Obama is Grass-Fed, McCain is Corn-Fed

Clinton, of course, would be a Boca-Burger.

We all know the drill: you are what you eat. But does who you are also determine your presidential candidates? Are the late-night comedians right? Is Clinton butter to Obama's olive oil?

According to a story in today's New York Times McCain's supporters shop at Safeway, Clinton's at Whole Foods, Obama's at farmers markets. (We have the feeling he'd do better in Fremont than Magnolia.)

All too easy. We're more than what's in our refrigerators and on our dinner plates. Besides, this sort of political analysis--equating Obama with the bitter herbs of farmers markets--marginalizes healthy eating as a practice limited to effete progressives. Nonsense. The pollsters have it backwards, as usual, confusing cause and effect. Sometimes we shop at Safeway, sometimes at Whole Foods, but that doesn't mean we don't healthy-heart Obama.