Remember a few days ago when I commented on San Francisco Mayor Newsom's adoption of Big Food's demonizing position - that government shouldn't tell people what to eat? That legislation like banning the sale of toys with nutritionally bereft food or posting of calories somehow tramples on your civil liberties?
Well good ole Sarah Palin, she's done gone one better.
Not only did she parrot the whole, government shouldn't tell people what to eat bit (this in reference to the government simply providing nutritional guidance),
"Who should be deciding what I eat? Should it be government, or should it be parents?"That wasn't enough.
Nope.
Instead she also brought cookies to give to the students and explained in her Twitter feed,
"2 PA school speech; I’ll intro kids 2 beauty of laissez-faire via serving them cookies amidst school cookie ban debate;Nanny state run amok"Because what could be more laissez-faire than pushing cookies on school children as a prop to promote your own political aspirations?
Who should decide what American kids eat? Their parents or Sarah Palin?
She's a gem alright. A regular American Andrew Lansley.
[Hat tip to Martin Collis via MEDIAite and great photo illustration by Mario Piperni]