America's First Couple loves to hector us about our failings. We are racist, our police act stupidly, and (most annoyingly), we eat the wrong stuff and we're too fat.But I would also gain some weight, and I do not have the East African tall and slender build enjoyed by the President (but not his wife, who has rather more of a struggle to attain a fashionably svelte bodily habitus). But notably, I am not in the business of telling other people what they should eat and how fat they are.When Michelle Obama eagerly took on the role of National Food Scold, I thought there was trouble ahead. It's bad enough that a first couple enamored of gassing up Air Force One for a "date night" on Broadway tells us to curb our energy use and learn to get along with less. But telling overweight people to stop stuffing their faces while simultaneously indulging in fatty foods is an even more personal level of chutzpah. Hypocrisy is a hard sell.See also: Government to track your child's...(Read Full Post)