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Bash A Fattie For Freedom
The Militarization of American continues apace: now Michelle Obama, wife to America’s president, claims an “epidemic” of obesity imperils – you guessed it – our all-important National Security. At a recent White House ceremony Mrs. Obama intoned, “This epidemic also impacts the nation’s security, as obesity is now one of the most common disqualifiers for military service.” I was unaware that sitting in some dimly lit room down in Florida, punching buttons to fly Predator drones on the other side of the globe, required a ripped set of abs.
Granted, every American president’s wife is expected to make the rounds of whatever Do-Gooder project rings her bell, and Mrs. Obama has simply latched onto bashing fat people. Her words are telling, though, as more than anything they point to the complete acceptance among our political elite of the idea that our children are raw material for their war machine. Years ago Charles Mackey wrote of Europe’s political masters “war was the business and the delight of their existence”. How little progress we’ve made.
Politics has always attracted a specific type of mind and for me personally I’d rather have as president a fat slob of a pacifist than a body builder full of health and blood lust. There are more important things in life than a trim waistline.
- First Ladies by Maarja Krusten (February 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM)
- Re: First Ladies by Rick Croley (February 11, 2010 at 10:29 PM)
- Re: First Ladies by Maarja Krusten (February 12, 2010 at 6:24 AM)
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