Michelle Obama plays the “national security” card
Liberals are funny.
Everything is a “national security” issue to them…except, well, national security.
Global warming is a national security issue.
Health care reform is a national security issue.
And now, First Lady Michelle Obama is pushing her anti-obesity platform as a national security issue. Via CNSNews (hat tip: Doug Powers):
At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security.
“A recent study put the health care cost of obesity-related diseases at $147 billion a year,” Mrs. Obama said. “This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.”
The ceremony, attended by many officials of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, followed the signing earlier in the day of a presidential memorandum establishing a task force to study the problem and make recommendations after 90 days.
Obama announced a long list of goals she said she hopes the “Let’s Move” campaign will accomplish, including many that can be done “in a generation.”
As I reported last week, the underlying security that this campaign is really concerned with is fattening Big Labor membership rolls and payrolls.
Union security, not national security.
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The military is looking for the self-motivated, not the coddled. Stay in your lane Michelle Obama.
Gun Control is a National Security Issue.
“Yeah, I know I weigh 400 lbs and have never had a job, but I think I want to be an Airborne Ranger.”
Being overweight is not the only thing that will prevent an individual from becoming a member of the military.
But it is a stretch to say national security is at issue. Any thin foreigner wishing to become a citizen of the US just has to serve in the military, and it is done.
Thin foreigners will do the job obese Americans will not, or cannot, do.
Michelle O. is eating too many of her plastic vegetables from her garden.
Let’s see the list that you must be referring to. Which is no. 1?
Oh yeah, and blindness. People are disqualified from military service because of it. Blindness is now a national security issue, because obviously, blind people can’t shoot very well.
They have a ceremony for signing a memo?
“This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.”
Too bad that jihadism isn’t a disqualifier. Care to talk about that, Michelle?
It’s true what they say – you can’t cure stupid.
“They have a ceremony for signing a memo?”
Yep, apparently they do – Twinkies and lots of Root Beer, with Ho Ho chasers.
fight obesity while they fly in a chef from Chicago for Obamamamama’s favorite kind of pizza.
Another example of why the Obama administration has such a high employment rate.
Just like all of his czars. They all require a staff and supplies and cars and …..
Off message again. Obesity is a JOBS problem.
Just what we need – another fat lady (toned arms or not) speaking against childhood obesity! And, no, I’m not talking about Surgeon General Benjamin.
I think Laura Ingraham said that this came with a multi-billion dollar executive order attached to it. Billions of dollars for this pet project. Where in the constitution does it give these thugs the authority to spend billions of dollars to combat flab? We all know this is just another siphon pool of cash. GET OUT OF OUR LIVES — and stay within the confines described in the constitution.
Watch out. The female of the species is the most dangerous.
Millions of Americans are hoping the First Family does just that.
Anyone want to hazard a guess where that money will go? My mind wants to drift off to legions of Fat Kids being indicted into America Corp and after their arugala and dirt diets and 18 hours a day of PT – off to The Empty Suits Civilian Security Force.
Sorry to say this, but I was in the military and still work on a military installation and see obese people in uniform everyday. Sure there are rules against being overweight, but as the saying goes there is a waiver for everything.
AR-600; Live it, love it.
Move out.
FIFY FLOTUS
Aren’t love handles “De Rigeuer” for “Special Forces”?
true dat, Truesoldier…I think there’s even a waiver for ‘I want to go jihad, so let me get an MD degree and join the military’.
actually Misscheryl, they flew the pizza guy in from st louis, which po’ed the chicago pizzaria establishment, because their idea of a pizza is a loaf of bread with pizza toppings on it, while st louis’ idea is a very thin crunchy crust with toppings, the more the better. but your sentiment is correct, michelle my belle, back your big butt out of america’s weight problems, cause girl you got way too much junk in the trunk to be throwing stones.
Don’t ask, don’t tell. Simply remove the “Weight ________” question from the service application forms. Problemo no mas.
Among many other things. Sometimes all you can do is laugh, though.
If she wasn’t Blue Lips wife she would be hanging on the corner. It takes a big hula hoop to clear that butt.
I’d say that overweight citizens not entering the military as a national security issue is lost in the noise when compared to Obama’s foreign policy of Miranda Rights for terrorists, bowing to foreign leaders, talking to Iran, neutered rules of engagement for our fighting forces and lax security on our borders.
Could we spend billions on those things first before we are forced to listen to the First Family discuss obesity while flying in top chefs from all over the world at our expense?
I dreamed my children turned me in for eating cheesecake.
M.O. mispoke – Nationalization Security, I’m sure she meant.
Gay and Military – good
Single Parent and Military – good
Jihadist and Military – good
ESA and Military – good
Green card and Military – good
Overweight and Military – BAD
Okay, got it.
Oops, “ESL” not “ESA”. Still on first cup of coffee, forgive me.
The pool of eligible enlistees will always exceed the number of ineligible volunteers by a large margin. This woman needs to go back and work on her phony garden and stay out of things about which she knows absolutely nothing.
The person who is mo fashion designer needs to suggest those wide belts is not getting the job done. Is this bho in front of the mirror all the time that mo can’t get in front of to see what she looks like?
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I’ll match my BMI against her BMI any day. Wasn’t there something a couple of days ago about a rumor they were going to take over the school lunch program for healthier menus? How about more PE and outdoor activity programs?
Personally, Winnie should stop channeling the thoughts from her Fat Can and go back to shopping for veggies to plant in her garden.
The collectivist mind that completely rules the executive and legislative bodies of our government is a national security issue.
There are also minimum weight requirements for the armed services, so you can be too thin as well. Are skinny people a threat to national security? Let’s tell Hollywood to put on a few pounds for the good of our country!
Good point, and you can be too short as well.
Short people got no reason…
“So, tell me ze location of your fuel depot und we vill give you a Twinkie.”
Bingo!
RTater, you get today’s blue ribbon for asking the question the drive-by media won’t.
I certainly hope you didn’t get that cheesecake in a Styrofoam box.
It’s a stretch to say national security is at issue even without any thin foreigners.
And it’s silly for you to imply that national security might be an issue without the use of thin foreigners.
As a matter of fact I hear it enhances your chance of promotion and fosters diversity.
So what is wrong with fat foreigners? Are you a chubophobic?…lol J/K
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FLOTUS Michelle Obama looks better in the photo. Possibly the Hula Hoop exercising and better diet are helping her to trim the “caboose”. Keep up the good work.
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John Bibb
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OK, I’ll give Mrs. Hope-a-Dope credit for recognizing the obvious: coming in over the weight maximum is indeed a way to have one’s enlistment (or re-enlistment) plans go off the rails, especially for active duty personnel.
And that can be a serious problem, if the available manpower pool is shallow: in Britain, for example, there are so few willing to enlist that the Royal Army recently had to relax its initial entry weight standards (and even then they’re still having recruiting problems).
Not as bad here, as we have a larger pool to draw from; I’d say we’d have difficulty if we tried to duplicate under today’s enlistment standards what we did in WWII — i.e., mobilize 16 million people in uniform — but then again, if we ever find ourselves in that kind of situation I imagine that there’d be all kinds of exceptions made to the physical standards.
As long as we’re going to maintain an all-volunteer force of long-term professionals, it’s just as well that a prospective enlistee who needs to drop 50 before he can fire for effect should prove in advance that he’s got the self-discipline that he’ll surely need later.
What better proof that he or she is serious? When I went back into the Oregon Army National Guard for a stint at age 45, I had to lose 50 pounds before I could take the physical; people could say I was too old, or too stale, but nobody ever questioned my motivation.
And no government nanny-program was ever necessary.
Congrats to you, Regulus.
As long as I’m not too fat to cash my pension…….
American Idle?
Since she’s on the bandwagon that’s careening around the USA, smacking citizens on their orbital ridge with the wheels, I certainly hope she points out that blaming obesity takes the heat off tobacco.
The schools here don’t even have playgrounds anymore. Some brat might fall and skin his knee; that’s worth millions of bucks to some scheister.
Dodgeball? Too violent.
Also, it damages a little kids’ psyche not to be chosen for a team.
PhysEd? Not mandatory any more in many places.
Hangfire; aren’t you glad you’re not in school anymore?
I am. I’d hate to be called last on the ‘spreading manure on the garden team’ or ‘silk-screening obama t-shirts’ committee.
But wait – this War on Fat Kids cannot be right. What about their self esteem and sence of worth? Doesn’t this go against the Progressive/Liberal world view that everyone is equal? If I was a fat kid, I would be looking for a way to shove a box of Little Debbie Snack cakes up some Liberals back Side and telling them to go pound Twinkies.
I’d be willing to bet that her fingers/gloves never touched the actual “garden” except for photo ops.
The msm missed the “store bought veggies” story.
fat corpse-men – that’s all we need.
So jihadists training in Yemen? Not a threat to national security.
But the fat kid down the block with the ice cream sammich? Gee! Call the FBI!
She annoys me more than her husband.
They can’t even play tag anymore…Not only could they fall and get hurt, but being “it” singles them out and may hurt their feelings.
go for it, Shaka Toots (copyright–who? I can’t remember)
But don’t ask the states to give back their big tobacco payoffs….
So the reason these kids are obese is they lay around and eat too much. Just the kind of folks you want in the service.(?)
To be fair, the problem is real and MO’s project is laudable – its just that claiming a threat to national security as a selling point is just silly. As others said, there are and will always be enough fit kids (i.e. active, motivated, focussed) to serve – and I’d think those are the ones we want.
I have a question in regards to another statement Winnie said.
“She also said that they will be spending $2 billion in order to update the school lunch standards”, excuse me -
1)Don’t eat crap – list what is crap
2) Get off your tush and take a walk and play outside
How can I get a cut of that 2 Billion?
The hell you say!! Does this mean that Oprah can’t join the Marines?
Actually, I support FLOTUS’ opinion that obesity is a national security issue, that is, we each must be prepared for a major lifestyle change that our foreign and domestic enemies may throw at us. One of the solutions, however, is removing government programs that coddle people into believing their lifestyle of sloth is acceptable and will continue on endlessly. When the dependency-inducing safety net the government provides to far too many people is removed and people find they have to make it on their own, I wager many fatsos out there will start trimming up and living a healthier lifestyle through their own hard work.
Please, understand the role that life has allotted to you. You are a donor not a recipient.
Hannibal said:
Damn, I thought I had it made there for a moment.
Ding! Ding! Correctly said, regularguy. If our population is obese, or getting there, get off your butt and start doing for yourself. I just want the government to get off my lawn!!
Not if you want an excuse to siphon off funds actually meant for defense and national security to divert to dubious programs intended to increase government dependency and control of our children and reward SEIU.
These people would have a ceremony (in fact, they probably do, only in secret) for wiping themselves after going to the john. ‘Cause, their sh*t don’t stink, ya know?
Meanwhile George Costanza poaches a partially eaten eclair from the rubbish can…
Now we know why they only need one square!
it’s whitey’s fault they’re fat…
we need more money for inner-city neighborhoods … git it from whitey…
GD America..
I am one proud mama.
—MO
‘Back door’ reparations?
“This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.”
Yeah. The Obama’s absolutely consider military service to be beneath them. They are “entitled” and despise the military.
Did either of them consider anything less than serving themselves ever?
How ’bout let all the fat kids that want in the service in…
then stick ‘em on limited rations til they lose their fat asses.
next problem?
MO is still a cow. WTF was she thinking wearing that harness around her waist?
So, is that “task force’ going to be included in the next employment report as jobs ‘created’?
In the very next paragraph (after what Michelle quoted), Ms Obama states:
“This isn’t like a disease where we’re still waiting for a cure to be discovered – we know the cure for this”
So why do we need a task force?Its going to take 90 days for an over-paid study to conclude eating healthy and exercising is the “cure”.
I was just reading no more than a couple of months ago that we needed more money in the school lunch programs because kids were starving. I guess the programs worked and fast. They worked so well, all the kids got fat. Now that is efficiency never seen in a government program.
More likely Michelle my belle is smoking the plastic veggies.
LOL
No.
But, fat foreigners wouldn’t be able to serve.
Where Michelle Obama’s butt lands is a National Security issue.
Her husband in the White House should be a National Security issue.
But sanity is gone in today’s world.
I had to get a waiver to enlist since I only weighed 119 when I joined the Army. With a GT of 145 and a GM of 155, it didn’t seem to be a problem. I have since overcome my “underweightness” too well.
ECS
I think that obese is a code word.
Almost off topic:
I must get something off my chest, and now’s the time.
We can all agree that, pretty much since the begining of time, fashion has told us that what is beautiful is slender. At one point Twiggy was hot, then came athletic, now emaciated.
Not any more. If you’ve been paying attention, which I have, the trend now (since the election of Obama) is “full figure”, “plus size”, “big is beautiful”, “Oprah’s hot”, and “roomy jeans”.
As is tradition, the First Lady gets a lot of grace notes and often sets the tempo for fashion and flair.
I really don’t care, just speaking my mind about what I’ve observed.
Baby do got back.
FLOTUS got some junk in her trunk.
Some folks built like this,
Some folks built like that,
but the way I’m built,
don’t you call me fat
Cause I’m built for comfort, I ain’t built for speed.
But I got everything, ahh, that a good girl needs.
Built for Comfort by Willie Dixon (sung by Howlin’ Wolf)
Flash: First Lady calls for leaner Cannon Fodder.
You’ve made some pretty accurate observations. It’s funny how a trend can race across the world fanned by insecure people. For myself, I don’t really care what Oprah, some plastic woman from Hollywood, or the FLOTUS says about fashion, lifestyle or politics.
IMHO, what’s wrong with Michelle Obama is her FAT HEAD. She’s a person who, like Duh Won, has her nose in the air and she doesn’t care much about the little people, she just wants to be the one who herds us in the right (left) direction.
Compare her to Laura Bush who is much classier over all. If I wanted to pattern my life after anyone in the public eye, it would be her. But, I mostly just take what the Good Lord gave me and live my life.
Remember Peter Paul Rubens?
Once again, trying to justify themselves as being “normal” just like the homosexuals.
The look I see, today, among female teens, is the “German concentration camp” look. Nothing there but skin and bones. Many of them that we test have electrolyte problems, tend to be anemic, and can develop cardiac arrhythmias.
gray–seems like you are seeing about 5% of the teen population. I gathered skinfolds from about 10,000 middle school students (about half from girls) and they were above the mean for fatness.
If you eat fat (the nutrient) then you will become more fat.
ChiefRZ, I guess it depends on the area. We do have overweight teens, but also many struggling to keep their weight to a “Twiggy” minumum.
Yes, there were some trying to be anorexia, but they were only about 10%. I told my Health classes that people after pre-teen to adolescence must gain weight, just not excessive and certainly avoid the nutrient, fat. We had fun. Most — about 95%, wanted to know their skin-fold measures.
Difference could be that I’m in pediatric medicine, so I may see more of the problems. Speaking of kids, I see an English middle school has banned Valentine Day cards. Do you think it might interfere with the sex ed. class?
No, just someone trying to protect certain people from “feeling bad” that they only got 21 valentine’s day cards while more popular girls get 29! Everyone knows The Truth.
The other possibility is the homosexual problem.
Yes, as a pediatrician, you might see more of the concerned parent’s children.
http://www.news.com.au/world/school-bans-valentines-day-cards-report/story-e6frfkz9-1225829259516
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