Huckabee and Christie defend Michelle Obama (1:39)

[underpants]

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/27/huckabee-christie-obesity/

However, some conservatives have a different take on what the First Lady is trying to accomplish. Sarah Palin slammed the campaign as yet another instance of “the government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician or politician’s wife priorities.” Rush Limbaugh blasted Mrs. Obama for promoting healthy eating despite the fact that she doesn’t “project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.” Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) have jumped on board as well. Mrs. Obama has even been blamed for an increase in pedestrian deaths.

However, today on Fox News Sunday, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK) came to the First Lady’s defense:

What Michelle Obama is proposing is not that the government should tells you that you can’t eat dessert. What Michelle Obama has proposed is that we recognize that we have a serious obesity crisis — which we do.

Seventy-five percent of military eligible kids going into the army can’t qualify for the physical because they are either overweight or obese and can’t meet the minimum army standards. That’s serious. This is no longer a health issue, an economic issue, it’s becoming an issue of national security.

[Beams1969]

1. Not to sound jaded, but even a broken clock...

[Francisco]

2. If Huckabee wasn't a religious zealot dipshit I might care...

about his opinion.

[safeinOhio]

6. He'd come across better if he stuck

to the justice the old testament prophets spoke of and not first quarter profits.

"But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"

Amos, 5;24

[NuclearDem]

3. Would've liked to see some stronger words against Rush&Co from Huckabee...

But otherwise, good on the both of them.

[safeinOhio]

7. "There is a crack in everything

That's how the light get in"

Leonard Cohen

[southernyankeebelle]

4. Well we know Huckie son's couldn't go in. Of course he is worried because

the military won't be able to draft them. There you go. He still could give a damn.

[Iliyah]

5. Kiss Kiss

until, horror movie here....

[Grassy Knoll]

8. I smell a double layer of chapstick.....

Flush will make them "Grab their ankles" come tomorrow.