WND column
The consequences of Obama's culinary habits are considered:
I’ve eaten some strange things in my day. Living in Japan, for example, we occasionally broke our fast with orange juice and octopus tentacles, which most assuredly is not the breakfast of champions. There was the squid pizza at the Pizza Hut, the burned caramelized meatloaf that was a Chinese chef’s gracious, but misguided, attempt to make a hamburger for the American, and live shrimp plucked from the pool, cut in half and served freshly twitching. I tried whale, which is dark maroon and too rich to eat more than a few bites, as well as some bitter sea creatures that are only delicacies by virtue of their rarity; I half-expected that they would glow if we turned the lights out.Obama really has no one to blame for this but his supporters. If they hadn't tried to make hay out of Romney's foolish exercise in canine transportation, Romney's supporters likely wouldn't have gotten on Obama's case for his childhood cuisine.
61 Comments:
Rover -- the Other White Meat.
It's stupid, but all the dog eating jokes have been fun.
It's also fun to see how these crude jabs keep backfiring. They make fun of Mittens for the dog on the roof, they get hit with "HE ATE AN EFFEN DOG!"
They poke him because his grand father was a polygamist, then get reminded the The One's dad was a polygamist.
Like the One himself, his supporters are in over their head, lazy and ham fisted. I'm getting the feeling Mittens will beat Obama like a rented mule. Not that it will do much good. Still, could be entertaining.
My esteem for you Vox has reached a new plateu upon learning you've contributed to the death of a rat with wings by having it in your lasagna.
Mistreated dogs, passed socialized medicine, cultural proximity to polygamy, won statewide election in a liberal state, raised taxes, favors bailouts, supports wars in the Middle East.
Don't vote for that guy.
Every time I hear folks talking about how weird Japanese food is, it's usually because they've been eating bad attempts at foreign fare. When I eat out, it's exclusively Japanese (or Chinese, sometimes.) I'd much rather have tonkatsu, yakiniku, soba, udon, kara age, or sashimi/sushi over a lame burger or pizza any day. Plus, it's a better value.
There is some strange seafood though but you really kind of have to search it out - stuff like the 'sea pineapple' and octopus beaks. Although, last night at one of my favorite restaurants I did end up with a slightly odd side dish - fully intact, quite possibly raw, baby squid! It tasted pretty good, actually.
"While he's an American citizen..."
I'm kind of surprised the WND editors let that one pass.
Isn't it uncontroversial that he is an American citizen, but question is if he is natural born American citizen?
Awesome post. There is something to being "natural born". He is just The Foreigner in Chief.
Yeh, Abe, that was funny, I too heard pigeons are "rats with wings". Pretty apropos.
There is something to culture isn't there.
Actually there's no question about it. His father being a British citizen eliminates any chance of that. There only remains the sophistry put forth as legal arguments, saying otherwise.
HKC
I had whale meat in Iceland, and it made me have explosive diarrhea an hour later. Just a word of caution for my friends.
But he is a dandy husband and father!
...I cannot get past the dog on the roof or on the dinner plate. I mean how much more absurd if not cracy is this going to become? Americans don't have a multi-culti stomach. Last night on the Cunningham show he spoke with Mitt about the dog and policies issues - Mitt couldn't give a straight answer to anything. It was pathetic waste of radio.
So what do you know about "Obama’s summer vacation in the wilds of Papua New Guinea"? I did a quick Google search and ran across your article on another blog: http://mikecorthell.blogspot.com/2012/04/obama-still-stranger-in-strange-land.html
if I had a dog, it would look like the one Obama ate
Spot on article. There are common experiences for most male citizens in this country, regardless if you're in Maine or California, and to the best of my knowledge he never participated in any of them. Little league, youth sports in general, camping trips, hunting, Star Wars birthday parties (he would have been in that age group), etc, etc. That lack of cultural experience is truly what makes him a very strange dude, and quite effeminate too.
OT,
Vox, I posted a comment on Saturday, under anonymous, about the Iowa District Conventions.
Here is more information on that comment,
http://wp.me/pa9PU-si
also this one,
http://theiowarepublican.com/2012/paul-primed-to-take-majority-of-iowa-delegates-%E2%80%93-caucuses-set-to-suffer-another-fatal-blow/
thanks fT
"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."
- Charles Anderson Dana, Editor & Publisher, New York Sun
@dan
Double-plus awesome.
@Vox
Looks like people at WND don't like your assumption Obama is a citizen.
Obama really has no one to blame for this but his supporters and his own stupid ass for writing it in a book.
Good insight = Winning strategy.
Good insight = Winning strategy.
> Obama really has no one to blame for this but his supporters and his own stupid ass for writing it in a book.
What makes you assume he's the one who wrote his book?
@dan
Double-plus awesome.
-Seconded, Vidad.
And thank you, Wheeler. Having lived in a shithole Eastcoast neighborhood or two, I'm absolutely convinced pidgeons turn to rats at night and rats turn to pidgeons by day, a la "Ladyhawke"
For what it is worth (which is to say, almost nothing), the comparison of Reagan/Carter to a photo finish had me immediately picture an enormous panoramic shot of a race track with a lagging, wheezing Carter in short-shorts at the 300m mark and Reagan holding aloft a woodsplitter while breaking the tape with the headline "PHOTO FINISH!" at the top.
...On the cover of the December 1980 Utne Reader.
If Obama ate a dog at a state dinner, the photo could be of David Duke breaking the tape while kicking a still-in-the-blocks Obama in the crotch.
Funny stuff.
The thing that gets me about that passage from The President's book is how poorly written it is. No one is poking fun at that, but I thought The President was supposed to be some sort of genius, and we were all supposed to bow down before his glittering intellect. But this is what he writes?:
“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). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”
Please, that earns at most a C.
dan April 23, 2012 7:45 AM
if I had a dog, it would look like the one Obama ate
OMG... I almost fell over!
...So, Obama now has dog power, snake power, pepper power and grasshopper power.*
Strangely, that explains everything.
*...and, apparently parentheses power.
dan April 23, 2012 7:45 AM
if I had a dog, it would look like the one Obama ate
OMG... I almost fell over!
> ...but I thought The President was supposed to be some sort of genius,
The only people who think that also think Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman who ever lived.
Mistreated dogs, passed socialized medicine, cultural proximity to polygamy, won statewide election in a liberal state, raised taxes, favors bailouts, supports wars in the Middle East.
Don't vote for that guy.
Hilarious
Maybe the parentheses are like grasshopper legs (crunchy).
Plus there's that cookbook in the White House kitchen, "101 Ways to Wok Your Dog." Rather Spot on, I would say.
President Obama. Preparing for the future. (He, too, knows its going to hell.) His wife tends the homestead's garden while advocating lowered personal victual consumption. PrezBo on the other hand raises livestock (Bo). They're like the First Survivalists....or not. @Dan: Mad props! That was epic!
I was introduced to dog meat (rough) - there, I fixed it for you.
Wonder if we poke fun at the writing of The President's books, we can get Bill Ayers to come out and protest that he worked really hard on them!
Wonder if we poke fun at the writing of The President's books, we can get Bill Ayers to come out and protest that he worked really hard on them!
All chihuahoids must die, Mr. President.
It must really be rough to be Beau with that kind of owner history. One puddle in the Oval Office and you're the main course for dinner.
I would like to see a campaign bumper sticker with Obama eating famous dogs such as Benji, Lassie, and Tin Tin
> I would like to see a campaign bumper sticker with Obama eating famous dogs such as Benji, Lassie, and Tin Tin...
A campaign poster of them supporting Romney might be called for too.
So he is trying to make some points with us? No, he is trying to make points with us! Okay, whatever... (You can have him)
OT: (The rest of the story)
THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! 8 Hrs and counting
I am far too squeamish for this topic...I can't take it. Yuck factor.
What I find strange is that we haven't had a single Obama supporter on trying to salvage his reputation. Even Ampontan seems to have given it a pass this time.
Normally Vox's articles generate more controversy. Apparently even the Obama faithful have given up on this one.
OMG!
Obama ate a dog!
Crap!
I'm voting for Romney this time!
It is the only way to save America's soul!
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free.
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer:
God bless America, land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
New DNC bumper sticker....coming soon to a Caprice rollin' on twentyfos near you..... "It's a Dawg eat dog world, Dawg. OBAMA2012"
Well, at least Romney didn't strap the corpse of his dead aunt on the car roof on his way to Wally World...
"...Benji, Lassie, and Tin Tin"
I think you mean Rin Tin Tin. Tin Tin is a person (fictional), not a dog...
Michael Vick's suddenly got an out.
I wondered if anyone else would mention the "While he is a United States citizen..." part, and you all didn't disappoint. Unfortunately the question of his citizenship seems to be academic, since there seems to be no national will to enforce the supreme law of the land. From my own reading, Obama's legal status as a US citizen seems somewhat in doubt. Did he not travel to Pakistan at a time when US citizens could not travel there under most circumstances? This raises the question of whether he obtained an Indonesian passport, which would have required him to renounce his US citizenship.
I have not thoroughly researched any of this, but this has been suggested from my readings at WND over the years.
Has some of this information been debunked at some point? In any case, thanks for another good essay.
> Actually there's no question about it. His father being a British citizen
> eliminates any chance of that. There only remains the sophistry put forth
> as legal arguments, saying otherwise.
Let's not get too far into it, but you nor any birther can cite any black letter or case law that supports denying natural born or any other citizenship based on a person's parent's citizenship status.
Lots of better avenues to pursue.
The thought experiments are shockingly easy to imagine as well. For example, if Ron Paul gets elected President, can a hostile nation disqualify him by granting his father citizenship, whether asked for or not?
"Let's not get too far into it, but you nor any birther can cite any black letter or case law that supports denying natural born or any other citizenship based on a person's parent's citizenship status."
For all purposes I'm aware of -- with the glaring exception of qualification to hold the Presidency -- it is immaterial whether or not a person is a "natural born" citizen. So you're right, there's not a lot of case law on the subject.
Giving legal weight to the acts of a foreign nation, such that a citizen were deprived of their citizenship, would violate that citizen's rights to due process under United States law.
However, if society has chosen to blatantly violate the Constitution, on what basis can an individual claim protection under the Bill of Rights? The rule of law in the US has been rendered meaningless.
@Kyle
I'm with you, I love seafood in its less-prepared state. Nothing wrong with octopus for breakfast, although I can see how it might not go well with orange juice.
Its one thing to eat a dog, it's another to cite it in a book without any opinion about how he feels about it. But I'm amazed that Vox has harped on Romney's religion as if that is what's actually the foreign aspect and not the dog eating. Mormonism might not be the public's majority religion; however, its an entirely American creation as well as investment capitalism. Will Obama win? It will depend on jobs as it always does.
I'm amazed that Vox has harped on Romney's religion as if that is what's actually the foreign aspect and not the dog eating.
I haven't. The dog eating is foreign. The Mormonism is merely off-putting, if not offensive, to many of the evangelicals needed by any Republican candidate.
> Its one thing to eat a dog, it's another to cite it in a book without any opinion about how he feels > about it.
This is so bizarre. How you feel about eating meat? It's like it was human flesh, which could present some moral dilemma. It was dog meat. One of the many types of animals that are both pets and food, depending on where you are from.
It's just meat.
> So you're right, there's not a lot of case law on the subject.
Right, not a lot of case law - and what there is tend's to be a bit rusty - and not a lot of black letter law either.
Not a fruitful avenue to pursue. The ramifications of allowing a 3rd party (a foreign nation no less) to invalidate a persons ability to hold elected office in the United States is just bizarre and beyond the pale.
I remember a 5th grade social studies textbook(c.1980)that said when a sled dog got too old,its eskimo owner would eat it as a sigh of respect and thanks for its service. Or was that a load of PC bull? Anyone...anyone...?
fT, them's some interesting developments. I would not have known about this save for your reporting.
Lot's of blah blah whine whine in that second link. "Why", he asks? Because it is more important that the party be wrenched back from it's statist, leftist turnings. Because the disaster of a Romney presidency will be blamed on the Right, instead of where it would belong, the Statist Center-Left.
In other news to save Egyptian Democracy they have to destroy it
DESERT CAT- I didnt mean to seem 'whiny'. I was half thinking of Dee Snider begging for callers to his pathic 'house of hair'. by the way, 'eskimo' is the word by injuns for the 'dogeaters'. I remember now. Its been 30 years.
> ...depending on where you are from.
Exactly. People who eat it are not "from here".
> The ramifications of allowing a 3rd party (a foreign nation no less) to invalidate a persons ability to hold elected office in the United States is just bizarre and beyond the pale.
How can the actions of a 3rd party change someone's birth status after the fact?
That's right: In China, a dog is a hamburger. In America, "dawgz is FAYAM'BLY!"
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