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Hey, Did You Hear That The President Eats Dogs?

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Jim Treacher continues to have too much fun:

As for our moral, ethical, and intellectual superiors in the Democratic Party who don’t appreciate this one bit, here’s a question:

If you don’t want to talk about dogs, why did you bring up dogs?

Now: Add up the number of days you’ve yammered about Romney’s dog. Take that sum and add 1. Find a calendar, count out that number of days from today, and mark the date. That’s the day I’ll consider not hurting your feelings anymore by bringing up the fact that Obama eats dogs.

I think that it’s the best strategy for Romney to ignore this and continue to focus on the real issues, but it’s also useful to mock this eminently mockable president at every opportunity, something that had the usual suspects like Jon Stewart done four years ago, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

13 thoughts on “Hey, Did You Hear That The President Eats Dogs?”

  1. something that had the usual suspects like Jon Stewart done four years ago, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

    Jon Stewart and the like have that kind of power?

    I think Stewart (or maybe it was Colbert) was asked once about the power of satire, and he answered that the golden age of political satire was Weimar Germany, and even at its height it did nothing to stop the Nazis.

    Mocking Obama makes Obama-haters feel better, just as mocking Romney makes Romney-haters feel better, but it’s unlikely to swing an election.

    1. Considering the nature of the Obama campaign, when many voted for him because they really thought that he’d lower the ocean levels from his Olympian greek columns, mockery would have been devastating to him, particularly from the comedians that too many young people get their “news” from.

    2. So popular culture has no effect on elections, particular those run as media driven personality cults? Really?

    3. If we were mocking Obama because he has big ears, you might be right. But we’re mocking him because HE EATS DOGS.

      Oh, and because his economic policies are a disaster, along with his foreign policy, energy policy, labor policy, vacation policy, etc.

      1. So McCain could have won if he’d made dog meat a big issue in 2008, but he never got around to reading “Dreams”?

        vacation policy

        Are you serious? Bush had an easily mocked presidential work ethic, and still won in 2004. This stuff keeps the media and partisans busy, but it doesn’t swing elections.

    4. So Jim, are you sensitive because you too wok your dogs?

      Look who voted for Obama by a two to one margin. The children that think Jon Stewart is a newscaster. It was funny when SNL did it. Not so funny when they only have the newscaster skit.

  2. Well, mockery worked pretty well in demolishing Bush.

    And practically every single thing he’s been mocked for Obama has replicated in triplicate.

  3. It’s amazing that the Hive’s Agitprop Division spends so much time, effort and even money mocking its opponents, if that is as futile an endeavor as loyal Hive footsoldier Jim claims it is.

  5. Time to get off the dog; we all know how this will end anyway, with cries of racism. Even enjoying the blowback from Obama operatives attempts to paint Mit as mean to dogs, only serves to provided Obama with a distraction to prevent people from looking at his record and policies.

  6. “… we wouldn’t be in this mess.” Sorry to disabuse you, but we most certainly would be in this mess, and the Ds would be taking full advantage of it, characterizing McCain as the Herbert Hoover of the 21st century.
    It’s past time to drop the Great Man theory of history, especially American history, which is very much tied to the cycle of generational temperaments as elucidated by Strauss and Howe. Whoever got elected in 2008 was going to be President Toonces (he can drive, just not very well). Romney won’t be much better. Idealist generations excel at fomenting crises. We’ll probably pull through, but not in this low dishonest decade.

  7. It worked so well with coffee…

    “We have secretly replaced candidate Obama’s theme music with…

    WHO LET THE DOGS OUT! Woof. Woof. Wooof, woof.”

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