Before I start to hear from my bleeding heart leftist liberal friends, save it. This isn't really a politically motivated soap box rant on the state of the union under Obama. Nay, it's merely picking the usual and proverbial bone with someone. This someone just happens to be the big O's wife. I feel like Susan Powter: "Just stop the insanity!"  

Could someone please, please please, with a cherry on top, tell Michelle Obama to stop talking about how much food we should put into our children's happy meal or what we should serve for dinner or how we should all move around for at least 60 minutes a day? I mean, for crying out loud, who died and made her the authority on fitness and diet and nutrition?

Burning through this depressed country's waning resources, she feels fit (no pun intended) to travel around the country and pontificate on some higher values of eating healthy and right and all that nausea-inducing drivel. First of all, I do believe the first lady of the United States ought to find a worthier cause to furrow her finely chiseled brow over. She cannot control what other people's children eat. What a child eats for dinner is directly linked to what a mother or father puts on his or her plate. I surmise that the parents who are on food stamps and who are struggling to even put a roof over their own child's head will not be primarily focused on thinking about "healthy" choices at dinner time. Instead, these parents are thinking about whether or not they can even afford dinner in the first place. Second, those same mothers probably don't have the financial resources to shower their little ones with toys and prizes. If Michelle Obama had her way, she's remove all the Happy Meal and Fruit Loops cereal box toys from circulation. There'd be no poor child clasping that little McDonald's action figure as if it's his own life source because it was not part of the country's plan for his physical health. Give me a break, Mrs. O.

Mrs. Obama shouldn't be focusing her efforts on steering the government into the business of controlling how much and what kind of food goes into each value meal. It's just not right. For example, with so many families being affected by job loss and even home loss, some families might be trying to eek out two meals out of one at say, McDonalds or Popeye's. If the child doesn't eat all the french fries or chicken in her meal, maybe she'll eat it later as a snack or for lunch the next day. The same is true for the size of the hamburger--maybe eating half now and saving half for another meal is part of a family's survival plan. That's where Michelle Obama's "mission" appears really misguided and downright misappropriate. 

Perhaps there are more noble causes the big Mrs. O could have concerned herself with--oh say, gangs, drugs, underage drinking or even dropout rates. All these seem loftier and more worthy causes than policing the children's food industry. Perhaps Mrs. O should focus on what her own children are eating and whether or not they're being "active" or not. Leave everyone else's kids alone. But, oh, that's right, I forgot: Mrs. O's kids have their own personal chef/nutritionist so it's easy to practice what momma preaches.