THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2010


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BY JASON HOROWITZ AND NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON


Some Republicans watching


the cluttered 2012 presidential fieldmay have found an unlikely point of disagreement: the first lady and flab. Sarah Palin has taken to assail-


ingMichelle Obama’s anti-obesi- ty initiative on her reality show and elsewhere, while former Ar- kansas governorMikeHuckabee,


the Republican Party’s resident authority on obesity and a poten- tial Palin rival, has been defend- ing it from Palin’s salvos. Two other possible GOP presidential contenders,Mississippi Gov. Ha- ley Barbour and former senator Rick Santorum (Pa.), have also praised Obama’s efforts. In a recent broadcast of “Sarah


Palin’s Alaska,” the former gover- nor, high school basketball play- er and avid runner prepared s’mores (ingredients: marshmal- lows, Hershey’s chocolate bars


and graham crackers) and said the treat was “in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert.” In fact, the first lady has never


suggested that sweets be banned from the dinner table, cafeteria or campground. She says she tells her daughters, Sasha and Malia, that “dessert is not a right” and that meals should be balanced with fruits and vegeta- bles. In a recent interview with


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conservative radio host Laura Ingraham to promote her latest book, Palin again dismissed Obama’s anti-obesity effort as “some politician or politician’s wife’s priorities,” which amount towhat she has in the past called a “nanny state run amok.” She told Ingraham that the


first lady should “get off our back and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own deci- sions.” Palin’s criticism tracks closely


with those ofmany other conser- vatives who have complained of government overreach and con- sider Obama’s initiative and the recently passed child nutrition law as intrusions into schools. When asked about Palin’s


comments, Obama told Barbara Walters in an interview last month that the issue “transcends politics.” “Parents, families, communi-


ties have the largest impact on how kids think about anything, particularly what they eat. But


A5 Palin not too sweet on Michelle Obama’s efforts to battle the nation’s bulge


ultimately it requires all of us.” Conservative broadcast hosts


Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have also criticized Obama’s ef- forts, as has commentator Mi- chelle Malkin, who named Obama to her list of “BigNannies of the Year.” But Huckabee, who famously


shed more than 100 pounds in part by cutting out processed sugar and white flour, quickly came to the first lady’s defense. horowitzj@washpost.com hendersonn@washpost.com


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