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The Dems are becoming so predictable, that even some jokes about them are coming true. Roger L. Simon anticipated:
According to a new report from his doctors, Bush's fitness has been judged 'superior' for a man his age. Does this mean we are going to have to endure another column from Jonathan Chait? Heaven help us!
Chait had criticized Bush for working out. Now, sure enough, the DNC has issued a statement that attempts to use his good health to criticise him.
I think many people will read that DNC statement and roll their eyes in disbelief at how insular the DNC has become. It's not a crime to be in good physical health. It's absurd for the Dems to slam the President with regard to his being in good health. The Dems are talking to themselves. And the more they do this sort of thing, the more apparent it is that you never hear them cheering for America. In the statement, the DNC attacks GWB by referring to things like childhood obesity and phys-ed programs, but when was the last time the Dems made a very public reference to these things outside of a slam on GWB? Have the Dems made a big public push to actually improve these things? Is there any indication at all the Dems care about these things enough to try to improve them? On the contrary, there is little indication that the Dems have an interest in improving these things.
Slamming GWB for not improving something that they themselves have shown little interest in improving, makes the Dems appear insincere.
The Dems need to lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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#2In the statement, the DNC attacks GWB by referring to things like childhood obesity and phys-ed programs, but when was the last time the Dems made a very public reference to these things outside of a slam on GWB?
Former President Bill Clinton said his weight problem and brush with death are the catalysts behind his foundation's initiative of tackling childhood obesity. [...]
"Emory University's done a study saying that the obesity alone accounted for 25 percent of the increase in health costs of the last 15 years, so I thought it was a chance where I could save the most lives ... do the most good and also do something that I understood from my own experience," he said.
Clinton hopes to do that with a partnership between the William J. Clinton Foundation and American Heart Association. The initiative, launched in May, aims to "stop the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity" in the United States by 2010.
The goal is that by starting children on a path that includes a proper diet and exercise, they'll grow up to be healthy adults and reduce obesity-related health costs.
Other highlights of the initiative include working with the food and restaurant industry and the media and increasing physical activity and improving lunches in schools.
#3Good points. But as I noted in my post, you never hear the Dems cheering for America, and rarely see them making a big public push to improve things. The fight against childhood obesity doesn't show a lot of passion for improving America.
In the statement, the DNC attacks GWB by referring to things like childhood obesity and phys-ed programs, but when was the last time the Dems made a very public reference to these things outside of a slam on GWB? Have the Dems made a big public push to actually improve these things? Is there any indication at all the Dems care about these things enough to try to improve them? On the contrary, there is little indication that the Dems have an interest in improving these things.
On April 14 [2005], Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) introduced S. 799, the Prevention of Childhood Obesity Act. The bill would amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the coordination of the Federal Government policies and activities to prevent obesity in childhood, and would provide for State childhood obesity prevention and control programs. It would also establish grant programs to prevent childhood obesity within homes, schools, and communities. The Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in accordance with NIH’s Strategic Plan for Obesity Research, would be required to expand and intensify research that addresses the prevention of childhood obesity.