How dare that democratic bitch try and force our kids into a healthy lifestyle!!

So, the Republicans are in a tizzy about Mrs. Obama's "Let's Move!" movement in ending childhood obesity. I personally feel that it is a great cause because she is looking at it from all possible angles. She encourages kids to grow their own gardens and works with Walmart and other grocery chains in helping them find better/healthier foods at the same low costs and encourages kids to go outside and play. By teaching a child how to not only eat healthy but to buy and grow healthy you eliminate a huge percentage of obesity. Those healthy kids grow into healthy adults who in turn have their own children who are taught healthy habits. It's a vicious cycle that isn't so vicious.

What I find odd about this is how the Republican party is so upset that Mrs. Obama is suggesting that people buy healthier foods. They are acting as if she has told the nation to go and cut off the right hand pinky finger of every child in America. It is ridiculous.

After I heard about the argument going around I started thinking about the other First Ladies in my lifetime and their causes and if there was ever a huge deal made about their choices.

The only other stance that has caused this much uproar was when Hillary Clinton was First Lady and she advocated for health care reform. Something we all still can't agree on eleven years later.

I looked up all the causes that the First Ladies have supported and discovered that it all started with Lady Bird Johnson and her push for environmental protection and beautification. Pat Nixon was all about volunteerism and traveling abroad. Betty Ford supported women's rights. Rosalynn Carter worked for mental disabilities. Nancy Reagan Just Said No. Barbara Bush wanted everyone to read. Laura Bush advocated childhood literacy and women's rights.

I remember Nancy Reagan and the Just Say No program. I can remember being in grade school and the D.A.R.E. program would have assemblies were we would hear about drugs and how bad they were.

I remember Barbara Bush as a quiet figure during Bush, Sr.'s term and not much more of her. Except the pearls of course.

Who can forget Hillary Clinton during her husbands terms? While I don't agree with Mrs. Clinton's views on health care reform specifically, I do agree that we need a major change to the health care system.

I remember hearing that Laura Bush was a librarian before her husband came to office and hoping that she would work for some kind of education reform. Like her mother-in-law, Mrs. Bush was a quiet part of her husbands terms.

I like Mrs. Obama. I like what she is working towards. I like that she has chosen to fight a disease that adds trillions of dollars to the national deficit via health care.

It seems like the nay-sayers would find that last little tidbit a good thing.