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Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat
ABC NEWS ^ | 4/17/2012 | Jake Tappert

Posted on 04/17/2012 10:17:28 PM PDT by JRochelle

Much has been made about Mitt Romney, in 1983, putting his family dog Seamus in a kennel on top of his roof and driving from Boston to Canada, with said canine Seamus making his displeasure known in a rather scatological way.

Democrats have signaled they have every intention of making sure the American people — especially dog-lovers — know the tale. In January, senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod tweeted a photo of the president and Bo in a car, with the snide observation: “@davidaxelrod: How loving owners transport their dogs.”

The Romney campaign signaled tonight that they are not about to cede any ground when it comes to a candidate’s odd past with man’s best friend.

And the Obama campaign shot back, with a spokesman suggesting the Romney team was attacking a child, since the Obama act in question took place when he was a kid.

The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama’s best-selling memoir, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” the president wrote. “Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

After his mother married Soetoro, Obama lived in Indonesia from 1967 until 1971, from roughly the age of 6 through 10.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalcruelty; barkobama; dogmeat; husseinobama; obama; obamafamily; obamalovesrover; soetoro
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To: Salamander

“Newt knows how to treat snakes right!” Wow, that’s a beauty! Is it a hognose?


101 posted on 04/18/2012 9:39:31 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
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To: Salamander

LOL, true


102 posted on 04/18/2012 9:56:16 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: Silentgypsy

A BCI.
[Boa Constrictor Imperator]

Not 100% sure of the geographical sub-species.

Mine is a Colombian BCI and is much lighter in color.

If I were forced to guess, I’d say it’s a Nicaraguan BCI.


103 posted on 04/18/2012 9:57:03 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Cleaning up after jackasses is a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it.

;]


104 posted on 04/18/2012 10:00:00 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: BAW

Some of the best tweets

Beagles with cream cheese
Great Danishes
Pugs in a Blanket
Pup Tarts
Obama’s Indonesian cookbook: Dreams of My Fido
Chicken Poodle Soup
Spaghetti and Mutt Balls
When Obama asks for a DOGGY BAG he really means a bag with a dog in it


105 posted on 04/18/2012 10:09:17 AM PDT by mandaladon (PalinGenesis)
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To: Vinnie
“Yeah, we ate dogs, but they were road kill.”

Well I ate dog meat a few times and once was in Indo, once in hawaii at a "Filipino luau"( happened to be the neighbors dogs, and yeah I felt kinda bad when I found out), Korean dog, Vietnamese dog and kittie, squirrel, snake, heck I've eated darned near everything on the planet that had meat. Heavens, I'm a regular infidel.

106 posted on 04/18/2012 10:21:00 AM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Doogle

Cooking Stove? (I just used it.) That’s a pretty lame name for a lecherous cat.

He should be named Bill Clintoncat; he’s really cute as a button, but an unbuttoned button! - I’d guess 15 pounds. I think he once posed with a bottle of beer - the Lech!


107 posted on 04/18/2012 10:34:30 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Twinkie
Cooking Stove?

no, I'm usually told to get off that

108 posted on 04/18/2012 12:01:36 PM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: JRochelle

I guess Obamuzzie took on all the power of that waffle he was eating—?


109 posted on 04/18/2012 1:01:38 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: JRochelle
Does anyone remember this from 2010?

Obama: "They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true."
110 posted on 04/18/2012 1:32:33 PM PDT by ICU812 (Oldtime Freeper, back from a long hiatus)
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To: JRochelle

Yeah, well I’m pretty sure my dog once ate a skinny mulatto, so I can’t judge anybody on this one...


111 posted on 04/18/2012 2:25:23 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Any small thing that might get the animal rights nazis to stop picking on Korea as though Koreans invented dog soup is fine with me.


112 posted on 04/18/2012 3:32:10 PM PDT by Tamar1973 ("Never care what the other guy has, it is not yours and someone always has more."--isthisnickcool)
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To: Scotswife

good point


113 posted on 04/18/2012 3:44:03 PM PDT by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
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To: JRochelle

114 posted on 04/18/2012 4:27:13 PM PDT by mikrofon (RIP, Dick Clark)
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To: JRochelle; windcliff
I'm looking over
my dead dog Rover
who was prepared for the evening meal
once he was barking and playing outside
tonight he is dinner basted and fried

Okay, I took liberties with an old song.

115 posted on 04/18/2012 4:27:57 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Go Gordon
So it really was a dog eat dog world
Yeah but in Nairobi, it's Kenyan eat dog.NYUK NYUK NYUK
116 posted on 04/18/2012 4:35:49 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Yaelle
this is precisely why the forefathers required a president to be a natural born citizen

if he was indoctrinated in a culture with rules and customs counter to american values and cannot produce a valid birth certificate AND everything he does is in deliberate violation of the nations best interest , why is he in charge and not in Guantanamo !

117 posted on 04/18/2012 4:46:43 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: I Drive Too Fast

LOL


118 posted on 04/18/2012 4:47:19 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: JRochelle
If you google this story, a lot of the media websites have "Romney campaign says Obama ate dog," or words to that effect.

You see what they're doing. They're trying to contain, contextualize, and control the story.

Romney's dog on the roof was something they reported straight, even though Obama's people were heavily pushing the story.

Obama eating dog is made to sound like something the Romney people came up with and "own" and can't shake, rather than a fact about Obama that's in the public domain that good journalists would have uncovered and reported.

The really interesting thing though, is that Obama wrote this in his book which sold millions of copies and nobody noticed it at the time.

Nobody -- nobody in the media that's supposed to follow these things, nobody else in the world -- picked up on this sooner?

Nobody noticed, or nobody thought it was a story, or nobody wanted to report it, or nobody read the book?

119 posted on 04/18/2012 5:26:59 PM PDT by x
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To: ltc8k6
Ew. Ketchup on a dog? Yuck. Has to be mustard.   ;-p
120 posted on 04/18/2012 7:32:35 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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