The Obama obsession with food continues to dominate its message
Bookworm on Sep 17 2012 at 8:03 am | Filed under: Barack Obama
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post commenting on the way the Obama administration has a peculiar obsession with food:
There’s something about the Obama’s and food….
For the past three years, food has been an issue with the Obamas. During the recession, they’ve dined in style while others have clipped coupon. Wagyu beef, anyone?
Michelle made food her crusade, urging Americans to eat expensive, “healthy,” “organic” food (which has now proven to be just as nutritious as non-organic food), even as she was seen all over the world (and the TV) enjoying unhealthy food with gusto.
Although Barack Obama is regularly seen in public eating junk food, his increasing emaciation has led to Tabloids talking about him having an eating disorder.
What triggered those thoughts was a much-ridiculed (amongst conservatives) campaign email in which Michelle Obama urged people to give up a meal in order to donate to the Obama campaign.
Today, my email included another Obama solicitation for money, this one with a picture of Obama eating a meal that Michelle couldn’t possibly have approved. I’m no food expert, but that looks like a greasy burger and onion rings (emphasis in original):
Election Day is just weeks away — this could be your last chance to join President Obama for dinner during this campaign.
If I were you, I wouldn’t wait — we’ll even fly you and a guest out for free.
Of course, saying you’ve had dinner with the President makes a great story. But it’s also a really good time — can’t you just picture yourself there?
Maybe this will help:
You can learn a lot: His dad taught him to love jazz, his girls get crazy-embarrassed when he dances or sings in public, his dream job is starting point guard for the Chicago Bulls — and he really looks forward to sharing these meals with supporters like you.
Give $5 or whatever you can, and you’ll be automatically entered to win two seats (for you and your guest) at this election’s next — and final — Dinner with Barack:
I am at a loss to understand this strange obsession, especially during a recession, when a lot of people are struggling to put food on the table. Neither Michelle nor Obama suffered from hunger as children, something that, if true, could help explain their fanatical need to make food — especially their food — a part of America’s political discourse.
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Even stranger is that the other two plates visible in the photo have more healthful meals. Was this by their choice or was the choice of a burger and rings not available to the little people? Did someone try to order a burger only to have Michele countermand the order? Was the reason she gave for Obama and not others having the choice, because he’s the President?
“His dad taught him to love jazz, ”
Really? In that one visit they had together when Barack was 10 or so? His Kenyan father came back here from Africa & taught him to love jazz? How did I miss this story?
Food is frequently used as a distraction. I distinctly recall using it as a “tool” to divert behaviors in my children, while they were still malleable.
“his dream job is starting point guard for the Chicago Bulls — ” Was that a hyphen or did they intentinally omit the “hit”.
They offer food as an enticement because there are so damned many folks looking for a meal.
#3 Cheesestick:
“His dad taught him to love jazz, ”
Really? In that one visit they had together when Barack was 10 or so? His Kenyan father came back here from Africa & taught him to love jazz? How did I miss this story?
I was wondering the same thing. In Dreams From My Father, there is no mention of jazz until Barack Obama is in Chicago.
Oh well, just one more fiction in the life of Barack Obama. No big deal, saying his father taught him to love jazz. But guess who from Barack’s childhood knew jazz? Frank Marshall Davis. From Wiki:
Davis’s early columns covered labor issues, but he broadened his scope to write about cultural and political issues, especially racism. He also included the history of blues and jazz in his columns In 1945, he taught one of the first jazz history courses in the United States, at the Abraham Lincoln School[12] in Chicago.
Just sayin.’
Was the jazz lover info accompanied by “I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Marshall_Davis
Lessee “Fasting for Obama” or “Hunger Strike for Obama”? Which has the most dire – er, uh noble tone?
The blonde woman looks like Stephanie Cutter (not just an ordinary individual) and she looks nearly finished with her meal while others are just getting started. Maybe the Wagyu cow for Obama’s burger need a little more massage so it was late to the table? Or is it because Obama just ‘drones’ on? ”Obama with fries while people die”.
So these meal lottery tickets are paid for by the donations to the campaign? When will they have these meals? There seems to be about a month’s worth floating about…I guess he’ll have to golf a little less. :)
Ah! Thanks for that Gringo. I didn’t read the book so didn’t know where exactly that came from. I understand…sometimes I confuse my own dad with my communist mentor, NOT!! lol