Sarah Palin does it again- how does she manage to say the darndest things? This time, Palin managed to criticize First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative which attempts to curb childhood obesity. Martin from CNN reports that Palin said the following on a radio interview with Laura Ingraham:
"Take her anti-obesity thing that she is on. She is on this kick, right. What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat...instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife priorities, just leave us alone, get off our back and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own decisions and then our country gets back on the right track."
Clearly the media thrives off Palin's every gaffe. However, one would have to be inclined to disagree with her on this. With obesity ever-increasing, there are parents who cannot be trusted to make decisions for their own children. Some parents, even those with the best of intentions, are completely unaware when it comes to knowing how to distinguish between healthy and unhealhy foods. They need someone who can give them the knowledge to prepare healthy foods for their families. Also, not all families are living a life of luxury; healthy food is expensive, whereas unhealthy food is much cheaper. Some parents, on the other hand, simply don't care.
 Michelle Obama isn't necessarily "taking over" or "making decisions for us" in the seemingly totalitarian way that Palin suggests; she is simply doing something to keep the country's children healthy.  How is a "country going to get back on the right track" if its inhabitants are dropping dead from consuming unhealthy, over-processed food? According to the "let's move" website, 33% of children are obese and will suffer from diabetes among other serious diseases.
Granted, the government cannot directly intervene in each child's life. However, it does have a responsibility to make sure its citizens are healthy, and taxpayers aren't paying extra to support individuals who have health problems that could have been easily prevented. Isn't it every child's "god-given right" to live a healthy (and informed) life?
Is the prospect of Palin becoming President getting scarier and scarier? Oh, you betcha.




Comments: 28
So tell me Juan, which one of Obama's daughters do you think will get pregnant before she gets married.
Imagining the sex life of pubescent girls, but I guess that's just his poor, pathetic, deluded life.
ANYTIME the GOVERNMENT feels it has to TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN OR CANNOT EAT.....ITS TOO MUCH and over the top.....sorry liberals....but it JUST IS !!! Eating healthy is one thing.....the GOVERNMENT telling you WHAT to eat.....is something ELSE again.
Don B....Obama's daughters wouldnt be "punished with a baby".....they would go have a speedy and quiet ABORTION so noone would ever know.....Sasha has already been spotted in pictures with a boy who looks ten years older than her, that THEY CLAIMED .....was a "friend". Seems like , as young as they are.....they are off to a "good start" in the promiscious category.....
Juan there seems to THINK that everything you teach your kids....is something they DEFINITELY will abide by......doesnt happen like that Juan unless you lock up your kids in a cage or something.....KIDS WILL DEFY what you taught them sometimes....NO MATTER HOW "GOOD" you raised them. You cannot be with your kids 24/7.
There are more pressing issues in this country than Michelle Obama being focused on what our kids are "allowed to eat" by GOVERNMENT STANDARDS and doing fat index checks on kids in schools and sending home notes telling parents "Your kid is fat".....
Have you ever known anyone who is anorexic ? My sister in law died from it. Some boyfriend called her "fat" and she began starving herself to death and lived that way for years....going into comas, seizures, you name it.....this began at age 15. Now, Michelle Obama is going into ELEMENTARY schools and telling kids they are FAT.....kids who dont know any better and some of them, will wind up like my sister in law.....because not ALL kids will be able to handle or process the information the "right way".
And for those who think "fat people" drive up health care costs....you havent seen ANYTHING LIKE....the bills for someone anorexic....organ shutdowns, seizures, psychological counseling, hospitalizations , you name it.....its MUCH MORE than even illnesses you MAY OR MAY NOT have .....being overweight....more expensive BY FAR !!!!
Basically Michelle Obama is messing up kids psychologically at very young ages to think they are "Fat"........There is nothing wrong with eating healthy....but that should be YOUR CHOICE and NOT the governments......People KNOW when they are "fat".....we dont NEED Michelle Obama to tell us.....or CONTROL US.....and ESPECIALLY NOT......telling kids at very young ages.....who dont understand.....they are "Fat".
If you cannot TRUST the parents to "feed the kids right" by government standards....can you trust them to make sure the kid doesnt become anorexic too ? Seriously ? This is just over the top stuff.....
The government and the Obama's have a country to ruin......Oh Im sorry....I mean RUN..... ( I really did mean, RUIN BTW )
They have FAR MORE pressing issues than , what our kids EAT.....this is a DISTRACTION AWAY FROM high unemployment, terrorism/ national security, and OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS THAT .......ARE......THEIR JOBS !!!!! NOT things....THAT ARENT......
By the way, Michele Obama is NOT our elected president, she is just his wife. It's not her job to run the universe, so it is really out of line to criticize her for not tackling more important things. The more important things are her husband's job. Stop making everything a personal crusade against the Obamas. I certainly had no problem with GWB's wife and daughters, much as I disliked him.
Were you born a moron or do you have to practice every day?
What a bunch of pathetic horses***.
Let me just take one of your random, incoherent thoughts apart:
"ANYTIME the GOVERNMENT feels it has to TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN OR CANNOT EAT.....ITS TOO MUCH "
First of all, idiot, Mrs. Obama is not a part of the government. And she's not telling anyone what they can or cannot eat, she's addressing the problem of childhood obesity. I guess you missed that, because you're apparently still working your way up to cretin.
I worked with headstart as a parental involvement specialist. It was shocking to see how many parents thought turning on Sesame Street and putting their kids in front of the TV while they went into another room was parental involvement. Get real too many parents don’t care and the ones that do care need help sorting through the misinformation about what is good for theolir kids.
First off....I find it INTERESTING that....this says.....taxpayers paying for kids with health problems..... FYI.....ALL KIDS ARENT ON WELFARE !!!! It is NOT governments "responsibility" for its citizens being "healthy".....I dont know WHERE you read that in our Constitution....but.....its NOT there in any context that dictates they can tell us what we CAN OR CANNOT EAT.....sorry....ITS JUST NOT !!!!!!!!!!
People can ALREADY lead an "informed life"......they have access to information on obesity....its NOT being hidden away from them.....there are libraries, books, tv shows, whatever they wish to watch.....ON OBESITY , DIABETES, and other categories.....
This article just ACTS LIKE......being "fat" is some HUGE SECRET and all the information on how to "Not be fat"......is being locked away in some cave someplace.....and ONLY THE GOVERNMENT......."can SAVE US" !!!!! This is just ridiculous ......THERE ARE PLENTY OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE ON OBESITY......We DO NOT NEED ....Michelle Obama's "Help"......
She needs to stick to OTHER ISSUES that are more in line with "job" as First Lady......and STAY OUT OF PEOPLE'S and their FAMILIES......personal lives.....
If the baggers aren't in a rabid froth about something, their handlers feed them something else.
And I'm not surprised at the typical teabagger response to this either. People who have been pimped as badly as the bagger movement are still trying to tell the difference between their a**** and their elbows.
We aren't against Michelle my belle talking about nutrition.....what I'm against is using my tax dollars to once again throw money down a rat hole just because she thinks she has a good idea....if she wants to spend her money...then have at it.
You libs probably need for someone in government to tell you what to eat, just like everything else.
Maybe if they got rid of the NEA and allowed the rest of the kids to go to schools like all libs send their kids and get taught good values then Michelle big butt Obama wouldn't need to waste billions of dollars on programs our kids should grow up with.