(CNN) – Sarah Palin is again taking aim at Michelle Obama over her anti-obesity campaign, taking the opportunity in Sunday's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" to land a diss against the first lady's efforts to improve nutrition.
While making s'mores at one point during Sunday's episode, the former Alaska governor proclaims the marshmallow and chocolate treat is "in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert."
It's not the first time Palin has taken a jab at Mrs. Obama over her campaign to discourage fattening foods, especially from public schools. The former vice presidential nominee told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham last month that "the first lady cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat."
Palin also hand-delivered cookies to a Pennsylvania school last month before delivering a speech there, saying: "Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents."
Palin's comments Sunday appear to be in reference to a speech Michelle Obama delivered in July, during which she described her own upbringing when it came to food and exercise.
"In the afternoon, there was no way we'd be allowed to lie around the house watching TV," she told the NAACP in a Kansas City speech. "Our parents made us get up and play outside."
"As I tell my kids, dessert is not a right," she added.
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This is the same nut that want the gov't to tell parents their kids ought to have the same religious beliefs as her...
Sarah needs to realize that there are a lot of parents who don't try to make their children eat healthy foods but let them each junk food and sweets whenever they want. She needs to stay home, eat s'mores as she watches Russia on her front porch and stay out of debates she knows nothing about.
Once again Sarah Palin has inseted foot in mouth. She is either really really stupid and doesn't even understand the point the First Lady is making or she just doesn't care how low she stoops to get press. God help us if she is ever elected to anational office.
She;s an idiot and anyone who follows her or would even think of voting for her is an idiot too.
Now Sarah is campaigning against good nutrition and slamming a woman who is actually accomplishing some good for the country. Sarah, you're not fit to be her scullery maid!
Sarah Palin needs to get a life! I totally agree with Michele Obama does she know how much it cost to treat a child with diabetes? No. I'm sure she doesn't. We are on of the most unhealthiest countries, sad. No said your kids can't have sweets but why should that be all they eat. Its hard for most parents to feed their kids healthly foods because the healthy foods are too expensive. It would be nice it kids could at least get one good meal a day in their life. Sarah Plain makes me sick she tries to attack any and everything the Obama's do and never has a solution!
You go, Michelle. Sure, parents SHOULD be the ones to tell their kids what to eat, but unfortunately too many parents don't bother guiding their kids in good eating habits, otherwise we would not have an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. In the absence of good parenting, I have no problem with good, common sense advice on eating being introduced at the schools. I just wish the media would stop covering Sarah Palin, and maybe she would go away. What a ninny.
Does anyone notice Palin always criticizes but never has a solution? CNN and the rest of th emedia, every word out of her mouth is not a news event!
Another comment designed to attract attention so as to further her self promotion. What a bunch of fools we are.
OK dumbo, the first lady means in moderation! Idiot!
I agree with Michelle Obama to get off the couch and play and excersise, but not about having a dessert once in awhile.
Idiot splendor........ Does she always have to be so snarky and negative?
How anyone can have a problem with an anti-obesity campaign is beyond me, but somehow I think if Michelle Obama were pro anything Palin would find a way to be against it. I also think CNN is being awfully generous in linking Palin's statement to Michelle Obama's speech to the NAACP – it seems far more likely that she's flat out made it up based on truthiness for the talk radio crowd.
A drowning man will catch at a straw. That's what Sarah Palin is doing. Michelle Obama never said we shouldn't eat dessert. Her statement indicates she thinks it should be a treat, not something to eat all the time. Nothing is wrong with that. Around Thanksgiving M.O. said we should enjoy the holidays & not worry about calories. Sarah Palin needs to back off! If parents were doing a great job, then childhood obesity wouldn't be an issue you lunatic! M.O. also never said the govt should control what kids eat; she said ALL of us should be involved (parents & govt alike). Get it right S.P.
Count on Palin to advocate bad health.
Sarah Palin obviously is a true conservative – she believe in limited government, in her case the limited governance is in controling her own children. ("Now dont you be going getting pregnant, you betcha"). She cant keep her mouth under control, never mind her own children.
Just when I thought that Palin could not posibbly become anymore stupid, she once again has raised the bar. If there is ever a remake of the Wizard of Oz, she is a natural for the role of the Scarecrow because she has the song "If I only had a brain" down perfectly. Its beyond comprehension that anybody can take this person seriously.
Petty Palin....Enough said.
Sarah would like all of us to be fat and stupid and lazy. I suppose those people are easier to sway come election day.
This from the woman a week ago who was calling for greater U.S. government spending to support the health of suffering Haitians and she can even find the decency to support the Hunger Free Kids Act in her OWN country. This is beyond shameful! So very very saaaddddd!
I find Michelle Obama to exude class, education and at least intelligent. Unlike grifter Sarah Palin who has to earn her keep
by being a carnival barker for the trickery of the Republicans by selling poisoned tea. At least Michelle is qualified to hold a position on the INSIDE of the capitol and doesn't earn her keep as a traveling snake oil salesman, peddling Un-American ideology disguised as conservatism. Nancy is also not a quitter. Unlike the half-term oddity, Palin. Discouraging the childhood obesity program by bringing cookies to a parent's meeting. It is proof in the book(rag) that Pallin is pushing
with lies that the first lady is not proud of our country that she is jealous of and only wishes that she was half the American woman that Michelle Obama is.
What a bunch of dimwits our country has seem to become.
Does EVERYTHING this harpy says have to have a knife edge to it? She has to be the most negative vindictive politician out there. Grifter.
This woman has to be one of the most ignorant in recent history! She shows that ignorance every single time she opens her mouth. Now to criticize the First Lady for her efforts to do something about the sorry state of the health and fitness of our country in incredible.
I guess what I was really hoping, with the recent passing of such a grand lady like Elizabeth Edwards, was that we could have a moratorium on stories about this imbecile who gets so much press while other women more qualified and talented are ignored.
She acts like she is still in high school.
Obesity is a killer in this country and if you want to talk about health-care costs, you can start with how much poor nutrition, which often leads to obesity, contributes to the astronomical amount of money we spend on health care. Our government is most certainly not going to dictate what we must feed ourselves or our children, but we would do well to heed the advice for the sake of our kids' health and well-being. Palin is a simple-minded dolt and the media pay way too much attention to the idiotic words that comes out of this woman's mouth.
Sarah palin is sad beyond belief! Dessert never was a "right" in my house as a kid, either. You shouldn't be eating dessert after every meal, either – it'll make you fat! (Kids are fat because their parents allow them to be – by feeding them a steady diet of fast-food and junk, and allowing them to be sedentary game junkies!!)) I think Michelle Obama's nutrition program makes a hell of a lot more sense than anything Sarah Palin's done – like leaving her job 18 months into her term (and one step ahead of a power-abuse scandal) to go into permanent campaign mode. Hey Sarah – why don't you do something worthwhile, that benefits other's lives, before you start criticizing what other folks do to help people!
How incredibly petty and chilldish. The first lady is advocating for better nutrition and health for children, and this shallow woman has to get in adolescent digs and bash her. What a prize she is.
Sarah Palin behaves like a high-school mean girl. Is this really what America would want as a leader? A snarky, snippy, "zinger-flingin" pit bull? I would certainly hope not. At least, it's not what I want. I would prefer someone who thinks about what they are going to say before they say it.
This country doesn't need someone who amuses themself by being a smartass.
I didn't think that M. Obama meant that kids can't eat cookies. I think she was saying that kids should have proper nutrition. That's all. The message of proper nutrition and exercise SHOULD be put out there. Look at the staggering number of obese kids in the US! Most of these kids got their poor nutrition from their parents and developed these habits through them. Once these habits are there, it's hard to break them as adults.
Some neighborhoods don't even sell nutritious food. I think attention need to brought to this. I don't think for a minute that the government is going to take away a child's right to a cookie. Palin needs to stop trying to be Rush Limbaugh (shock-jocking) and just go away.
hey sarah...no matter how low you stoop just so you can get notoriety...Mrs Obama has a lot more grace than you. something you can never top. Learn to live with that
"Dessert is not a right" has been translated in to "Michelle Obama says we should not have dessert"??? Seriously? Wow, Ms. Palin is really losing me here.
Why does CNN keep covering this idiot?
Once again, Palin distorting and demagoguing. Palin, please fall off the planet.
Man, is she missing the point (as usual). It scares me that people think she can one day be president. It's just one poor decision after another.
Wow, so Palin is opposed to reducing obesity?
Palin is not fit to wipe Michelle Obama's shoes. Intellect, wisdom, ability, class. All lacking in the former. When will this poor excuse for a human being go home and shut up. Just wondering - who's with her kids? The other "intellect" in the family?
I should add that I must be as evil as Michelle Obama because dessert is not a right for my son either. It is only if he has eaten a decent meal jst as I was raised. I guess Ms. Palin falls under the "no disciplne for children" camp?
Michelle Obama should specifically target lower income folk that remain to praise her as a leader along with the fast food industries, that could truly make a difference in the well being of people to eat better and if they did so help reduce others health care premiums that support them in their lifestyles.
Sister Sarah, I am interested in your feedback concerning the issue of childhood obesity. This is a very real issue among our nation's children. Why is it that you continue your jokes and making fun of such a serious issue, but make no serious comments concerning this issue.
Why do you find it a joke that so many are over weight? Really...are you able at all to talk about anything in a serious manner, why is everything a joke with a wink and a smile...that serves no purpose and does not help to resolve anything.
Palin proves herself to be a hopeless idiot, and a mean-spirited one at that. I love dessert, but her complaints against the First Lady are shameful and tactless. Once again Ms. Palin shows herself to be a white trash bimbo and demonstrates her envy of our classy, educated and beautiful First Lady.
Nice to see she is not above taking cheap shots at the first lady.
Anything Palin.... what great editorial policy...good ol' CNN. That dessert comment was great!!
dang...Palin's still acting like a high school cheerleader? grow up Palin and start acting like an adult.
Palin should spend more time taking care of her kids...who certainly must be missing their mom since she make sure she gets on TV more than anyone else in the universe. Parents obviously aren't doing the job – they are not feeding their kids properly and not making them exercise, else we wouldn't be a nation of fat people. And I am a fat person, so don't try to turn this around and make it like I'm against fat people. Mrs. Obama was just trying to encourage parents to get their kids "moving" so that when they are older they won't have health problems. Seriously Sarah, get with it.
Sarah.... You snapping on Michelle for caring about the health of our children? And you are contemplating on whether or not you want to run for president? You ARE suppose to care about everyone INCLUDING OUR CHILDREN. Her anti-obesity campaign is to benefit our children, my goodness. Stop trying to make it political...
What a shame that this woman is too stupid to know when to just plain SHUT UP.
Take a walk through any grade school or middle school in America..........I'd be willing to bet over half the kids are overweight.
Not all parents can be with their children 24/7.......like you Mother Palin. (where/when DO her children go to school?) Why not have the choices that kids have to make be healthy ones, when parents can't be there?
That woman is an idiot.
So Ms Palin you are saying no one should tell us what to eat. What are you doing? This is very immature on your part and really shows no class. I really think that you are a very disrespectful person. We have been told what we should eat since before I was born, fruits, veggies, protien, milk. We were taught that in health class a hundred years ago..
damstraight, straight-shooting, re-loading, liberty loving lady, sarah. run sarah run. from the truth. "she's just like us" - a supremely uneducated and distracted mother of unschooled, diabetic-prone, teen-pregnant, off-spring. you so natural, girl. eat just like an eskimo, eh. yeah, i didn't read the second book, but i understand you are now an intellectual. so give us your 140 character take on every single thing that happens in your world. please sarah please. i so luv a lady in leather whose packing the heat..
Sarah...you're out of High School now. Act like it.
Thank God for Sarah-we need a little humor in our lives right now.
Seriously...with the obesity epidemic in our country today, the last thing I would think someone would take issue with is a First Lady trying to make a difference and bring awareness to what people put in their bodies. I once saw a baby with orange soda or kool aid or something in a bottle. I saw a woman bribe her already terribly obese 3-year old with chicken nuggets. Its not the government saying what a person should eat...its a First Lady trying to get people to think about it more and setting an example from her own family. Geesh.
Mrs. Obama out classes Palin in every way possible. Go away you intellect challenged, self promoting, harpy. Nobody cares what you think.
CNN – Please stop giving this woman a platform. Michelle Obama is not only one of the most incredible First Ladies this country has ever seen, but she's 100 times the woman and mother that the former governor of Alaska will ever be.
More proof if you need it that this woman is not living in the real world. Mrs Obama is right to bring to light the problems with our over weight children. Children now have a greatly higher risk of medical problems that use to be associated with middle aged individuals, and most of this stems from their weight. If their weight and health is tackled at an early age it will same them from a lot of medical problems in their youth and adulthood and save on health costs that is rocketing because of our poor diets. Well done to you Mrs Obama.
And this is the woman who supposedly wants to be President, have control of our nukes, military, economy and she is talking about desserts. Sarah the Quitter is not a serious person.
Oh Palin, Palin, Palin...
I think Mrs. Palin is missing the point of what the First Lady is trying to do. Often times, parents feed their kids unhealthy food not because they want to see their kids turn into morbidly obese lumps of fat but because they are uneducated about diet, health and proper nutrition.
I come from a Cuban family and when I was a kid, eating fried food was a way of life. It wasn't until I became health conscious that I began eating right. I also educated my parents on the benefits of healthy eating and encouraged them to "read the label", that they too began eating right.
Mrs. Obama is raising awareness and attempting to educate parents and children on eating right. Additionally, kids eat ju8nk food all of the time without at parent necessarily knowing about it; by removing unhealthy snacks from schools, kids are less likely to get a hold of them. School are supposed to be a place of education. What a better place to educate are kids about healthy eating than a school.
Palin and her reality TV show are just another publicity stunt for her failed Presidential run in 2012. Can't she just go away? Hide under a rock?
I mean, the Republicans don't even like her.
Sarah Palin is gettin uglier everyday...both internally and physically. She's becoming more demonic than a King of Kings child.
Is she the voice of Alaska? Did the people of Alaska actually voted her Gov.?
LORD HAVE MERCY
How childish, how like Ms Palin.
I guess The Learning Channel wants us to learn how to be irrelevant, disrespectful and controversial just because we have an audience...
Mocking Michelle Obama's efforts to improve America's eating habits is moronic..
OR, is Discovery another arm of the "Right" wing?
Sarah Palin is so stupid. To go after a popular first lady is not going to win her any votes. It was a sad day when old John McCain brought her on the scenes unvetted.
I sincerely wish that Ms Palin would stuff all of those smores into her big yapping mouth and shut up. Mrs. Obama is a great lady and her husband is the greatest president that we have ever had in my opinion. I love them both. Ms palin on the other hand is rude and crass, dumb, and stupid beyond belief. If she by some quirk of the totally insane haters in our country gets voted in in, our country is doomed; just doomed.
Of course, it just wouldn't be a normal day without CNN's daily "Guess what Sarah said?!?!" segment. As Palin quit her job as governor to cash in on book deals, speaking tours, and now a reality show; I am at a loss as to why her opinions are at all news worthy, especially when it's basically "Same banality, different day". It's funny that; while Palin refers CNN as the "lamestream media", you all still eagerly facilitate her 15 minutes of fame. She needs CNN to keep her in the spotlight in order to help her bankrole, but II am at a loss as to why CNN needs Palin. The entire relationship between Palin and CNN seems to operate on the same level of maturity of a bunch of 5th graders at recess.
CNN - Must these Sarah Palin fluff pieces float at the top of the political ticker DAILY!?!?
Yes, I know she is cheerleader-in-chief regardless of her political viability. I don't even mind the obsessive reporting on her. There is just no reason to keep her floating daily at the TOP of what used to be a politics digest. Can't you make an entertainment venue for her? Or, at least let her trail down like the rest of the articles.
Seriously. If not, I'm going to look elsewhere for news.
Heaven forbid Michelle Obama encourage kids to eat healthier food.
What did Sarah say to Bristol about making good decisions?
Seriously, why does anyone care about this walking train wreck and her crew?
Do us all a favor, stay in Alaska. Your family needs you.
SHUT HER UP! I'm sick to death of this moron's dumb comments on everything under the sun.
Palin, not being so bright, made her comments at a PRIVATE school in Pennsylvania. One not affected by public school doings. And I thought her show was about Alaska, not her own ignorant, trivial political beliefs.
No...Sarah Palin wants no government control that would prevent obesity (a raging epidemic), yet she wants ABSOLUTE government control of a woman's right to chose, she wants you to allow religion in schools (preferrably a Jesus-based one), and wants to outlaw teaching evolution in schools at the same time.
She is the scary type that believes fossils are no more than 10,000 years old, and that we all just suddenly appeared a day or before God took the 7th day off for vacation.
Yes...stuff the kiddies with cookies and fantasies....fry their brains so they will believe anything....and then go out and tell their mom's and dads that all's well with the world. Palin is one baked Alaskan.
Do we have to hear about every little piece of drivel she utters? Remind me ,who is she?
Once again Ms. Palin, how do you propose to help reduce childhood obesity? Oh, I forgot, you don't offer solutions only unqualified jabs that don't have an ounce of thought behind them OK CNN...Enough! Stop giving this woman attention that is simply not deserved. Stop it now!
Sarah Palin is again taking aim at Michelle Obama over her anti-obesity campaign, taking the opportunity in Sunday's "Sarah Palin's Alaska" to land a diss against the first lady's efforts to improve nutrition
Based on preview clips, the show focuses on family and the great outdoors - not on politics. But the blog set up for the site does have a section on politics, called "Not Taking Sides."
you betcha
What is this girl all about? She moans and groans about this and that while smiling all time. I had an acute gas pain that made me like that for a week or two, but hey ... Sarah has been at this stuff nonstop since we met her. Isn't it bear season yet?
Why is it news that a former-politician-turned-reality-tv-person who has zero knowledge of nutrition and routinely ignores scientific consensus is against promoting sound nutrition practices? Gee, what's next... an article about how she "doesn't believe" in global climate change or evolution by natural selection?
That someone who has no knowledge (let alone expertise) of a field of study is dismissing what all the experts in that field say should not be news.
Palin has a talent for twisting and distorting things and then adding a couple of "aw shucks" to make her seem "down to earth," doesn't she? She is insane.
With her book sales beginning to slip, and her show's ratings down, is it POSSIBLE, that this woman's time in the limelight may be waning? I can only hope. What a ridiculous attitude toward nutritional awareness! I really don't care what this woman has to say or tweet. WHY does CNN seem to be fixated on her every comment? If it were on FOX online or television, I could understand.
She's right of course – it ought to be the parents who decide what foods their children eat. Oh, wait! An awful lot of them don't and an awful lot of them have no idea what their children eat at school and an awful lot of them really don't have the gumption to do something. What she appears to be serving doesn't look too healthy either.
What the heck is wrong with Palin? I mean seriously – if there is anyplace she could find common ground with the Obama's – it would be this issue. Clearly Palin eats well, and I hear she runs regularly.. so why make this issue another division? It just show's how eager she is to score political points, even if it's destructive. Palin should realize that not all kids have parents who give their children healthy food and encourage them to excercise. Clearly THOSE are the people that the Obama's are targeting.
I'm glad it was a Republican who was leading the "Just say no to drugs" campaign (Nancy Reagan).. or Palin would probably be all about telling kids to light a crack-pipe before bed just to be "opposite".
What a liar Sarah Palin is. She continues to distort the truth while proclaiming to be a Christian. She is one of the counterfeit Christians led by the other headline makers such as Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly who constantly lie and distort the truth. In the end they will all meet, but not in heaven. God is the ultimate judge and Christians who worship in Spirit and Truth please speak up and defend Christianity against these ungodly imitators.
Palin is a disgrace to any politics that resemble intelligence.
Have Sarah Palin deliver 300 lb 16 year olds, as I do as an Ob/Gyn. This woman's ignorance never ceases to astound me. Anyone who can find fault with a movement to help kids eat more nutritiously and live healthier really has issues.
She continues to prove herself to be the idiot that we all know she is. Enough about Sarah Palin.......
I'd like to see both of these women disappear. Instead of maintaining intelligent discourse on issues that really matter they resort to petty snide comments that people expect women to make resulting in the degradation of women in American society.There are fine intelligent women in this country but not these two.
If we do as Sarah Palin suggests, then take it one step further. We, the tax payers, should not have to pay for medical care provided by Medicaid for the results of poor nutrition like Diabetes and heart disease or pay higher insurance premiums because the risk pool is less healthy. Sarah Palin is setting a very poor example!!! Not the least bit presidential.
What a sad bitter petty little ninny.
Wow, nice to see Palin and the Republicans are working so hard to address the major issues. Future looks sweet
As the picture suggests, the best place for Palin is as a cafeteria waitress. She MIGHT be able to handle those responsibilities without quitting.
Palin is once again proving that she is an idiot. What babblin Palin does not comprehend is that when children are at school, the parents have no control what their kids eat. Sometimes these coprporation are more interested in the bottom line than children health. So Michelle caring about children unlike palin who just cares about political stupidity, wanted to have schools have healthier option to choose from. And who can blame the first lady, choice is good and now the children will have a choice in what they choose to eat. In Palins world, goverment can decide what choices are made for people, as long as it fits in palin ideologies.
The only close to healthy food I see on her plate is the salt infested pickles. Lots of carbs and lots of saturated fats in her diet. It is parents like Ms. Palin that make it necessary to spend money on healthy foods in school because parents are not providing it at home. Case in point...pictures tell a thousand words.
What a complete bafoon. Seriously, I don't know why CNN insists on having a space for her on the front page every day about her stupid comments. Michelle Obama has more class in her toe nail than Caribou Barbie has in her entire family tree. Another swing and miss from Ms. Priss.
This is a job befitting of Palin. Its good to see her serve up something besides lies and ignorance.
Once her kids start having health problem, Sarah Palin will change her tune. This is all political. She doesn't care whether kids eat healthy or not. This is just a way of her getting more media attention, which is sickening. I wish the media would stop reporting on this woman.
The irony is, by delivering those cookies to A SCHOOL Palin circumvented the parents right to choose if their children could have one!!!!!
Even the right wingnuts have to admit that Palin is the most negative, hateful, uninformed, ignorant candidate they have running for president. And that includes, Newt and Santorum.
I love that parents are supposed to decide who eats cookies, but then Palin foists cookies on the kids. Did she ask, "would your parents want you to eat this cookie?
Palin has severe mental issues and the same old same old petty, ugly, vindictave crap is getting old. I've seen this movie before CNN. Try to get a little more original CNN!
I find Michelle Obama to exude class, education and at least intelligent. Unlike grifter Sarah Palin who has to earn her keep
by being a carnival barker for trickery of the Republicans by selling poisoned tea. At least Michelle is qualified to hold a position on the INSIDE of the White House and doesn't earn her keep as a traveling snake oil salesman, peddling Un-American ideology disguised as conservatism for her ignorant followers to digest. And Encouraging childhood obesity by bringing cookies to a school parent's meeting. Michelle is also not a quitter. Unlike the half-term oddity, Palin. Who proves in her pathetic rag called a book that she is jealous of and only wishes that she was half the American woman that Michelle Obama is.
Stupidity is an equal opportunist. That's quite evident in another Palin assertion that going after the First Lady regarding better eating habits for kids is the government's way of controlling what the American people feed their kids. Really? Really Palin? She's doing her part in trying to help Americans live a better, healthier life by setting the example and ENCOURAGING people to change their eating habits. What are you doing along that front? Not a damn thing! So just shut up and go back to Alaska. Really!
Finally, a job she's qualified to do. :O)
The Wasilla Imbecilla has taken stupidty to a whole new level. Governmental and private agencies have more data on the effects of all foods on children, teens, adults, and seniors. Most parents have no way of reading or even obtaining most of these data. Oh wait, these data are scientific. The quitter doesn't believe in science.
She might have an iota of credibility if she would be vet her information . . . you have an increased number of children suffering from a myriad of obsesity related illness. Sarah: Why don't you call Michelle and find out how you can help those children? Guess it is easier to post online and mouth off – than really contribute.
I can't believe how immature Sarah Palin is. She's like the soccer mom who trips her neighbors kid during the big game.
Obviously, Palin is still living in High School. This is the kind of very crass, uninformed, idiotic stuff the "mean girls" would say. Michelle Obama is just trying to get kids and parents aware of the value of good nutrition. That's all. What's so bad about that? No one is against an occasional dessert. Too many children in this country live on fast food and snacks. It's becoming increasingly clear how weird Palin is. Spooky weird.
"The former vice presidential nominee told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham last month that "the first lady cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat.""
It's not about what parents serve their kids as much as its about what schools serve kids over which parents have virtually no control. Sarah should get her facts straight before she speaks.
She really is a complete and total idiot. Michelle is just trying to make this world a healthier place. I guarantee you if a Republican wife had done this, Sarah would not have a problem with it. But then again, she is such a clueless idiot, who knows?
I swear if this woman is elected President in 2012, then the world may very well come to an end 2 years from tomorrow.
How incredibly yet not surprisingly juvenile of Palin. America please...do the right thing if you REALLY care about your kids' futures.
Parents have done such a great job, continually fast fooding it. Sarah should keep her baking to herself, family, and maybe an occasional homeless person should they come her way.
It is a snarky, mean, spiteful, intentionally controversial dig. It is also pointless and wrong. (Ms. Obama did not say that.) Pretty typical Palin.
So, now eating cookies is a symbol of our freedom??? How close to a 5 year old can we get? Worse, she's bringing cookies around to people and telling them to "be bad, it's ok". How is this different from the 13 year old drug dealer telling kids to smoke weed to be cool just because teachers and parents said it was harmful?
Very presidential Sarah. I expect to hear many more words of wisdom from you during your half term as president.
This is why the country has huge population of DIABETES. Isn't her party are the party of NO healthcare! Sooooo funny that she is pushes deserts bad diets and keeping america on PILLS PILLS! She is also sooooo jealous of Michelle Obama. She cannot stand the fact. She is MORE popular! Sarah is cynical and downright sad. What a sad thing when political figures have to slam first wives. Sarah Palin is a big hypocrite. What surprising is> its okay to slam his wife his kids his religion. Nothing is off limits when your black in America. She has no respect for the highest office unless you look like Bush. at least the whole world can now see that race is A HUGE problem and will continue to be long after the experiment.
Sarhah Palin is a mindless moron.
Sarah Palin will be the death of America...
Who cares what Piggy Palin thinks she is a stain on the fabric of democracy, a liar, a looser and a traitor to all who put trust in her . Who cares what this wacko has to say. Charles Bowen Solomon Stone
I'm tired of being smart alec about it, I just gotta ask. Why CNN? This has nothing to do with politics. This is someone who is OCD with being in the spotlight, who upon any comment that has anything to do with washington more than it has to do with Gossip is instantly thrown the cover of breaking news. Its expected with Fox to cover everything she does, but come on CNN! Its supposed to be a news network! Not Gossip or TMZN. If you feel the desire to continue 24/7 Palin coverage, why not break out political ticker into a serious and not serious (like this) section?
geeze CNN enough is enough. If people want to hear what the quitter says on her show they can watch it. I am anticipating the day I read this on your site:
Sara Palin farts.
Sorry Palin...Michelle is right and you are wrong....AGAIN!!!
The irony is that if you take a look at the children of this country...I think its quite clear that parents are having a very hard time feeding their kids healthy food. Certainly there are a variety of reasons from financial to ignorance, but they need help..and that is ok. How can her supporters from the South and Midwest where obesity is a rampant among kids diasagree when they take their kids to the husky section or have to buy elastic waist band pants? How about our Armed Forces who are having to reject more and more recruits b/c they are overweight? Palin's message is dangerous and nothing other than self-serving. Can someone please tell her supporters that its ok to disagree with her on certain things?
This idiot can burp and cnn will make like it's national news. I feel cnn and other media outlets focus on Palin because she say stupid things and bring controversy. You are just fattening her purse which is all she cares about. How stupid is it to blast someone who suggest eating healthly.
She's raking in the dough [pun intended]. That's all Sarah Louise Palin is about, these days. How much media attention and how much money she can obtain from her appearances. Its commonly known as being a "media ho".
Why – why – why does anyone in his or her right mind listen to this babbing nitwit? Stop giving her any press coverage and maybe she will fade back into moose country once and forever.
Take a good look at the picture – this is the ONLY thing this woman is qualified to do and I am sure those in the food service industry don't want her around either.
ALL of us can do with a little less dessert – take a look at your own children MS Palin and you should be instuting the little less dessert plan!!!!!
How can you compare class to class-less? Mrs. Obama has effectively addressed a much needed cause for our country's children. Brava to Michelle Obama!
Thank God we have a classy, well educated First Lady like Michelle. And Sarah, please make your money and go away. How much longer do we have to endure you?
What possible reason does Sarah Palin have for dissing Mrs Obama? Sour grapes, that's what. So much of what she says is just sour grapes over losing the election. Get over it, lady. And CNN? This isn't news. Please stop fawning over this woman. You're just encouraging her.
I guess Palin thinks obesity is myth much like the earth being round and global warming.
Michelle Obama does not ban dessert – she advocates personal responsibility. As usual, Palin lies in an attempt to create hysteria. It is a sad situation when people actually believe her.
Good thing these people weren't around during the Nancy Reagan and "Just Say No" years....they would be saying "Who should be deciding what I smoke? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents."
Good to see Sarah's as small minded as ever.
Tell the Danalai Ditz to crawl back into the hole she came out of. Fighting childhood obesity and early onset diabetes are worthwhile and laudible goals. When Palin accomplishes anything besides quitting and showing what a bunch of buffoons the right is she can talk, although why anyone would listen is beyond me. Leave the first lady out of your partisan bullshit because if anyone is fair game it's Todd and Bristol. You remember Todd the Union member fisherman who must have cut his testicles off in a cleaning accident because any Union member that would back this idiot deserves to have to listen to the voice without a damn thing of substance to say. (I thought John McCain should have had his balls cut of for nomnating her but by his recent party line votes shows me he really doesn't have any balls, maverick my ass!) B Palin and her abstinance commercial with the situation was quite successful as well since I didn't see any reason to keep that gene pool going. If it wasn't for the government building a pipeline in Alaska and funnelling huge dollars up there under Republican regimes we wouldn't have to listen to this moron. Get government out of Alaska today.
Does exactly what our first lady is ecouraging parents to do, not to over eat. Eat more nutritious meals and exercise. Dont you know how to read Palin or the mashmallows got to your brain too????
Really Sarah???? How long will we pay attention to this brainless chic take bits of speeches and use them for her own twisted pointless attacks on someone who has an interest in seeing our CHILDREN be healthy!!
Palin is nothing, if not catty and ignorant.
There is something seriously wrong with Palin. She is not right.
Can Palin's statements be any more of a window into just how clueless she really is? How can she ask if the government should decide what we eat. They DO IT ALREADY by limiting the number of poisons in food to putting the reccomended daily allowances of vitamins on food packages. Considering for many families (too many in my opinion) the school breakfast and / or lunch is the majority of their children's food intake, the government SHOULD ensure that what they eat is healthy. If she is the 2012 Republican Nominee, it will be a low point in american history.
What a disgusting person Palin is. She is totaly distorting what Mrs.Obama is trying to do. Her ratings will continue to plummet but she doesn't care. She's making alot of money and is just another Ann Coulter wacko.
For someone who's always whining about "haters" Palin's constantly on the attack. Anything and anyone is fair game with her. So negative. Can she not acknowledge even the slightest humanity or goodwill in the people she disagrees with politically? The more she talks, the less I like her. Enough.
What a dope! 'nuff said
This just goes to show the immaturity or dear I say the stupidity of Sarah Palin. As a so called mother of a child with a disability to make such a silly gesture at such a serious topic is beyond the scope of reasoning.
Anyone supporting this kind of nonsensical approach to a serious subject speaks loud volumes about the tea party.
Nothing like try to under mind the good Michelle Obama is trying to do. Its not about not having dessert. Its about balance of diet and exercise. Sure wish Palin would drop out of sight.
Is this Palin's 2012 plan. Attack Michelle about food? Pretty weak plan.
I get difficulties to understand whether Sarah understands why we sent our kids to school!! Is it only to learn how to read and write????? If they learn about the healthy food to eat, and also get that healthy food at school, that is a big bonus to them and to the parents who send them there! Is this a huge thing for Ms. Sarah to understand???? What kind of a person this woman is!!!
Par for the course for Palin, who knowingly and willfully misinterprets both the spirit and letter of Michelle Obama's remarks to take a juvenile jab worthy of a seventh-grader.
That this person occupies any measure of national attention is the saddest commentary on the state of the republic that I can imagine.
Palin's parents should have made her exercise her brain more often. This is the woman that hopes to be President in 2013, what a scary thought. All I have heard from Sarah is hate and discontent.
Seriously? Can we stop covering this person?
This woman is an embarrassment.
Pleeze-Time & time again Palin has issued these psudeo-challenges-this time she has no earthly idea what she is about to come up against with a person of Mrs. Obama's caliber-If she thinks Mrs. Barbara Bush or Laura is tough Mrs. Obama is Barabra Bush/Laura on steriods (to the 'nth power)
Is this lady out of her mind? Michelle Obama isn't saying what we should and should not eat, she speaks of eating in moderation, and ensuring kids have a healthy meal. If you're 200 pounds overweight, perhaps you should not be eating the Bristol meals. Look if you're happing be fat and unhealthy, good for you, but your life is worth more than that. What a ridiculous argument this lady makes. Your freedoms aren't under attack with the foods you eat. Merry Christmas Fatty.
Sarah Palin is an ignorant woman who spends most of her time lying in an effort to get more publicity (and money) for herself.
Why oh why do you continue to dutifully reprint every tweet and facebook update by the former half term Governor of Alaska. If there is anybody in this country less deserving of having a public persona I don't know who it is. Palin has accomplished less than Paris Hilton.
The leader of the 'HATERS' strikes again. Why does she feel the need to spread hate around the world? The more hate she creates the more hateful is our world. GO TO CHURCH SARAH AND LEAN SOMETHING FOR ONCE!!
Palin is a thinskinned nitwit. The First Lady advocates for a sensible healthy diet. What good parent does NOT want their children to eat sensibly? I expect more of a POTUS, and this is why I'd never vote for Palin to lead our country.
Ugh! She doesn't shut up, does she?
Sarah Palin wants publicity so bad she can't sleep nights ... or tell the truth during the day. It's truly amazing how that woman can turn the First Lady's efforts to ENCOURAGE healthier eating into ORDERING people to eat healthier. And now Sarah wants to be President. YIKES!
"Palin also hand-delivered cookies to a Pennsylvania school last month before delivering a speech there, saying: "Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents."
So..did she get permission ships from the parents to give their children these cookies? Hypocrite!
Mrs.Palin you'll never be in Michelle Obama's league.
Let's see. One third of all children born after the year 2000 are expected to get diabetes or be pre-diabetic, but it's wrong to stress nutrition. The truth of it is that we should be taxing the heck out of pop, candy and junk food, but the major corporations have too much control and influence to allow this. As usual, Sarah Palin is on the opposite side of any issue she cares to discuss.
I missed the part where the First Lady said nutrition should be govenment controlled. What I heard was PARENTS need to watch nutrition more.
I don't think the 1st Lady was mandating a directive that parents should only feed their kids healthy foods. If parents don't like the healthier choices that schools will be offering, their kids can brown bag it with anything they want. Sarah Palin is a drag and pretty petty when she picks on Michelle Obama for wanting kids to be healthier by eating healthier and getting outside and playing.
Sarah Palin has no right to diss anybody. If she wants to have a show that promotes Alaska, do that. It doesn't have to be a political show (Lord knows there are enough of those on TV). And this is another area where Palin has her head stuck in the sand. She was all for teaching abstinence to children, and now her teenage daughter makes her a grandmother. She says that parents don't need any help in teaching their children proper nutrition, but yet childhood obesity is at epidemic levels. Hate to pick on children, but Palin's own children on are the chunky side, so maybe she could use to advise from Michele Obama or someone on how to get that weight down since childhood obesity is often a precursor to other illnesses later in life.
Dumber than dirt. Makes you think what if Mrs. Obama took on the teenage drinking problem, or the drug problem?. You betcha, Palin would be saying the same thing. Don't be telling parents what to do.Opposing WHATEVER it may be, just to put someone down for doing the right thing. Like Mrs. Obama is the only one, the first one, etc. to take on childhood obesity. No – parents can't be trusted to do the right thing. That's why we have to have childseat laws. We would'nt HAVE the problem we have if parents were doing the right thing. The kids got fat by what their own fat parents are feeding them.
How dare Michelle Obama actually care whether our children grow up to be healthy! I suppose Nancy Reagan had no right to ask kids to just say no to drugs and Laura Bush had no right to ask them to read. Oh well, what do we expect from a mother who rolls her eyes when someone tells her she's a teacher and who pulls her kids out of school for every possible photo op.
Why, oh why, do you (CNN) continue to cover the woman from Alaska? (I refuse to speak, or write, her name.) Who honestly cares about any inane comment uttered by her?
Please remember Sarah is a complete idiot. Her comments are only to get media attention. Sarah put foot in your mouth every day to avoid talking out loud... YOur a disgrace to Alaska
Barbara and Laura Bush both supported childhood reading; from which apparently we are to infer that neither of them believes parents are doing a good enough job reading to their children. Palin and Ingraham are a pathetic pair of losers who should just go away and slither back under the rock from which they oozed.
Every time CNN posts an article about something Palin said the IQ of it's readers drops 5 points just from reading it. This woman is truly an idiot.
Maybe the first lady should look behind her behore she worries about the size of our kids' butts!
we know palin's deck is half stacked, with all fast foods offering a 20oz beverage with meals as deals, and super sizing every meal, mrs obama is on the right track
Palin is so green with envy at our educated President, his educated wife, and their well-behaved, intelligent and beautiful girls, that she cannot stop herself from sniping about them at every camera op. If she thinks this is the way to win friends and influence people to vote for her, she is dead wrong. She acts like a junior high popular girl who lost the spelling bee to the bookworm, and strikes out at her lack of trendy clothes in retaliation. This behavior from Palin is neither funny, smart, nor very adult. She is showing her true colors more and more often, and frankly, America is sick of it, and her. Go home, Sarah, to your beloved wilds raise your kids however you see fit. Just keep your opinions and your platitudes there with you...meanwhile, the First Lady is concerned about the future health of our nation, as we all should be. She is doing nothing wrong.
Sarah, you truly have to think about what you are saying before you speak. Dont you know that most americans are looking at healthy living more now than before. Before you start taking jabs at Michelle for trying to make you americans live a longer life, remember that come 2010 when you throw your hat into the ring for President that by then most families will support health living over eating fat and unwanting foods. You should choose your words very carefully and stop being such an uneducated politician.
How catty Palin is!
Palin doesn't deserve to tie Michelle's shoes.
"It's not the first time Palin has taken a job at Mrs. Obama over her campaign to discourage fattening foods, especially from public schools."
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Thank you again John McCain for introducing this train wreck to the public.
Ms. Palin is just pissy becuase Michell's husband beats her in presidential polls for 2012. Its pretty funny how childish she is-except that some people actually think this person is fit for our hightest public office. Can you imigine if Michelle made a similar comment about Sarah? Lordy.......
The ignorant moron sticks her proverbial finger in the eye of a very gracious First Lady, It's just what I'd have expected from the Wasilla trailer trash. Just imagine the audacity of of those Obamas, Michelle suggesting that our children eat good healthy foods! And then her husband suggesting that our children strive the do their very best in school ! Such terrible people!!!
Fascinating potential campaign strategy. Don't run against the President; run against his wife. Convenient–avoids those nasty policy debates and thinking about...issues and stuff. This way you get to create your own platform, with lots of important topics, like, don't let the government tell you if you stuff your kids full of s'mores, they'll get fat. That's socialism, y'know. I can't wait to watch this–run, Sarah, run!
What a twit. Her high road is the bottom of the ditch.
I wish CNN and the other media outlets would just ignore Palin. Maybe then she'd go away.
What a cheapshot. I wonder if Sarah Palin ever criticized Laura Bush when she was first lady with her reading program about "the first lady cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in when we should read and what we should read." Of course not. Ms. Palin is engaging in some real distortion here. If the Ms. Obama decided to have a campaign to tell kids not to ingest chips of paint because they might have lead in them, we'd probably hear Ms. Palin talking about "government shouldn't be telling our children what to eat or not eat."
What else would one expect from Palin.
Tell the Danalai Ditz to crawl back into the hole she came out of. Fighting childhood obesity and early onset diabetes are worthwhile and laudible goals. When Palin accomplishes anything besides quitting and showing what a bunch of buffoons the right is she can talk, although why anyone would listen is beyond me. Leave the first lady out of your partisan bullshit because if anyone is fair game it's Todd and Bristol. You remember Todd the Union member fisherman who must have cut his testicles off in a cleaning accident because any Union member that would back this idiot deserves to have to listen to the voice without a damn thing of substance to say. (I thought John McCain should have had his balls cut of for nomnating her but by his recent party line votes shows me he really doesn't have any balls, maverick my ass!) B Palin and her abstinance commercial with the situation was quite successful as well since I didn't see any reason to keep that gene pool going. If it wasn't for the government building a pipeline in Alaska and funnelling huge dollars up there under Republican regimes we wouldn't have to listen to this moron. Get government out of Alaska today.
Aw...Sarah...intimidated much?
I remember coming through Wyoming in the 1980s and staying overnight at a motel. I asked the young lady at the front desk what people in Wyoming do throughout the year (I had to admit the state was pretty bleak). She stated hunt, fish, drink and eat.
I am sure Alaska is the same way. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Obesity is costing America billions in healthcare yearly. Michele Obama is right in targeting this problem. Palin is way off base (as usual) on this one. She needs to find out more about this problem before being critical of Michele Obama's comments.
Sarah Palin makes my skin crawl. Michelle Obama is NOT saying that the government should controll what we eat. She is saying if you are going to pay for a school lunch, let's give the kids something healthy to eat. No one is telling the parents they can't pack pizza and twinkies in the kids lunch box. No one is telling the parents they can't take their kids to McDonald's for dinner. This is a great think the First Lady is doing. If you think about it, since the cost of healthcare is such a contraversal topic, this is a way for the government to help young children learn about health eating and potentially keep healthcare costs down for diabetes and other diseases that result from unhealthy eating (yes, I realize that diabetes is not always related to poor diet).
Note: Look at the difference in weight/fitness of the Obama children and the the chunky Palin children...speaks louder than snippy words.
Why are we still covering this idiot? She says these things just to keep her name in the news. And is it news when she says something stupid or just her usual. She has done next to nothing and now the world listens to her? Thanks John McCain.
just keeps getting better and better.
Is there anything that this moron does that ISN'T covered by the news? She takes every subject and puts it into the context of "big" government. I would rather have BIG government than Palin who has a SMALL mind any day. We had 8 years of a president who was not intellectually curious, let's not have another... CNN, stop covering this woman, she is irrelevant!
This from a quitter and a loser...
What is it that Mrs. Palin doesn't understand about school-provided lunches? Parents don't have much of a say when it comes to those. If they pack their child's lunch, well of course they can decide, but otherwise, they can't.
Oh and btw Sarah, no one is making anyone do anything, its just to educate people on good nutrition -its not a like a law or anything-I'm pretty sure Mama Gri zzly can feed her kids pretty much anything she wants ....(rolleyes)
For every U.S. citizen who has lost a loved one to diabetes, heart disease and any other disease that is affected by obesity pray to God that Sarah Palin will not be your next president of the United States of America. She is basically going to take whatever the Obama administration says is bad for you and proclaim that its a lie. Even though we all know the President smokes, he needs to push for stricter measures against big tobacco, just to watch Mrs. Palin proclaim cigarettes are actually good for you .
Palin is one stupid woman.
After reading and absorbing both the the tax bill and the START treaty, she has time to make s'mores. What an amazing person!!
In order to help parents choose what their kids eat, let's eliminate school lunch programs. Then total control will be handed over to the parents.
As long as the parents say its okay, that should be good enough. As we all know parents always make the correct decisions for their children. If the parents say kids can do crystal meth, or crack, or eat lead pain chips who is the government to intervene?
We could trust the parents but alas this is not a perfect world. Palin is a prime example of why govt should be involved in this obesity campaign. There are many parents like Palin who barely have a decent education and have the capability to reason or understand the consequences of eating high calorie junk food.
Basically, Palin is right: parents have the responsibility for their children's not being even chubby, much less obese.
Just paraphrase a Mae West line: "government had nothing to do with it."
Parents let their children peel too many gra
pes, in both meanings of the words "grape" and "peel." (Refer to Bill Clinton regarding definitions; see "is.")
PC pushers also need to give us back the word "fat," accept our description of fat as "ugly," and restore "diet" to the American vocabulary, removing "food program."
As a 175-pound 72-year-old with a 30" waist and muscles, I work out in a gym almost every day, ignore dieticians and the FDA food pyramid, and live on protein.
Make kids stop eating and go out and play in the yard.
America should be ashamed of its Fat.
Only someone of Palin's lack of intelligence would take issue with an anti-obesity campaign for kids. Her idiocy seems to know no bounds.
So we will have the Healthcare police (IRS) and now the Food Police???? Face it Americans... all the new rules and roles it is obvious that the Federal government thinks that you are incredibly stupid and unable to decide anything in your lives. Look at it this way smoking is bad ... obama smokes ... fast food is bad Clinton loves a Quarter Cheese.... How are these people in anyway qualified to decide for you????? Yet like good little sheeple you follow blindly ..... I think I will have a slice of Pecan Pie now!!!!
it may have also something to say about mischelle s ... shall we say hip size... there needs to be moderation at the desert table....gulp !!
Every time this moron opens her mouth the sum of human knowledge decreases.
Leave it to Porky Palin tofind fault with the First Lady trying to encourage healthy eating habits – which BTW supports parents who care about their children's eating habilts. Have you notice – Palin is looking a little chunky these days!
It's comments like this that expose Sarah Palin for what she really is: a simple-minded bench-warmer who cannot come up with real solutions and just sits back and throws barbs. Michelle Obama is not dictating what parents should or should not feed their children, she is merely making suggestions based on common sense. As far as school lunches are concerned, they should be nutritious – especially if paid for with tax dollars. If parents don't like what's being served, they can pack a lunch for their kids.
This is nothing more than one of Palin's lame attempts to make the Obama's look like dictators and, of course, it plays perfectly to the idiotic knuckle-draggers who support Palin.
I, for one, hope Sarah Palin continues to star in her reality series and use it to take political jabs at those she disagrees with. Every soundbite is a nail in her political coffin. Exclesior!
I applaud the First Lady's efforts to get nutritional information to school children–dietiticians have been trying to get it for years. She is correct about making your kids get up off the sofa and play outside. I think as she learns more, Michelle Obama will see that it is far different to have dessert with a family meal than to snack on processed foods all day long. Ethnic food and dessert recipes are passed down from generation to generation because they contain wonderful nutrients as well as because they taste great. Baked goods contain things like citrus zest – and where else do you get that? Citrus peel is the subject of a Univ of Arizona and Nat'l Inst of Health study that showed conclusively that it prevents certain types of skin cancer. So give her time, and Ms Obama will see that it's processed food type desserts and not our favorite home recipes that are causing all the problems; bake sales are OK with home baked items.
It's easy to see why the Republican crash our economy and cause chaos here and around the world. All Republicans are mentally, morally and politically corrupt......
Until the Republican shut this trainwreck up, I'm not listening to another thing they have to say. Palin is a millstone around their collective necks, summing up how most moderate independents view Republicans in general. The Republicans dragged her out of Alaska and gave her face time. It's *their* problem to put her back.
This jsut shows how hate filed and stupid this woman is. Mrs. Obama is just promoting healthy eating. There is nothing wrong with that. Palin and her ilk are racist morons who woudl rather die of heart disease than eat right.
Ms. Palin says that parents should decide what their kids eat, then she brings cookies to serve children at the private school. Does she not see the irony in that?
I don't think the press should give any coverage to this kind of statement, considering the intelligence level of the maker. I hope the intelligence level of the American public is way above caring about this kind of garbage.
What a sad, bitter, pathetic and spite-filled woman Sarah Palin is. It must really frost her shorts that the vast majority of Americans, including Republicans, think that the only way she should get near the White House is if she buys a ticket for the tour.
Keep it up Sarah. Keep reminding us that Barack and Michelle Obama each have more class and dignity in their little toes than you have displayed in your entire life. While they are raising two intelligent, mature, and delightful girls in the most difficult of circumstances, you've turned your family into the latest incarnation of The Osbournes.
Way to take a point way out of context Sarah. Personally, I am all for encouraging food manufacturers to use better ingredients in our food and I was thrilled when pop machines were removed from my elementary aged kid's school. To suggest the government is dictating what our kids eat and taking that decision away from parents is the stretchiest of stretches. Sarah sounds desperate. The Republican message suggests that we should bury our heads and keep letting corporations govern themselves even when they've proven to be crooked. I would prefer that the nation run that way, but let's face it folks after the financial collapse, the rise of high fructose syrup in food, BP oil spill, Bernie Madoff, Enron, etc... corporations do need some oversight or they will continue to cut corners, create CDO's or other questionable financial vehicles and use cheap ingredients to provide high profit margins. Sarah Palin is like a high school bully – not very smart had a lot to gain by shooting off her mouth and distorting what is really going on for her own personal gain.
What a thoughtless and hateful woman Palin is. I thought the President's family was supposed to be off limits to attacks. Just like FDR's little Scottie dog Fala, the President's dog Bo will probably be next to be attacked. This woman is the dumbest policitician I've ever seen. Won't she please go back to the frozen tundra that spawned her.
CNN – there is real news going on in the world, but your infatuation with the half governor of Alaska is getting very old. Rather than report on her position that SMORES are nutritional, why not report on the millions of Americans that go to bed hungry? Palin's 15 minutes of fame were over two years ago.
Cos it's my right as a 'merican to be as fat as I want! You go Sarah!! Get more 'merican's to die of obesity and other preventable health related diseases and get them off the welfare rolls.
As usual,Sarah Palin opens mouth,outs come STUPID
What a MORON!!!!!
CNN – you feed her illness. She will do or say anthing just to get her mug in the news. She is the most narcissistic, confrontational and down right nasty person I've ever encountered and you just continue to feed her sickness. Please, move her and her antics to the Entertainment section of your reports. This person is not and never will be a legitimate political figure. She gave that up when she quit her job as Governor.
I am still waiting for this horrible disappointment of creation to say something that actually makes sense.
Palin is about as childish as anyone can get! She is only pretending she is thinking about running for president. The more notorious attention she gets, the more money she rakes in. It's all about money – and nothing else! Why does the media give her any attention? The attention just puts more money in her pocket. She has nothing of value to say to the American people.
Well, we now know that Palin if she becomes President she wants to make sure that our kids are over weight and unhealthy. Looks to me like she wants to make sure they are on government funding because of heath. I am so glad that Mrs. Obama is looking after children because sometimes parents are not the brightest color in the box. Well all need an education in how to eat heather to better or lives.
does she think these mean girl comments will help her win an election? She's entitled to disagree but the little snarky comments have got to go. Phrase them in such a way that shows your disagreement without coming off like a snarky teenager! ugh.
Just another ignorant, snippy, mean-spirited comment from this hypocrite. She professes to be a Christian but does nothing "Christ-like" in any way, shape or form. She's has to be the biggest opportunist this world has seen in a century! Yuck!
Go get a life lady...
If Michelle Obama goes to a public ceremony in honor of US veterans and says 'God Bless America', even in such an occasion, Sarah Palin will say something trying to make her look bad and herself look good to her supporters (wink, wink!).
So what else is news?
Sarah shouldn't talk. The picture shows her holding what she eats for lunch !
Thank you Sarah. We camped with out kids nearly every weekend when they were little. We to explored our AZ, from one end to the other. They burned up enough energy to keep all the pounds the smores might put on them, with the hiking, running, biking, and just plain messing around with stuff. Our motto was, everything with moderation and supervision. The Obama children look like Bangaladesh starving children, yet all the photo ops are of their girls and them eating something like smores.
Sarah is immature and a hateful, spiteful person who doesn't even think before she speaks. Maybe that is because she can't.
In principle, yes, it should be the parents who decide what their kids eat. However, it is painfully obvious that for a variety of reasons (poverty ,lack of education, lack of safe outdoor activities) far too many parents can't or won't live up to their responsibility. Can Palin possibly believe that childhood and teenage obesity is not a serious problem in this country?
What a nasty and unprofessional thing to say. Of course, her kids are fat so not really a big surprise that she feels that way.
Parents have done an excellent job up to this point determining children's eating habits. We're #1 in childhood obesity! USA! USA!
Only this girl (and I do mean girl) would have something negative to say about the First Lady trying to get the schools to feed our kids better. As a working class parent I know how hard it is to instil healthy eating habits in my child, especially when they can go to school (out of our sight) and indulge in all the fatty/fried/sugary foods we try to keep out of their mouths. I would love for Sarah to realize that her devisive personality is doing more harm than good in American Politics. She is just widening the chasm between the left and right and I can only imagine how hard it would be for anything to get done in Washington with her in charge. The system as we know it today is broken, and she is one of those holding the hammer...
This woman is beyond an idiot. She is a danger. We are on the verge of a diabeties epidemic because of our poor eating habits, with huge financial consequences for health care; the military has pointed to obesity as negatively impacting recruiting and battle readiness. And this dingbat takes cheapshots on her reality TV show. Truely a horrible person.
I agree with Mrs. Palin....I don't want the government minding my business what can and what can I NOT give my children to eat.. Take their gadget(s) away ie:cellphone, TV , ipod, etc.etc. and make them active. Put the monkey bar(s) back, teeter poll(s) in school play ground and have them play.. Teach them value of getting/being healthy...
We have become a country of obesity..NOT because of food we eat, but because of lack of active exercise and laziness.
WE are
Palin is such an idiot, playing to the lowest common denominator. She will never be my commander in chief and she will never be president. She knows this and her 15 min are almost up.
Pretty funny that she is delivering cookies to school at the same time she says parents should decide what their kids should eat, not the government. But then again she did quit working for the government. At least she can trust in her own children to make smart choices while unsupervised as she travels the continent giving out cookies.
She is completely disrespecting the office of the President, his family and this country. This woman is a lunatic and please stop reporting on her CNN.
I wish I had some sort of magic remote control so whenever this idiot speaks I can just mute her and watch her lips flap. CNN, why do you continue to give this moron coverage?
Sarah Palin needs to shut her mouth and stop showing how ignorant she is with comments such as those above! Take a stroll through your neighborhood shopping mall, and take a look at the state of obesity with the children of today. Parents have had the right to teach their children to eat healthy, and exercise for eternity, yet look at the kids you see! Their parents are obviously doing a horrible job of teaching their children the value of good eating habits! Point in case, McDonalds being sued because they put toys in Happy Meals! SERIOUSLY??? Parents, stand up and act responsibly! Tell your children NO! I realize that its a "novel" idea in these ridiculous times we live in, but just TRY and keep your childrens health in mind when you cart them off to get the latest toy being shoved on them by McD's.....
In the afternoon, there was no way we'd be allowed to lie around the house watching TV," she told the NAACP in a Kansas City speech. "Our parents made us get up and play outside."
"As I tell my kids, dessert is not a right," she added.
Michelle is explaining her upbringing (how her parents thought she should act) and has absolutely nothing to do with the government or the government's policy.
I think it's clear Palin's IQ is on the left side of the bell curve.
I may not agree with everything the President says, but so far, the First Lady seems to be a top-notch class act. Palin could learn something from that. But education, in the Palin family, is obviously not a right, either. Maybe the concept just hasn't made it's way out of the lower 48, as Palin likes to say. Or maybe Palin is bucking the trend, as a true rogue, and showing that Wasilla street smarts are inherently more important that a good education.
Yes why improve nutrition for children. We should all be fat lazy and dying of heart disease
Wow, the crazy has remained strong with Sarah even in these troubling times.
Will somebody PLEASE shut this motor-mouth up! Palin is the poster girl for stupidity and ignorance and the right wingers who support her should be embarrised. But then, they wouldn't be right-wingers would they?
Encouraging children to develop poor eating habits to score political points is low, even for the Iquiterod.
Granted her children did not come out very well (of the three who garduated grade school, two are juvenile delinquents who particiapted in expensive property damage, and one's an unwed mother).
But she should not try to lower other peoples children to the low Palin standard.
Your comment is as juvenile as it is disingenuous.
Perhaps parents should find out why kids have hours and hours of homework to complete after school instead of teachers having taught the information in school. Students have no time to play outside after school (like we did growing up) because of the massive amounts of homework – which leads to staying indoors and snacking much to alleviate the stress of too much homework. Just what are the teacher's doing at school these days for 8 hours that then leaves a student with 4 hours of homework at night? No wonder kids are putting on weight while sitting on their behinds all day at school and then sitting at home munching while doing hours of homework.
Obviously, leting parents decide what their kids eat isn't working! If some direction from the first lady can convince some parents to cut down calories that their kids are eating, that's great. If Sarah was president we'd have a bunch of fater kids!
yummmmmm, s'mores with a heaping coating of hate. Palin just oozes poison.
Sarah Palin has no class.
Sarah Palin keeps trying to make Michelle Obama's healthy eating PSA out to be an attempt for the Government to control people when it isn't that at all. She's playing on the fears and paranoia of the tea party and conservative fan base of hers to create a stir over nothing–just like she has been doing since 2008.
The real problem is that the only ones really deciding what you get to eat are the CEO's and managers in the food industries. And we're subject to the food conglomerates and their efforts to cut costs. That means cutting nutrition and adding very unhealthy things. Yes, someone does need to police the food industry because your health depends on it.
This is like saying Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't have the right to advise everyone to work out while he was the Council to President Bush on Fitness. Or Nancy Regan shouldn't have advised us to "Just Say No". What a numskull.
Sarah Palin needs to spend some time perusing the lunch menus in schools around the country. Better yet, serve a lunch and eat what is offered. The government-subsidized food offered is an abomination, totally lacking in nutrition for kids. This is a major issue – millions of kids who grow up eating a diet made up of solely chicken nuggets, macaroni & cheese, pizza and cheeseburgers. See the pattern – no fresh fruits and veggies, everything processed cheese, meat and starch. Michelle Obama's efforts are focused on building awareness and educating our children about nutrition and health at a young age, when they are developing habits. This is such a huge issue in our country; lifestyle-related illnesses are a substantial portion of our health care costs and are increasing rapidly. Sarah Palin is really fit and so into her family – you'd think this would be an issue where she and Michelle Obama could find common ground. But I guess Sarah wouldn't want to risk offending her base. My guess is, if you measured obesity rates among Obama's base versus Palin's, Palin's base would be far more obese. Just look at the map of obesity rates and compare it to red states. There really is a correlation!
Once again here's sarah palin with her trifling tail. The First Lady has not said anything negative or bad about palin. She is one evil twisted woman. I tell you onething palin is a very wicked, perfidious person. It's pure jealousy that she has over the First Lady. "You don't look good in green palin".
Only in politics can someone attempting to better kid's nutritional value be spun as some type of big brother control. We're the fattest nation in the history of the world, but everything is ok I suppose since the brilliant that is Sarah Palin said so.
Oh Sarah, you stupid women. Have another twinkle
Michelle Obama has one hundred times the class as the quitting, gramatically impaired, fish-clubbing, and intellectually stunted Palin. In my state 40% of the kids in one city's public schools are obese. The U.S. military is having to turn away record numbers of recruits because they are simply too overweight to be effective soldiers. The question is do we do absolutely nothing, ignore the problem, and let it get worse as the one-track-mind "government is always bad" Palin would suggest? Or, do we take the iniative and try to do someting about it before it becomes an even more serious problem? It may seem like a "no-brainer" that we need to eat better, but OBVIOUSLY not everybody is getting that message or is able to make the dietary changes needed. On top of that, it is much more difficult for poor families to afford fresh fruits and vegetables which can be rather expensive when a packaged macaroni and cheese dinner or a fast food burger can be bought for 99 cents. There is nothing wrong with the government stepping in to correct an obvious problem that threatens our country in terms of military readiness and the health costs of so many obese people. That is exactly what government is for. It would be irresponsible and stupid to sit back and do nothing. Of course, irresponsible and stupid describe Palin rather well.
I love how Sarah Palin says "Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents." while herself deciding to feed these kids cookies without allowing the parents to decide.
And perhaps she should take a look at the absolutely frightening obesity statistics in our country. What we're doing isn't working America!
She really doesn't get it, does she.
This moron is truly the dumbest woman I’ve ever know of. It is an insult even to a 5th grader to be this stupid.
CNN is addicted to Sarah Palin. Is there a day when anything she says does not make the "ticker"? Sheesh, she's the dessert you wish you could resist, but can't.
Yeah, because encouraging good nutrition in the fattest, sickest first world nation in the world is a bad thing.
Sarah Palin is a totally ignorant person. I am a nurse and have worked in Pediatrics and OB units. I see the terrible consequences of obesity. Palin should stop trying to practice medicine without a license. Has she no moral judgment the damage she is doing with her stupid comments. She needs to stay in Alaska and hide out in an igloo where she can contemplate all the irrational statements she has made. Maybe in 10 years she might come out and see the light of day.
As usual when Palin opens her mouth just just makes things worse. Keep opening your mouth up Sarah because more people are realizing nothing has really ever come out worth listening to.
Sarah Palin is sickening. When 67% of Americans are overweight or obese, people must speak out. We are so damned fat that the military is turning away potential recruits because of the weight issue. If Americans ate right, got off their duffs and moved, then you'd see a lot of health issues dissipate. Michelle Obama is not advocating that government dictate to us what we should eat. But you must admit, looking at all of the fat kids we've got, the parents have not been doing what's right. Leave it to Palin to politicize an issue like this. Sarah Palin herself has fat and it's all in that head of hers, right where her brains should be.
Palin makes very little sense..... and when we have the majority of our kids overweight today, how in the world can she justify dissing the First Lady's effort of positive change at America's dinner table!! Its beyond me and most of America.......and if Palin likes the knowledge of the obesity problem in the lower 48...then she needs to visit schools/colleges across the country or observe a few bus stops to see it for herself ! !
Its astounding that this woman can be so petty. Nothing intelligent ever comes out of her mouth..
Yeah, so the cornerstone plank of the Palin platform is obviously – let your kids get fat if you wanna – it's all good. And if you have issues later in life you can always count on Palin-care.
Could Palin be any more ignorant? Does she really want to pick this fight and defend serving junk food in public schools? Her criticism of the government as a source of nothing good extends to criticising even public relations campaigns that encourage healthy living. It's not just that she thinks the government can't do anthing positive, she doesn't WANT it to do anything positive.
Sarah Palin is a nut...much too immature and with way too much dysfunction in her own household...to ever be responsible enough to be President of the United States. Her choices of attack even at this stage of the gane are just a sad precursor of things to come (and not better things) if she really runs in 2012. Pray that she changes her mind before then!
When did Mrs. Obama EVER say we shouldnt have desserts? She is one of those people who say I'll eat what ever I want, and demand government to make sure medicine for diabetes is a right as well.
This woman has completely lost it.
Maybe if Sarah had a better diet she wouldn't have that prop she slings over her shoulder
I would like to add to my last comment by saying that Palin is acting like Michelle Obama is trying to dictate policy when she is really just raising awareness. Arguing against raising awareness of the importance of a healthy diet and exercise for kids is like arguing against raising awareness of the importance of literacy. Did anyone criticize Laura Bush's literacy campaign by saying, "It should be the parents who decide if their kids learn to read"?
Great job, Gov. Palin; Americans are dying at record rates from obesity and cancer and yet YOU are affronted by the First Lady's efforts to get us and our children eating healthier. What a deplorable attitude.
Will someone PLEASE shut this idiot up. Why doesn't someone ask her why her kids aren't in school when she parades them around at book signings?
What is that woman's problem??
This woman is really incredibly stupid! A vast majority of he American population is "over weight" including today's teenagers. The parents should decide what their children should eat – well if the parents are obese then so are their children. These young people should receive "healthy foods" while at school and be taught to take better care of themselves. The military is also suffering because 1 out of every 3 potential inductees are overweight and cannot enter the Armed Forces.
This website should be named the Pallin Ticker, as CNN continues to shove her down our throats.
Am so tired of the Palin, republican bias of this website.
Let's boycott it until they start being "fair and balanced".
She gets stupider (I don't know if it's a word but it seems to fit stupid Sarah) by the minute (I'm french by the way which is why I don't know if it's an actual word, in case the word police is looking)
There goes the genius again. Yes, let's encourage our kids to be fat!
Good for Sarah. She's the only one who sees how Michelle's support against obesity can lead to jack-booted thugs breaking down doors of American citizens to confiscate Twinkies and Ho-Ho's. Not sure how many voters Sarah thinks she'll gain by twisting another quote, but I guess it makes her feel better.
Hey I've got a joke. So Sarah Palin speaks.... Get it? Thank you CNN and please give us more breathless coverage of this person, if you can make space between your zombie stories and how to not catch a cold advice.
Uh, Sarah, graduate from Princton and Harvard first before having anything to say to the First Lady of the United States. She has more class and grace than you on her worst day!
While to some extent I agree with Govenor Palin she is completely missing the point here. This is not about the government telling us what we can and cannot eat, this is about the health of our children and some of the decisions that parents are making. The government does not tell me what I can and cannot feed my kids, but my children know that candy and sweets are a priviledge and not a right. Furthermore whenever possible we substitute healthy alternatives (i.e. fruits and veggies) and my kids love it. It gives me great pride as a parent when my daughter tells me that she wants to have a banana instead of some junk food.
I believe Ms. Palin has become certifiably paranoid and should be treated accordingly. What else could have prompted Ms Palin to construe the promotion of a healthy lifestyle as a nefarious governmental policy? One can only feel sorry for her.
The idea of Sarah Palin showing up at a school to pass out cookies seems a little creepy to me.
Now who was it who tempted Hansel and Gretel with more dessert?
Palin doesn't understand also that obese people, like people who drive recklessly, and those who smoke, significantly drive up insurance and federal medical spending for everyone. No one lives in isolation of anyone else, we all affect each other in unknown ways– but this is a direct, clearly known way.
Apparently this twit from the Great White North (no, not Canada but I really wish she were) doesn't understand that obesity is the leading cause of health problems in this country. Heart Disease, Diabetes, certain types of Cancer are all attributed to being overweight and this in turn causes health care costs to spiral out of control. Maybe she has too many smores in between her ears to see a cause and effect here.
Can someone please tell her how to act like an adult rather than a whiny teenager? Could you imagine her in an actual diplomatic discussion? She would be a total disaster!
So Sarah would rather that our children be obese, leading to high cholesterol and heart disease later in life? Is that her message? Good one Sarah – great parenting.
Honestly, some parents are so stupid that maybe the government does need to step in. Besides, schools decide menus based largely on $$. And parents really have very little input into the menu. So, if the government dictates a balanced diet in schools, they are doing us and our children a favor.
This is nothing more than a typical right-wing knee-jerk reaction, making mountains out of molehills.
OK< some like Paliin, but the majority of us are weary of hearing about her. If the media would not report on her every day, no one would care! Media has made her a celebrity - what other loosing VP candidate EVER got this much press. Stop it!!!!!!
Palin is a BAD Actress ,
She will stop at nothing to exploit in the name of greed and vanity. Her ignorance and intolerance in the name of God is disheartening to me.
Given the insane number of obese and overweight children, it's pretty obvious that parents are doing a pretty poor job of telling their kids what to eat. Government isn't forcing anyone to eat or not to eat certain types of food, only raising awareness of what's healthy in an attempt to help the public make smarter choices.
Perfect picture of Sarah. It shows the only thing she is truly qualified to do.
Palin needs to stop the cheap shots at Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is right to address childhood obesity. Nobody is telling children what they can and cannot eat. Palin always puts her poisonous spin on ideas anyone with a brain might have. It is obvious that Palin does not do much in the way of encouraging her children to practice good habits, especially in behavior and education.
Sarah Palin should just SHUT UP! Our First Lady, Michelle Obama, is totally correct in her attempts to wake this nation up to the health perils (and future health costs) of obesity in children and the terrible body destruction that obesity can bring – high blood pressure, diabetes and its awful complications including amputation of limbs, the strain on joints, etc. Palin is so desperate to keep herself in the limelight that she will say and do anything to do so, including speak against the wellbeing of this nation's youth. SHUT UP, Sarah!
APALlINg Sarah continues to sink to ever lower, more petty behaviors. As Mae West was to have said. "I have my standards. They're low, but they are all mine."
Sorry little girl but Michelle is just not into you. She will not respond to your infantile stupidness. The GOP may love it but that's about it. You are a jerk and a loser. Get a real job and get a life.
This woman would do or say anything to stay in the news. I pray that what goes around comes around, and soon.
Whether you like or dislike the Obama Administration you have got to give the 1st lady some credit for encouraging people to watch what they eat. It should be the parents responsibility to monitor what kids eat but for so many kids school breakfast and lunch is all they eat. I think it's great that there is a driving force around fitness and nutrition in school. Sarah Palin may have a legitimate beef or 2 with the Pres but she just seem high school b*tchy with the 1st lady.
I think CNN is scraping the bottom of the barrel today .No matter what Sarah Palin does it gets twisted and skewed in here . I think her views most clearly reflect my veiws . So the more you diss her the more I feel that your dissing me . This woman is a rock star and a king maker ( as shown in the last election ). I don't know if she will run for president but if she does it will be like trying to stop a runaway train with the support the great unwashed will give her .So go ahead and insult slur skew Sarah Palin it only makes all of her supporters including me to tighten our resolve and do every thing we can to get her elected President. If you thought the nov election was a wake up call just wait until 2012.
I can hardly wait PALIN 2012