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Cuisines from My Stepfather [Mark Steyn]
National Review ^ | 4/28/2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/28/2012 4:54:59 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

A couple of days ago, Obama-campaign top dog David Axelrod threw in the towel on the dog war. “I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what the president had done as a ten-year-old boy,” he sniffed to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in the history of the republic. For those coming late to the feud, the Democrats started it, assiduously promoting accounts of a 1983 Romney vacation to Canada in which the family pooch Seamus rode on the roof of the car. Axelrod and the boys thought they could have some sport with this, and their poodles in the media eagerly played along. The New York Times columnist Gail Collins alone has referred to it dozens of times.

And then Jim Treacher, the sharp-eyed wag of the Daily Caller, uncovered this passage from Chapter Two of Obama’s bestselling but apparently largely unread memoir Dreams from My Father, in which the author recalls childhood meals with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro:

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.

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To: Aevery_Freeman
It’s not just that Obama ate the dog, but that he’s screwing the pooch.

Jeez, stop it with the attacks on Michelle...

21 posted on 04/28/2012 6:37:28 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Servant of the Cross; Malone LaVeigh; bert

So, instead of, “How many wives did he have?” we could be asking, “How many wives has he been?”


23 posted on 04/28/2012 6:38:57 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Your bulk-rate supplier of colons and semicolons!)
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To: Servant of the Cross
He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate

Well, that explains Hussein's long, skinny grasshopper-like legs and his reptile-like personality. I guess he only humps on visitors' legs in private.

24 posted on 04/28/2012 6:39:31 AM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Servant of the Cross
He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate. . .

Evidently the president has also feasted generously on weasel throughout his life.

25 posted on 04/28/2012 6:40:35 AM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: Servant of the Cross
I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)

I think he lies.....and / or someone else wrote his autobiography.

snake is not necessarily tough...as anyone from London who has eaten jellied eels can testify.....eel is the aquatic version of snake.

same with dog ...the toughness or otherwise depends on the preparation and cooking.

26 posted on 04/28/2012 6:48:16 AM PDT by spokeshave (If Obama is Lenin....who is Trotsky and Stalin...?)
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To: arbooz
I note that Bo is seldom without his leash. No matter where the photo op occurs, his leash is dragging behind him, inside or out. I can't recall any dog owners I know, myself included, who keep their pets leashed inside the house. And more often than not, it's the President and the Mrs. who are photographed with Bo, not the Obama girls. Anyone want to bet how long Bo remains a beloved family pet (convenient political tool) after the Obamas leave the White House? Hopefully, he won't come to the same tragic end as Buddy, the Clinton's White House dog. I'm skeptical of any President who never owned a dog prior to arriving at the White House, but obtains one soon after he does.
27 posted on 04/28/2012 6:48:41 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: spokeshave
I think he lies.....and / or someone else wrote his autobiography ... snake is not necessarily tough ...

More proof that Weatherman terrorist Ayers actually wrote this made-up crap.

28 posted on 04/28/2012 6:56:12 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: spokeshave
snake is not necessarily tough...as anyone from London who has eaten jellied eels can testify.....eel is the aquatic version of snake.

An aquatic snake is the aquatic version of a snake. An eel is a fish.

And it's sort of weird that for food he is primarily commenting on texture rather than taste. I've had fried grasshoppers, though, and although a little crunchy, the primary consideration was taste. They tasted great.
29 posted on 04/28/2012 6:58:23 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan
They tasted great.

That's because they were fried!

30 posted on 04/28/2012 7:03:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Your bulk-rate supplier of colons and semicolons!)
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To: Servant of the Cross
He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate.


31 posted on 04/28/2012 7:03:52 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: arbooz

I heard that Obama once had a Pomeranian. Deee-licious!


32 posted on 04/28/2012 7:36:50 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

To admit to having eaten a dog would be the first step to admitting the pos potus is from a different culture and should never have been elected.


33 posted on 04/28/2012 8:00:40 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping Servant of the Cross.


34 posted on 04/28/2012 8:59:40 AM PDT by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress))
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To: Servant of the Cross; sickoflibs; Liz; LucyT
Obama’s father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney’s great-grandfather. It seems President Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist.

ping

35 posted on 04/28/2012 9:20:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hoodies - because you can't kill a security camera for snitchin' - - freeper tacticalogic)
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To: bert

Obama has been an “urban polygamist” as a homosexual.


36 posted on 04/28/2012 9:49:28 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Servant of the Cross
I’m not suggesting that President Obama has eaten a human penis..

I think Reggie Love knows the answer to that one.

37 posted on 04/28/2012 9:52:16 AM PDT by TheCipher
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To: Servant of the Cross

Lol! Obama is the first man in his lineage NOT to be polygamous!


38 posted on 04/28/2012 9:55:53 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: arbooz
Run, Bo!

Run!


39 posted on 04/28/2012 10:19:19 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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To: Scotswife
I’ve often wondered how many libs have actually read these books they proudly display on their shelves. I can immediately ascertain the political views of people just by seeing what kind of books they display in their homes. Conservatives tend to have books that they have actually read a time or two, as the bindings are well-worn and pages are dog-eared. Lot of history books, novels tend to be books of action like Mark Twain, Jack London, Tom Clancy, C.F Forester, W.E.B. Griffin. Biographies of high achievers like Churchill, Washington, Edison, Eisenhower Benjamin Franklin. Some Ayn Rand will be in there as well as J.R.R. Tolkien and a whole mess of practical do-it-yourself books.

On the other hand, liberals go for the coffee table books. The type of books that you prominently display to show how enlightened and educated you are. Such as the Great Paintings of Monet or the Encyclopedia of Wine. These books are in pristine condition and dusted off by the cleaning people weekly. If you dare pick one of these up and attempt to open the cover, you will get a dirty look from the host.

The bookshelves will invariably feature biographies of people like Nelson Mandela, Alger Hiss and Vladmir Lenin. Books claiming how folks like Sacco & Vanzetti and the Rosenbergs were framed and on how 9/11 was a Bush conspiracy. Trendy but unreadable novels that normal people will never get through like "World According to Garp" by John Irving and "Ulysses" by James Joyce. With a whole mess of "new age" and "self-help" type books.

40 posted on 04/28/2012 10:27:49 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 22 days away from outliving Phil Hartman)
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