The Obama Weight Loss Program - By: Dr Bill

I was up early this morning, watching one of the early morning talk fests and Michelle Obama was being glorified (I mean interviewed), by what’s her name…Robin Roberts, who cooed and gushed at everything coming out of Michelle’s mouth.

“Oh my, yes, it’s been a very tough year,” said Michelle, who we’re going to start seeing a whole lot more of, mark my words. There were the usual liberal political platitudes and, like I said, plenty of cheerleading support from the (journalist) asking the soft ball questions.
Then we got to the crux of the visit, which is this: The Obama Administration is declaring war on childhood obesity. (Funny Michelle should “declare war” on obesity, since the Commander can’t bring himself to “declare war” on Al Queda…but, I digress.)

Now, some of you may be thinking that this is a noble cause…and I’m not going to quibble with that…but the government is not going to solve the obesity crisis anymore than it’s going to deliver a swine flu vaccine, which it still hasn’t completed, although they have spent more than $10 Billion dollars. (Imagine if the threat had been real, which it wasn’t.) But they still managed to spend $10 Billion dollars fighting a problem they really have no control over, whatsoever.

But what bothered me about the Michelle Obama approach, (ie., the President is going to form a Task Force which will…and….and…so on and such forth), was that obesity is now a government problem and she actually believes the government can solve the problem. Which just goes to prove my theory that liberals are absolutely incapable of learning anything.

Now my feeling is this: We need some test cases, before we should even consider this at the government level. Here’s what I propose:

We let Michelle bring in some of her fat friends, like Oprah, Aretha, Kirstie Alley, Tipper Gore, Fat Al Gore and slim them down. After they’ve kept the weight off for two years, then we consider whether this approach will work with children. And what a connundrum we face here. In Africa, we’re trying to put weight ON the children, and here, we’re trying to take it OFF. I say, let’s have them switch places and then, the problem is solved.

Yes, I am being a smarty pants here, but how much you weigh is not the government’s problem. It’s yours. And you’re the only one who can do something about it. And if your kids are fat, you’re the one who has to solve that problem, too.

It’s called being responsible and the government has never made anyone responsible for anything. You don’t have to look any further than the President, who is still blaming all his problems on George Bush, even though he spent 2 1/2 years and $500 million dollars campaigning to get this job.

Man up, Mr. President, and tell your wife the same thing. Can’t you just hear the 8 year old child asking, “Mom, Mrs. Obama says we need to slim down. How come her trunk is so full of junk?”

Healthcare begins at home. Parents should lead by example. If they fail, make them move to Pelosi’s district, where everything is tolerated, at government expense. I wonder if I can get a government mandate for my formulas?

It certainly would save the government serious money if everyone was forced to take it. I should at least get to be Surgeon General and get to wear that fancy uniform. And since I’m a lot smaller than I used to be, they would save on material costs too.

I wonder how many staffers come with that job? Michelle Obama has 24 and she isn’t even elected to anything. I’m pretty sure I could get by on 18, as long as one of them has a nice yacht that sails the Caribbean. (There’s a lot of diseases I’d need to study, down there.)

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Dr. Bill is an orthopaedic surgeon and author. He recommends this pharmaceutical grade fish oil for more energy, reduced joint pain and increased heart health.

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