Quote of the Day (August 28, 2011)

Michelle Obama Spends $375,000 Of Other People’s Money On Ice Cream...
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Sheya:

“How long before the media blames Palin?”

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Day By Day (January 28, 2011)

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David Harsanyi: Actually, Huck, It's Palin Who Gets It

She is right on the money here
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Gov. Palin's recent mild poke at Michelle Obama and her crusade for a more healthy children's diet has the left predictably all wee-weed up, to borrow the president's terminology. When the left gets its knickers in such a knot over something Sarah said, there is always some Vichy Republican whose undies get similarly and sympathetically twisted. In this case its Mike Huckabee whose drawers are distorted, as he has sided with the first lady.

David Harsanyi, a self-described "conservative with strong libertarian impulses,” suggests that the former governor of Arkansas is either confused "or, judging from his prior work, the kind of guy who dismisses the distinction between convincing someone and coercing someone":

The recently passed nutrition bill (the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, in Washingtonese), a key component to Mrs. Obama's plan to "end childhood obesity," is in fact both "telling people" what they should eat and "trying to force the government's desires on people."

So when Palin claims that the Obamas do not trust people "to make decisions for their own children," she is not unleashing some Bircher hyperbole; she is summing up the driving idea of two years of public policy and paraphrasing the first lady, who recently explained that when it comes to eating, "we can't just leave it up to the parents."

Mrs. Obama might be stating the obvious, but instead of placing the blame on parental incompetence or neglect or genes or whatever the reason is that kids are stuffing their little gullets with junk, she is feeding and creating myths to rationalize "action" -- whether we're talking about the lack of access to food (never have we had more access to food) or prohibitive prices (never has food -- including healthy fare -- been cheaper) or the plague of school lunches.

As for Huckabee, his history of intrusive legislation and alarmism over the crumbling salubriousness of the nation is obviously driven by his own experiences. And if you want to nag us or explain the ramifications of obesity, feel free. Certainly, potential presidents should have the ability to compromise, avoid ideological rigidity and be cognizant of national problems like obesity.

But foundational beliefs like an aversion to federal overreach into local decisions cannot be disposed of because kids happen to be part of the equation. And if Huckabee believes there's nothing wrong with the federal government controlling local school lunches and instituting national smoking bans, how many issues will he believe are more important than federalism?

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David Harsanyi is the author of Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children.

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Day By Day (October 26, 2010)

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Day By Day (October 25, 2010)

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MSNBC Falsely Claims M. Obama 'Never' Said She Wasn't Proud of U.S.

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NewsBuster Scott Whitlock catches media leftist Norah O'Donnell engaging in a bit of MSDNC mendacity. O'Donnell had the gall to insist that Michelle Obama "never said that she had not been proud of her country." The cable host's deception came on Friday while she was spinning for the First Lady while ostensibly reporting on a speech Sarah Palin delivered in California:

In fact, on February 18, 2008, Mrs. Obama addressed a crowd in Wisconsin and announced, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change." [See video. MP3 audio here.]

On Thursday, Palin wondered, "You know, when I hear people say or had said during the campaign, that they had never been proud of America until, until that time, I think haven't they met anybody in uniform yet?" This prompted O'Donnell, during a supposedly straight news report, to chide, "Of course, Mrs. Obama never said that. She never said that she had not been proud of her country."

Now, perhaps O'Donnell was trying to argue grammatical semantics over the words "really" or "adult lifetime." But, clearly, Obama was saying that she hadn't previously been proud of America.

Of course, Norah O'Donnell is the same person who berated then-17-year old Jackie Seal for her support of Palin.

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Gotta watch these soulless media maggots like a hawk.

- JP

Keep 'em clean!

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Michelle Obama on The Tom Joyner Show Wednesday morning:

"And let me just tell your listeners that it means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us."

Clean spirits? Are those the ones who partner with good witches or the one who shower frequently with Irish Spring?

Bear in mind that the First Lady said this yesterday, not when she was in high school. Of course the Obamunist mediabots, who have been ridiculing Christine O'Donnell for saying when she was a teenager that she dabbled in witchcraft or something will get right on this story, and they'll be beating Mrs. Obama up with it. Just like the Obamunist mediabots have been beating up Sarah Palin for two years because an African minister visiting her church at the time prayed that she be kept free from "every form of witchcraft" or something.

Yes, you betcha that the Obamunist media and the secularist left will be all over Michelle Obama's "clean spirit" comments like... orange and black on rice... or witches on broomsticks or something.

Boo!

h/t: Michelle Malkin

- JP

Quote of the Day (January 7, 2010)

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John Dietrich:

"Michelle attended a luncheon for the homeless wearing a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers. On a trip to Russia, she was seen sporting what was thought to be a $5,950 VBH alligator manila clutch. The White House protested that she was actually carrying the $875 VBH patent leather clutch. This is perhaps another example of self-sacrifice. She has ordered a pair of thigh-high leather boots from Robert Clergerie, a famous French designer. Had Governor Sarah Palin made any of these purchases, she would have been criticized on the front pages of the major newspapers."

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Quote of the Day (May 1, 2008)

Comment to a post on Wizbang yesterday about Michelle Obama wearing $540 sneakers to volunteer at a food bank:

"She gets praise for being a fashion icon, where as someone like Sarah Palin got critized because money was spent on her clothing to look good during the elections."

Honorable Mention: McClatchy Watch, commenting on how Steven Thomma, McClatchy's DC political reporter, has suddenly noticed Joe Biden is a gaffe machine:

"Just imagine the reaction from McClatchy and the Anchorage Daily News and Tina Fey if Sarah Palin had told somebody in a wheelchair to stand up."

- JP