The Tea Party vs. Michelle Obama’s Campaign To Help Children

United We Win: Memorial Day Weekend At The New Civil Rights Movement

 

This Memorial Day weekend, we’re offering a trip down memory lane — memory lane, if you’re old enough to remember the artwork of the World War II era — and combining it with some of the political challenges we face today. Challenges, like it or not — given our current unsustainable level of polarization — we must share together. What if our politicians — and what if we — thought, united we win?

For the past six months, as America, and our children, have been growing fatter, Sarah Palin and her Tea Party cronies have been attacking Michelle Obama and her “Let’s Move” anti-childhood obesity campaign. You’ll remember last year, Palin actually gave her kids s’mores and said they were, “in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.” Later, Palin said, “the first lady cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat.”

Last December, CNN wrote, “Palin also hand-delivered cookies to a Pennsylvania school last month before delivering a speech there, saying: “Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government or should it be parents? It should be the parents.”

Mediaite added this February that Bill Maher, “wondered, amazed, at the entire concept of opposing healthy eating as a constitutional matter,” then quoted Maher, who said, “this is about the teabaggers’ fundamental misunderstanding between freedom and the freedom to be told anything, like not to eat food served out of the bucket.”

READ: A Message About Food From The President Of The United States

Well, these U.S. government-produced posters from 1942 and 1943 represent how the U.S. government used to dictate to Americans what and how to eat. Palin’s new bus tour is touting a return to American values of an earlier time. Perhaps she would like to go back to World War II when government mandated what to eat, how much to pay, what to say, and what not to say?

Last I heard, we’re still in a time of war, right, GOP?

(Images courtesy of Northwestern University Digital Library. Top. Bottom.)