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Obama’s dog days (Democrats pay for barking up the wrong tree)
The Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | The Washington Times

Posted on 04/19/2012 5:52:11 PM PDT by DBeers

The 2012 presidential campaign has become a dog-eat-dog contest. For months, Obama campaign operatives sought to make an issue of Mitt Romney carrying his Irish setter Seamus in a rooftop dog carrier during a family vacation in 1983. Some major media outlets picked up the non-story, and the Obama campaign buttressed it with an endless series of snarky tweets and barbs. The liberals are chasing their tails with this tale.

On Tuesday, the Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher juxtaposed the Seamus story with a passage from President Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” in which he describes eating dog meat while growing up in Indonesia. The message Democrats were trying to establish was that Mr. Obama was kinder to dogs. The book snippet supplied the rejoinder: At least Mr. Romney never ate one.

On its face, the dog-eating anecdote is just as much a non-story as the adventures of Seamus. But it exploded over social media and Twitter, and within hours, even mainstream-media news hounds picked it up. Man bites dog is always news. It’s the kind of story that lingers, a humorous situation that lends itself to endless one-liners. (“Why are there no more Blue Dog Democrats? Obama ate them.”)

The Obama campaign is struggling to come up with a strong response, but nothing seems to stick. It can say the dog-eating took place when Mr. Obama was a child, that it was in a different culture or that the first family has not prepared dog in the White House. However, it cannot escape the ick factor, which will hound it until November. Now the Obama campaign will have to call off the dogs on Mr. Romney. Bo, the White House pooch, will have to retreat to an undisclosed doghouse until Election Day.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barkobama; dog; obama; obamaateadog; obamadogrecipes; thirdworldobama; wtf
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To: paudio

I was trying to figure out why (insert REAL author’s name) would put the tidbit about him eating a dog in the book. You just helped me figure it out!

They must have put it in there as a subtle “clue” that he was a Christian in a mostly Muslim country.

I could be “barking up the wrong tree” (hee hee) but everything those SOB’s do has a purpose and I can’t think of any other reason why it would be allowed in the book...

Is it a stupid theory???


61 posted on 04/19/2012 11:27:08 PM PDT by mrsadams
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To: Hardraade

Even Reagan made mistakes-—Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy to name a couple.


62 posted on 04/20/2012 12:40:11 AM PDT by dupree
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To: DBeers

Hitler Finds Out Obama Ate His Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEBN8wOKjMo

Click ‘skip ad’ and go directly to the video.


63 posted on 04/20/2012 6:05:25 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: dupree
Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy

Speakin' 'o' dogs!

64 posted on 04/20/2012 6:34:45 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Mercat
49 posted on Thu Apr 19 2012 22:34:09 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Mercat: “We always thought it was creepy that the Korean restaurant was across the street from the emergency vet clinic. Serial.”

I know more than I should about some Korean restaurant owners so I wouldn't rule anything out. Let's just say I've had to be a “fixer” helping too many Korean business owners who honestly don't understand American laws and regulations and got into trouble with city inspectors of various sorts.

However, for people who are worried they might be eating dog at a Korean restaurant in the United States — it's a delicacy, not cheap meat used to cut costs. If you're eating dog, you either paid lots of extra money for it or the cook wants to honor you by giving you, as an important visitor, a special meal. Sort of like taking someone out for an extra-special steak dinner, and a restaurant owner who understands American health regulations is going to fix dog meat for you while inviting you over for a meal at his private home, not at his restaurant.

In other words, don't worry that you ate your neighbor's dog that got loose and was caught by a Korean restaurant owner.

Before questions get asked, I don't eat dog. I just can't stand the idea of eating an animal that I think ought to be petted and loved and played with. On the other hand, I have eaten just about everything else in Korea, up to and including fried butterfly larvae. My Korean family say I'll eat things some of them won't eat (usually because they're too spicy or have too much garlic), and joke that I have an American face and Korean stomach. My response is that more Italians ought to marry Korean women — we're short and have black hair so our kids won't look too strange, and we love spicy food with lots of garlic so we won't complain about most Korean food. (Do I need the “LOL” tag here?)

65 posted on 04/20/2012 7:40:09 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: darrellmaurina

I must have a Korean stomach too ;^)

A friend went for a training vacation to Shaolin and before he returned home, they had a celebratory meal where they ate scorpions...dipped in tempura batter and deep fried. He described it as tasting like crunchy lobster with a charred, smoky flavor.

Hey, give me some dipping sauce and an ice cold San Miguel and I’ll give it a go...


66 posted on 04/20/2012 8:02:01 AM PDT by AnTiw1
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To: KeyLargo
Hitler Finds Out Obama Ate His Dog

That video is hilarious!

67 posted on 04/20/2012 9:50:56 AM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: Intolerant in NJ; DBeers; dupree
This is not Team Obama's first embarrassment. It took Sarah Palin to explain that Team Obama's acronym,
WTF (Win The Future)was not appropriate.

That was the shortest-lived PR theme in all recorded history.

So The Mombasa MF chowed down on Rover? BFD.This weird anus from nowhere could smoke crack, snort coke, shoot heroin, get drunk, have sex with Reggie Love and Larry Sinclair on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at noon next Saturday, and still 99% of African-Americans would vote for him ... twice.

WTF? Over?

68 posted on 04/20/2012 1:09:43 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Our man in washington
That cracked me up!

Should you need further amusement, may I recommend Bill Ayers "Dreams of My Father?" It's about this Hawaiian kid who becomes President But do read the "Hardy Boys and Their Electric Speed Boat" first. It contains more facts.

69 posted on 04/20/2012 4:28:48 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: Kenny Bunk
So The Mombasa MF chowed down on Rover? BFD.This weird anus from nowhere could smoke crack,..and still 99% of African-Americans would vote for him ... twice...but it is encouraging that conservatives are providing such rapid and effective responses to these cheap shot attacks by the Obama operatives - like today's dustup about Romney's father being born in a polygamous commune which was immediately countered with the rather embarrassing facts that Obama's grandfather and father had multiple wives - in years past such snarky jabs would have probably been unanswered and festered into wounds which could have helped weaken the candidate - now at least there is some return fire......
70 posted on 04/20/2012 9:08:36 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Intolerant in NJ
Illegitimate Birth is now a Democrat Party requirement for their Presidential candidates. If one hews strictly to the facts, Clinton was also of extremely doubtful paternity. His "Baby Dad" being a dead guy with a wife and family in Texas who had only been in the country for three months prior to the miraculous birth.

It is extremely doubtful that Ms. Kelly and Mr. Blythe ever met. More than likely, Bill's Uncle Ray, the Hot Springs fixer, did some slick post-mortem matrimonial paper work after the fatal car wreck that whisked the convenient Mr. Blythe off the planet.

71 posted on 04/21/2012 5:44:40 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: mrsadams; paudio
Look at the bright side. This incident and the others that are sure to follow may actually force the Mombasa MF to read his "autobiography." In which case, it will be on a mighty short book list.

Question: "Mr. President, when was the last time you smoked crack?"

72 posted on 04/21/2012 5:50:44 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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