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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 07:52 AM
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Teabaggers' New Rallying Cry: 'Mrs. Obama, Hands Off Our Obesity!'
From the Borowitz Report:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/teabaggers-new-cry-mrs-ob_b_508683.html

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - One day after the passage of an historic health care reform bill in the House of Representative, the Tea Party movement turned its attention to a new target today: First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign against obesity.

Carrying signs that read "Mrs. Obama, Hands Off Our Obesity," angry Teabaggers marched on the White House to accuse Michelle Obama, in the words of one protester, "of plotting to take the Big Macs out of our mouths."

"Being obese is one of our American core values," said Carol Foyler, a Teabagger from Toledo, Ohio who showed up for the march. "It's guaranteed by the Constitution."

Ms. Foyler said that Mrs. Obama's campaign against obesity was yet another example of the White House interfering in ordinary people's lives: "They want us all to be skinny like they are in Europe."

The Teabagger said that she would fight the First Lady's obesity campaign "because you know what happens when you get too thin? Your husband runs off with a tattoo model."

As the march reached the White House, Ms. Foyler said that the pro-obesity movement was already picking up steam: "Rush Limbaugh is definitely with us."

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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 07:55 AM
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1. Someone needs to stop the first lady from making me get healthy


:sarcasm:


:rofl:
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 07:58 AM
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2. Sounds like an Onion headline! Like Albert Einstein said...
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the universe."
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 07:59 AM
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3. not onion, borowitz. also satire
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 09:23 AM
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9. That's what I thought it was! LOL nt
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a kennedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 08:10 AM
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4. this is a joke right??? right???
:eyes:
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 08:43 AM
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5. Satire....Andy Borowitz n/t
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Brewman_Jax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 09:03 AM
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6. too bad that's no joke
anything the First Couple is for, the RW/repubs/teabaggers are against.

"WE WANT OUR TRIPLE-STACK CHEESEBURGERS!" scream the teabaggers.

:sarcasm:
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 09:11 AM
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7. ""Rush Limbaugh is definitely with us."
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
(My sincere apologies to those, who like myself, are "over-weight")
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 09:18 AM
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8. Won't all that marching hurt their cause?...
think of all the calories burned

They need to march on rascals

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