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 candidates odd past with mans 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 Obamas 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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“Newt knows how to treat snakes right!” Wow, that’s a beauty! Is it a hognose?
LOL, true
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.
Cleaning up after jackasses is a dirty job but somebody’s gotta do it.
;]
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
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.
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!
no, I'm usually told to get off that
I guess Obamuzzie took on all the power of that waffle he was eating—?
Yeah, well I’m pretty sure my dog once ate a skinny mulatto, so I can’t judge anybody on this one...
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.
good point
Okay, I took liberties with an old song.
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 !
LOL
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?
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