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Shy Away From the Fryer And Get Battered?
Submitted by KAT on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 12:20pm.
Well, of course arugula is bitter! Wouldn’t you be, if the media decided to disparage you as a symbol of all things elite and effete? The right is relentlessly deriding Barack Obama as “an arrogant, arugula-eating, fancy-berry-tea-drinking celebrity,” according to ABC’s Jake Tapper.
To which Jon Stewart replied:
“That’s right, and John McCain eats iceberg lettuce the American way—deep fried, on a stick, wrapped in bacon, stuffed in a Twinkie that’s been aged in the anus of an American bald eagle…and then wrapped in more bacon.”
The Beltway loves to stew over Obama’s eating habits; Maureen Dowd squandered valuable NY Times real estate to pontificate about his daughter Malia’s chilling revelation to Access Hollywood that her daddy doesn’t like ice cream. And now, the Wall Street Journal’s speculating that Obama’s thin frame may be as much of an issue for some Americans as his supposedly thin resumé. The article offers man-on-the-street soundbites from folks who say Obama is simply too fit to be president. And his healthy food choices could prove equally alienating:
Food faux pas have plagued presidential candidates in the past. On a 1976 visit to Texas, Gerald Ford bit into a tamale with the corn husk still on. He lost the election to Jimmy Carter. In 2003, Mass. Sen. John Kerry was labeled effete when he ordered a Philly cheesesteak with Swiss instead of the usual Cheez Whiz topping.
Sen. Obama's chief message strategist Robert Gibbs served as Sen. Kerry's press secretary during the cheesesteak debacle. A few days later at the Iowa State Fair, famous for its deep-fried Twinkies and beer booths, Mr. Gibbs noticed Sen. Kerry buying a $4 strawberry smoothie. He made a frantic call to campaign staffers: "Somebody get a f-ing corn dog in his hand -- now!"
Apparently there are plenty of voters who deem a candidate unqualified to be Leader of the Free World if he’s too much of a wuss to clog his arteries with fatty processed foods and develop even a hint of a beer belly. Do we dare elect a candidate with a fondness for fresh salad greens? He might do something really radical, like heed the pleas of the Rip-Out-The-White-House-Lawn-And-Grow-Veggies lobby (see This Lawn is Your Lawn video above.) And then what? We’d not only have arugula in the White House, but all around it, too. The horror!
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体重が気になりだし
体重が気になりだしたので、マイクロダイエットを始めた。 旅行が好きな私は初めてのハワイに海外旅行に行く予です。 結婚を焦りはじめたので結婚相談所に登録に行きます。 就職活動する上で資格が必要と思い国家資格を合格するために専門学校に行きます。 ETCを車に取り付けが終わったのでETCカードを申し込みました。
First timer here, WOW what's
First timer here, WOW what's that comment above me? Outraged and incredulous are he adjectives that spring to mind when I realize what the mainstream media supply to the intellectual lazy as issues for deciding the next president.
I see Barack as an agent of change in all areas of the American psyche. Shouldn't a country of obese and sick people look to their leader as a role model for their own way of life. Our current pres. condones torture, so does many in American now when 8 years ago is would not have been so easily swallowed. Sure, 9/11 changed things, but it did not have to dehuminize the American people to the point where such things are taken as everyday occurances.
Gawd, I can't wait until January when this nightmare will be over.