Don't Nag Me Barry!

During President Obama’s first presidential physical exam last month, the navy physicians recommended among other things that the President reduce his fat intake and cholesterol by modifying his diet. The doctors also encouraged the President to completely stop smoking and moderate his alcohol consumption. (That last recommendation oddly enough, failed to make it into any U.S. media reports.) The week after his physical, while in Savannah, Georgia the President stopped for lunch at "Mrs. Wilke’s Dining Room". Before he began dining on fried chicken, bowls of beans, sweet potatoes, greens and macaroni and cheese, the President told reporters he didn't want to hear any lectures about his cholesterol. "And above all," the President said, "don't tell Michelle about this."
Mr. President, now you know how all of us feel about you and your buddies nagging us about everything we eat or drink!
I truly do not care how much the President smokes or eats. If the President decides to gorge himself on pastry or fried foods, fine. Just don’t tell me what I can or can’t eat. (I am however a tad concerned that we may have another problem drinker in the White House, it’s those darn nuclear bomb firing codes.)
Mr. President, Ralph Nader, members of Congress, esteemed Senators and other elected officials far and wide; leave my peanuts, MSG, popcorn popped in coconut oil, trans fats, soft drinks, caffeine, salt and everything else alone!
You and whole lot of folks just like you obviously have way too much free time on your hands.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently succeeded in outlawing the use of trans fats in New York City restaurants. Salt is apparently the next target. A bill recently introduced by New York State Assemblyman, Felix Ortiz, a Brooklyn Democrat states in part, ""No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises,"
The bill hasn’t been debated or passed as I’m writing this, but right now there’s a 2,700+ page monstrosity of a health care reform bill in the US House of Representatives. I haven’t read the entire bill, but I’ll bet there are some similar surprises in that bill just waiting to be discovered.
Do you remember that annoying kid in third grade, the one who’d come up with such classics as, "Mrs. Anderson, you forgot about our spelling quiz?" When did we start to elect people like that to office?