Palin is the Cookie Monster

 

Sarah Palin has been known to attack the President’s approach to solving the health care crisis, the economic stimulus, and his approach to resolving the Gulf Oil spill.  She has appeared as the Keynote Speaker in Las Vegas on behalf of bowlers and liquor distributors.  Palin speaks at rallies for Special Needs Kids, but raises money for her own special needs.  Even though appearing at fund raisers for anti-abortion groups, the funds she actually raises ensure the continuation of her ability to hire people to wash her underwear, to enable her to pay for assistance from the ghost writer of her book Going Rogue who admits to having had an abortion, and to endorse candidates for political office (Star Parker) who admits to having had four abortions because abortion was her “preferred method of birth control.”  Now Palin has attacked Pennsylvania schools for their efforts in trying to get kids to eat healthier food.  http://abcnews.go.com/US/cookie-protest-sarah-palin-calls-pennsylvania-nanny-state/story?id=12104862.  Palin has established her lack of concern for her own children by abandoning them or using them when it suits her purpose.  Now it appears she is attempting to cause harm to the children of other people.  In an act of defiance, Palin provided sugar cookies to kids at a school fundraiser in Pennsylvania, suggesting that the school should not attempt to control the amount of unhealthy food the children eat while under their control. 

While advertising herself as an advocate for children, Palin has repeatedly taken positions in direct opposition to the best interests of children.  Palin has been a vociferous opponent of health care reform.  Yet an estimated 9 million children in the United States were  completely uninsured in 2007. Another study reported that 11.5 million more kids end up without medical care for part of the year. Another 3 million couldn’t even get a ride to the doctor. That’s more than 23 million children in 2007 that were without necessary health care. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/02/eveningnews/main2755159.shtml.   As if her positions regarding health care reform were not sufficiently damaging to children, Sarah Palin has now lodged a direct attack on efforts to address the greatest threat to the health of American children, Childhood Obesity. 

190 Million Americans are Obese or Overweight. Childhood Obesity has Tripled in the last 30 Years. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/eveningnews/main6069163.shtml.  The challenge of curbing the prevalence of childhood obesity is so urgent and such an immense problem for the United States that Michelle Obama has identified curtailing of childhood obesity as one of her primary goals while serving as the First Lady.  We want our kids to face a different and more optimistic future in terms of their lifespan.” “I mean, one in three kids are overweight or obese, and we’re spending $150 billion a year treating obesity-related illnesses. So we know this is a problem, and there’s a lot at stake.”

The far-reaching, nationwide campaign called “Let’s Move” calls for a myriad initiatives that target what Obama calls four key pillars: Getting parents more informed about nutrition and exercise, improving the quality of food in schools, making healthy foods more affordable and accessible for families, and focusing more on physical education. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/michelle-obama-childhood-obesity-initiative/story?id=9781473; 

http://www.letsmove.gov/.  How could anyone with “common sense” oppose these initiatives of Michelle Obama?  Even Republican and Tea Party adults would not desire for their children to be obese. 

We have to ask, what would motivate Sarah Palin to use her “star power” to oppose any effort to help kids.  The answer may be as simple as a popularity contest.  In spite of President Obama’s declining approval ratings, Michelle Obama remains “extremely popular.”  A poll indicates that six out of ten men and more than seven out of ten women approve of the job Michelle Obama is doing. http://coloradoindependent.com/64101/popular-michelle-obama-to-boost-bennet-campaign-thursday.  In some perverse way, perhaps Palin thinks that if she can thwart the effort of Michele Obama to curb childhood obesity, Palin will be more popular.   The irony is that if Palin ate more of those sugar cookies she took to the kids at school, and became obese herself, her popularity ratings would decline markedly.  Not to worry, … she would still fit inside a cookie-monster suit.  That suit looks a lot like the monkey suit Bristol wore on Dancing With the Stars.  Maybe Bristol ate too many of those same sugar cookies.  Perhaps nutritional guidance from the school wouldn’t have helped Bristol since she dropped out of high school.  Maybe other kids could benefit through guidance from teachers since they are obviously not getting the help needed at home.