McDonald's is back with supersized sodas

Typical liberal news story it is McDonlds fault that people are fat, the people are not held ay responsibility. Next they are going to blame it on Bush.

A number of the above comments give me a sense of optimism. I am an operation's consultant for a number of McDonalds Restaurants and it does get a little old having a lard-azz like Michael Moore telling the whole world that McD's is responsible for the rest of his kind. I can assure everyone that I have never held a gun to anyone's head to force them to eat anything. I resent having to put 20 million choices on the menu and asking the young people who work for me to learn how to make them, just to appease the politically correct and make them "feel" better because they can have apples with a double cheeseburger happy meal. In fact, seldom do any of our customers make that choice anyway. This is (at least for now) America, and the America I fought for over my 10 years in the military stood for freedom and choice and dealing with the consequences of both.
The whole point of the 89 cent campaign is to compete with Speedway and all of the other C-stores that sell a 55 gallon drum of soda for nothing! Sometimes I worry about this country....daytime, nighttime...hell, all the time!!!

McDonalds isn't a doctor telling us to consume its food, or telling us what is or isn't healthy; It's a restaurant, plain and simple, and we have the freedom and intelligence to choose where and what we buy to consume. Anyone who wants to fault McDonalds for their own ignorance had better wise up and smell the coffee..... before they spill it and scald themselves - lol.

OMG get off their backs! As consumers we know what we are putting in our mouths. if you only want a small damn soda, only get a small. better yet, bring a water with you.
Its sad that every fat person wants to blame mcdonalds for their downfall. They can have a happy meal for 500 calories if they have a diet soda or water. As a fatty myself i think it is ridiculous that people cant just decide what to eat themselves and have to place blame because they have no self control.
If you have no self control then own up to it, Ronald is not forcing the mcfata*s down your throat. Put it down or eat it up, but live and deal with it and let commerce go on!
Capitalism is why we are proud americans, at least one of them!

Who the f**k cares about a big soda. How about how talking about the HUGE amount of trash that gets thrown away every time you eat at McD's or how they are destroying the rain forests and desertising a hundred thousand acres of farmland a year by creating non-sustainable farmland so that we can all have $1.00 hamburgers. People can be so unbelievably ignorant about real issues and actually take the time to get worked-up about trivial crap like this. No wonder we are in the trouble we are in.

What you make wrong you prolong. This goes for the author of the article making McD's wrong for selling the drink and the people replying to this post who are making the author wrong for what he's saying. It just keeps this whole "back and forth" game of who's right and who's wrong in play. Sure, we get to choose whatever we want. Choose to not let this stuff bother you one way or the other. Things just work better that way. As "they" say, it is what it is.

Fast food is unhealthy--- we know that --- if I want to eat junk food, I do. If I want to eat healthy I do. We all need to be responsible for our own actions. People don't go to McDonald's or any other fast food chain thinking that a greesy double cheeseburger is healthy and they aren't shocked to hear that it's high in fat. People go there because that is what they feel like having for dinner. That is just common sense. They have been around for the last 30-40 years it's not all of a sudden big news that fast food is unhealthy--- we new that --- that's why we all have choices to make.

The government seriously needs to stop deciding what we should and should not have. If a person wants to buy this, they are completely entitled to do so. That's the idea behind our "free" country, isn't it? That's what we're sending people overseas and dying to defend!

And if the government should ban things that are bad for people, they should start in places other than a 42 oz drink that they could get elsewhere if they want to. Maybe they should ban cigarettes! Oh wait, the government gets money from that, so that won't happen. Really, the government doesn't care about the health of the people, so stop telling everyone what they need to do. If it cared about people, healthcare wouldn't be an issue in this country.

Let's face it the right wing do gooders won't quit till you have no rights and no choices. It started with Cigarettes and I knew it would move to food.

The bottom line as pointed out in many posts is simple "In a free society the individual's rights remain supreme" and only when society as a whole is damaged by the action of others should government interfer.

Yesterday it was cigatettes, now cholestrol and tomorrow I see cafine as an illegal drug or at least taxed as if it were.

This is about the persuit of happiness ... you know the consitituion. When will this kind of thinking end?