern Over Government Telling You What to Eat

Michelle Obama’s passion for healthy food is well-known to most Americans by this point.  For the last several years, she has waged a ceaseless battle against the horrors of “food deserts” and childhood obesity by planting vegetables on the White House lawn, dancing with children at “Move Your Body” events, and chiding soldiers for their eating habits.

(Related: Michelle Obama Wants $400 Million for Non-Existent ‘Food Deserts’)

Now, the first lady has published a 271-page book on the topic, titled “American Grown.”

In the book, according to the Associated Press, Michelle “holds out the raised vegetable beds on the South Lawn as ‘an expression of [her] hopes‘ for the nation’s children.”

“Just as each seed we plant has the potential to become something extraordinary, so does every child,” she says.

Amid a flurry of media appearances, Michelle is being asked whether there is any justification to Republican criticism of her childhood obesity campaign, that perhaps it is not government’s place to tell Americans what to feed their children. On Tuesday, she joined ABC’s Robin Roberts.

Roberts asked Obama about the criticism from some saying she‘s trying to insert government into people’s food choices. Nodding as though she understands the concern, the First Lady responded:

…This isn’t about government telling people what to do. What we know we need to do is give parents, communities, families the tools and information they need to make choices that are right for them and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. … “Let’s Move!” is a way of giving people the tools and information and it really requires everybody to step up.

But perhaps a little disjointedly, she immediately switched to citing the way government can help by saying mayors should start “stepping up”:

We need our mayors stepping up, restructuring cities so that kids have safer places to play. We need our food manufacturers stepping up and really thinking about how to reformulate food products so that they are a little more healthy [and] affordable. We need big supermarkets to locate grocery stores in under-served communities. So, it’s a little bit of everything.

Watch her interview with ABC below (she discusses the government’s role around 2:40):

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Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity efforts have contributed to the modification of the Olive Gardens and McDonald’s menus to include “kid-friendly,” low sodium options nationwide, and apple wedges and fewer french fries in every Happy Meal (whether it is asked for or not), respectively.

Back in February, a North Carolina student’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice, were sent home following an inspector’s determination that they were not healthy enough.  Instead, she was given the school lunch of chicken nuggets.

The First Lady further stated that Americans would likely be seeing much more of her and the battle against childhood obesity in the coming months, as her husband’s presidential campaign continues to intensify.

“I’m going to be out there a lot…I love campaigning,” she said.

 

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  • girlnurse
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Yes Michelle can plant a garden wherever she wants but if we tried that in our front yards we would probably get ticketed, fined, and harrassed!

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:45pm

      Telling grocers to build stores in under served markets…AKA, High Crime Zones, where they get beaten and robbed on a daily basis…..hey Michele, there’s a reason those markets are under served..”.”just ask somebody who grew up in that Liberal Democrat utopia known as DETROIT…..IT’S NOT ONLY A FOOD DESERT, IT’S DEVOID OF MORALS,WORK ETHIC ,EDUCATION,TWO PARENTS………and on and on…..because of liberalism and unions..”.

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    • justangry
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:49pm

      You know it, and she never talks about how healthy foods are so much more expensive than the pasta either, or how it might be because we’re paying farmer not to grow food, and devaluing the dollar. Or how it costs more to truck those vegetables to market these days because of fuel costs. I’m a poor man. The most healthy foods I eat, I either pull out of a river or shoot/grow myself.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:50pm

      “American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America.”

      Does this mean that I can use MO’s WH garden and her book as a defense when the EPA, Agenda 21 and FDA raid my veggie garden and try to force me to not grow veggies in my own back yard?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:53pm

      All too true. Michelle is speaking of dominance in the lives of all of us by a massive, uncaring and all powerful Federal government. It is all but inevitable unless we chose to take it back in Nov.

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    • highndry
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:57pm

      You are right on target with that.

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    • JRook
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:11pm

      “Back in February, a North Carolina student’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice, were sent home following an inspector’s determination that they were not healthy enough. Instead, she was given the school lunch of chicken nuggets.” Nice attention getting negative slant, but what does it have to do with the First Lady.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:19pm

      These people have -0- clue. And, that is correct about stores in HIGH Crime areas. ISSUE BY ISSUE these Commie filled clowns are discovering that their COMMUNISM isn’t so great after all. Maybe someday in their lives they’ll come to respect the hard work that has made AMERICA so Great.

      These are, simply put, the most Anti-American dangerous people who have ever had influence in America. They are traitors. They need to be tried as Traitors. Shame on them.

      She doesn’t need to “force people”…she might think about ‘setting an example’… oh, I know, that’s too much personal responsibility for any of those dopes to take. Wearing $ 500 gold sneakers to dole out food is not exactly what I’m talking about. Taking a vacation every other week with all her family/friends on the US TAXPAYER’S dime is not exactly what I call a “good example” .

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:47pm

      Ok here we go again with the lingo…“Tools and Information” .. Of course Supplied by the government….Who else…..What the hell did that cost..And then the information of course is directed to the free market to food processors from Moosechell on what they should do….O and of course another useless book to advertise the Obama’s …Aren’t they great ..(Sarcasim)..Come November we will all be “Healthier” without the stress of knowing closet commies are living in the park service White House …

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    • Marci
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:51pm

      All of her duckspeak is nauseating. The problem here is she is really speaking to those who she believes are dumb enough to buy into her nonsense. She is the LAST person who needs to be dictating who eats what judging from the size of her derrier and the fact that she shoves burgers and fat cakes into her mouth. She is a control freak Marxist just like her husband.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:59pm

      That isn’t just any garden- she hired the best hortacoulterest money could buy and had the WH staff do all the work! Next January, I bet the new first lady will have to spend 10 grand to make the WH yard look groomed, like it was. Here in Oklahoma we used to go to the Farmers Market. Now those folks are legal or breaking the law. Some have the sign that says – We honor Food Stamps and IBC cards. I had a friend who used to sell his stuff but the Feds came and told him he was discriminating against the poor and he had to Blah-Blah. Now he has no garden.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:22pm

      They came for the cigarettes and you said nothing………
      You didn’t smoke.

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    • keeps informed
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:58pm

      As Michelle was saying: “Just as each seed we plant has the potential to become extraordinary, so does each child,” …….I was reading about the planned parenthood article when Michelle’s came popping up – and about how an undercover outfit discovered gender-cide. Wow, talk about two sides to a story? …which is it now? Saving the babies? or Killing females? Is this the ‘war on women’ the left was talking about? haha…not funny, but confusing.

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    • dawnmichael
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:07pm

      That’s just what I was going to say

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:36pm

      @keeps informed
      (”As Michelle was saying: “Just as each seed we plant has the potential to become extraordinary, so does each child,”)

      I think The Blaze spelled “extraordinary” incorrectly. MO obviously meant “extra ordinary” as in really, really, really ordinary.

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    • Crazyotto
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:38pm

      It is amusing that the first Lady continues to lecture the American people on eating habits while her rear end is growing faster than the National Debt. She throws around her “garden” as if she really eats out of it.. she blathers on and on about nutrition and has absolutely no background on the subject. Isn’t time for her to take another multi-million dollar vacation to some exotic destination?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:41pm

      ….“extra ordinary” as in really, really, really ordinary.

      The way I wrote it, it had a space making it 2 words. The way it posted was not as clear. : )

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    • Tracker3
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:47pm

      She can talk all she wants, but the bottom line is they want to control what we eat, what we grow, how we grow it, when we can grow it and how we cook it. It’s called Socialism.

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    • Reason365
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:48pm

      She still has some of that floppity flop under her arms

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:39pm

      The democrats do nothing without an alternative motive…look forward to stiff taxes on fast food

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    • CarrRicky6
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:26pm

      as Frances replied I didnt even know that people able to get paid $8918 in 4 weeks on the internet. did you look at this webpage..FinanceJob.NOTLONG.CoM

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    • mils
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:28pm

      recently a school hre was fined $15,000 , $15,000…because they forgot to unplug the “soda pop machine” during the lunch period…the gator aid etc was plugged in, all the candy, etc..but the law said “soda”..
      so, if people like michelle are not trying to control our lives..what is this law that fined this school?…now their arts department will suffer..not sports or any other..arts..
      michelle appears to be full of bull.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:15pm

      The Monk, is his monk-like ways asks, “Does this mean that I can use MO’s WH garden and her book as a defense when the EPA, Agenda 21 and FDA raid my veggie garden and try to force me to not grow veggies in my own back yard?” Yes Monk, it does. Plus it might be considered an extenuating action on your part when you are tried by Obama’s military tribunals (coming soon to a town near you!).

      Now, you’ve expressed you opinions to the world and you have been identified by the FDA and Agenda 21 agents, as well as Area 31 personnel. Maybe I’m saying too much but they may already assigned you to a FEMA camp based on your posts here. Zip! I can’t say anything more about that.

      Look who cares if we are among the fattest countries on Earth, one vying to have the highest death rate directly attributable to morbid obesity, a country who has kids so fat that they can’t join the service if they want to. It‘s not the First Lady’s place – this particular First Lady doesn’t seem to know her place – to advocate for a healthy diet. Now, if she was in favor of reading like Laura Bush that might be okay, depending on what she recommended reading. If she recommended reading the Bible, that might be okay, depending on the passage. As long is wasn’t some crap about helping the poor, that might be okay.

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:37pm

      Michelle Obama’s campaign to control how Americans eat is bogus. If she‘s so concerned for peoples’ health then she should start with her husband…who smokes pot, does drugs, smokes cigarettes, drinks too many alcoholic beverages according to his doctor, and eats heavy meals like the Kobe Beef they keep enjoying in the WH on the tax payer’s dime. The truth is that when Obama took office, many of us knew that we were in for hard times. Seed catalogs, like Burpee, had record sales in 2008. People who could plant vegetables, did so with a vengeance. The Great Depression became a number one hit on Google’s search engine, and “Depression Cooking with Clara” became an over night sensation on Youtube. The Obama admin caught wind of it and had the staff plant a garden and Michelle start lecturing on eating our vegetables to make it appear people were following her, rather than what was actually happening. Michelle Antoinette Obama’s whole campaign on healthy eating is a sham, just like Obama’s whole presidency.

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:52pm

      she makes her hubby look good

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    • RGFROMTEXAS
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:08am

      In 2004 I witnessed Laura Bush at a school here in Texas promoting here reading program. Now we have another First Lady with her well intentioned agenda. Two ladies, One a Republican, the other a Democrat, One is short, the other is tall, one is white, the other is black. Two classy ladies that American can be proud of.

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    • rc30
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:20am

      When will us the people have enough. Am so sick of this crap.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:05am

      Depends on where you live.Fortunately not all localities believe in being stupid.Some localities would end up arresting their own council members and mayors.
      Off topic
      You know you are a redneck when your front yard is a garden.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:16am

      Burpee has record sales of seeds.People are relearning the depression era tactics and recipes.In my case not much changed.I’ve been cooking depression era food all my life.I just didn’t know it had a name.Its called rural country food every day grub here.
      Hey moo its easier to be taken seriously when you actually live the life and have a body frame to match.I mean c‘mon who would you rather listen to on food someone who is 5’1” and 110 pounds or someone who is 5′11”[also a guess] and more like 170.[Just a guess at her weight].I’m talking a women not a man.Most women aren’t that tall or big.

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    • Snafu777
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:09pm

      @JZS
      Concerning the fat people: whatever would the world do if people actually got off of their computers, video games, and stopped watching as much television. Oh Gosh. We can’t have that! People might start thinking for themselves instead of letting the MSM decide everything for them.

      Concerning joining the military: If a fat kid wants to join the military they can do the same thing my brother and I did when we joined and exercise.For pete’s sake, my brother lost nearly 100 lbs when he made the decision and another 20 lbs during boot camp. If someone has a goal and refuses to WORK towards it then shame on them. No “food desert” is going to get in the way of someone with a spine and some determination.

      Concerning Laura Bush’s stand on reading: Her reading initiatives weren’t wasting the amount of money (by any stretch) that Michelle Obama’s are. Her reading initiatives didn’t practically put businesses out on their ear.

      Concerning the reading of the Bible(or the Qu’ran, the Talmud, The Vedas, or the Sutras) : I believe that reading is good. Even reading something you don’t believe or or are diametrically opposed with will give you a better footing with your understanding of things. If an atheist can’t handle a bit of reading about something like that then it is to their detriment, not mine. I’m not going to require them to read it. When they come off looking like an idiot spouting off about something out of context I’ll be sure to point it out, though

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    • Snafu777
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:22pm

      @ JZS(continued)
      Concerning giving to the poor:
      Anyone who ardently supports reading the Bible will be just fine giving to the poor. Most, however, would give more if we weren’t taxed so much. Our government has no business demanding her citizen‘s to pay for someone else’s convenience. There are people who earnestly need work, and there are people who earnestly cannot work. But those decisions should not be made by some tax-sponsored monstrosity. It should not be funded by any organization so beleaguered by politics. This responsibility belongs in the hands of the communities, churches and other charity organizations that these people live amongst and around. If people tire of political figures talking of or reading scriptures pertaining to charity it has little to do with the charity they have for others and more to do with frustration over the government trying to utilize a religious text for their own ends. Anyone who cannot see this is blinding themselves to the truth.

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    • casseopea42
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 4:17pm

      If her veggie garden fails she can always get money from the government because she is a failed black farmer.

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    • Katshrnk
      Posted on June 2, 2012 at 2:19pm

      I didn’t realize that MO had a degree in nutrition :0) If she did I’m sure she lost it just like she did her law degree. Good grief this woman is preaching about things about which she knows nothing. And, so many of the useful idiots are all getting those same chills up their legs that the uber left media seems to get regularly. Some body ought to buy them all mylar blankets to keep themselves warm.

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  • twistin
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:13pm

    Naw, we ain’t gonna tell you what to DO, ya see, but we WILL require EVERYBODY to “Step Up”.

    America, you will now volunteer to step up and get Obama’s back…or else what?

    Got the same thing to anybody trying to tell me what to do or how to do it. Piss off.

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:08pm

      so much double talk it makes me want to puke.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:20pm

      NOW… she is behind the First… All Female Navy, Submarine, Crew!

      A can of confined females… I cannot imagine the Slander & Bitch Fights!

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  • retired_one
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:12pm

    Ill bet Mooo did not do a garden in Chicago. Had nobody to do it for her.

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    • Grillmark55
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Do you actually think that she would stoop to get one of her $6000 outfits dirty in the White House garden? I doubt that she even knows how to get to it, much less how to actually do any WORK in it.
      By the way, Moochelle, you are so big on healthy eating, yet not one peep about smoking. Could it be because 1) hubby can‘t give ’em up and 2) government subsidies of tobacco are also lining your pockets? Just wondering, since you are such a health nut.

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    • ICEDRAGONNITE
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:19pm

      The Gov. will not demand you eat certain things. No it will push, tax, shove and nudge and complain that you are not listening to the great and powerful that know better than you.
      But they will nott demand that you eat what they say. Until they put on their Black SS uniforms.

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  • zoro51
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:11pm

    remove this UN american first ladt SHES no JAKIC KENNEDY period.. shes disgusting period.. always vacationing on americas DIME

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:27pm

      Ten Million Dollars worth of tax payers money so far and counting.

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  • JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:10pm

    Wookie commie……………………..

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:06pm

    The liberal Fat *ss *itch Michelle Obama can continue to sat *hit and bark at the moon.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:17pm

      moochie……..one word……….thighmaster

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    • DDD
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:15pm

      I don‘t like the Obama’s politics, but this denigrating name-calling is so childish and proof of a lack of either vocabulary or ignorance.

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    • helnopeno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:50pm

      Elephant legs or piano legs???

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    • starman70
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:43pm

      Moochelle ain’t going to tell me what to eat. I’ll eat what I want, when I want and how I want. If I want to eat healthy, I will! If I want to eat fatty foods, I will! If I want to eat meat, I will! If I want to eat veggies, I will!

      You can bet your bottom dollar that the food at those lavish taxpayer funded “Banquets” is high fat, high sugar and very unhealthy. It is, however, very tasty and that is her excuse.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:45pm

      As long as Miss Nasty has pie for her piehole, she’s a happy camper.

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  • Depressed_American
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:05pm

    Really!!! The Government isn’t going to tell people what to do regarding food!!! Please explain why 2 Utah schools have had to pay “government fines” of $15,000.00, and $19,000.00; for having sodas on sale during lunch hour (outside of the cafiteria area)????

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:18pm

      Don’t look at those thousands of REGULATIONS comming from all those UN-ELECTED TSARRS!! …And all those uber-vague laws in the Obastardcare which have NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTHCARE…and the thousands of un-elected ExecutiveOrders-per year.

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    • lexington_green
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:07pm

      she lies with a smile and without batting an eye as good as her husband does. birds of a feather…

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    • 5th generation american
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:47pm

      Our “government (tax payer money)” fines the schools (also tax payer money) for everything they can. They are shorting out schools to spread the wealth around.

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    • littlebitflighty
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:33pm

      hahahaha… we are not supposed to see that stuff remember?

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:05pm

    Don’t worry- Like their “green” policy of making gas too expensive, Americans will slim down when food becomes too expensive. We know what you did last summer obama. Stuffed your own face with cheeseburgers. As soon as we get to tell your pencil neck husband and your trailer pulling self what to eat, how much and when- you can tell me… NOT!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:05pm

    The government won’t tell me / us what to do, period.
    you slime balls work for us.Guess what? you are FIRED!
    We tell you what to do or didn’t they teach you that in indoctrination classes? Hmmmm?

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:40pm

      Dork.

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    • drbage
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:40pm

      Guess Moochelle is not worried about “unelected” people making decisions that affect all Americans. Just who elected Moochelle the Food Czar? And what qualifications does she have to be the food czar? Must be the same set of qualifications that got her the job at the UChicago Medical Center as a $300,000/year Community Outreach Director(oh, that’s right, she had no qualifications other than knowing the consigliere, Valerie Jarrett)

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    • AxelPhantom
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:12pm

      First they taught nutrition at schools, then they started putting it into infomercials during the Saturday morning cartoons. Now they “need” mayors involved?

      Really, at some point you have to say it isn’t due to lack of information that people don’t “eat healthy” it is because junky food is cheap, tastes good, fast and people no longer have the self-control they used to (for a variety of reasons, one of which is the if it feels good do it mentality)

      When you teach people that there are no consequences to their actions, that working hard for something isn’t necessary, blur the line between wants/needs…. that all that really matters is immediate gratification, then obesity is one result.

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  • JoeA1010
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:05pm

    Ah, the voice of tyranny. And the moron leftists in the media just lap it right up.

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  • Southernguy
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:03pm

    Go stick your big black butt in somebody‘s else’s business!

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:35pm

      All first ladies need to have a cause…….this is hers. However, she should have gotten rid of the
      caboose before calling for us to follow her. Not as I do, it’s as I say, so there!
      When they take everything away from us and put us all on food stamps, we might wake up, as we’ll all be in the same boat, hungry and eating out of the rich peoples garbage cans.

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  • Best_Patriot
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:02pm

    So much diabetes at Tea Party rallies!

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:21pm

      Source please .. and in your little head doesn’t count.

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    • Ramv36
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:46pm

      “So much diabetes at Tea Party rallies!”

      Well, as diabetes is one of the most widespread diseases in the US right now, and the Tea Party is one of the largest and most diverse movements in the country, it’s highly statistically probable that there are many Tea Partiers with diabetes.

      There’s probably a lot of sickle-cell anemia at Louis Farrakhan’s rallies, but is it really socially acceptable or prudent to point out that predominately African-American genetic disease as a derogatory remark as you have above? If you can‘t see what you’ve done wrong in this instance, then diabetes effecting 40% of Americans, including within your own family, is the least of our troubles.

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  • Countrygirl1362
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:59am

    “chiding soldiers for their eating habits” This from a person that eats fried laurd? She is not one to talk about eating habits.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:59am

    Why buy apples when honeybuns are cheaper? That’s what most people say when going to get a snack. fruit and vegetables are getting way to expensive compared to the amount of sweets you can get for the same price, not to mention HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is addictive. It keeps people coming back for more.

    …which in turn helps fuel the rise of diabetes in this country. What a vicious cycle, thanks FDA.

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:08pm

      This is another ‘crisis’ engineered by progs and their food stamp junk food fest. Why not advocate a no junk food stamp policy? Because they want this obesity crisis too feed this agenda of food regulation. Control food and you control everything. Soros own mansanto by the way.

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    • Byrrni
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:09pm

      She is the US version of Marie Antoinette, but she doesn’t want ANYONE to eat cake. Expensive fresh vegetables are her push when many middle income people are living on macaroni and spaghetti. If you are poor you get food stamps (or equivalent) but, you won’t spend it on the fresh vegetables, either.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Heard they are trying to legalize food stamps for use in restaurants. Yeah, sure! Sounds smart for restaurants, but not very smart for the welfare office (us)

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:57am

    I now know what hell is.
    Hell could very easily be an eternity of watching Flotus, the talking cow being interviewed by this ABC bimbo, blathering on ad infinitum about her disingenuous projects for taking care of America’s children while her Manchurian hubby drives the country to ruin.
    Two minutes was more than I could handle….

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  • dadsrootbeer
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:57am

    Mooochelle, just have Barry take the supermarket industry over and push your ideology.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:12pm

      Hmmm? Maybe that’s next. 1st grab the land then the farms via interstate commerce and then the entire distribution network. I do believe we are almost there. Extremely disturbing.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:49pm

      This is no joke……………this what they are pushing for .

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  • Bruce01
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:56am

    We need to have government force the grocery chains to open stores in the under served communities… because after all, the free market doesn’t work. There is a reason why the stores haven’t located there Michelle… It’s not profitable and they have a lot of shrinkage…… that’s retail talk for shop lifting!!

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:30pm

      The people that support these usurpers in the WH are just too dumb to realize this is an attempt for a complete takeover of America.

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  • FeliciaJewel
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:55am

    Ahhh yes, the know it all!! Well how dare me to think for myself! Don’t I know I am just to stupid to feed myself or my children! Busy bodies, always wanting to tell you what to do. Keep it to yourself!!!!

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  • spirited
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:53am

    Any folks out there got some anti-indigestion tablets?

    >“absolutely”

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  • Dale
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:51am

    Interesting that some communities forbid it’s inhabitants from growing vegetables in their (front) yards, yet moochele can grow a garden on property not belonging to her.

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  • CatB
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:51am

    What we need is Michelle out of our lives and out of OUR WHITE HOUSE … what a control freak .. little wonder Barry heads to the nearest burger, fries, etc when she is gone … See more of her??? Not me I have loaded up my Kindle with lots of books for the “duration”. and I am VERY fast on the Mute and switch channel.

    OMG 2012 … LIBERTY!

    The good thing is she is likely to turn off some voters with her NAGGING!

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  • ChiefGeorge
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:46am

    Just think if everyone took her advice and did what she did with regards to planting their own veggie garden in their backyard or South Lawn? Just think of the energy and water use! Just think of the reduced veggie prices because Americans are now eating from their own backyards. Problem is, the price of water would neccessarially skyrocket as a result.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:54am

      Yes .. my neighbor has a veggie garden next door .. and they told me they used double the amount of water they usually do (for their household) because it has been dry here …. I can go to the farm market (open year round 6 days per week – Florida) less than a mile from my home and buy local in season produce … and not double my water bill.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:01pm

      Not to mention all of those household staff members that you can send out to tend “your” garden at federal government expense…yeah, right! Can’t get those $700.00 designer sneakers muddy now, can you?

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:25pm

      Exactly .. anyone think she is in that garden for more than just a photo op? … NO!

      Your tax dollars at work . .I would love to know what a veggie actually costs from that sludge garden ..

      http://sweetness-light.com/archive/clinton-sludge-ruining-obama-garden

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  • Mutiny
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:44am

    Why focus on the real issues facing our nation like debt, spending, wars, and freedoms when we can talk about Michelle Obama.

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    • Ramv36
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:51pm

      That is an excellent question to ask HER, preferably the next time she obfuscates by dodging those issues and sliding over to food non-choice. SHE is the one who refuses to address the points you just brought up. WE WOULD like her to speak about the issues you listed, so go after HER with those questions! How did you let her turn you around like this! Fight it!

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:44am

    “Oh. My. Gawd. Becky, look at her butt. It’s so big. She looks like one of those rap guys’ girlfriends. But, you know, who understands those rap guys? They only talk to her, because she looks like a total pr0stitute, ‘kay? I mean, her butt, is just so big. I can‘t believe it’s just so round, it’s like, out there, I mean – gross. Look! She’s just so … black!”

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:57am

      BIOHAZARD23;
      Sir Mix-A-Lot! Great post. I was laughing my small white b.u.t.t. off!

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:10pm

      Excuse me while I go queue up Weird Al’s version: “I like SMALL butts”. Two points for the Sir Mix-A-Lot reference!

      Seriously, though, her arse is approaching the size of the burbs around Chicago. In most cases I would say something about hypocrisy, but we’re well past that point in this discussion.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:16pm

      @AmericanStrega, tee hee!! :)

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:40pm

      @OhioRifleman, I think her posterior has its own zip code at this point.

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  • Firebrand
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:42am

    “Reformulate.” Right. It’s not about telling you what to eat, it’s about removing your ability to make any other choice.

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    • HKS
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:54am

      It would seem to me that the Obama administration is applying this principal across the board, resulting in making the choices for you.

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 11:58am

      BINGO! (and DINGO was her name-O)

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    • MBA
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Americanstrega: try BIMBO was her name O.

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    • edmundburk
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:40pm

      I like the hypocarcy of barry and michelle telling US what to eat, while they eat like the ghetto trash that they are.

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    • Firebrand
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:34pm

      I don’t think calling them names does any good. It certainly doesn’t make you look like the bigger person.

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