Mrs. “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” Obama Serves Governors a 2,200 Calorie Meal

First Lady Michelle Obama Sunday night stuffed about 2,200 calories worth of dinner into the nation’s governors, hosting a White House bash that pulled few punches on the fattening front despite her profile as the leader of a national crusade to trim the waistlines of the country’s youth.

 

President Obama is meeting with governors from both Parties at the White House today. Sunday night’s dinner was a kind of welcoming gala. It provided enough calories for an entire day’s worth of eating.

 

What’s worse, several governors clearly are not malnourished and might have done well without dinner altogether.

 

The meal follows a recent State Dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao which probably forced him to put away about 2,900 calories. And a Super Bowl party where guests had access to eats totaling 3,600 calories.

 

Mrs. Obama is leading the “Let’s Move” campaign – which might also be known as the “Do as I say and Not as I Do” campaign – to reduce childhood obesity.

 

The first lady has not been shy about demonstrating her contention that healthy eating needs to balanced by some old fashioned cheating. She was seen just last weekend in Colorado chowing on a buffalo rib and has been photographed savoring cones and sundaes at ice cream ice cream shops from  Panama City, Fla. to Marbella, Spain.

 

Sunday, she served the governors beef instead of chicken, threw in some fattening plaintain chips even though she already had a side of black beans and rice for them, added an unnecessary dollop of honey to the tropical fruit dish, and dropped the coconut sorbet – otherwise not a bad dessert choice – into a “chocolate shell.”

 

Actually, HOW ABOUT NOT SERVING DESSERT AT ALL.

 

Of course these items generally aren’t on the new school lunch menu Mrs. Obama has crafted, which includes delicacies like steamed broccoli, cauliflower, cooked green beans, and oven baked fish nuggets.

 

Here’s a rundown of the governors’ menu and my CONSERVATIVE estimations of the calories consumed.

 

·       Salad of roasted pears with homemade ricotta, walnut crisps, with White House Kitchen Garden greens – 200 calories

 

·       Bread and butter – 150 calories

 

·       Local black angus beef with blue crab – 550 calories – assuming an eight ounce NY Strip steak and crab meat without any kind of fattening sauce.

 

·       Plantain chips – 200 calories

 

·       Black beans and rice – 300 calories

 

·       Two glasses of wine – 200 calories

 

·       Coconut Sorbet in a chocolate shell – 400 calories; served with poached tropical fruits made with White House Honey – 200 calories

 

Total: 2,200 calories

 

by Keith Koffler on February 28, 2011, 11:37 am

 

From: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/02/28/obama-serves-govenors-2200-calorie-meal/

Obama Gives Chinese Commie Leader Lavish, Rock Star Treatment (While Americans Lose Jobs, Homes, Income)

Action star Jackie Chan and pop diva Barbra Streisand topped a guest list including three presidents and political and media elites at a US state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday.

 

At the request of the Chinese side, the menu for the dinner honoring Hu, after a day of frank talks at the White House, was quintessentially American fare, such as poached Maine lobster and dry-aged rib eye with creamed spinach.

 

And nothing could be more American than the old fashioned apple pie offered as dessert in a final flourish for a meal washed down with a selection of wines from California and Washington state.

 

Hu, wearing a business suit, posed with President Barack Obama, in black tie, and First Lady Michelle Obama, who was wearing a flowing red and black off-the-shoulder dress, after arriving at the North Portico of the White House.

 

On the list of 225 guests for Obama’s third state dinner were his two predecessors as Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Previous events honored the Indian and Mexican leaders.

 

Henry Kissinger, the Nixon-era national security adviser and secretary of state who played key role in forging relations with communist China, was also invited.

 

Guests from the art world and the media included cellist Yo Yo Ma, whose parents were ethnic Chinese, and Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine.

 

Wendi Deng, the wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, showed up without her husband, who she said was traveling.

 

After-dinner entertainment was to be provided by Herbie Hancock and Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang.

 

Several important Washington powerplayers who would have normally been expected at a state dinner turned down invitations amid anger on Capitol Hill over China’s human rights record and economic policies.

 

Senate Democratic Majority leader Harry Reid, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House Speaker John Boehner — now the third-ranking US elected official — all chose not to attend.

 

From:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110120/en_afp/uschinadiplomacydinner_20110120001708