Hammes: Cooked Books

It seemed harmless at the time. Michelle Obama pretending to garden while a fawning press corps snapped photos, captured video and generated flattering copy. Since her first excursion to the vegetable garden on the White House grounds that someone else cultivates, the First Lady has ventured forth n accompanied by a compliant media n a few more times to extol the virtues of healthy food. Because young children add to any photo-op, she typically rounds up a few kids who actually do a convincing job of pretending they like to garden. And that’s all fine. There’s certainly nothing wrong with the First Lady haranguing the rest of us about being too fat. Oh sure. The cynic will point out that the First Lady may be a bit broad across the beam to be lecturing other people about what they eat, but there’s no refuting the message. We Americans are a bunch of fatties.
But will 81-pages of rules and regulation help?/ Dan Hammes , St. Maries Gazette-Record. More here. (AP file photo: First lady Michelle Obama plants herbs in the White House Kitchen Garden)

Question: Do you agree with Publisher Hammes that the First Lady is “a bit broad across the beam to be lecturing other people about what they eat”?