Michelle Obama Wants MORE Authority Over What YOU Eat By Pushing For PORTION CONTROLS In Restaurants

I wish my conservative friends would get it through their thick skulls that any attack on the President's family (or the family of any other liberal politician) should be undertaken with extreme care - much more care than is being demonstrated by most of the anti-Obama postings on this thread. Attacking Michelle Obama because she's linked with attempts to have USDA make the rules for school bake sales throughout the land is, I will admit, an idea that has some utility, but, IMHO, all the appeal from attacking the idea stems from how damn stupid it is, and you detract from that message by tacking Michelle Obama to it. And, beyond that aspect of her activities, the activities attacked in this thread are, at best, marginally offensive, and most run from inoffensive to laudable, at least in most voters' minds.

Is she exempt from all mention? Of course not. For instance, when one of Obama's attack weasels tries to distance the White House from something like the Bake Sale Regulations, it's wholly appropriate to point out that the POTUS's wife was involved in the effort to do whatever is being done, but, by and large, impugning a politician's family is a losing proposition. Do it only after extremely critical thinking including asking yourself the question: "Does the inclusion of [the politician's] family really serve a purpose or does it just go to show that I dislike him/her?" You may respond that you're only dishing out payback for what the liberals did (i.e., Laura Bush the Murderer). But that's exactly my point, just how much profit do you think the DNC netted from that exercise? Republicans and conservatives are subject to the same negative backlash. One last thing. I don't care how hypocritical you think Mrs. Obama lecturing the nation about obesity is, keep your unflattering pictures and comments to yourself. America, yours truly included, is a fat nation. Even if she is fat - and there's plenty of room to argue she isn't, which only makes matters worse - you're still going to lose votes in a chubby nation. Think, people, think, we have an election to win.

Hypocrites like the Obama's continue their do as I say, not as I do philosophy.
The reason there is no agreement with the NRA is because the thug in chief is losing support and people are awakening to the over regulation by this administration.

Michelle Obama has ties to Walmart from her Treehouse years, full of controversy and conflict of interest as she worked with Walmart while he was fighting against them because they are NOT unionized. Listen to this lawyer speak.

""Barack is gonna say what needs to be said, and it’s not going to, you know, necessarily matter … what I’m doing if it’s not the right thing," she said. "He’s going to do what’s right for … the country. He’s going to speak out. And he’s going to, you know, implement his views as he sees fit. … I see no conflict in that."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/p...

"According to the couple's tax returns, Mrs Obama earned $51,200 (£25,700) for her work as a non-executive director on Treehouse's board last year, on top of the $271,618 salary she was paid as a vice-president of the University of Chicago Hospitals.

She also received 7,500 Treehouse stock options, worth a further $72,375, as she did the previous year, when she banked a $45,000 salary from the company."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

I'm so sick of hearing this woman discuss healthy eating when we are constantly bombarded by photos of them both stuffing their faces with the same food they want to regulate for the rest of us.

Perhaps the minimum critique of previous First Ladies reflects neither setting as poor of an example for the wife of a currently sitting President nor incurring the mass of wasteful spending of citizens taxes, just to entertain herself, children and personal friends, at such an excess beyond that of prior First Ladies in legitimate representation of this Republic?

Consequently, Michelle Obama has repeatedly drawn criticism for both her statements and behavior, starting from her very narcissistic and self-centered comment, which only her husband's run for president has made her proud of America. Quote: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is making a comeback." Her husband blew that didn't he?

She certainly hasn't stopped her spending of taxpayer money for her own interests, which she has no legal authority to impose upon this Republic's citizens. She is a continuation of the affirmative action generation of above-average but far-from-stellar performers who were granted preferential admission to America’s most elite institutions and nutrition certainly wasn't a subject of her majors to qualify her for imposition of her opinons upon this Republic.

Yes, Michelle notes that she graduated with honors in her major. Again, the problem is that her undergraduate thesis is on the web for all to critique. You might expect that she wrote about Shakespeare’s sonnets or the political evolution of W.E.B. Du Bois. Well, no.

Essentially Michelle Obama wrote about the problems of being a black woman at an Ivy League university.

"These experiences have made it apparent to me that the path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will likely lead to the further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant. This realization has presently, made my goals to actively utilize my resources to benefit the Black community more desirable." Hmmm, isn't that a little ironic?

When you check her thesis for grammatical and spelling errors, perhaps she should have remained in a high school grammar class? Her anger may be justified, but it should be directed at the system of official cheating that got her there, not those that oppose it.

Now, Mooch takes out her anger on this Republic's taxpayers by spending an excess of funds not her own, just to engage her amusement and when objections are expressed, her progressive supporters arise, overlooking the fact that the money Mooch spends is theirs too.

If you want her, take her. One term is too much.

I didn't say they received as much irrelevant personal slander as Mrs. Obama, I think it likely they probably didn't, although I attribute much of the likely increase to the increased availability of the Internet; nonetheless, I won't deny for a second that racism accounts for a substantial part of the negative comments made about Mrs. Obama. That said, your protestation that Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush were treated "almost like royalty" is laughable (unless you mean that literally, given the trashy treatment the British Royalty is sometimes given in the UK press - but, if that was your intention, you remarkably well disguised it).

Next, let me point out I never said that there were ugly pictures of Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Reagan - not that I doubt that there were of Mrs. Reagan though a cursory review turned up none - so I'm somewhat unsure of what the "it" is that you want me to get off. But it's the part about being called every derogatory name in the book, that has piqued my interest enough to respond.

I think "Murderer" is an ugly name. Apparently you don't, because I used the word in my original posting and you said that Mrs. Obama had been called every name in the book. Not that I'm absolutely sure she hasn't, but I did Google "Michelle Obama, murderer" and "Laura Bush, murderer", and I got substantially different results. In response to the Michelle search, the first three pages of results turned up no instances of the term being used as her descriptor, mostly just references to murders on which she'd commented, though there was a reference to "abortion" that made me think that, somewhere, the label likely is used, albeit not in any personal sense. The first three pages after I entered the Laura Bush search mentioned virtually nothing other than the traffic accident in which she killed her high school classmate.

Are you aware that Google offers an alternative search algorithm? It's called "I'm Feeling Lucky"; it takes you directly to the first result of the Google search engine (the 'regular' result is the product of application of a variety of screens, such as those paid for by advertisers) and is used by those searching on Google in about 1% of all searches. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google result was even more instructive, at least IMHO. The search vis-a-vis Michelle generated a reference to the White House website. The search vis-a-vis Laura Bush sent me to the Snopes.com website, which gave a rather thoroughgoing account of the 1963 event (if you choose to verify my result, you may get something different, and you'll have to check down the pages you get in your regular search, Snopes won't be far, but you'll have to take on faith that in my case it was first; if you wish instead merely to verify my description of the Scopes presentation, go to Scopes and search "Laura Bush Car Accident"). Now, it does seem to me that a fair-minded reader would consider Laura Bush absolved from all of the more base allegations that pertain to the car crash that Scopes relates, but that isn't my point. My point is that Laura Bush at age 57 - the Scopes entry was first posted in 2004 - apparently could reasonably have been expected to sit down and read - and relive - this report on the most tragic day of her life and enjoy all - well, more likely most, she'd have to use her imagination for "all" - the allegations your friends in the press and had seen fit to connect to it, albeit graciously out of your eyeshot and earshot.

Royalty? With all due respect, good lady, my posterior.

Supplemental note - Since you seem to think my prior comment said nothing worthy of your attention as to your remark that Laura Bush and Nancy Reagan have been treated like Royalty when compared with Michelle Obama, let me add a bit to my prior comment. As that comment primarily addressed Laura Bush, let's move on to Nancy Reagan.

Have you ever heard of the book, "Nancy Reagan, the Unauthorized biography" by Kitty Kelley? Maureen Dowd has. In fact, she read it and recounted a Cliff Notes version of the book to those reading her column in the NY Times. Dowd referred to Kelley's allegations that Mrs. Reagan was a power crazed woman of expensive tastes who ruled over a dysfunctional brood of biological children and step children. She alludes to Kelley's allegations that Nancy Reagan trapped Ronald Reagan into marriage by becoming pregnan and that Reagan married her not for love but essentially on the rebound and thereafter cheated on her, that Nancy herself had a twenty year affair with Fank Sinatra that encompassed Reagan's time as Governor of California (and, perhaps,POTUS), and just a delightful pastiche of other gems sure to delight any ex-First Lady. Mind you, I'm not talking about Kelley's book, that was read by whomever it was read by, nor am I referring to blogs, read by whomever, I'm talking about a synopsis of the book that appeared in Dowd's regularly published column in the NYT, for all the world to see, in what liberals like to call the USA's Newspaper of Record. And note that Dowd doesn't really debunk any of this, she just reports that it is there.

Now you may well find the travails Mrs. Obama has had to endure to be worse beyond comparison than the the predecessors I referenced. After all, we're all entitled to our opinion. But give me the choice between 1) suffering ceaseless but inane slander from countless faceless people deemed idiots by anyone whose opinion I cared about, or 2) being forced to relive the worst incident of personal failure occurring in my life and having that incident twisted in unbelievably scurrilous ways by dozens of people who delight in doing just that sort of thing, or 3) seeing the dirty underwear of my life stained again by a practiced evil hand and then put out for display in the New York Times, I'm far from sure I wouldn't pick the ceaseless inane slander. But, then again, I'm a bigoted, callused, insensitive RWNJ (a redundant term, we all know all RWs are infallibly RWNJs), and any self respecting liberal knows what those people's opinions are worth

Have a nice day..