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Let's face it, nothing this woman could do would make you happy, right?

I was emailed a link to this story from the far-right rubbish mill known as World Net Daily. A bastion of birthers, Obama-haters of all spread, evolution and climate-deniers, and just right-wing nutties in general, the column I was given a link to attacked Michelle Obama's Healthy-Eating Initiative, her attempt to encourage parents to make healthy choices in the foods that they feed their children. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=261065 Implied in the title is that, of course, the First Lady doesn't really care about children, her push for healthy eating is simply yet another "liberal do-gooder" attempt to control every aspect of all of our lives. It faults her for not tackling the, very real, problem of sex trafficking and sex slavery, instead using her position to "bully restaurants" into serving smaller portion sizes. What, and no similar outcry that former First Lady Laura Bush didn't speak out against sex slavery, instead ...