[cubreporter]

The Obamas want to get their children a pet.
Why do you compare them to the recklessness of the clintins?

They will do just fine. Johnson’s had pets, Carter, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Bush Sr. and Bush,Jr...Obama and his family will do just fine and so will the animal they adopt.

[smithone]

They will do just fine. Johnson’s had pets, Carter, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Bush Sr. and Bush,Jr...Obama and his family will do just fine and so will the animal they adopt.

You're talking about people who had always owned dogs, they didn't acquire them for family photo ops and they didn't chose the dog by asking the AKC.

If Obama wants a dog he should adopt one from the Humane Society instead of asking the AKC to pick a breed for him. Also, mutts give off less CO2 emissions. (OK, I made that part up.)

Clinton adopted a dog (Barney?) during the Lewinski scandal. This is the same ploy and it makes me sick. The Clintons couldn't even hire a caretaker who could keep the dog from being killed by a car.

[AnAmericanMother]

All those presidents you mention had pets BEFORE they ran for the presidency. The Bushes in particular have always had dogs, mostly spaniels. They didn't just suddenly decide to acquire one as their presidential campaign went national.

This is like the Clintons cynically deciding to get a focus-group tested dog in the middle of the Monica scandal, and then abandoning it to the street when the heat was off.

And this is a family that apparently has never even owned a goldfish before, deciding to take on a dog for the first time in the middle of a grueling presidential run.

As the Church Lady says,

"How conVEEEEEnient!"