Obama links health issues to farming, then backs off

[Ralph Wiggum]

Barack Obama appeared to link farming with some of the nation's leading health problems, including obesity and heart disease, in a recent interview.

Obama - citing an article by Michael Pollan, an author and outspoken critic of U.S. farm policy - told Time magazine that agriculture is "partly responsible for the explosion in our health care costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in health care costs."

The Obama campaign issued a statement on Thursday saying that Obama "was simply paraphrasing an article he read. He believes there are a lot of factors that contribute to obesity, heart disease and other health problems, but he certainly doesn't blame farmers."

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[DumbAss Tanker]

I can't speak for places like Iowa, but trust me, that's not costing him any farmer votes here in the Missouri Ozarks.  The Obama signs around here are damned few and far between, and NONE of them are in a farmer's yard.

[Wretched Excess]

great.  after he nationalizes the health care and mortgage industries, he is going to nationalize food.

[Chris_]

great.  after he nationalizes the health care and mortgage industries, he is going to nationalize food.

All the better to supply the bread lines, my dear fiend.

[DumbAss Tanker]

All the better to supply the bread lines, my dear fiend.

The kolkhoz thing didn't work out so well for Stalin, and American farmers are a damned sight better armed than the Ukrainian kulaks.

[Chris_]

The kolkhoz thing didn't work out so well for Stalin, and American farmers are a damned sight better armed than the Ukrainian kulaks.

NeoComs are notoriously inept students of history.  I wouldn't expect them to dwell too long on those nasty little details when they try to bring us all - kicking and screaming, if necessary - into that Marxist utopia that The Annointed One envisions for the People's Republic of Amerika.

[Chris_]

I can't speak for places like Iowa, but trust me, that's not costing him any farmer votes here in the Missouri Ozarks.  The Obama signs around here are damned few and far between, and NONE of them are in a farmer's yard.

Same here.....and does anyone ever remember seeing a FAT farmer??

These folks WORK for a living.......what others do with their products is......well.......kinda like blaming guns for urban crime.......

doc

[bijou]

I think that is quite the stupidest thing Obama has said in the whole of his long march to power.

[Wretched Excess]

I think that is quite the stupidest thing Obama has said in the whole of his long march to power.

it fits into the big picture of liberalism, if you think really hard about it.  if  "it's the environment's fault that I am a criminal", and "it's society's fault that I am poor", then it's not that huge a logical leap for it to be "food's fault that I am fat".

 

[MrsSmith]

Normal lib-think...blame the cigarette maker, blame the gun makers, blame the restaurant, blame the food growers...UP is pretty much on-target with this aspect of lib-thought.  The only people who are responsible for their own actions are the evil repukes...with one exception, all of their family and friends are responsible for their actions, also.  (Hmmmm, does this start to sound familiar?)   

[morningAngel]

well my dad plowed ten acres and three days later he died!  Of course he had emphysema, diabetes, and colon cancer and was in his late seventies.  damn farming 

[MrsSmith]

well my dad plowed ten acres and three days later he died!  Of course he had emphysema, diabetes, and colon cancer and was in his late seventies.  damn farming 

But the question is...how many people did he take with him?   

[Wretched Excess]

well my dad plowed ten acres and three days later he died!  Of course he had emphysema, diabetes, and colon cancer and was in his late seventies.  damn farming 

I sense your sarcasm, but he worked hard all of his life, and the feds never told him what to plant?

[SaintLouieWoman]

I can't speak for places like Iowa, but trust me, that's not costing him any farmer votes here in the Missouri Ozarks.  The Obama signs around here are damned few and far between, and NONE of them are in a farmer's yard.

We were amazed travelling to Hannibal, Mo from STL. I was shocked with some Obama signs in the countryside and many in the small towns along the river. Of course, there were also McCain signs, but I couldn't believe how many Obama signs were there.

Glad the folks in the Ozarks are smarter.

[Wretched Excess]

We were amazed travelling to Hannibal, Mo from STL. I was shocked with some Obama signs in the countryside and many in the small towns along the river. Of course, there were also McCain signs, but I couldn't believe how many Obama signs were there.

Glad the folks in the Ozarks are smarter.

I am the official forum pessimist.  but I am prepared for the worst.

i don't care if mccain wins, I DO care if sarah palin becomes vice president.

[rich_t]

I am the official forum pessimist.  but I am prepared for the worst.

i don't care if mccain wins, I DO care if sarah palin becomes vice president.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

[morningAngel]

I sense your sarcasm, but he worked hard all of his life, and the feds never told him what to plant?

 
I would have liked the man who dared to tell my father what to do 
only Mom had that authority!