Obama Mum on White House Dog – ‘Top Secret!’*

All this drama over getting a dog.

And this is a TOP story?? I am sick of hearing about this pooch..

Glad to know Obama is going to be getting a dog versus commenting on the pirate problem on his hands.

I can’t believe how much press this dog business is getting. So, M was planting in her garden (what, no one took a picture to post) and she gets asked about this. What kind of news is this? I, for one, do not care what kind, if or when…where is the news, news?

I don’t care what A. Jolie is wearing, I have never watched an episode of Sex in the City. However, I do read news and books, and this much press about a dog is just plain wrong. The dog will arrive on a bad news day.

Studies show that people think of TV characters as if they were actually friends. The mass media tries to perpetuate this image as a means of retaining viewership so they can better sell us to advertisers. Hence we have lots of silly stories about our favorite characters dominating the corporate media.
Sadly, over the last several decades, this has also meant that actual important events and trends get crowded out.

ah,come on, people, all of you who grumble about this coverage are taking the trouble to read and comment. lighten up. so the economy sucks and pirates continue to attack ships, but what has that got to do w/ getting a dog? separate issue…..life doesn’t stand till. the girls have waited long enough to get a dog, and i for one will keep reading about this, and the veggie garden…..and about piracy, and about the economy, and about mass killings, and about little kids getting kidnapped. it’s all news to me, click on it or don’t, but what’s with the *bitterness*? lighten up or die young….

You people are so bitter. Please be careful, your bitterness over the Obamas’ will eat you up like a cancer and they will still be in the White House, thank God!

The Cambodian civilians, during Pol Pot genocide, use dogs for food – they still eat dogs today. The Cambodians are so poor they cannot use dogs as pets.

As the President’s closest Labradoodle neighbor to the White House we still are holding out HOPE that the Obamas pick a Labradoodle as the next FIRST DOG.

Liberal media just continues to drool over the anointed one. Who give a &#@! about their dog! Please report on something more productive.

Haha at all the foolish people who take the time to read the article then comment on it in their usual hateful way. Typical hate-mongers. Obviously its taking them along time tipo get the dog, Malia has allergies for goodness sakes. Hate-mongers have nothing better to do but have heart attacks over everyting about the new First Family because they probably lost their jobs do to the old Dubya administration. Obama is cleaning up Dubya’s crap and if he wants to get his girls a dog he is well within his rights and if you don’t want to hear it them DON’T READ IT!!! Simple as that

I got my dog on Easter Weekend eleven years ago. What a great time of the year to start working with a new puppy!

First Dog arrives Last!

First Dog arrives, except it hasn’t.
Maybe they’ll get around to that once Obama is done staffing the Treasury. 1 spot filled, only 17 to go! He did nominate 3 more, at least.

moderate:So my prediction is that Ted Kennedy will give them a Portugese Water Dog puppy, so they don’t get a shelter dog. I mean, who can complain about them taking a gift from a beloved elder statesman suffering from cancer?
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That would be my guess, too.

DOG ?! Does Mr. O’Babble understand that the taking of a U.S. flagged ship is an act of war ? This event should take precedence over everything else, including the economy and DOGS.

Ron – Do your homework! It is a PRIVATE vessal flying the US flag, because they are owned by an American Co. This is NOT an act of war!!! Which is why the US gov’t. Shouldn’t be “too” involved. If the PRIVATE company wants to pay ransom, that is up to them. Geesh, would some of you do the slightest bit of research before posting your vitriol!!!!

Ron:”This event should take precedence over everything else, including the economy and DOGS.”
Seriously? You want the US government to shut down to a degree beyond what was done during WWII to deal with the theft of a private vessel? Certainly the US should deal with it, but it hardly requires 24/7 attention from the President.

Posted by: jman
who cares? The liberal media needs to get thier heads straight. Was there any comments on the media about the bushes dog? NO!!!
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Didn’t Barney come with the Bushes? And didn’t the “liberal media” report when he bit a reporter, or when he was running around in the WH, doing whatever 1st dogs do.

Posted by: mjl
What is wrong with you people in the media?? The apparent escalation in the high seas with American lives at stake, Obama does nothing. North Korea launches a missle, he said the launch will not go unpunished, the meeting resolved nothing and Obama did/said absolutely nothing, but then announced drastic cuts in missle defense in the U.S.
He blames Americans for being “arrogant, derisive and dismissive, dissing the very people who voted for him. He said Americans have no respect for the muslim world, then proceeds to happily bow to King Abdullah. The president of the U.S. should not bow to anyone. We have an incompetent President.
While Obama is smiling away, talking about the prospective dog, the U.S. is falling deeper into a nightmare that is yet to be seen. And ABC is reporting on this dog… wow.
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Be careful! your “true colors” are showing. you want to blame the man because he smiles, and if he stopped smiling,you would comment on that.

Jim Rod:”Thats news and worth gripping about. Not the dog, who cares fix the nation. ”
Note that the dog is being mentioned in a sidebar informal blog. None of my usual news sources is headlining it or anything. Life goes on – ballgames are played during wars, movie reviews written during hurricanes, and fluffy dog stories written during recessions. Not worth getting upset over, and it’s clearly not distracting the President from pushing forward on a number of policy fronts.

ABC…Shouldn’t you be out demonizing guns some more??

Mr. President – an American is being held hostage by Somali pirates and five American soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in Mosul. There are people in Arkansas searching for their loved ones after last night’s tornado and one man escaped with his life but lost his parents in the Texas wildfires. Maybe you could call those families and ask if they give a damn about your dog.

Who gives a crap about their dog! If we are talking about campaign promisses, then we don’t have to worry about them getting a dog. He hasn’t kept his other promises.

I’ll be the right wing hypocrites who are complaining about this story kept mum when we heard about “Barney Cam” at Christmas time. You can’t have it both ways !!

I don’t think the Obama’s have any real intentions of getting a dog anytime soon. Not as long as Obama’s approval ratings are up. My prediction is that the new dog will show up on a bad news day for the President to divert attention for whatever it is he’s being pressed upon for. Otherwise he’ll just placate the kids until they give up on the whole idea altogether.

Why is it taking them so long to make a flippin dog decision. Go to the pound, pick out one, bring it home. Done. I hope this isn’t an indication of how long it’s going to take him to fix the economy.

Who cares about Odumbo getting a dog anymore…

“Finally, they are bringing up the bowing issue when everyone else is talking about it, and THIS ISSUE IS FAR FROM OVER. It was embarassing and shameful to our America”
Quite the strong statement from a person who just called out Obama supporters for telling folks to “lighten up” over the dog.
Also, were you this incredibly outraged when Bush did the same thing, held the Saudi Kings hand AND kissed him? Somehow I doubt it.

Picking the First Dog of the US (fdotus) is a weighty matter. God bless our Commander in Chief for finding the time to focus on this critical issue.

The Obamas are really getting all the publicity they can at the expense of their girls and the dog. They’ll do anything to get in front the camera. I feel for the dog; a Portuguese Water Dog may be the choice of Kennedy, but the dog was bred to be in the water. Obviously, they don’t care about the dog’s overall welfare – just the publicity. At least the dog will get a good home for 4 years;

Gosh slow news day ABC? Not enough going on in the world or Washington to report on? How about reporting on Obama’s lie about him NOT bowing to the Saudi King? It’s amazing to us mere citizens out here in the hinterlands clinging to our religion and guns how we despise the cover ups going on for this lightweight. God help America, we are going to need all the help we can get with these people running the show.

Obama is a highly educated cosmopolitan man capable of multitasking, so no need for him to concentrate on one subject at a time. Bowing to an Arab king may be just what this country needs to help us out of the fix we’re in. What in the world does that hurt? Arrogant republicans are so passe…!

I hope it doesn’t dig up the garden.

“Ryan C, Drudge’s website links to other websites. The article was actually on Reuters. Anything else you’d like to say?”
Of course Drudge doesn’t write his own stuff.
But he did choose to put that in blaring red headlines when its just Ahmadinejad shooting his mouth off again.

“Ryan C, who cares how it’s on the website? Iran is still moving toward nukes, and ABC is talking about dogs.”
Iran has been moving (at a glacial pace) towards nukes for decades now.
That you are suddenly so upset about it shows the power Drudge has over your perception of the importance of Iran’s recent announcement.

Ryan C, why do you keep talking about Drudge? I can find the story about Iran on any web site, except this one. Drudge doesn’t have any power over me. I look at a variety of web sites. ABC, Fox, Drudge, CNN. At the same time, there are threats out there, and if you don’t see Iran’s leadership as a threat, well that’s pretty naive. My point is that a dog story like this is not front page news.

No dog should have to answer to a Fascist Master. I hope the dog is smarter than those who voted for the Fascist and runs off to join a real circus.

from ravenhair49: “Mary E. Here are some ideas – Obama resign, and someone with some idea on how to run this country take over, and I’m not talking about Biden.”
This is in the same category as the other things I mentioned – it isn’t going to happen – he isn’t going to resign so you may as well get used to him being there. i plan to watch him do what he was elected to do which is to try his best to pull us out of this mess – it can’t be any worse than the last 8 years. you may think so but how about giving him more than 2-3 months to work on it.

Obama needs to hurry and get a dog to divert attention away from his silence on the pirate issue and his bow to the king.
The MSM will be giddy with excitement covering Obama’s dog.
I can see Barry prancing around the grounds with his new dog–anything to show what a regular guy he is.

Good.
Obama is getting a dog.
Because he is going to need someone else to blame for his problems besides Bush.
Biden and Obama need to move on with their lives and let go of this obsession with blaming Bush–all in an attempt to make themselves look better.
With all of their gaffes I can see why those two are looking for excuses.

I noticed that not much was said about man arrested who plotted to harm Obama while he was in Turkey. But let someone throw a shoe and its on the air in a second

It is so sad to see the right-wingers attack a dog! Good grief! There were all kinds of media coverage of the Bush First Dog. I did not see you spouting your spam then. What hypocrites you are! But then when you right-wingers have no leadership but depend on the likes of Rush, Hannity, Beck, Billo, and Steele for “news.” it is no wonder you have become brain dead. Do any of you people ever exercise any critical thinking skills? Your posts certainly do not reflect that. You complain about the most nonsensical issues but fail to offer any constructive suggestions – you have become the party of talk radio and Faux Noise.

The Obamas will get a tough and smart dog, unlike the Bushes who had a not-tough and not-smart dog. It will not be afraid to speak truth to its master.
If pirates attack, the dog will show them who is boss while Barack sells cheap mortgages to the poor who have been cheated out of money that is rightfully theirs by evil corporations and bad bad banks.

And to the millions struggling in America: Let them eat pizza.

Hopefully the little rascal will pee on Biden’s leg.

RR GOP – do you have any critical thinking skills? You right-wingers have fallen into the same propaganda cycle you sprouted for the last 8 years. For those of us who campaigned our hearts out for Obama it has been a long devastating 8 years and we can finally be proud of our President and First Lady. Like many of us knew throughout the campaign and have come to know into the early days of this presidency, Republican ideology is as worthless as a sack of condoms in the Vatican. As many UK reporters have noted, the Obama’s took Europe by storm. You right-wingers have no recourse but to spew your rage and underlying jealousy – oh, for the repugs to be able to claim a leader like President Obama.
Republicans are making themselves irrelevant. The Republican Party is destroying itself, becoming a regional party, and a party without leadership. Note that most of their posts only put down our President and beautiful First Lady, and of course, an innocent little dog. They have no leaders to quote or to feel proud about. No leaders that make them feel so good inside, to instill in them the pride of country, to make them proud on the world stage. They are left with McCain, Palin, Rush, Sean, Billo, and Beck. Now who would not be angry about that?

Jake, sorry this is OT, but I believe French commandos have stormed and rescued yachts with French citizens held by pirates off Somalia on two occasions already.
Phillips offered himself as a hostage to save his crew, then tried to escape to no avail, as there was no U.S. Navy there as back up or to pick him up. Boy, this guy is soo on his own. I’m sorry.
The French message was, “If you do this to French citizens you’ll always pay a price”. A pirate told Reuters, “We are not afraid of the Americans.”
I guess they know about the layers of legal advice the U.S. ships have to go through before doing anything. While they sit there and wait, time is ticking. Obama’s not going to be able to distance himself from this for very long,
Seems a long, long time away from the day John Paul Jones said, “Give me a fast boat, for I intend to go into harm’s way.”
Free Capt. Phillips.

To funny…Obama is getting a dog as a way to Wag the Dog. And as lame as this is, Abc and other media lib sites keep running article after article about Obama getting the dog which is all about playing to his image than actually even wanting a dog. As the Clintons prepared to leave office, the secret service “accidently” ran over their dog and their cat was given away to an aide. If the Obama’s were dog people, they would have already owned a dog at some point. Duh ABC!!! Take some pitty on the poor dog.

“Obama’s DOG gets more respect than republicans.
Now THAT’S cold-blooded !!!!!”
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…yet understandable

I personally like these stories about what the Obama’s are doing personally. I see nothing wrong with the story about getting a dog.

“an innocent little dog.”
Funny: that was Richard Nixon’s complaint, more or less.

Cute story. How cute is this, Ms. Travers?

In the interest of U.S. National Security, remember to listen to a barking dog! Why? To you a wireless router may be a wireless router; to any dog under the age of 63 (in human years) it will be construed as object of interest in her or his proof it is not a toy. Objects of interest must be tested with all 4 paws and teeth to the detriment of wireless transmission towers stowed under the table/desk/entertainment console. It may not be a squeaky toy — but to a 14 inch puppy — it chews just as good. Put a shoe box over it — it should work! We know this because we spent 2 hours research all loose connections. Cat got off the hook. Dog is the guilty party. That’s just in case we have another major communications outage in the same time span Mobile Me is announcing an unplanned service outage. Puppy and chew toy (rubber coated wireless router) are doing fine now.

With all that is going on in the world.. all ABC can do is report on a dog?
Who cares
ABC glorifies everything that Obama does, while other media outlets report on real stories that concern the american people.
This is why I stopped watching ABC news again…. they just cannot stay on the real issues, they have to report on a dog.

Jwench
Spare me your liberal excuse.
The pirate thing started with 4 pirates in a life boat. Thirsty, hungry without any communications and without gas.
Days later, thanks to Obama and his negotiator, guess what they have. Food, water, a satelite phone which they called 4 other ships to assist and the latest….gas.
Oh, and I almost forgot, another hijacked boat with 20 some more hostages and it happens to be an American owned boat!!
There are two kinds of advisors willing to give Obama advice, diplomatical and military. We all know which one he is taking. What is it getting the situation? Nothing but worse.

Thomas spare us this your BS. It is very easy to open fire on the pirates or even tell them to go to hell but at what cost? The ship captain? Remember the pirates have nothing to lose if they kill him.
Fortunately the DOD is not as stupid as you think.

Is it really so important that the usurpers kids in the White House are finally getting their long longed for dog? Is that really news? Wow! What about the american being held hostage whos life is in danger? I guess that is not as important as this new dog arriving at the White House soon. and the garden they are planting now . How lovely and so sweet of the children to help. Never mind we will have our lovely picnic still and plant our little garden . life is so sweet can’t you here the birds tweeting all around us. We are the the elites now and life is so sweet . tweet tweet sweet.

Do any of you screaming for a US rescue of the hostage have any idea how difficult it is to storm a lifeboat with a single entrance on it to save a hostage. I’m a pirate that hostage is at the front of the lifeboat farthest away from the entrance. SEAL’s or any one else come in through that entrance and we have 4 AK’s pointed right at them, and unless we’re willing to give up men till the pirates run out of ammo, there is no way to come in there without someone getting killed. I’m sure the family of the hostage will be pleased and grateful that we tried and were successful in getting him killed in a stupid not really planned rescue attempt. If we didn’t care if he lived, then by all means storm that little lifeboat, but until there is a safe way to extract the hostage from that lifeboat, then keep biding time till the chance is there to get him safely.

I do not understand…damn if you do, damn if you don’t. Was he supposed to
turn Ted Kennedy down after the offer of the dog. He gave a substantial amount to the Washington D C dog shelter since his kids wanted the dog that was offered. I read that he was selfish in naming the dog “Bo” after himself. Well, wrong again…his daughters named the dog after their grandfather (Michelle’s dad). what is wrong with the world….why can’t people be happy for everyone, and themselves…get a life!!!!!!!!!! He has done more in office in his 3 short months than was done in the last 4 years under Jr.

Mr Obama is a genius that needs humor to please his fans .His is a ready wit to slide away any question regarding personal and if not serious, then official.The present “dog” matters little .It may be a cat or tiger or a panther that Obama fits to keep as a pet.Now the mystery of dog should remain a riddle.