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She's all for cutting flabby government, but Sarah Palin wants Michelle Obama to butt out of keeping kids from getting fat.
The moose-munching Tea Party darling is picking a fight with the First Lady - over dessert.
"Where are the s'mores ingredients?" the sharp-elbowed hockey mom growled in Sunday's episode of her outdoorsy TLC show "Sarah Palin's Alaska."
"This is in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert," Palin said mockingly as she rummaged through her kitchen cupboards for graham crackers, marshmallows and chocolate.
The former vice presidential candidate was apparently referring to a speech in which Michelle Obama did not quite put a ban on sweet treats.
"As I tell my kids, dessert is not a right," Obama told the NAACP in July, touting her "Let's Move" campaign to combat childhood obesity.
While Obama's program does not explicitly tell parents to avoid dessert, it suggests cutting back on sugar.
It was the second time in a month Palin has bashed the First Lady's calorie-curbing movement.
"What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat," the ex-Alaska governor told radio host Laura Ingraham last month.
"Instead of a government thinking that they need to take over and make decisions for us according to some politician's or politician's wife's priorities, just leave us alone . . . "
The White House declined to comment on Palin's barbs, or her appetite for s'mores.
Source: NY Daily News
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