Obama on raising our kids
Gene Douglas
senator suffering a nervous breakdown? When Beatty's character tells
astonished black Democrats that it's time for them to "put down the
chicken and the malt liquor," it's final proof that Jay Bulworth is
crazy and suicidal. But consider what happened late last month in
Beaumont, Texas, when I covered Obama speaking before an African-
American audience. A woman asked about health care and Obama explained
how, for the first time in human history, thousands of obese children,
many of them black, were being diagnosed with adult-onset diabetes—a
disease that is killing millions and helping bankrupt the health-care
system.
He told the crowd that kids couldn't keep on "drinking eight sodas a
day," then went in Bulworth's direction. "I know some of y'all got
that cold Popeye's [chicken] out for breakfast. I know," Obama said
with a smile. He continued: "That's why y'all laughing. You can't do
that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how
they study, how they learn in school … It's not good enough for you to
say to your child, 'Do good in school,' and then when that child comes
home, you got the TV set on, you got the radio on, you don't check
their homework, there is not a book in the house, you've got the
videogame playing." Instead of being jeered, he was cheered wildly.
(Hey, sounds good to me.)
Clinton Oberbeck
OMG, A politician that tells the truth!
VtSkier
Uhm, yeah. Do you thing we can stand it?
Or, conversely, do you think he will continue
in the same vein?