Dog wars heat up presidential race
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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 tonight signaled tonight that they are not about to cede any ground when it comes to a candidate's odd past with man's best friend.
The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama's 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.
The discovery that the president had eaten dog meat prompted wise-cracks on twitter (hashtag - #ObamaDogRecipes) and this tweet from Romney strategist Eric Fehrstrom, who re-tweeted Axelrod's original message with a different take on the picture of the president and Bo.
"@EricFehrn: In hindsight, a chilling photo," he wrote.
The Seamus story was discussed again Monday when Ann Romney told Diane Sawyer that "the dog loved" traveling that way. "He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks."
Certainly kinder than eating him.
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Don't they get a choice what kind of car they want to drive ? I have 5 kids and know they can take up a lot of room....especially on a long trip. The dog also had the runs.....who wants to smell that ? you ?
Quoting Sisteract:
Quoting Abaco:Then it would be quite a choice which child to put on the roof.....! Maybe the first one that said "Are we almost there" ? LOL
Quoting Sisteract:How about the Romney's put the crate and the dog IN THE CAR as opposed to ON the car- like most neurotypical people-
Kids generally do not decide what they are having for meals-
Because with the Romney money woes, a bigger car wasn't an option? They only had 5 kids, NOT 25-
From the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation. This was the first thing I thought of when I first heard this story about the Romney's.
Quoting Lunarprancer:Quoting Sisteract:
Romney earned his money. What's wrong with that?
Interesting, yesterday I saw blurb of Romney on the TV and Romney was applauding his own FATHER for the hard work done and the financial edge that his FATHER'S hard work and his FATHER's money game him (MR).
Good to see MR finally acknowledging that some of the credit does indeed go to his FATHER.
Giving credit where credt is due is always the honest and prudent thing to do.
Greedy?
Uh, I think the word you might be looking for is envy.
Why would me questioning Romney's dad's money make ME greedy?
Not envious either......
We are doing just fine.
Is your quote button broken or were you given orders to not "engage" with me too? How silly is it that some can be so easily manipulated? LOL
I typed GREEDY because that seems to be your standard reply...to just about every topic on board ...and with every pol. you disagree with. Yes, I'm aware you're doing just fine. You've mentioned that more than a few times. Isn't it ironic?
Quoting Sisteract:
Greedy?
Uh, I think the word you might be looking for is envy.
Why would me questioning Romney's dad's money make ME greedy?
Not envious either......
We are doing just fine.
Quoting Sisteract:
Thanking his Father does not mean that he didn't get the education and work for his own money.
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Quoting Abaco:Does anybody know if he's (BO) eaten kittens ?
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on Apr. 18, 2012 at 3:43 PM