Oh Brother. Obama Makes Personal Cook a Policy Advisor
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, July 15, 2010, 6:12 AM
The Obama Family made their personal cook Sam Kass the tasty food czar.
Sam and yams.
America’s Food Initiative Coordinator helps out at the First Lady’s garden.
(Obama Foodorama Blog)
Barack Obama made his personal cook the national food czar recently.
Judicial Watch reported:
In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obama’s personal Chicago cook as “Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.”
It’s no joke, even though is sounds like a bad one. The Chicago chef’s rapid ascension, reported this week by a conservative Washington D.C. newspaper, has been kept under the radar for the last month. Sam Kass went from being a 20-something, Windy City gourmet cook—privately paid by the Obama’s to feed them—to big-time White House adviser in a matter of months.
In between, Michelle Obama made Kass a “Food Initiative Coordinator” for her new healthy nutrition program which is supposed to eliminate childhood obesity within a generation, especially in the nation’s inner cities. The First Lady claims that childhood obesity is a threat to national security and a crisis equivalent to AIDS and youth violence.
Because it’s such a dire situation, she has convinced her husband’s administration to spend $400 million a year to bring “healthy foods” to low-income neighborhoods and $10 billion to revise a decades-old federal measure that already feeds tens of millions of poor children at school for free.
This culinary revolution no doubt requires a trusted senior policy adviser—like Kass—who is an expert in healthy cuisine. The First Lady refers to her cook as a “partner in crime” and says it’s “just pretty powerful” to see what started out as talk in her South Side Chicago kitchen turn into a major initiative that “hopefully will change the way we think as a country.”
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Steve B commented:
Of course, I’m sure he’s a school-trained and qualified nutritionist. Maybe even an experienced personal trainer. You know, what someone would expect for a nutrition and health consultant affecting national policy and programs.
Just_Saying commented:
So, what is the salary for a tasty food czar?
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kansas commented:
Hey wait minute. That guy looks white.
Steve B commented:
Actually, it looks like he was a history major.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/11/sam_kass_white_house_chef_excl.html
Hedgehog commented:
Well, that takes him off the Obama’s payroll and puts him on ours. What a country. Now he really is Michelle’s “partner in crime”.
Moright commented:
Hedgehog, fyi , he’s already been on our dime. As “residential staff”, the WH was not -and has not- disclosed Kass’s salary.
It really is a reality-show administration. The lack of intellect and accomplishment is stunning.
Just_Saying commented:
Hedgehog, you’re right. It’s another job created.
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Moright commented:
*was not required to disclose*
Steve B commented:
And lest we forget, Sam Kass was the Obama’s personal chef in Chicago. You know, before he became president.
Yes, this spokesman for the downtrodden, this crusader speaking out against discrimination and an America hostile to the black man, still somehow managed to afford a personal chef for his family.
You know, like the rest of us.
Robert commented:
Another Krony Kommiczar for the taxpayers to support.
JKB commented:
Well, if you read the link, when does this guy cook? Doesn’t sound like he has time to make himself a midnight snack.
Also, 1,400 lbs from a first year 1,100 sft garden? I question that or at least how much that cost per pound. And 134 lb of honey from one inner city beehive?
check out this regarding how much home grown ends up costing. Of course, formerchef isn’t using government-paid labor, just working on capital investment.
LL commented:
What does that bring the czar count up to? I’ve lost track.
I’m not opposed to cooks and don’t want my comments taken the wrong way … but it strikes me as completely absurd that we need a menu czar, because that’s what this guy is. In this age of 20% unemployment (non-government adjusted numbers), the taxpayers really DON’T WANT a $120,000 per year menu czar. It’s obscene. Then again, it’s the ObamaNation, isn’t it?
jomojava commented:
Great, now my personal chef will no doubt demand a raise.
I’m sure that the rest of you GP posters are facing the same situation.
TJ commented:
WOW..Obie created a job!(sort of)..
Does this guy play basketball? belong to any Chicago men’s clubs?
Is he going to take over Reggie Love’s duties? or is he Michelle’s “partner in crime”?
This is better than anything they could make up on TV!
neomom commented:
My name is Sam
Sam I am
I’m the whitey in the garden
Planting phony yams
I thank them for the job
Or Ise be real broke.
I luvs dem Obama cuz day luv some white folk.
OOps, gotsta go get my whippin
For not kissen massas glove.
Dats da way dem obamas show day luv.
Chisum commented:
I want to know who the Food Taster Czar is.
Because every tin pot dictator/tyrant has one.
bitterclinger commented:
Head. Exploding.
eaglewingz08 commented:
Does this mean that the democraps will promise a Wagyu steak in every oven for the upcoming election?
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