Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat

[Dusty]

Something's fishy about the WH raising a big ruckus over Romney carting his mutt on top of the car in a carrier when lil' Barry Soetero used to eat man's best friend stir-fried (and snivel about how "tough" the meat was).

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...-ate-dog-meat/

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 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.

And the Obama campaign shot back, with a spokesman suggesting the Romney team was attacking a child, since the Obama act in question took place when he was a kid.

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.”

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[Richard]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Something's fishy about the WH raising a big ruckus over Romney carting his mutt on top of the car in a carrier...

Nothing fishy at all - it's the campaign tactic of somebody who cannot run on their record and has to constantly throw out distractors of no real importance like the dog, the opponent's earned wealth and the perception of unfairness...etc...etc...etc...to energize his base and attempt to keep them from realizing BHO makes a much better challenger of a candidate than an incompetent, although generally likeable, incumbent.

SQUIRRELLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhTw...eature=related

It's going to be a long election season...

Richard

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Richard

SQUIRRELLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

It's going to be a long election season...

Richard

Stop it. You're making me hungry.

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Dusty;444802“

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.”

So what . . . as a child, in a far away place; and in a different culture, POTUS was forced to eat what in our place and culture we consider a family pet.
Are we really such hipocrites? Who amoung us guys* has not eaten . . . cat?

*We are not going there . . .

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Dozer523

......Are we really such hipocrites? Who amoung us guys* has not eaten . . . cat?

*We are not going there . . .

Cat????? But they said it was.................

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Pete

Cat????? But they said it was.................

Perhaps Dozer is referencing young kitten.

[Streck-Fu]

Originally Posted by Dozer523

Who amoung us guys* has not eaten . . . cat?

I guess you can call it what you want but she preferred the P-word.

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Stop it. You're making me hungry.

Indonesia...? I'd have thought Zero would be whining about his mother packing biltong in his lunchbox....

I don't see the problem and/or scandal. Just like a plethora of other things, culinary habits and food are exquisitely culture bound. To me, a T-bone eaten rare is a delicatessen. Try and order one in India and you might find yourself in the middle of a riot. Dogs are considered pets for you guys in the United States of A, just like they are in Italy. Well, they're consumed every day in countries like Vietnam, China, Cambodia...
Wanna talk about horses? It is my understanding that they're seen as pets in the states; well, I could list a dozen horse meat-based recipes on top of my head, as in Italy there's an age old culinary tradition involving horse.
No harm no foul, in my opinion.
my 0.2s

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Sierra Lima

I don't see the problem and/or scandal. Just like a plethora of other things, culinary habits and food are exquisitely culture bound. To me, a T-bone eaten rare is a delicatessen. Try and order one in India and you might find yourself in the middle of a riot. Dogs are considered pets for you guys in the United States of A, just like they are in Italy. Well, they're consumed every day in countries like Vietnam, China, Cambodia...
Wanna talk about horses? It is my understanding that they're seen as pets in the states; well, I could list a dozen horse meat-based recipes on top of my head, as in Italy there's an age old culinary tradition involving horse.
No harm no foul, in my opinion.
my 0.2s

You completely missed the point. Utterly.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by Sierra Lima

I don't see the problem and/or scandal.

It's an election year and, therefore, a political thing.

Po-tay-toe (dog in carrier on roof of rental car) - po-tah-toe (dog in stew as a kid)

I guess since I ate dog as a kid while dining with a few of my Filipino friends that I could never run for public office, either - as if I would want to do that...unless Dusty needed someone to man the DofEd for his administration, of course.

And so it goes...

Richard

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Richard

It's an election year and, therefore, a political thing.

Po-tay-toe (dog in carrier on roof of rental car) - po-tah-toe (dog in stew as a kid)

I guess since I ate dog as a kid while dining with a few of my Filipino friends that I could never run for public office, either - as if I would want to do that...unless Dusty needed someone to man the DofEd for his administration, of course.

And so it goes...

Richard

If I were POTUS, I wouldn't bitch about the way a guy transports his dog if I ate mine.

Originally Posted by Dusty

You completely missed the point. Utterly.

I guess I did. Oh well, I'll live with it.

[Snaquebite]

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PETA should be allover this....

Originally Posted by Snaquebite

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PETA should be allover this....

Good one.
Yet, I doubt those peta hippies and POTUS are on opposite sides of the barricade.