How Michelle Obama Stays Healthy

The First Lady shares the eating habits, fitness routine, and secrets for inner confidence that she hopes to pass on to her daughters and the nation.

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• This is a month old, but--as far as I'm aware--hadn't been posted yet.

So the president took a few days to speak to the nation about the failed terrorist effort on Christmas Day.

b.f.d.

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According to the media and the Republican critics, the president erred in not taking immediately to the airwaves to provide his fellow Americans ‘assurance and comfort’ that everything was, indeed, okay.

What are we…five year olds? Obviously, everything was and is not okay and hearing the President of the United States pretend otherwise would only have provided me with assurance that the government was treating me like an imbecile.

But Obama didn’t do that. He waited until he knew what he was talking about before passing the information along to us- a lesson Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano might want to take to heart. When government officials speak before they think, they say stupid things like “The system worked.”

Apparently, President Obama believes that we should be treated like adults. Go figure.

In point of fact, it wasn’t until the last twenty-four hours that Obama had enough facts to tell us something useful. Speaking today from Hawaii, Obama said-

A systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable. There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potentially catastrophic breach of security. We need to learn from this episode and quickly fix the flaws in our system because our security is at stake and lives are at stake.

The president went on to report that there had been information provided to the intelligence community that should have been put together and that, had things worked as they are supposed to, the terrorist would never have been permitted to board the plane he attempted to blow up.

While some Americans may find that news in no way reassuring, I find it to be quite to the contrary. I’d much rather the president get to the bottom of the problem and do something about it rather than read me bedtime stories so I can fool myself into sleeping better at night.

It’s time to grow up folks. It’s a rough world we live in and having leaders who would tell us otherwise is not going to do anyone any good.

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It is often suggested that when someone is treated as an adult, they will, in turn, act like an adult. President Obama is doing his part – maybe the rest of us should get on board and do ours.

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