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Being the Patron Saint of Childhood Obesity is no fun

Michelle jumps the shark on 2012 Democratic National Convention



imageMrs. Barry Soetoro has come out of the kitchen and gone into convention mode. You may be hungry, worried about finding work or possible mortgage foreclosure, but not Michelle Obama, who, according to an email sent out to cyberspace yesterday, is “thrilled” to be so far ahead on the calendar. Put aside all that silly worry and life’s struggle to think ahead to the week of September 3, 2012 and the (drum roll) 46th Democratic National Convention. How the unwashed masses are going to get from the coldest winter on record, past galloping inflation; how they’re going to keep food on the table and escape other horrors manufactured by the regime of her better half; how folks are going to keep their non-incandescent lightbulbs and heat on; how TEA Party members are going to survive smears, is not her problem.

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Mo is coming well ahead of time to a convention near you, and not even reality is going to stop her. “I can’t believe it has been more than two years since my brother Craig introduced me at the 2008 Convention in Denver,” Obama wrote on her “Thrilled” email. “It truly feels like it was yesterday.” To many in the masses it feels more like forever. But basking in the times when she “looked out at a sea of thousands of supporters that night”, when she “spoke about my husband--the man whom this country would go on to elect as the 44th President of the United States”--has put the usually sulking Mo in a rare good mood about DNC’s 2012 host city, Charlotte, North Carolina. Describing Charlotte as having an “up by the bootstraps mentality”, Obama goes on to extol the many virtues of the “Queen City”, including “of course” its fame for the “great barbecue”. “To help us make sure this is a grassroots convention--The Peoples Convention--we need to hear from you. We want to know what you’d like to see at next year’s convention....” “No Greek columns” should be the first idea sent in as a response. And don’t worry, you don’t have to send $5 by midnight this time. With hubby getting all the attention by having seized King of the World status via the ongoing tragedy of Egypt, it was only a matter of time before Barack’s Mrs. came leapfrogging into the limelight. Being the Patron Saint of Childhood Obesity is no fun when it’s a post that, due to no food on the plate, let alone carrot sticks and celery, gets her so little public attention. Folk are too busy surviving to pay much attention to Obama’s big convention plans. Like so many graduates of the School of Environmentalism with claims to knowledge with no credentials backing it all up, Obama’s no pro on either the convention or the food front. Everyone knows it would take someone who’s actually been there to know what it’s like to scrape by. Even with no paper trail, folks know that Michelle Obama, who led a charmed life, has never had to scrape by. The First Lady in the White House who’s made a profession of The Luxury Holiday, is looking for a legacy. But people who have to stretch every food dollar to feed their hungry broods, are little impressed with the legacies of unqualified food cops and convention shills. Even before they knew she would be jumping on the 2012 DNC bandwagon, people were putting aside their “Gore’s a Bore” “Save the Environment from Global Warming Hype” bumper-stickers for “MYOB (Mind Your Own Business), Michelle!” ones.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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