Posted on 04/19/2012 5:52:11 PM PDT by DBeers
The 2012 presidential campaign has become a dog-eat-dog contest. For months, Obama campaign operatives sought to make an issue of Mitt Romney carrying his Irish setter Seamus in a rooftop dog carrier during a family vacation in 1983. Some major media outlets picked up the non-story, and the Obama campaign buttressed it with an endless series of snarky tweets and barbs. The liberals are chasing their tails with this tale.
On Tuesday, the Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher juxtaposed the Seamus story with a passage from President Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” in which he describes eating dog meat while growing up in Indonesia. The message Democrats were trying to establish was that Mr. Obama was kinder to dogs. The book snippet supplied the rejoinder: At least Mr. Romney never ate one.
On its face, the dog-eating anecdote is just as much a non-story as the adventures of Seamus. But it exploded over social media and Twitter, and within hours, even mainstream-media news hounds picked it up. Man bites dog is always news. It’s the kind of story that lingers, a humorous situation that lends itself to endless one-liners. (“Why are there no more Blue Dog Democrats? Obama ate them.”)
The Obama campaign is struggling to come up with a strong response, but nothing seems to stick. It can say the dog-eating took place when Mr. Obama was a child, that it was in a different culture or that the first family has not prepared dog in the White House. However, it cannot escape the ick factor, which will hound it until November. Now the Obama campaign will have to call off the dogs on Mr. Romney. Bo, the White House pooch, will have to retreat to an undisclosed doghouse until Election Day.
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개 고기! (Korean for “dog meat”) In some places it’s a delicacy, but it’s not my choice of food. I prefer spicy kimchi.
How did barry get his dog to roll over?
It’s called a rotissierie.
I agree with the others....that is one of the best pics ever on FR!
It's not special to Moslems.
Beyond the dog business, is the “Silver Spoon” nonsense.
Obama’s banker Grandma (VP of Hawaii’s largest bank) sent him to the elite Punahou School. The current tuition for the private school is $18,450/year:
http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=1793
Barry was already a 1 percenter when he was in junior high.
Obamas dog ate his homework so.............
Don’t even try ;).
We always thought it was creepy that the Korean restaurant was across the street from the emergency vet clinic. Serial.
Obama’s banker Grandma (VP of Hawaii’s largest bank) sent him to the elite Punahou School. The current tuition for the private school is $18,450/year:
http://www.punahou.edu/page.cfm?p=1793
Barry was already a 1 percenter when he was in junior high.
I agree. Every time 0b0zo opens his mouth and spouts the “Silver Spoon” nonsense that is an opening that deserves to be responded to e.g. he was born with a communist hammer and sickle in his mouth.
Who and what groups exactly financed his rise? The answers to those questions comprise his “Silver Spoon”.
LOL. The reason the WH seems floored is that they're not sure how to handle this one.
On the face of it, easy enough. But they don't want to draw attention to his past in Indonesia or his autobiography because there's lots of incriminating stuff there ("blow" in the book comes to mind).
This is priceless.
LOL just noticed you said “Bark”.
Don’t even try ;).
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It’s the truth my friend. Romney wants this badly. He proved in the Primaries that there is nothing he won’t stoop to in order to get the prize he’s wanted for years. Don’t count him out. He will have the money and 6 million Mormon foot soldiers. (Plus, many Mormons have tons of money..... like the Marriot Hotel Chain which is Mormon owned.). Don’t count him out.
Of course I’m counting him out, and so should you. Comparing Romney to Reagan is nuts.
Romney is nothing but a spoiler, an Obama with more hair.
>The message Democrats were trying to establish was that Mr. Obama was kinder to dogs. The book snippet supplied the rejoinder: At least Mr. Romney never ate one.<
Absolute best comeback to have come out of the current election cycle - ROFL!
Actually, for some people belonging to those ethnicity I mentioned above, dog meat is part of their traditional dishes. It’s not everyday dish, but not limited to when they are in hunger either.
Agreed!
Dale! We need a poster that says, “Re-elect this president or he’ll eat this dog!”
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