http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7716985.stm
World for many has turned to cr@p both in and out of the US. But he's just finished his first Press briefing on the current financial crisis and the US economy... and some stupid asks him about his dog!
At first I was disappointed. I wish he'd taken the opportunity to put the media in its place more and torn a strip off that reporter, but I suppose a moment of comic relief is OK.
Of course it's ok-People love their Dawgs...
ReplyDeleteObama has run his campaign very carefully indeed, and continues to run it that way. Everything that can be planned has been planned. It was no accident that practically his first comment in his victory speech was about getting a dog - that immediately gave the country something to focus on, other than what he is going to do about the parlous state of the country.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it, even if he gave rock solid answers about the economy, he won't have a chance to actually implement them for two months, and they will bore the pants off most watching voters. (And please don't pretend it's any other way in any other country.)
Now, of course, buying a pedigree would be elitist, and we can't have that, can we? So he let it be known that they will be getting a dog from the pound. Ah, but then he let's it be known that his daughter is *allergic*. So he *has* to get a hypoallergenuc dog, i.e., the pedigree labradoodle, which is allegedly what he had planned from the start. But of course that's okay, and not elitist, because it's for his daughter's needs, and no one can criticize a little girl with allergies.
Why do you think his family only had one car, and an American one at that? His whole life has been carefully mapped out for election (not necessarily to the presidency, admittedly).
If his economic and international policies are as thoughtful as that, and as thoughtfully inflicted on the public, we are in really capable hands.
P.S. Speaking from very personal experience, THERE IS NO SUCH THING as a hypoallergenic dog.
You've got a point. He was certainly *VERY* careful of every.single.word he uttered in the second (off script) part of the briefing.
ReplyDeleteDon't you remember all the news fuss about that cat and Blair going into number 10?
ReplyDelete(Well-come to think of it -it's a bit sad that I do...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_(cat)
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me, in a lopsided, roundabout way, of my favorite bit in Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell - how after the house has disappeared from the square, out of the whole world the cat can still find it without difficulty.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7995570.stm
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/2264/obama-goes-back-on-promise-to-adopt-a-crossbreed-shelter-dog/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7999241.stm