April 18, 2012

"Dog Wars Escalate: Barack Obama Ate Dog Meat."

Oh, my. The war on women wasn't titillating enough. Now, it's the war on dogs.

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Posted by Ann Althouse at 12:05 PM
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Fen said...

Loafing: Romney was an adult who treated his living dog (a living being that was a member of his family!) in shitty and abusive fashion.

Oh please. What bullshit.


why the right-wing blogosphere sees that this is a problem and must use some propaganda to counter it.

You take yourself too seriously. Grasping at anything to reverse the freefall Team Obama has been in the last week.

No one really cares that Romney put his dog on a carrier on top of his car. Not even you. And most think its weird and funny that Obama ate a dog.


He was a little boy in a foreign country where eating dog meat was normal

Lots of things are "normal" in the 3rd world. It would have been "normal" for Obama to have stoned some girls for showing too much skin...

4/19/12, 1:01 AM
wyo sis said...

I have used a garden hose to clean up one of my little children when they had an"accident" outside in the yard in their swimming suit. I have carried my little children in the car without car seats when they weren't required or available. I was carried around in a car in the same way. I rode on the back of a tractor when my dad was bailing hay and my children rode the same way with their grandfather. I have carried a dog in an open pick up bed. I have driven across country with a cat in a carrier in an open trailer. I have pulled a horse trailer with horses in it. I have driven a cattle truck full of cattle. What this says about me is I am a practical and normal person. People do what they need to do.
Before the nanny state got involved people made their own decisions without a bunch of busybodies getting uptight about it. And, I'll bet my parents kids and my kids and animals have had the same or fewer accidents as the hyper-over-protective worry mongers plus we've had a lot more fun.
Both of these dog stories are about people living their lives the way normal people of their time and place lived their lives.
Get a grip.

4/19/12, 1:04 AM
bagoh20 said...

"which is why the right-wing blogosphere sees that this is a problem"

No, we really don't. You want to believe that, but trust me. Conservatives don't think dogs hang out the window of the car because they hate it. But more to the point we don't think that reelecting Obama will fix this travesty anymore than we think electing Romney will lead to an executive order requiring car-top dog transport. If you find this a deal killer, then I won't challenge you with the problem of drone attacks on civilians, an endless Gitmo, hundreds of dead Mexicans from Fast n Furious, or 200 years of debt added in just three years. I guess we just have different priorities. I like mine. They feel right.

4/19/12, 1:12 AM
bagoh20 said...

This is gonna freak Oaf out, but I run with scissors around the dogs, and I hose them off every week. Not just once. Every. Freaking. Week.

4/19/12, 1:16 AM
bagoh20 said...

And Oaf, as everyone here is making clear, we don't think Obama eating a dog in a time and place long ago is of any import either. We do think it's funny as hell though, mostly because of people like you. We really aren't making fun of Obama, so guess who.

4/19/12, 1:20 AM
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4/19/12, 2:03 AM
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4/19/12, 2:05 AM
Fen said...

The reason LoafingOaf's panties are in a bunch is because even he sees that we've moved on from criticism of Obama to ridicule.

4/19/12, 2:06 AM
Fen said...

Obama is a joke.

History will use him as the archetype of what's wrong with affirmative action.

Democrats, please, pick your leaders based on something more than the color of their skin.

"Obama 2012. Yes, he can make it even worse!"

"Romney 2012. Because another four years of this nonsense and we'll ALL be eating dog."

4/19/12, 2:07 AM
MayBee said...

Only people whose dogs have never gotten diarrhea should be allowed to be president.


(fwiw, Anne Romney said Seamus got the runs on top of the car because he ate the turkey off the kitchen counter before they left the house. It wasn't that he was so scared that one time. I know changing my dog's diet gives him the runs, poor buddy)

4/19/12, 2:09 AM
Gary Rosen said...

crosspatch:

"Bo ... be careful ... after November, Obama will have a lot more ... flexibility."

Priceless!

4/19/12, 2:38 AM
Gary Rosen said...

" C4--I would accuse of you participating in these parodies, except you are an engineer,"

Another one of his pathetic lies, like his claimed inside knowledge of the military, or being a "gen-Xer" when he is an old boomer. Plus he has less sense of humor than most feminists.

4/19/12, 2:46 AM
Caroline said...

Romney was an adult who treated his living dog (a living being that was a member of his family!) in shitty and abusive fashion. That actually says something about him, and what it says is BAD -- which is why the right-wing blogosphere sees that this is a problem and must use some propaganda to counter it.

You're kidding... right? I mean... this is satire, correct... no?

Okay, I can play along.

As a grown man, Obama thought it was OK to brag about eating dogs- you can hear him in his own grown-up voice if you get his book on CD -something no red-blooded, dog-wavin', flag lovin'- I mean flag wavin', dog lovin' (lovin' in a good way, not in a Mc Donald's Happy Meal way) American would do; and that's just dandy.

Romney, on the other hand, is the worst sort of villain because he used...(cue the dramatic chipmunk ) a DOG CARRIER for his DOG!! I don't even know why they make pet carriers since no decent American would ever put a living human animal in such a device!

Oh, the inanity!!!

4/19/12, 3:06 AM
AllenS said...

Dreams of My Father's Dog: A Story of Meals and Inheritance is a memoir by United States President Barack Obama.

4/19/12, 6:12 AM
Joe Schmoe said...

Since the dog-eating thing is just getting play now, doesn't this show how nobody really read Barry's book? I would've caught that in a heartbeat, but I never cracked the covers of his self-indulgent tripe.

As to Mitt, I don't have as many kids as he does, but I've got a few. The car fills up quick, especially if you're packing for a week or two. I'd rather put my dog on the roof than one of my kids.

The lefty death panel approach would've been: I'd rather euthanize my dog now than let him suffer up on the roof of the car. (note the dog isn't really suffering; the lefty just never wants to feel bad about anything.)

4/19/12, 6:40 AM
gerry said...

Obama was 33 years old when he wrote of eating dog, in a context that tried to portray his broad experience as a human. For Obama, eating dog was a device inviting admiration from the reader.

Anything that invites laughter and ridicule of our Maldivian-Malvinian-Falklands geographically ignorant 57-state goofball White House resident is a good thing.

And hey - if you want to grab a bite with Bam he knows a good Spot!
(h/t to James Taranto).

4/19/12, 6:42 AM
Roger J. said...

My apologies for taking engineers to task for lacking a sense of humor--and the strongest thing I can say for engineers world wide is this: would you rather drive over a bridge constructed by engineers who understand modulus of elasticity in materials, and who normally factor in a 25 percent safety margin, or would you rather drive over a bridge constructed by "engineers" who embrace a "socially constructed" reality. So to C4 and the other engineers on this blog, my apologies for poking fun at you.
It wasnt intended to be anything but good natured.

4/19/12, 7:19 AM
Bruce Hayden said...

I think that it is bad for President Obama in a couple of ways.

First, these jokes are going to keep popping up until election day, and even after that, if he wins reelection.

Second, we have discovered that we can laugh at the guy. Four years in the center of public attention, and over three as the most powerful person on earth (well, not if he can help it, with his determination to downsize our military, and esp. our nuclear arsenal), and we are just now at the point where he can be laughed at.

The left was laughing at George W. Bush (43) before he was elected. I remember "shrub" jokes from when I lived in Austin in the 1990s. But Barack Hussein Obama II has been amazingly off-limits. Leno/Letterman, etc. don't make their top 10 lists, etc. about his and his wife's foibles. But, already going after Romney.

Sure, part of it is that they are liberals, who have an insanely hard time laughing at themselves. Those same family and friends who thought shrub jokes were hilarious, didn't think anything was funny about his predecessor who had "big" blue hair, needing to pile it, like, half a foot above her head, to break five foot. (Not really that bad - probably with hair, broke 5'6")

I predict that by election day, this won't be the last time that Obama is the laughing stock of the country. And, that isn't good for his campaign.

Third, as has been noted by some, this shows a much quicker recovery by the Romney people, than McCain's people were ever capable of. Partly this is a result of their very different backgrounds, and maybe partially a result of the Republicans starting to catch up with the Democrats in this area.

Fourth, this is giving Republicans a lot more comfort with Romney as their candidate. Can he and his people take the fight to the enemy (like McCain never could)? Yes they can.

4/19/12, 8:24 AM
Joe Schmoe said...

At least his father wasn't Idi Amin; God knows what he would've eaten then.

4/19/12, 8:28 AM
Roger J. said...

Let me second Bruce Hayden's comments--esp as regards ridicule--Mr Obama, at least on the internet has become an object of ridicule, and thin-skinned demagogues like Obama cannot handle that well. I doubt the John Stewarts and Bill Mahers of the world will not pick this up thus depriving their audiences of the mirth--If this gets to late nite TV, Mr Obama will have an even harder time.

Kudos to the Romney campaign--they know who the enemy is, and are prepared to close with them.

Ridicule is one of the most powerful weapons to use against the powerful--Mr Obama and his team just may be feeling some heat they are not used to. Thanks to ALGORE for inventing the internet.

4/19/12, 8:39 AM
MayBee said...

Where are we getting the idea that eating dog is very common in Indonesia?

4/19/12, 9:21 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...

People like Loafing Oaf show the total disconnect of the uber left leaning liberal to the rest of us who like wyo-sis who live in the real world.

This total disconnect and hyperventilating pearl clutching over ordinary activities is why we have the moronic rules and regulations that are strangling our freedoms and killing the economy.

If we want to live normal lives we have to go all Nugent on their asses :-)

@Fen

Not to worry about the leashed dogs falling out and getting drug to death. The tether is attached to the middle of the pick up bed and is "supposed" to be just long enough to allow the dog's head to be able to poke over the edge. Unless the truck goes over a huge bump and the dog's rear quarter is thrown over the side of the bed the likelihood of your scenario is almost impossible.

4/19/12, 10:09 AM
Rusty said...

Fen said...
Except for the PETA fanatics I don't think most people care one way or the other how you move your dog.

I care. People who leash their dogs into the back of a pick-up truck are idiots.


Put a dog and a friend in the back of your pickup and drive 10 miles on the average Wisconsin gravel road. When you stop the dog will still be in the back of the pickup.
I've proven this empirically a number of times

4/19/12, 10:35 AM
Tarzan said...

When I was a kid I would have been totally jealous of that dog.

The one on the car, I mean.

What a ride!

4/19/12, 1:42 PM
Tarzan said...

Brush me Daddy-o!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxuPqjSJDc

4/19/12, 2:01 PM
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