"We're going to adopt a dog, I think," Michelle Obama told Entertainment Tonight on September 30, 2008. "A rescue dog," said then-Sen. Obama. But something happened to that idea. In his first post-election press conference on November 7, 2008, then President-elect was asked what kind of dog he was planning on buying for his girls. "We have two criteria that have to be reconciled," the president said. "One is that Malia is allergic, so it has to be hypo-allergenic. There are a number of breeds that are hypo-allergenic. On the other hand, our preference would be to get a shelter...
