I’ve not jumped aboard the inane conversation about Seamus on a car roof, except to long ago write that it had shamefully occurred. But the barking has reached epic levels.
Dogs would call their lawyers if they could, defamation the charge.
The 2012 presidential election season is shaping up to be the un-serious, distracted and preoccupied spectacle America deserves. No wonder people don’t vote, don’t tune in and can be easily manipulated by lies.
I love Jon Stewart, but now everyone is competing to be him.
The Daily Caller has now answered the Seamus dog charges from Democrats, which they think are so clever. It’s much to the relief of all hang dog Republicans, numbering in the thousands now that Romney is the nominee.
“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). 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.”Yep, that’s Barack Obama, writing about his childhood with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro in Indonesia, from Chapter Two of his bestseller Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
Who could have predicted needing to eat dog meat would be a punchline?
Jake Tapper took the bait in Romney Campaign Notes that Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat.
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 Tuesday night that they are not about to cede any ground when it comes to a candidate’s odd past with man’s best friend.
Dogs Against Romney has been around since the Seamus on the car roof story broke.
Today, James Taranto couldn’t help himself any longer.
Obama vs. Romney is shaping up to be exactly what I said it would be: a theatrical farce. A mirror on the American political establishment, which is as bankrupt and incapable of focusing on what matters to We the People, but also exactly what voters have earned, because they’re too busy texting their choice for winner on “American Idol” to give a flying fig who’s running our country into the ground.
It’s not big government, because nobody’s doing anything on either side, but crafting their next tweet or political parody.
Democrats and Republicans, making more Independents every day, but we still don’t have anyone worth voting for, only someone to vote against.
The Romney’s took their dog on vacations. Obama ate dog.
The difference is clear to me.
JoeCHI ….The Romney’s took their dog on vacation tied to a car roof. Big difference to simple taken a dog on family vacation. As for Obama eating dog eat as a “Child” vs. Romney being an “Adult” at the time of tying his dog to a car roof…both stories are simple gross.
Tyler is correct hearing tales like these from both camps…while they ignore important issues do the American people no favors.
JoeCHI ….The Romney’s took their dog on vacation tied to a car roof. Big difference to simply taken a dog on family vacation. As for Obama eating dog meat as a “Child” vs. Romney being an “Adult” at the time of tying his dog to a car roof…both stories are gross.
Tylor is correct hearing tales like these from both political camps…while they ignore important issues do the American people no favors.
(Sorry for the double post…had to make a quick edit)
Yeah, the difference is in 1969 Indonesia 9 year old Barrack Obama didn’t know any better. 1983 married 36 year old husband and father of 5 Mitt Romney should have.
The picture above doesn’t show Seamus blowing shit all down the windows.
The campaign may be a theatrical farce, but it’s a dangerous theatrical farce, and the voters will regret it; they most assuredly will.
I admit that from the perspective of a person living in 2012 America the idea of eating dog is nauseating but what we have to remember this was 1969, President Obama was a 9 year old child living in a foreign country. There are things people eat overseas that the average American would never touch and there are things Americans eat that millions of people in other country’s would never touch. That is what is called having a different culture.
‘No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby’. H.L. Menckin
Elections are decided by the 5-10% of people who aren’t interested in politics and never watch CNN, MSNBC or Fox News. They get their current news from local TV or the national TV networks (CBS, NBC and ABC nightly news shows). The ratings for the national network nightly news shows are down sharply but they are still five times greater than the combined daily viewership of CNN, MSNBC and Fox news channel,The ‘undecideds’ are more interested in watching sports, celebrity gossip shows, reality TV shows and pay no attention to politics until the two months before an election before deciding who they will vote for if they even decide to vote.
You can see the how the undecideds opinions are reflected in th national polls. In the three days following the Hilary Rosen kerfuffle Obama’s approvel ratings improved between 5- 9 points in all the polls. Its been a bad week for the Obama campaign with three major scandals reflecting on the President, the Secret Service Columbia prostitute scandal, the GSA Las Vegas conference scandal and the scandel over the pictures showing US soldiers holding up the severed legs of a Taliban suicide bomber. His approval ratings went down losing all the gains he had during the Hilary Rosen ‘scandal’, The Gallup poll had Obama’s approval at 50% three days after the Hilary Rosen ‘scandal’ broke. His approval ratings dropped seven points in the immediate days of these three government scandals, but has now bounced back up to 47%.
Get ready for both campaigns to target the low information voters who don’t make up their minds until the last two months and the last week of the Presidential campaigns. Don’t expect the national media or the campaigns to give any coverage to meaningful discussions of policy it will be all negative ads all the time and the national media looking for any hint of scandal or gaffes by the candidates campaigns and bloviating over the meaning of the ups and owns of poll results.
H.L. Menckens Quotes still relevant today although he was a misoginist:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/h_l_mencken.html
Obama/Biden 2012
Saved GM/Killed Bin Laden
Axelrod was kinda stupid on this one. He should have anticipated getting some dirty payback.
Not sure a lot of people have a problem with this, especially hunters. They have their dogs in kennels outside in the back of their trucks.
Actually I would expect that hunters would have MORE of a problem with Romney’s story. My family members would never tie their dog to the top of the car because hunting dogs are expensive for one thing and another thing there’s a big difference between on top of the car and in the back of the truck where they are sheltered from the wind.
As a duck hunter who owns field-trial winning Labs, I have to tell you that you are wrong in your assumptions.
Believe it or not, real hunters are the most dog-smart and pro-environment group you will ever encounter.
So do you put your dogs in kennels outside in the back of your truck when you go on your hunting trips?
I wasn’t questioning your dog smarts or environmental concerns.
dognabbit!
BWAHAHA! Love it!
I think it only fair to hear from the other side…….
http://dogsagainstobama.tumblr.com/
lololol
And too bad we didn’t know that Carter was a cat killer BEFORE we gave him 4 miserable years of our lives………
5/13/90
To Sybil,
Lamentably, I killed your cat while trying just to sting it. It was crouched, as usual, under one of our bird feeders & I fired from some distance with bird shot. It may ease your grief somewhat to know that the cat was buried properly with a prayer & that I’ll be glad to get you another of your choice.
I called & came by your house several times. We will be in the Dominican Republic until Thursday. I’ll see you then.
Love, Jimmy