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.) Invariably, a government"solution" means less power and money for the people, and more power and money for Washington.I know what you are thinking.How on earth can she turn a discussion on fitness and preparedness into acritique of the Obamas? Think of Michel e, with her toned arms, anti-obesity initiative, and vegetable garden.Orthe president, with his daily workouts and weekend hoops and golf games.(And who can forget that campaignphoto of His Buffness, shirtless in the Hawaiian surf?) The First Couple represents the epitome of fitness andseeks to spread the message of healthy eating to the masses.They are setting a positive example for the rest ofus, are they not?THE DIARY OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMATHE WHITE HOUSEFebruary 15, 2010They cal me "No Drama Obama," but I am on the verge of losing it.Miche is driving me nuts! I agreed to giveher this anti-fat fiefdom so I could get help on health-care reform, not so she could be on my back 24/7 because Igrab a few fries every now and then.Just because she's an obesity czar doesn't mean she's suddenly MeganFox! You know, if you live in a glass house.Every time I turn around, she's braying on about how the country needs to start eating healthy, do moreexercise, etc.Oh, please--a few training sessions with her overpaid personal trainer and now she's DeniseAustin? And as for the eating part, who's she kidding? Is she sleepwalking when she orders those late-nightquesadil as and nachos from the White House kitchen? She acts like she's sacrificing when she says "hold theguac"! For fun, I told Sam Kass (the White House chef) to keep a list of what she eats on a daily basis.Here'sthe rundown for today:BREAKFAST*3 fried eggs*bagel with "low-fat" cream cheese*plate of bacon (too many strips to count)*grits (double order, drenched in butter)*smoothie (if you consider a chocolate malted milk shake a "smoothie")LUNCH*slab of baby-back ribs*bowl of jambalaya*"salad" (the garnish on the plate)AFTERNOON SNACKMore ribsDINNER*Veal Parmesean w/ double baked potato (low-fat margarine--oooh, what restraint!)*green beans (untouched)*chocolate volcano "virtue cake" (it used to be cal ed "sin cake," but she made the kitchen staff rename it because she said it was "too judgmental")*washed down with (1) cosmo and (1) glass of organic chiantiBEDTIME SNACK:The last 3 ribsAnd she's on my case every time I have a burger?! Next time she nags me, I'l serve her up some steamedBaraccoli! Oh, am I good or what?Yes, it is great that they exercise, and yes, it is laudable that the First Lady uses her celebrity to encourage usto live a healthy lifestyle.But if the president and First Lady are going to lecture the rest of us about what weingest, shouldn't they live by the same rules? Months before she kicked off her fat fight, Mrs.Obama chatted withschool children at a Cinco de Mayo event and spil ed the beans about her favorite type of food."I love beans andrice.I love mole.I love al the mole sauces, I love beef and lamb and quesadil as," she laughed."I mean, you name it.The question is, what don't I like? I like it al." Indeed.A few days later, the First Lady took her staff to a place cal ed the Good Stuff Eatery for lunch.The fare included the "Prez Obama" burger (natch), regular burgers, smokehouse burgers, bacon cheeseburgers, and two types of fries.(Are they heart-friendly if "dusted" in seasalt, thyme, and rosemary?) The Washington Post reported that this was one of "several" outings Mrs.Obama and her aides had made to local burger and barbecue joints."Sometimes you just need a burger," stafferMcCormick Lelyveld told the Post."It was her idea."For a couple that is supposed to symbolize health and fitness, there seems to be no end to their own fast-foodnoshing.Who can forget when the press pool fol owed the president and vice president to Ray's Hel Burgersduring their first months in office? It was supposedly a spur-of-the-moment food run--not that they had anythingelse to do.Barack Obama advanced the narrative of his historic presidency when he ordered the classiccheddar burger with Dijon mustard.Other burger runs fol owed with similar fanfare, including a particularlyembarrassing trip to Five Guys with NBC anchor and lunchmate Brian Wil iams, who was doing a "day in the life"love-in with the president.(Shhh! Don't tel the kids that Men's Health magazine rated Five Guys Fries the "worst regular order of fries" in America--1, 464 calories, 71 grams fat [14 grams saturated], 213 mil igrams sodium.)THE DIARY OF VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDENWASHINGTON, D.C.May 5, 2009Hey, being vice president is f---ing cool! The Prez invited me out for some quality time--even though it wasPOTUS & VPOTUS (I love that acronym!), we were just two guys goin' out for cheeseburgers.(By the way, noneof the people who waited on us had Indian accents.I stil don't get why they gravitate toward 7-Elevens.) Anyway,we did some great male bonding today--for forty-five minutes or so I was able to forget al that Recovery Actgibberish I'm supposed to be tracking.And as I sat at that burger joint, watching this young, bright, nice-lookingguy in shirtsleeves across from me, I felt vindicated.The kid didn't so much as drip one drop of grease or Dijonmustard on himself! Hardly needed a napkin! I knew I was right when I said he is a "clean" African-American!But that Michel e, she's something else.We get back to the White House and she was on Barack like whiteon rice.I couldn't hear much of what she was saying other than "I told you I wanted a double cheeseburger extrafried onions, you fool!" Man, she's tough.Kind of like a black Hil ary Clinton.I mean that in a good way.Then my personal favorite: six weeks into the First Lady's childhood obesity campaign, she and the girlsheaded to New York for spring break, and made headlines when they made a beeline to the legendary pizzajoint Grimaldi's.The Obamas and three school chums ordered four pies--no word on whether the sausage andpepperoni were low-fat varieties.As usual with liberals, the rules and edicts they insist on saddling the "little people" with don't apply to them.Remember, they're special.They're historic.FOR THE OBAMAS, IT'S ALWAYS PERSONALGeorge and Laura Bush were also extremely fit, but we weren't subjected to a constant barrage of news storiesand profiles featuring mind-numbing details of their exercise regimens.I had the grueling pleasure of mountainbiking with President Bush a few times.For him it was about the personal chal enge, camaraderie, and friendlycompetition--never about sel ing an image of himself to further a political goal.With the First Lady's battle against the bulge, there is more going on than meets the thigh.As with so much ofwhat the Obamas advocate, their fitness and healthy eating push is one part federal boondoggle, one part vanityproject.We the people are supposed to be thril ed to ride along on their ego trip, oohing and aahing about howthey look, how they act, and just their overal awesomeness.By pushing stories about Mrs
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