Obama Family Cook Named Policy Adviser

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 <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />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.http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/jul/obama-family-cook-named-policy-adviser