First lady Michelle Obama continued her campaign to get kids moving by jumping rope yesterday as she launched the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition — with the new emphasis on nutrition — at Columbia Heights Educational Campus in Washington. “Our goal is to end the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation,” Obama said. She also announced that NFL quarterback Drew Brees and three-time Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes will be the council’s co-chairs. Meanwhile, recordings at Rod Blagojevich‘s trial yesterday revealed the former governor of Illinois declared at one point in a 2008 conversation with his chief of staff that Barack Obama is “a lot more hen-pecked than me. He listens to Michelle.” – Ann Oldenburg
