The New York Times' Maureen Dowd has written a piece that seems to indicate that President and Mrs. Obama are responsible for providing the rest of the nation with good examples of how we should eat.

Seriously.

Dowd writes:

... Barack Obama never again wants to be seen as the hoity-toity guy fretting over the price of arugula at Whole Foods.

That is why the president ends up sending mixed signals on food.

He clearly feels strongly about nutrition and fat.

Dowd goes on to note that President Obama has gone out on highly-publicized trips for burgers, and "Michelle sometimes takes her staff on impromptu lunch trips to Five Guys or other burger and barbeque spots."

To all of which one might reply, "Who gives a damn?"

Ms. Dowd, like a good portion of the New York-Washington political and media nexus, thinks the public is an idiot, and that it hangs on every action, every word of its spokesman, the new president, as if it were some divine guidance for how to live its life.

What a bunch of self-absorbed jerks.

I think I'll go have three double cheeseburgers from McDonald's for lunch...