ObamaFest

"Don't worry about me, Mr. President,
tomorrow I'm going to some youth in Asia."


The ObamaFest Team expected shit like this from Joe Biden.  He screwed over the dog world when he got his German Shepherd from a breeder.  Then, typical Biden bullshit, he promised to get another one from a shelter -- hasn't happened yet. 

But we took Mr. Obama at his word when he said he would go to a shelter where there are plenty of  "mutts like me."   Well, there's one little hypo-allergenic mutt still stuck in a cage because Mr. Obama went with a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog, a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy. 

Reports the Christian Science Monitor:

Abbie Moore of Adopt-a-Pet.com isn’t  forgiving. “This is truly a missed opportunity to set a pet-adoption trend among Americans. “If Obama had adopted a pet from a shelter, it could have been the turning point for the pet-overpopulation problem in this country. With pet relinquishment up 20 to 30 percent due to the poor economy, pets in shelters can use all the help they can get.”

While Dog magazine’s Ryan O’Meara says this is just more of the same. “When he was resoundingly elected to office we were promised change. But, it seems, true to type the new American president is a politician at heart so should we really have expected anything different?”

Even more pointed is the criticism by Dr. Jana Kohl:

"The author of “A Rare Breed of Love,” Kohl wrote the story of her poodle named Baby who she rescued four years ago. Baby not only had her vocal chords removed with scissors but lost a leg due to the years of abuse at the hands of a breeder.

So outraged was she at Baby’s story, she decided to write a book calling attention to puppy mills.

Her strategy was to get people with a microphone to appear in the book. So she set off to Capitol Hill and Hollywood where she found plenty of supporters. People like Paul Harvey, Steven Tyler, Bill Maher, Jim Cramer, and a host of politicians – Republican and Democrat.

One of those politicians that agreed to meet with her was then-Senator Obama. Touched by Baby’s story, he then agreed to a photoshoot and, according to a press release promoting her book, pledged to Kohl that when he brought a dog home for his family, it would be a rescue dog – not one from a breeder.

So, this weekend’s announcement that the president opted to accept a puppy as a gift from Senator Ted Kennedy (via a breeder) and not to go to a shelter or rescue center has left Kohl upset.

“I feel like he’s made a mockery out of the book and the things I wrote about him,” Kohl told the Vote Blog. “I read what I said about him and it makes me cringe.”

Kohl said that his decision is not only heartbreaking for her, but destructive because of what she sees as the domino effect.

“This will fuel the breeding industry which will fuel the puppy mill industry, which will increase homeless dogs at shelters, and increase the numbers of dogs euthanized every year,” she said.

“To add insult to injury, during these tough economic times it is incredibly insensitive and elitist of them to do this, ” she said. “People are tearfully turning in their pets to shelters because they can’t afford them anymore. We see it on news all the time.

“How can they be so out of touch?” she asked.

What about the fact that the president will donate to the DC Humane Society to make up for it?

“That’s baloney,” Kohl said. “It’s farcical. They’re donating money to urge people not to do what they did.”"

"Election's over.  Somebody get this mutt off of me!"