Democrats Light Themselves Pair Of Exploding Cigars

IBD Editorials ^ | April 27, 2012 | MARK STEYN

[Verginius Rufus]

"First dog-eating President in the history of the republic"?

I guess we can't be sure about all of the previous Presidents. Many of their youthful indiscretions were not recorded for posterity.

I'm thinking Sam Houston might have eaten dog while he was living with the Indians, but I guess when "the republic" is used without further specification it means "the United States," not the Republic of Texas.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Kaslin.

[SunkenCiv]

And thanks neverdem for the ping.

[Cincinna]

Obama at WH correspondents dinner on Sarah Palin
“ What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
A pit bull is delicious.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Good Muslims wouldn’t touch dog meat any more readily than pig. At least officially. Maybe pops was coming from some kind of syncretism between Islam and pagan worship?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Will the young Barack Obama who ate dog go down in the annals of legend like the young George Washington who cut down the cherry tree but then confessed it out of conscience? (This sounds possibly in character for Washington, who actually struggled to keep his own bad temper under control. He might have caught his head on it while horse riding, and in a fit of pique cut the whole blankety-blank tree down, no matter how valuable it was.)

[Verginius Rufus]

I think the first time the cherry tree story appeared was in a biography published after Washington's death by Parson Weems. Supposedly young George had been given a new hatchet and was trying it out and got carried away. The original version may have been that he girdled the tree (causing it to die) rather than chopping it down outright. It was supposed to illustrate Washington's honesty--but the story itself seems to be a lie.

Parson Weems lived in the Edgefield District in South Carolina which got the nickname of "district of devils" (because a lot of the most extreme South Carolinians were from there) but claimed to have been a pastor in the Mount Vernon area previously.