The Competition
(excerpt from May 18, 2007 webcast)
I'm like those auto insurance commercials. I believe the best way to get your support is to encourage you to learn about the competition.
As it stands, I am the only candidate with a clear plan for the future prosperity of America... that starts domestically. It starts in our grocery stores. It starts in out kitchen cupboards. The prospect of a bright new day starts each and every morning... with breakfast! We already have the tools. We just need to use them.
Will John McCain tell you that teens on the verge of adulthood who skip breakfast are more likely to increase fast food consumption?
It was in the December 2006 Journal of Adolescent Health. It's no secret.
Does Hillary Clinton have the courage to tell Americans that bacon can actually help women to lose weight? Purdue University had the guts. Their report said that women who added lean protein to their morning meal experienced less hunger. This was not a top secret report. Why aren't we talking about it?
When the Maryland Medical Research Institute told us that girls who ate breakfast cereal through their teen years had a lower Body Mass Index, where was Mitt Romney? Where was Barack Obama? John Edwards? Where was anybody?
The major Presidential contenders continue to sidestep this basic issue of American prosperity. This is even more disturbing because... they are not dancing around a problem... they are dancing around a solution.
On March 16, 2006 when the International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition reported that people who consume breakfast cereal every day reported feeling better mentally and physically than those who rarely fulfilled their need for grains in the morning - I ran out and posted it on my website the minute I got the news. It is now more than one year later and that information still can not be found on any of the other candidate's websites.
If our Presidential candidates are already obscuring the flow of such key information, just imagine the horrors we could face if one becomes Commander-In-Chief.
So I say... go out and learn about these candidates. Learn everything you can. Prove me wrong. Show me their policy on breakfast and will put it on the front page of this website. I'll go further...
My challenge to all 2008 Presidential contenders: show me a position on the importance of breakfast and I will give you the front page of this website... your picture... your words.
I have a little secret. As of April 2007, my odds of winning this election are pretty darn slim. I didn't even want to be in this thing. Unfortunately (or fortunately - depending on your point of view), I have to be in it to win it. At this stage in the campaign, I will gladly throw my support to a higher-profile candidate with the political balls to say "Breakfast can change America".
Until that time, here I am. A man... representing a meal... a meal that represents the start of a new day.
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