The Washington Post devotes plenty of column inches to Michelle Obama's "unfolding legacy" in this morning's edition.  From what can be gathered from the lengthy story, the First Lady's legacy thus far involves burning through senior staffers and waging an epic campaign against childhood obesity.  It seems the thrust of Mrs. Obama anti-fat kids' campaign is pushing for salad bars in public schools and sweet-talking Wal-Mart, among others, into lowering their prices on fruits and vegetables, because anyone with half a brain knows that a kid with spare change will buy a prune over a Twinkie if the price is right.  Of course, no one thinks flabby kids are good things.  Proper diet and exercise are the tickets to slim, trim youngsters.  But the problem with the First Lady putting so much weight on the childhood obesity issue is it begs the question: Is fat the greatest, most pressing problem among all the problems facing the nation's youth? ...(Read Full Post)