Good to be the King: Obama orders 1,700-calorie burger, pushes fatty milkshake on 11-year-old boy

The rules only apply to the little people. Via drudge: OBAMA CELEBRATES DEBT HIKE:
1,700-CALORIE BURGER BINGE...

President Obama took his debt team out for burgers at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, giving new meaning to the "Popeye" character Wimpy's catchphrase "I'd gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today."

The White House said the outing, at which the president consumed a meal of about 1,700 calories, was a reward for the debt team's "nonstop" work over the last few months as they worked out a deal with Capitol Hill to extend the government's borrowing limit.

That's actually quite ironic for our Marxist community organizer-in-chief to be rewarding his minions based on merit while stripping any such notion from the private sector, no? Also ironically, th efighter of obesity pushed a fatty milkshake on a young boy: After Debt Bill, Obama Takes Staffers Out for Burgers

“Michelle eats here all the time, but I don’t get out,” Mr. Obama said of his wife, who’s had a burger named after her on the Good Stuff menu.

The lunch group included Mr. Obama’s budget director, Jack Lew; Vice President Joe Biden‘s chief of staff, Bruce Reed; the director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling; the White House’s top laison to Congress, Rob Nabors; and deputy White House Chief of Staff Nancy Ann DeParle. Mr. Obama sat at the table with a burger, fries and a salad in front of him, according to a pool report. The president was apparently in a good mood, sharing his spread with fellow diners, including 11-year-old Andrew Parker, who said Mr. Obama told him to choose any milkshake he wanted from his table.

Spreading the obesity around I guess.

His wife is even worse: :Obama: “I can’t stop eating french fries. But eat your vegetables”. Ironically, that happened the same day as Obama said this: ‘Eat our peas’: Pea growers react to Obama remark.  The reality here is that the Obamas are denying kids that which they indulge in, typical of ruling class mentality. Obama's plate is always full of things he denies others in regulating what's on your plate. Also, recently: Good to be the king: Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries... day after his wife unveils new dietary guide. By the way, it's also good to be the queen: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Feast On Ribs At Ski Resort, 1575 Calories Pers Serving, 175g Fat. Going on a diet is for the little people. Michelle Obama wants doctors to prescribe drugs for fat kids. She wants to restrict what children are allowed to eat. She has even talked about removing parents from the child nutrition picture altogether: Michelle Obama on Child Nutrition: ‘We Can’t Just Leave It Up To The Parents’. As part of the ruling class though, she has an abundance of hypocrisy in her veins. Dietary restrictions for thee, but not for me! Next time she piously lectures on the evils of saturated fats, remember this post. Such a thing isn't the first time that Obama's bitter half ignored her own edict either. From last year: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Orders Double Cheeseburger & Fries At Milwaukee Diner (With Video). She was called on her hypocrisy by ABC: Video: ABC On Michelle Obama's 1,700 Calories Of Hypocricy

Also, Michelle Obama urged black moms to LIE to their children to keep them from being fat

Detroit Free Press: Keep welfare going so obese Detroit kids don't starve or something

An editorial from The Detroit Free Press: Summer hunger pains, campaign sponsors step up

A brutal economy and cuts in public social programs have taken a huge toll on southeast Michigan, with more than 300,000 low-income children receiving free or reduced-price meals in school. When school is out in summer, those meals are gone, and the twin problems of hunger and poverty become even more critical.

Unfortunately, people's needs often rise when government has the fewest resources to meet them. This year, state government cut programs for poor people and further eroded the safety net communities rely on.

The good news is that corporations are picking up some of the slack for school-age children in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. The Charter One Foundation, Hiller's Markets, Hollywood Markets, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are partnering with Forgotten Harvest and Gleaners Community Food Bank -- Michigan's leading hunger relief agencies -- to raise $500,000 and provide an added 2 million meals this summer.

So is the freep here unintentionally admitting that the private market can do better than the government in meeting the nutritional needs of the poor? YOU BETCHA! If these private entities are doing this good in a time of recession, imagine how well they'll do in times of plenty of the government just got out of their way!

But back to the premise I had in the headline - how is it that the freep is lamenting cuts in food programs when Detroit is known to have overweight/obese kids? It's kind of like this:

From just a few short years back: Fattest cities in USA - Detroit, Houston...

1. Detroit
2. Houston
3. Dallas
4. San Antonio
5. Chicago

As I have mentioned several times before, around 20 years ago when I was a graduate student, I volunteered a lot of time to Focus Hope in Detroit delivering boxes of food to the needy. Two things I learned: 1) Homes owned by old people smelled really, really bad and everything in the homes were ancient. 2) Homes owned by welfare recipients universally had top-of-the-line tvs, stereos and cable tv or dishes. All welfare recipients that I saw were obese. Every. Single. One. So not only were they able to overfeed themselves, but had money left over for many modern conveniences. For the record, starving children look like this:

You will not see such a sight anywhere in the US, a country where having ac is quite absurdly a human right.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY: Anti-obesity programs fail, so feds try again.

Related: Tax the burgers, subsidize the peas
 
UPDATE #2: Ask for "The Michelle Obama Special" at the Shake Shack 

It's good to be the Queen: Michelle Obama orders 1,700-calorie lunch

The rules only apply to the little people.From the WaPo via memeorandum: Michelle Obama orders 1,556-calorie meal at Shake Shack (the WaPo fessed up to the mistake in the headline - the meal was actually 1,700 cals)

First lady Michelle Obama ordered a whopper of a meal at the newly opened Washington diner Shake Shack during lunch on Monday.

A Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed the first lady, who’s made a cause out of child nutrition, ordered a ShackBurger, fries, chocolate shake and a Diet Coke while the street and sidewalk in front of the usually-packed Shake Shack were closed by security during her visit.

According to nutritional information on Shake Shack’s Web site, the meal amounted to 1,700 calories.

Obama, who launched the “Let’s Move” campaign to combat childhood obesity last year, has previously admitted to having an “obsession with french fries”...

More on that last part here:Obama: “I can’t stop eating french fries. But eat your vegetables”. Ironically, this happened the same day as Obama said this: ‘Eat our peas’: Pea growers react to Obama remark. More from Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The Astute Bloggers, The Daily Caller, JammieWearingFool and The Lonely Conservative. The reality here is that she is denying kids that which she indulges in, typical of ruling class mentality. Her plate is full of things she denies others in regulating what's on your plate. All the while: Good to be the king: Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries... day after his wife unveils new dietary guide. By the way, it's also good to be the queen: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Feast On Ribs At Ski Resort, 1575 Calories Pers Serving, 175g Fat. Going on a diet is for the little people. Michelle Obama wants doctors to prescribe drugs for fat kids. She wants to restrict what children are allowed to eat. She has even talked about removing parents from the child nutrition picture altogether: Michelle Obama on Child Nutrition: ‘We Can’t Just Leave It Up To The Parents’. As part of the ruling class though, she has an abundance of hypocrisy in her veins. Dietary restrictions for thee, but not for me! Next time she piously lectures on the evils of saturated fats, remember this post. Such a thing isn't the first time that Obama's bitter half ignored her own edict. From last year: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Orders Double Cheeseburger & Fries At Milwaukee Diner (With Video)

UPDATE: Should have linked this too: Audio: Michelle Obama urges black moms to LIE to their children to keep them from being fat

Good grief. Recall what Obama's bitter half said exactly 2 months ago: Michelle Obama on Child Nutrition: ‘We Can’t Just Leave It Up To The Parents’