http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp...20120418-to_19254443

quote In the latest tit-for-tat in Mitt Romney's lingering dog problem, aides to the Republican candidate are gleefully pointing out that President Barack Obama ate dog meat as a child. The tale of Romney's Irish setter Seamus -- who traveled in a crate atop the family's station wagon on a 1983 trip from Boston to Canada -- has dogged the former Massachusetts governor for years. Romney and his wife were most recently asked about the incident during an interview Monday with ABC's Diane Sawyer and Ann Romney's defense that Seamus "loved" traveling on top of the family car drew snickers from some Democrats and dog lovers. Biting back Tuesday, conservative news site The Daily Caller made note of a passage in Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," in which the president recounted some of his adventurous eats while living in Indonesia with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro from age six to 10. "With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chili 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)," part of the passage reads. Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher commented, "Say what you want about Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth." Romney's campaign quickly seized on the anecdote. On Tuesday night, top Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom re-posted a tweet originally made in January by Obama adviser David Axelrod that showed a picture of the president riding inside a car with his pet Bo, a Portuguese water dog. In a jab at Romney, Axelrod's original caption read, "How loving owners transport their dogs." But Fehrnstrom commented, "In hindsight, a chilling photo." Romney spokesman Ryan Williams also linked to an ABC report on the story on Twitter, saying, "Not the headline Team Obama was looking for." Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt fired back, tweeting, "What's the next attack [Fehrnstrom] and the RNC will surface on a 6-10 year old?" Asked about the back and forth during an interview with Ohio radio station WLW Wednesday, Romney said, "This campaign is going to ultimately become about jobs not dogs."

So he lied on his birth certificate again....he actually was one of the Bushmen of the Kalahari eating bugs, dogs, and other unmentioned creatures?

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Meh. No big deal. I've had dog meat before, a little tough but not bad. With the right seasoning, tastes like taco bell meat.

LOL, I bet many of us have, unknowingly.


Silly.

Gotta wonder if some 18 year old girl with a dog just changed her vote.

quote Originally posted by GreenPlatypus: Meh. No big deal. I've had dog meat before, a little tough but not bad. With the right seasoning, tastes like taco bell meat.

So THATS why I like Taco Bell so much.

Personally i disapprove of eating a domesticated species, but i do realize its acceptable in some cultures.

Not only have you jumped the shark, the shark has jumped the shark.

I hear that Mitt Romney only eats apple pie... Now that's a true American.

I did read that Mitt Romney's great-grandfather was a Polygamist. I wonder if you get more pie that way?

quote Originally posted by User00013170: Personally i disapprove of eating a domesticated species, but i do realize its acceptable in some cultures.

I think you mean pet animals. Cows, chickens, and pigs are also domesticated.

quote Originally posted by Doug85GT: I think you mean pet animals. Cows, chickens, and pigs are also domesticated.

Ya, i was meaning 'pet domesticated'.. sorry about that.

So now he has something in common with Ted Nugent?
Wait.
Obama was a 9 year old child who politely ate what was served to him by adults.
In a poor country where ANY meat is considered a luxury saved for special occasions.

Ted Nugent, well, he's Ted.
He reminds me of a certain batshit crazy forum member, except that Ted is more lucid.

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Drive safely!

LOL. I heard he even ate cow meat. Despicable...

If he had ate Dog meat last week when visiting some other country it wouldn't bother me.

Brad

quote Originally posted by NEPTUNE: Ted Nugent, well, he's Ted. He reminds me of a certain batshit crazy forum member, except that Ted is more lucid.

Hey! I'm lucid!
-Ted

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quote Originally posted by twofatguys: If he had ate Dog meat last week when visiting some other country it wouldn't bother me. Brad

Not casting stones as i have not been in that position, but i donno if i would 'eat like the natives' if i disagreed with the meal. I might just say thanks, and eat a salad instead. ( and make up some excuse about not being able to eat due to allergies or something so as not to offend them too much )

quote Originally posted by User00013170: Not casting stones as i have not been in that position, but i donno if i would 'eat like the natives' if i disagreed with the meal. I might just say thanks, and eat a salad instead. ( and make up some excuse about not being able to eat due to allergies or something so as not to offend them too much )

When I was 9 yrs old, you ate what was on the table or you went hungry. You did not get secondary dinner options in my home. To not be a hypocrite, my father who HATED spaghetti always went without on Spaghetti night. Not to go off on too far out of a tangent, but I believe this is one of the biggest "spoiling" factors kids get today. "Oh honey, you don't like what the rest of us are having? Let me make you a plain hamburger.."

You also took what you want, but ate what you took. Several nights during the month I would sit and watch my family eat, but never got special treatment because I did not like swiss steak and tomato gravy, or stuffed peppers... both of which I STILL won't touch to this day.

Nurb, your post reminds me of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"...

quote It's more than these people eat in a week

Although the allergy excuse is a good one.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?? This getting beyond ridiculous I was going to say 'roll on November...', but I can't help worrying that this Political sh!t is going to destroy this part of PFF for ever, if Obama wins... Just for the sake of my sanity alone, I hope he doesn't
For heaven's sake!!! STOP POSTING THIS CRAP!!
I only clicked on this to see if it was the usual desperate blathering of a Political hack....and sure enough, I wasn't disappointed...or rather, I ·WAS
Yeah, I know...don't click...but I STILL have some hopes it will stop
AAAAAAAAAAGH!!...John...you REALLY need to get a flippin' JOB!!!!

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quote Originally posted by twofatguys: If he had ate Dog meat last week when visiting some other country it wouldn't bother me. Brad

Hell, it wouldn't bother me if he did it here.

But I'm a bit... different.

quote Originally posted by fierofetish: Seriously? SERIOUSLY?? This getting beyond ridiculous I was going to say 'roll on November...', but I can't help worrying that this Political sh!t is going to destroy this part of PFF for ever, if Obama wins... Just for the sake of my sanity alone, I hope he doesn't For heaven's sake!!! STOP POSTING THIS CRAP!! I only clicked on this to see if it was the usual desperate blathering of a Political hack....and sure enough, I wasn't disappointed...or rather, I ·WAS Yeah, I know...don't click...but I STILL have some hopes it will stop AAAAAAAAAAGH!!...John...you REALLY need to get a flippin' JOB!!!!

I guess you missed the point. Not such a big deal that he ate dog. What is a big deal is that the Obama goons have been attempting to make a big deal out of Romney putting his dog in a crate on the roof of his car. Chalk this in along with the war on women, again fail.

quote Originally posted by Red88FF: I guess you missed the point. Not such a big deal that he ate dog. What is a big deal is that the Obama goons have been attempting to make a big deal out of Romney putting his dog in a crate on the roof of his car. Chalk this in along with the war on women, again fail.

Right, its just an expression of the rampant hypocrisy.

quote Originally posted by GreenPlatypus: Meh. No big deal. I've had dog meat before, a little tough but not bad. With the right seasoning, tastes like taco bell meat.

Funny I used to refer to Taco Bell meat as "Dog Meat." lol!

I don't care that he ate dog meat as a kid. What I do care about is that I may have to eat dog meat because of his policies.

Jim

quote Originally posted by jimbolaya: I don't care that he ate dog meat as a kid. What I do care about is that I may have to eat dog meat because of his policies. Jim

Id eat my neighbors before i ate my pets.

quote Originally posted by User00013170: Id eat my neighbors before i ate my pets.

Not if you had MY neighbors....I'd take the dog any day!

A lot of South Asian/Polynesian/Subcontinental/African/South American cultures eat dogs...and horses....and cats.....and apes....and insects.....any viable protein source. A lot of them likely wonder why WE don't. The average American spends more annually on their house pets than the bulk of Third World can spend to feed their families.

So I guess we can afford to be condescending.

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quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: Not if you had MY neighbors....I'd take the dog any day! A lot of South Asian/Polynesian/Subcontinental/African/South American cultures eat dogs...and horses....and cats.....and apes....and insects.....any viable protein source. A lot of them likely wonder why WE don't. The average American spends more annually on their house pets than the bulk of Third World can spend to feed their families. So I guess we can afford to be condescending.

It really is condescending. Everyone knows I have no love for the President, but I don't give a crap what he eats, or ate, as long as it's not other humans. People from other countries look at us and cannot understand why we let dogs in the house, or why we buy them clothes. When I used to work for Wal-Mart, we had a running joke after they started opening stores in China.

Clerk #1: Do they have pet departments in the Wal-Marts located in China?

Clerk #2: Sure they do, they call them food courts!

Jim

quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: Either way, win or lose, it's gonna be "Release the hounds" time here after November. That's when PFF will probably be useful for little more than car advice. If you think it's ugly now, wait until after the election.

It's no different than it was during the 8 years of the Bush administration.
Or do you recall those halcyon days of Democrats rallying around President Bush because, while they didn't care for many of his policies or that he's breathing, he was the President and we were at war, and they had such respect for the Office of the President that they put their personal concerns aside to come together in, united in a love for one's country?

Such a kinder and gentler time, right?

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quote Originally posted by jimbolaya: It really is condescending. Everyone knows I have no love for the President, but I don't give a crap what he eats, or ate, as long as it's not other humans. People from other countries look at us and cannot understand why we let dogs in the house, or why we buy them clothes. When I used to work for Wal-Mart, we had a running joke after they started opening stores in China. Clerk #1: Do they have pet departments in the Wal-Marts located in China? Clerk #2: Sure they do, they call them food courts! Jim

This really isn't about what The O ate, its actually about his hypocrisy.

quote Originally posted by User00013170: This really isn't about what The O ate, its actually about his hypocrisy.

I'm confused there, how is something he did when he was a kid even relevant now?

Brad

I have eaten human.
Not too bad, on the............whole.

We were on a little island off the Philippines a few years back and ordered "American style burgers." They were SUPER gamey. We could only take a couple bites. A few days later we learned it was dog. Now, whenever I look at my pooch, its like on of those looney toon scenes where the other person looks like a cooked turkey! MMMMMM Dog! lol

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I have eaten human. Not too bad, on the............whole.

Brad

quote Originally posted by Formula88: It's no different than it was during the 8 years of the Bush administration. Or do you recall those halcyon days of Democrats rallying around President Bush because, while they didn't care for many of his policies or that he's breathing, he was the President and we were at war, and they had such respect for the Office of the President that they put their personal concerns aside to come together in, united in a love for one's country? Such a kinder and gentler time, right?

So since the other guy went mud wrestling, it's okay if everyone else does it?

Didn't learn much from what you didn't like about them, did ya'?

quote Originally posted by Doni Hagan: So since the other guy went mud wrestling, it's okay if everyone else does it?

its how politics works, unfortunately.

quote Originally posted by User00013170: I was speaking as an adult going to visit other areas today who can choose what to eat and not to eat, not as a child eating what his parents were putting on the table or not eat .... And ya, Indiana Jones did come to mind as i was typing it

Oh I thought when I said 9 years old you would know I was referring to when obama ate dog. Sorry about the confusion.

Okay... So maybe it is a bit played out.

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quote Originally posted by Raydar:

Hitler finds out about a lot of stuff lately, doesn't he?

I don't have a dog in this fight, so here's a CATchy little tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXxrMC5Pv4

(it's a parody folks--deal with it)

quote Originally posted by User00013170: its how politics works, unfortunately.

And who exactly do we pass blame to for that?

By basic definition, "Politics" consists of the actions of "politicians."

Politicians are voted into office by people who, by and large, reflect their views and validate their behaviors...Why?...Because they're guys and gals from the neighborhoods they represent.

In essence, our "politics" are as dirty and uncivilized as the people we send to engage in them. If one doesn't like "politics," one should look around their own neighborhood for the cause. It's a start anyway.

To quote Pogo "We have met the enemy... and he is us."