“Obama ate a dog” edition. This is like a permanent employment act for people like Jim Treacher and Frank J. And of course, the inevitable Dogs Against Obama web site.
[Late morning update]
Just when did the presidents stop eating dogs? Treacher’s having way too much fun with this.
[Update a few minutes later]
Why Barack Obama identifies with the dog eaters. The rest of us are just bitter, clinging to our provincial American cuisine.
It is SO too bad this didn’t hit about three days before the election…
The biggest thing about this isn’t that Obama ate dog meat as a child. It’s that people are ridiculing him, especially after hearing those comics say they couldn’t tell jokes about Obama the way they did previous presidents. Yes, it’s possible to make fun of Obama. He seems quite thin-skinned about it too, which makes it all the more fun and effective. It also shows that the Romney campaign is fast and nimble to seize any opportunity that presents itself.
It also makes fun of those silly people who think Romney carrying a dog in a carrier on top of his car 29 years ago is a big deal. Which is worse, carrying a dog on top of a car or eating dogs?
Poodle – the other white meat.
Happiness is a warm puppy and a side of fries.
It also makes fun of those silly people who think Romney carrying a dog in a carrier on top of his car 29 years ago is a big deal. Which is worse, carrying a dog on top of a car or eating dogs?
Indeed, this is the big deal and the reason for the discussion. Being serious for a moment, the left likes to tell us that various things are off-limits. Things progressives did in school (adolescence) or their families (they are running). But then they attack their opposition, as has been witnessed the last two weeks with attacks on Ann Romney and how the Romney family takes vacation. What’s great is the Romney campaign and its supporters are getting fast and nimble on the response. With the incumbent already behind in the polls, making these own goal errors is just going to put him further behind.
Bonus for Romney, he was pretty well vetted in 2008 (which is when I recall first hearing about Seamus) by the media, while Obama was ignored. Sure, every MSM read “Dreams of my Father”, but not for opposition research. That’s their mistake. Diane Sawyer looks pretty stupid for not considering the backlash.
Exactly. I don’t give a damn if the President ate dog meat.
Hell, I’d try it if I saw it on a menu.
I find the contrasts amusing, in the treatment.
(That said, I think piling on the President over this is thus just as stupid as piling on Romney for the carrier thing – and two wrongs don’t make a right.
So it annoys me.)
I’m a little worried about beating on this too much. The point has been made. Pushing it any harder could backfire.
It’s sufficient that now Obama can’t keep bringing up Romney’s dog.
… Assuming, of course, that the President isn’t suffering from gastric reflux disease.
I never really heard the Seamus discussion, but wow has it backfired. It’s like AttackWatch.
And flag@whitehouse.gov
Obama is great at coming up with ideas that backfire, Obamacare, Libya and supporting the rest of the Arab Spring comes to mind. Something tells me that not passing a budget and not controlling spending enough to prevent another debt ceiling increase before the election will backfire too.
Except “I was fed dog as a kid” is entirely different from “as a grown adult I strapped a dog on the top of my car and drove down the expressway.”
I read that talking point to Chris, but…
“Obama has a lot on his plate right now…” will never get old.
Oh, almost forgot… [snicker]
Was the dog in a carrier? Because saying the dog was strapped on top of the car seems to imply that it was not in a carrier. Not sure why people would want to cause that kind of confusion, oh wait never mind.
A dog in a carrier secured to the roof is just as safe as a dog in a carrier in the bed of a truck, a trailer, or the belly of an airplane. Also, a dog in a carrier in the interior of a car is not likely to be secured at all.
Safe? Maybe. But it was apparently scared shitless (literally) as it was being exposed to 70 mile-per-hour wind on the top of the car.
Chris, dogs LOVE speed. Nobody is absolutely sure why they do, but they do. Some people put doggie goggles on their pooches so a bug doesn’t hit them in the eye at 60 mph. A roof carrier is actually safer than having the dog hanging out the window because sometimes the fall or jump out. I once had a Shih Tzu that saw something and bailed out of the car at about 30 mph. He looked sheepish after I went back and picked him up, but went right back to hanging his head out the window so he could enjoy the hurricane force wind blasting him in the face. On the other hand, dogs are much less pleased with being killed, cooked, and eaten.
Dogs are much like snowboarders, skiers, and bobsledders, loving the thrill of tearing through the air but not at all into being slaughtered and served for food.
So Seamus was so happy that he shat himself in the carrier, forcing Mitt to pull over and hose the car off?
Dogs don’t shit themselves, as they don’t wear pants. Dogs do poop when they’re scared, but they also poop when they’re not. I sat a cairn terrier that once pooped on my pillow. I didn’t realize he must’ve been terrified by a lampshade or something.
You’re also overlooking the likely explaination, that Obama was on his way to college, swerved into Mitt’s lane to get a better look at the delicious looking dog riding on Mitt’s car, and thus scared the crap out of the dog.
Wait a sec… you mean there is some kind of control mechanism for dog poop? I gotta know! Ever since I got my puppy I’ve been on dog poop patrol. It’s never ending.
Then there’s the chewing. I used to have a fixer-upper RV. Now I have a $1200 dog house. He just loves the wiring under the dash (can I still call it wiring if it’s not actually connected to anything anymore?) Then he ate the dash. My armrests. My seats. My curtains. I expect him to eat the fridge and stove soon. Then today I find locked compartments opened.
If he didn’t look at me with his head tilted and one ear flopped over…
…so what kind of sauce do ya recommend with dog?
FWIW, Seamus had ridden on top of the car several times before the famous trip in question, and seemed to relish it. The diarrhea was just the one trip, and was some kind of doggy stomach bug.
Really, when you hear the whole story, there’s just not much to it.
No, he shat himself because he ate some bad turkey. Please stop repeating lies.
Bad PLASTIC turkey that dubya served, doncha know… /sarc
If Chris stopped repeating lies, he’d be left with very little to say. By endlessly repeating Democrat talking points, he just proves that he’s stuck on stupid.
Seamus had a motorcycle windshield in front of his dog carrier so he could look out without getting the wind in his face. Very high tech. It is as if Mitt’s dad worked for a car company at one time or something . . .
I take it you’ve never owned or traveled with a dog? Many of the will make a mess while seeing the country. I can tell you what the percentage of dogs barfing AND crapping in their carriers is on airplanes.
About 50%.
So Romney’s dog doing it in the car top carrier, seems abut HALF normal. Plus, I keep hearing people say the dog was on top of car, in the HEAT. Here’s a hint, even at the old 55 mph we had back then, at noon, in the desert, it’s plenty cool on a motorcycle. And the dog was INSIDE a carrier, out of the Sun.
He didn’t crap from the heart, he crapped because he’s a dog, doing what’s not really dog stuff. I’m beating the Obamahound has ‘ralfed’ in AF1, on more than one occasion. And again, because a 747 isn’t a dog’s natural habitat.
(does anyone know what a comic bear’s natural habitat is?)
Chris, have you never seen a dog stick it’s head out the window when the car is going down the highway?
Its entirely different to progressives. To the rest of us, its mostly a yawn except how easy it is to see you idiots hyperventilate about animal rights yet excuse killing pets for food. We can have a lot of fun watching progressives eat their own words (probably less tasty than dogs).
Leland, are you being deliberately stupid? The difference is age. Obama was fed dog as a child. Romney as a grown man strapped a dog in a carrier on the windblown roof of a car.
Which just shows that Obama comes from a family of dog eaters, and behaviors like that are passed on from generation to generation. I wouldn’t be surprised if he serves dog to his daughters.
I let it pass the first time Chris, but let’s see if your argument holds water…
Ask any ten y.o. kid in America if they’d like to eat fido and see what reaction you get. Obama was just a child? That’s right; one that ate dog.
Chris,
people put dogs in the back of their trucks and drive around all the time. How is what Romney did any worse?
I’ve seen plenty of dogs going down the highway at highway speeds in the back of trucks. Never seen one that didn’t seem to be having a good time. My only problem with doing that is as others mentioned, the risk of them jumping out.
Mine won’t stay in the back of the truck. Thanks to my brother for my broken window, when I put Max in the back, he’s up front before I get in. Then he want’s to drive (while eyeing the wiring under my trucks dash!)
Eventually I’ll fix the window.
Ken, he didn’t just eat dog. In the same passage he also ate snakes and bugs. But it gets worse.
That meat would’ve been from the critically endangered sumatran tiger.
So Obama eats dogs, snakes, bugs, and was perfectly willing to eat a critically endangered big cat. That’s just what he freely confessed to eating. What do they eat in Indonesia that he wouldn’t have admitted to eating? People.
Cannibalism in Indonesia
They’re far easier to get than a critically endangered tiger, and no doubt cheaper. If he’d eat dogs, snakes, bugs, and tigers, he’d certainly eat people, too.
Now he’s trying to eat America and we’re letting him.
I really, really could never have imagined this day.
Well, the possibility that Obama is a cannibal does raise some interesting questions. Was Osama bin Laden’s body really buried at sea in secret or was it flown back to Washington and broiled with onions, carrots, and green peppers on the Grill of the United States (GOTUS)?
Do the White House visitor logs show more people coming than going, and what was really in those green trashbags at the back entrance where the Dali Lama was admitted?
Has Michelle developed a taste for human flesh and would this explain both her thighs and her insistence that Americans need to slim down?
We may never know because the mainstream press refuses to even ask such questions. Heck, even the wacknut press hasn’t gone there yet. They’re still focused on where Obama was born instead of who he might be eating.
George,
You’ve taken, “a whole lot on his plate,” to an exquisite new level. I think this meme has a chance.
It’s really fun to watch Gerrib try to turn this around! 🙂
Chris, do I have to remind you of the first rule of holes?
My original point has never been contradicted – what Obama did as a grade-school-age child is not related to what Romney did as a grown adult. Most of this “argument” has been Beavis and Butthead jokes.
No, they are very much related in that they are both absurd topics of debate. That is, in fact, the entire point. If you posessed a sense of humor, you would have picked-up on it right away, but some folks are so dull they need the joke explained to them.
Leland,
The dichotomy I see is that the left will excuse almost anything if it is done by foreigners:
Nags from NOW lament minor or non-existent issues here when there’s horrible abuse of females in the Middle East;
quite ok for Obama to have eaten dog because, well, he was in a foreign country and that’s what they do, right? But here? Don’t wear a mink coat.
I’m not sure its just foreigners. Lots of people taking note of the dichotomy in how Ted Nugent is treated vs Louis Farrakhan and the New Black Panthers. And I find the Ted Nugent thing interesting, because as much as the left is spinning his comments as a threat to the President; they certainly want to fulfill Nugent’s claim of being put in jail. Ask me, the left is proving Nugent’s point.
Then again, there is this.
Chis, that happened 29 years ago. How is it in any way relevant to the election this year? It’s a stupid point and you’re making yourself look like an idiot for repeating it.
Obama’s time in Indonesia was almost 40 years ago, so your point is valid for both discussions.
Which point Gerrib? The point that neither story is relevant, which is what everyone us besides you is making; or that you are making yourself look like an idiot for trying to declare a significant difference?
And if you look at my earlier post on the subject, eating dog is no big deal. My wife had eaten dog. It’s common in some cultures, especially those that don’t have the luxury of disposable meat.
You’re harping on a stupid talking point that has no relevance to today. Do you honestly expect people to give a rat’s ass about something trivial that happened 29 years ago? If not, then why do you keep bringing it up?
We’re laughing at Obama sycophants for their hypocrisy. Which is worse, putting a dog in a carrier on top of a car or eating dog? In trying to make a big deal about putting a dog in a carrier on the top of a car 29 years ago, they’re showing signs of desperation. They certainly can’t run on the positive accomplishments of the Obama administration. Instead, it’s one silly attempt at diversion after another. And when they try it (as in the link about Romney’s family of polygamy generations ago, we’re going to point out Obama’s father’s history of polygamy. We can and will fight back despite the efforts of Obama’s sycophants (like you) and the Press (a bit redundant) to cover for him.
Bring it. The battle is on. As someone once said, “Punch back twice as hard.”
The remarks of this blogger to Dog-Gate pretty much sums up my own feelings:
http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2012/04/this-election-is-about-eating-dogs.html
Kudos to a commenter on the Althouse blog:
JHapp said…
If I had a dog it probably would look a lot like the one Obama ate.
4/19/12 10:06 AM
^ FTW!!!!
Hillary invested in cattle futures. Obama invested in Pets.com
When Obama relates that he was browsing the meat department and everything was too expensive, he means they raised adoption fees down at the animal shelter.
Obama thinks a puppy mill is the hand-cranked machine that his dad used to make ground dog meat.
Obama thinks Southern hunters follow the baying of the pack of hound dogs because they’re hunting hound dogs.
Sarah McLachlan is already redoing her PETA ad.
Priceless! I haven’t laughed so hard in weeks.
Thanks, guys!
Obama is now referring to Romney putting the dog on the roof as Meals on Wheels. #ObamaDogRecipes
Obama didn’t exactly screw the pooch, but boy was that pooch screwed.
Maybe he misunderstood the practice of eating your own dog food?
This whole thing can be used to interdict Obama’s use of the word ‘tough’ too. Every time he uses it, someone can ask ‘As tough as dog Mr President?’.
Q: Mr President, why did you choose Hilary Clinton as your Secretary of State?
A: She’s tough.
Oh boy…
I think the number of people bragging that they have been to an Obama state dinner has mysteriously fallen to zero.
But oh wait! Michelle says that if we donate $50 we get a chance to have dinner with Obama. Join her in telling Obama that your dog is in — da’ oven!
Regarding his economic policies, does he want the rest of us desperate enough to eat Fido to fill our bellies?
Let them eat dog!
The delight of all this is in seeing the Left go absolutely berserk over the needling. You’d think that people who have needled the Right 24/7 for the past 45 or so years would be able to take a tiny bit themselves. Gerrib by himself is illustrative of the thinness of their skin.
You might even say that they yelp — or even that they bitch…
I know — it’s like Christmas and it’s only April…