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.
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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?
Bunni commented:
Is it just me, or could the real reason this latest czar has risen so rapidly is that he and barry have a “thing” going on, and foodie threatened to blow the whistle (after he blew hussein), just sayin!
Of course, this is outrageous and more tax money wasted. PLEASE Dear Lord, these jerks need to VACATE the WH ASAP!
Sandy commented:
So the Obama’s privately paid cook has now become a Food Czar. Sounds like the reason for this move is so the tax payers can pay his salary instead of the First Couple.
Mr. and Mrs. O are only generous with other people’s money.
down with dems commented:
He’s a cook. Does he have any education or degrees in the area of nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, ANYTHING besides cooking? And “culinary revolution”??? Give me a break.
This just in: the White House swimming pool cleaner has just been appointed as the Deputy Oil Spill Czar.
Elly commented:
Has something changed with the WH garden? After the yam flap with Michelle last year, I thought it was determined nothing could grow in that garden because of sewer issues from the Clinton era (couldn’t even make this stuff up). So that makes me wonder – is the picture with the new food honcho standing next to a wheel barrow with yams – a staged photo op? Or are they really growing edibles from their garden??
Jennifer commented:
Arugula and Kobe beef will now be on the lunch menu at every failing public school in Chicago.
kato commented:
Whether it be an AIDS program or a food program, it’s all about funnelling more money to ACORN. Reparations by other means.
This grifter operation needs to be shut down permanently, but it’s going to take more than a midterm congressional election.
Kristen commented:
Fellow Chicagoan and ex-Senator Carol Moseley Braun has a new endeavor: Ambassador Foods, an organic food company with a mission. Braun’s campaign manager, David Medina, is Michelle Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff and John Rogers, Braun’s campaign finance chair is friends with Michelle Obama’s brother.
GrayRider commented:
The Comedy of the Absurd & Chicago Way keeps rollin’ right along. Destroy the tracks this Nightmare is on, people and derail the train.
wanumba commented:
JKB
July 15th, 2010 | 9:22 am | #12
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?
……………….
Exactly! That garden is a sham. Michelle’s “Affordable,” “organic” plot was dug up by a WHite House gardener team with a backhoe (“street market rate” $200 an hour), tons of “organic” “nutrients” trucked on from all over. Lord knows how much they charged the taxpayer to set it up, but “affordable” isn’t the word.
It’s a gold-plated outdoor theatre piece that miraculously produces vegetables into November – ah, the explanation was the more “mild temperatures of DC” HA! AFTER the frost.
Michelle shows up as First Actress framed by “her” garden. That’s the TAXPAYERS’ garden, TAXPAYERS’ front lawn, TAXPAYERS’ WHite House. That the media colludes in this nonsesne is double infuriating.
wanumba commented:
One thing in his favor. He doesn’t look as noticeably alarming as Rasputin.
Boo Radley commented:
Bunni
July 15th, 2010 | 9:50 am | #21
Ding! Ding! Ding!
My first thought when I read this was, “He’s got something on them.” It may be on him; it may be on her. But rest assured, he has information that the o’s wants kept quiet. Thus, he gets a high-paying, high-prestige, low-responsibility job.
Maria commented:
So, what are they going to do now? Take over the food supply and put the squeeze on us for votes like they do in Venezuela and Cuba? “Come and wear this tee shirt for a photo op, and you can have a sandwich and a beer for free!”
I’d rather eat dirt.
S. Wolf commented:
The idea is to get so fat they can’t be dragged out.. it will take a crane and dismantling the side of the WH to get out BO and MO.
Jim commented:
If this wasn’t so funny, I think I would break out in tears!
nelli commented:
Isn’t it a little early to be pulling huge sweet potatos out of the ground in DC ? Or is he planting them?
Stuart commented:
Thanks Obama, for reminding me that it’s nearly lunch. Now I can feel good about ordering that greasy double cheeseburger with mayo, and a large order of fries.
If the Obama administration doesn’t like it, it must be good. Micky Ds here I come.
tango commented:
Of course he got promoted. I’m thinking he’s just the type of man Obama wants to keep close.
kate commented:
It’s like the Clampetts moved into the White House.
Granny Jan commented:
This is a no brainer. Sam is a hunk with nice pecs. He works out daily and has a cool hair cut. His tastes are very metrosexual and no girls are hanging around him that anyone has seen. Obama needs new young blood. Reggie is well Reggie who also with no known females around him. Sam’s appointment was Barack’s choice and it had little to do with food.
Bobbi commented:
Wait a minute! They need to have a vegan, and a vegetarian Food Czar too, otherwise, it’s discrimination.
daryl commented:
I’ll bet that dude’s duties are far more than digging the “first” lady’s sweet taters.
He looks more like one of those under cover OO7 men. Does jobs obama either can’t or won’t do anymore.
gawntrail commented:
Yep. That smacks of sweetheart job.
Tabloid Front page:
President not into women………
or
President not man enough………
Either is totally believable.
wanumba commented:
Well, this one is way to stop paying out of their pockets and have the taxpayer pay for his … services. That’s one way to amass $5 million – don’t pay for squat.
big L commented:
hey, I am the new Farmers Market czar–certified Organic. Yeah! I ‘ll check out the local mkts and
purchase ah-oohga lettuce for you.
Just send $8,995.per month to my address.
SukieTawdry commented:
They have the entire White House kitchen staff at their disposal and they pay a private chef to feed them?? And now he’s been appointed a senior policy adviser to the president? Huh. Two questions: Does that mean we now pay him and when he’s not advising the president on healthy food initiatives, does he continue to “feed” the First Family?
Chris commented:
Lord help us if either O or Ms. O have a private proctologist!
Then we can have a Pain in the @ss Czar….
or maybe a Take it in the @ss Czar (sort of the same thing!)
Rather fits in with all the @ss kicking our Kicker in Chief is getting set to do.
*Nov. 2012 can’t come fast enough!*
KarlinPhoenix commented:
Here is yet another example of the Obama’s forcing us tax-payers to support their domestic staff at the White House. This trade-school chef is now going to advise the President on Nutrition policies for all Americans. This is another example of the control over our lives that the Marxist Obamas and the other Progressives in the Senate and House want to force on us.