My personal dream is for Obama to eventually be impeached for any of his broken laws, corruption, underhanded dealings and his all around loathsomeness as our country's leader. But I do take solace knowing that his administration, his presidency, his failed policies, the damage he has done, and continues to do, to our wonderful country will not be treated well by historians. I hope my grandchildren will someday read about the most awful president our country has ever elected (Twice!) thanks to low information voters; racists whose vote was cast only because of skin color; the masses of uneducated, lazy people with no self-respect; and of course the corrupt liberals, socialists, progressives who are all on the dole with Obama's Chicago Style presidency. But, I would prefer impeachment.
By
Michelle Malkin • November 1, 2013 09:05 AM
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2013
While her husband’s signature health care law
goes up in flames, first lady Michelle Obama is reveling in the success of her
East Wing pet project, the “Let’s Move” initiative. But ignore the do-gooder
dressing. Mrs. Obama doesn’t care about your children. What we have here is a
textbook case of Washington influence peddling, which the Obamas so vigorously
condemned a long time ago and far away.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama announced an
agreement by the Sesame Workshop and the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) to
join her nonprofit Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) in a two-year
agreement to help promote fresh fruit and vegetable consumption to kids. Among
the corporate interests Mrs. Obama has wooed to her cause: Wal-Mart, Nike,
Reebok, Nickelodeon, Walt Disney and the administration’s former Public Enemy
No. 1, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Politico.com notes that trade groups including
the American Beverage Association, the International Bottled Water Association,
the Food Marketing Institute, the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the
National Restaurant Association are all working with the first lady behind
closed doors.
Her related initiative “Drink Up” is supported
by the American Beverage Association, water filter companies BRITA and SOMA,
and bottled water brands Aquafina, BEVERLY HILLS 9OH2O, DASANI, EVIAN Natural Spring
Water, Hint, Voss, WAT-AAH!, Nestle Waters North America’s Arrowhead, Deer
Park, Ice Mountain, Nestle Pure Life, Ozarka, Poland Spring and Zephyrhills.
Joining her for the rollout of that initiative: Hollywood actress Eva Longoria,
who gets paid to promote sugary soda pop Pepsi when she’s not standing by
Michelle Obama telling the rest of us to drink more healthy water.
Mrs. Obama’s nonprofit reportedly has assets
of $4.5 million. It doesn’t have to disclose its donors. So much for the “most
transparent administration ever.” Even left-wing watchdogs are irked. “This is
a classic case of the game of influence peddling by lobbying associations,”
Craig Holman, who works for the liberal watchdog group Public Citizen, told
Politico.com. “Lobbyists and corporations with business pending before the
federal government invest in such charitable causes as a means to buy access
and favor from the White House.”
In 2008, candidate Obama preached: “We need a
president who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just
their big campaign donors and corporate allies.” In 2013, first lady Michelle
Obama is busy signing up as many corporate allies as she can.
As I have reported previously, Mrs. Obama has
profited handsomely from the very same processed food industry she now
demonizes. In June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S.
Senate, Mrs. Obama was named to the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse
Foods, Inc.
Despite zero experience, the food-processing
company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate governance
committees. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting her name
and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005 and
$51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama — as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth
more than $72,000 for each year. TreeHouse, a leading supplier to Wal-Mart,
sells cheese sauces, Cremora non-dairy creamer, instant soup, puddings and
powdered soft drink mixes, and pickles for McDonald’s. Eat as she says, not as
she deals.
Mrs. Obama has moved on from TreeHouse to much
fatter “partnerships.” The alliances between big business and big government,
marketed as a public service “for the children,” have been a bonanza for the
first crony. They scratch her back, her clout and popularity increase, and
she’ll have a cornucopia of board of director slots to choose from after her
hubby’s term is up. Make no mistake: Michelle’s fruits and vegetables are
served on a heaping platter of progressive hypocrisy.
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