Monday, December 13, 2010

The Obesity Battle & the Nanny State

Cathy Young, RealClearPolitics
The latest round in the culture wars is a food fight -- literally. It is also a battle in which the political lines are not easily defined.Unsurprisingly, Sarah Palin leads the fray. In a radio talk show appearance in November, the former vice presidential candidate derided Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" initiative against childhood obesity ("the anti-obesity thing she is on") as practically un-American: "What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat." This was...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/12/13/the_obesity_battle_108223.html

John Boehner

No comments:

Post a Comment