Frankly I wish that the President would come out for breathing, eating and periodic hydration...

[MrScorpio]

That right there would go a long way in a short term.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. That's true.

If he really is for those things, as his supporters claim - then why duck them? It would be so simple to acknowledge them.

[SidDithers]

2. We'd lose a quarter of DU too...nt

Sid

[merrily]

3. Do you really want those subjects politicized?

Or should I say, more politicized?

Who should eat and on whose dime, what they should eat, how what they eat should be labeled, etc. already are highly politicized subjects. Similar issues arise in connection with hydration and air.

(This post is partly tongue in cheek but only partly.)

[MrScorpio]

4. Only people who are hellbent on policizing everything would be offended by what he'd say...

People with a lick of common sense would take it at face value. The knee jerk reaction crowd is anything but unpredictable. Their visceral reaction to behave in contrarian ways, no matter what and without a single reflective thought, would do a lot of good for the rest of us.

[merrily]

7. I don't disagree with anything you've said, but I do think it would be politicized.

Just look at Michelle Obama's garden and her campaign to get kids moving.

Those both have been mocked and maligned and not even on the level that I ascribed to politicizing eating, hydrating and breathing.

PS I didn't say a thing about people being offended. Politicizing something doesn't reuire being offended.

[DetlefK]

5. Do you trust the government with your air&water? We should privatize it.

[elias49]

9. Privatize? I don't think that would be wise.

In short order people would be getting very thirsty and gasping for air. Remember, we here in the US have this thing called 'capitalism'!

[madokie]

6. LOL

We'd loose a shitpot of repukiCONs if he would

[HappyMe]

8. He's just ducking those issues!!1

Why wouldn't he say something about this??!!1

He's for them??!!11 OMG!!!1