First lady Michelle Obama spent nearly two hours at Brinkley Middle School. Her first stop, a round table discussion in the lunchroom with Governor Haley Barbour, and Mayor Harvey Johnson and school nutritionists, brainstorming on ways to make school lunches better.
Governor Barbour began the meeting addressing Michelle says, "You are a leader and it needs to be done and it's not about party politics it's not about anything except we can have better lives for our children."
The highlight of the visit, a pep rally promoting Lets Move, the first lady's plan to fight childhood obesity, by providing kids better meals and encouraging exercise.
Michelle Obama promised the kids if they did their part, she could get the food and drug administration to put more nutritional facts on food labels, get more grocery stores and farmers markets into the inner city, and give more funding for healthier lunches.
"There are about six point five million kids who can't walk down the street and go to a grocery store because their communities do not have grocery stores. Part of lets move is to eliminate that. Because we can't tell people to buy clean foods if there's no where to buy it, right?" said Obama.
Those in the audience say Michelle Obama inspired them to live a good lifestyle.
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