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Food fight! 8-year-old girl targets Sasha, Malia

She's cute, sassy, playful and sincere. At age 8, Jasmine Messiah makes an ideal poster child for a campaign that targets the Obamas and Congress and amounts to an old-fashioned food fight.

On posters that began popping up this week near the Capitol in Washington, D.C., little Jasmine beams at the camera with her arms crossed and shares this message: "President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I?"

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{"commentId":8644660,"authorDomain":"HeelsnHairMetal"}

Well, nutritious school lunches are often hard to come by. I always packed my lunch. It was a lot cheaper, I could eat what I want, and I didnt have to deal with the nasty food at the school.

Granted, Sidwell Friends is not a public school, and they have the money to provide whatever kind of lunch they want.

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Reply#1 - Wed Aug 5, 2009 3:37 PM EDT
{"commentId":8644884,"authorDomain":"sarain"}

I always wondered what was in my school lunch back in the days, it always seemed funny to me. At time's I would pack lunches if possible because it was a lot easier to know that my dad made it than the who made what in school lunch. Besides, today's school lunches in average schools are sloppy I would think, and kids these days don't care about nutrition and neither do a lot of parents.

You can't make kids eat healthy at schools, well what I mean is, it starts at home and parents have to enforce it. These days, corporations (McDonalds anyone?) own a lot of people, if anything we're slaves to them :(

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Reply#2 - Wed Aug 5, 2009 3:48 PM EDT
{"commentId":8645369,"authorDomain":"robynlewis04"}

I think GIVING kids a choice to eat what they want is ok, but I hope schools don't FORCE all kids to eat only vegan meals. There needs to be a health balance bettween the two.

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Reply#3 - Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:09 PM EDT
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“I am not concerned with the White House being disappointed in this ad,” Committee Nutrition Education Director Susan Levin told Politico.com. “I’m more concerned that Congress gets the message. And if they get it because it raises Obama’s eyebrow, so be it.”

So this advocate cares about the Nation's kids; but not the President's kids.

The First Daughters have absolutely nothing to do with this campaign. Susan Levin's stance here is simply that she believes controversy breeds attention. That may help her cause; and it may NOT!

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Reply#4 - Wed Aug 5, 2009 4:32 PM EDT
{"commentId":8647269,"authorDomain":"kelewanpug-politics"}

The little kid asked "Why?" Who is willing to tell her that if Pres Obama tries to make it so that she and others like her can get good lunches, he will be called a Socialist? Or worse.

Doesn't this child know that to feed her could mean another government program or more money for the current one? And every knows that the govt can't run anything and that we can't afford to spend any money on the American people...as per the Republicans and GOP.

These are the harsh Republican truths..and someone needs to let this kid know how it is.

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Reply#5 - Wed Aug 5, 2009 5:36 PM EDT
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The FDA needs to be updated severely and then we won't see these attacks as often and more than likely less children would be obese.

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Reply#6 - Wed Aug 5, 2009 6:48 PM EDT
{"commentId":9269632,"authorDomain":"max222"}

The public schools in my area have a good lunch program I cook it I know. The kids don't eat it. Yea my child eats everything on her plate at home she is not at home. She could love salad at home but her best friend of the day says ooh that's gross she no longer eats salad at school. Kids throw away 60% of the food they are given.

My school offers a salad bar which has fruit hot and cold vegetable bread or bread sticks and toss salad every day they usually only take the fruit.

Go to school and watch don't let them see you watch how much of that great lunch you sent gets put in the trash not even opened. We can not make them eat.

They need to find a new ad this one is off the mark completely.As a parent get involved she doesn't have good food because no one cares at her school it starts with the administration and goes to the parents. Its not Obama.

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