You must really be a sad and miserable person to criticize someone for working in a soup kitchen, Jarasan. Here is the video that goes with the photo you posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/05/at_miriams_kitchen_michelle_ob.html?wprss=44

So encouraging folks to volunteer to help in their community is ..... what?   Help me to understand.

I don't know why, Jarasan, but you've just reminded of something I read in 2005.   This is from the NY Times 9/7/2005.

As President Bush battled criticism over the response to Hurricane Katrina, his mother declared it a success for evacuees who "were underprivileged anyway," saying on Monday that many of the poor people she had seen while touring a Houston relocation site were faring better than before the storm hit.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in an interview on Monday. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she said, "so this is working very well for them."

JX your typical myopic comment of what is posted shows that you are selective, petty, and follow the leftist tactic of demonizing the messenger and changing the topic at hand. Oh yeah, and you are the typical nasty grudge holding type of person that still hates Bush, even when the man's mother is still in the hospital.   I would move to another state if you were my neighbor, God forbid if my dog pi$$ed on your lawn, you would probably get a lawyer and try to sue me....

So I am going to explain the post.

Rome is burning. Joe the Biden was right. Why don't you tell us why I am sad and miserable for writing that?

The "poor" in America are being used for photo ops. and the "poor" in America are better off than most of the rest of the world. eg. cell phone NEO POOR, serving mushroom risotto etc. This soup kitchen is nicer than most restaurants in Fla. has no shortage of volunteers and throws food away. It is at 24th and G St. N.W, 8 blocks from the White House. http://www.miriamskitchen.org

How about blogging George W. Bush, it seems you find something about the current "POTUS" to blog about every day...Hey check this out: Upon appointment as president, Bush appoints 6 Iran-contra defendants to his staff, (13) fills the upper levels of the White house and pentagon with senior members of the PNAC (14) including his speech writer, chief advisor, secretary of defense, and vice president. Uses the terrorist attacks of 9-11 (16) to illegally invade and occupy Iraq under the false pretense of imminent threat (15) and reaps billions for Cheney's Halliburton, Rumsfeld's Bechtel, and his own family's Carlyle group.

• 1979-83: Fifty Bush family investors and friends, led by uncle Jonathan, a New York Republican Party official and an investment manager, fork over $4.7 million to set up young Bush in a company called Arbusto. It's a flop, and in 1982 gets a new name: Bush Exploration.

• 1984: Spectrum 7 Corporation, an Ohio oil exploration outfit owned by Dubya's Yalie pal William DeWitt Jr., buys out Bush Exploration, setting up young Bush as CEO at $75,000 a year and giving him 1.1 million shares of the firm's stock. Another flop. The company's fortunes soon sink, with $400,000 in losses and a debt of $3 million.

• 1986: In the nick of time, Bush and partners merge the failing Spectrum with Harken Oil, a Dallas exploration company, with a $2 million stock purchase. Bush puts up about $500,000 and gets a $120,000 annual consulting fee along with $131,250 in stock options. Harken is a small outfit, looking for oil opportunities within the U.S. Then out of the blue comes Harvard Management Corporation, an investment adviser for Harvard University's endowment portfolio. It pumps millions into the venture.

• 1990: Although Harken has no international expertise, it gets the attention of the Bahrain National Oil Company, which unexpectedly appears on the scene and bypasses big oil's Amoco and Chevron to sign a production agreement with the little Texas concern. The contract grants Harken exclusive rights to what seems to be a promising offshore area squeezed between two productive tracts owned by Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street Journal speculates Bahrain was trying to cozy up to Daddy Bush, who was plotting an assault on Iraq after Saddam Hussein seized Kuwait.

Bass Enterprises Production Company finances the Bahrain drilling with $25 million, and Harvard Management raises its investment. A couple of members of the Fort Worth Bass family have places on Team 100, an elite business group contributing to the Republican National Committee.

In June, Harken drills two dry holes in Bahrain. The future looks bleak. Dubya dumps two-thirds of his Harken holdings (212,140 shares), for $848,560. He uses some of this money to buy into the Texas Rangers baseball club. This is a lot of stock to dump on the market all at once, and brokers say it was purchased by an unnamed institutional investor.

That August, Harken posts a loss of $23 million.

• January 1991: Daddy Bush attacks Iraq.

• February 1991: Dubya, as the official in charge at Harken, reports his big stock sale to the SEC—eight months late.

• April 1991: The SEC begins an investigation into Harken dealings. Chairman Richard Breeden, who had been appointed by the senior Bush and served him as an economic policy adviser, hails from Baker & Botts, a big Texas oil law firm where he was a partner. Inside the SEC, James Doty, general counsel and the official in charge of any litigation that might come out of the Harken investigation, is another alumnus of Baker & Botts. And as a private attorney, before joining the government, Doty represented the younger Bush in matters related to Dubya's ownership of the Rangers.

Since you have so much to blog about the N. Korea issue, blog about the real reason 911 happened!!!!!!!!!!

WOW!!! AND WOW AGAIN!!! NOW THAT WAS A MOUTH FULL. I ENJOYED EVERY BIT OF IT. LOL LOL LOL LOL

Great comment jme0823! Thanks for the suggestion but this is my blog.   jme0823 you can post what you want on your blog.

I post about current events, facts, people, and issues that can worsen or improve the present state of our union. You know the United States of America.

I also suggest that you read history books that start further back than 1916 and whose themes aren't "The Bush's six degrees of separation".

And finally ask yourself this question: "What have I done today to help prevent another 9/11 tomorrow?"

@chowchow: I am sure someone named chowchow knows what a mouthful is, all too well.   Thanks for your insightful comment, I really am impressed with your intellectual prowess.