Mitt Romney’s campaign is fighting back in the War on Dogs, excerpting a passage from President Obama’s memoir in which he admits eating one as a kid.
The Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher wrote a blog post with an excerpt from Dreams From My Father in which Obama writes of eating dog as a boy in Indonesia.
“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill 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),” writes Obama.
Treacher brought out the excerpt as a way of responding to a very odd, old story that has haunted Romney since the Boston Globe first reported it in 2007.
The story goes like this: In 1983, Romney strapped the family dog’s crate to the roof of the car for a 12-hour drive from Massachusetts to Canada.
On the trip, the dog, an Irish Setter named Seamus, suffered the “runs,” as Ann Romney put it this week. Her husband coolly pulled over to hose off the dog and the car, then kept driving, with the dog back in the crate on the roof.
Eating dog meat 40-plus years ago in Indonesia may be less unusual than Seamus’ 12-hour roof ride in America, but conservative media have seized on the story.
“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,” Treacher wrote, defending his post.
“And whenever you bring up the one, we’re going to bring up the other.”
Mitt Romney has all but wrapped up the GOP’s contentious nomination process and will face off with Obama for the presidency in November’s election.
Expect to hear a lot more about Seamus and Indonesia before then.
Which dog story is worse?