Hopenchange Eating: POTUS Obama Takes Staffers to Burger & Fries Lunch, Packs Away a 1,700-Calorie Lunch, Pushes Boy to Drink Fattening Milkshake
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 3, 2011
FLOTUS Michelle Obama, with her Hugo Chavez-endorsed food mandates, wants America’s children to bypass eating fattening, low-nutrition foods — unless that child is out lunching at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill and the president shows up for a 1,700-calorie lunch and tells the child to drink a fattening milkshake.
Do as I mandate, not as I do — because, heck, we just can’t leave it up to the parents, after all.
For the record, just a few weeks ago, the First Lady was also seen eating a fattening 1,700-calorie burger lunch, complete with French fries and a chocolate shake at the Shake Shack. It wasn’t the first time Michelle has pigged out in public on fattening fare — it won’t be the last, guaranteed.
Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire reports:
Mr. Obama treated a handful of senior White House officials out for burgers at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon.
“Michelle eats here all the time, but I don’t get out,” Mr. Obama said of his wife, who’s had a burger named after her on the Good Stuff menu.
The lunch group included Mr. Obama’s budget director, Jack Lew; Vice President Joe Biden‘s chief of staff, Bruce Reed; the director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling; the White House’s top laison to Congress, Rob Nabors; and deputy White House Chief of Staff Nancy Ann DeParle. Mr. Obama sat at the table with a burger, fries and a salad in front of him, according to a pool report. The president was apparently in a good mood, sharing his spread with fellow diners, including 11-year-old Andrew Parker, who said Mr. Obama told him to choose any milkshake he wanted from his table.
What, no deep-fried fat cakes for the kid?
Ray's Hell Burgers for lunch... Pres. Obama and Russian Pres. Medvedev in June 2010
From Washington Times, A hamburger today for $2.4 trillion tomorrow:
President Obama took his debt team out for burgers at Good Stuff Eatery on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, giving new meaning to the “Popeye” character Wimpy’s catchphrase “I’d gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today.”
The White House said the outing, at which the president consumed a meal of about 1,700 calories, was a reward for the debt team’s “nonstop” work over the last few months as they worked out a deal with Capitol Hill to extend the government’s borrowing limit. Mr. Obama signed the extension into law Tuesday, just ahead of the deadline, allowing up to $2.4 trillion in debt to be accumulated.
Good Stuff marks the latest stop in Mr. Obama’s Hamburger Diplomacy in and around Washington.
He famously treated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to a burger at Ray’s Hell Burger, which is across the Potomac in Arlington. And he’s also frequented Five Guys, an institution in the Washington area that has now spread its franchises across the country.
But in hitting Good Stuff the president is invading territory more to his wife’s liking. Mrs. Obama has been there several times, and even has a burger named after her: The Michelle Melt Free Range Turkey Burger.
Despite Mrs. Obama’s push for healthy eating, burgers are a clear favorite of the president’s — or, more exactly, cheeseburgers. It’s been his most common order on campaign and official presidential stops.
From Weasel Zippers, Let’s Move! Obama Stuffs His Face With A Cheese Burger And Fries…:
Michelle gave him her blessing after he promised to do the Dougie for two hours to burn off the calories.
From NY Times, Obama’s Budget Treat: Some Red Meat:
Mr. Obama ordered a burger, fries and a salad and then gathered with his legislative team, including Jacob J. Lew, the budget director; Rob Nabors, the legislative affairs chief; Nancy Ann DeParle, the deputy chief of staff for policy; Bruce Reed, the vice president’s chief of staff; and Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council.
Reporters, who were too far away to make out the conversation, witnessed lots of laughing.
Mr. Obama chatted with customers, at one point offering a milkshake from the presidential table to a young boy at the next table.
“Choose any milkshake,” the president said, according to the boy. “I guarantee this table isn’t going to drink them all.”
“Drink them all”??? How many milkshakes did they order, for crikey’s sake?
Another day in Washington… too much of this unbearable hopenchange will assuredly add unwanted inches to your waistline just as it adds unwanted debt to our children’s and grandchildren’s futures.
Barack and his cheeseburger... paradise (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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