Wagging The Dog
Posted on | October 6, 2008
Obama earns himself the Humane Society’s first-ever presidential endorsement:
Michelle Obama pledged on Entertainment Tonight that when the family gets a dog - Barack Obama promised one to his daughters once the campaign is over - it will be a rescue dog from a shelter.
Online petitions urging the Obamas to do just that have been circulating, accumulating thousands of signatures from people - most of them probably voters - who want the Obamas to adopt a homeless dog, not buy a purebred. Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA, wrote to the senator personally, asking that he adopt a “Great American Mutt” from the thousands upon thousands of dogs doomed to die. “When you are ready, please adopt a homeless pound puppy - a grateful refugee from a society that has not always treated the true ‘underdog’ kindly”…
Icing on the dog-biscuit cake: the Humane Society Legislative Fund is endorsing Obama, in no small part because of Sarah Palin’s support for the appalling practice of aerial hunting of wolves, on which she overruled Alaska voters - real sportsmanship there on both counts — and because she sued to keep polar bears from being listed as a threatened species.
Gobama! My furry crew (eight cats and dogs) were all strays or hand-me-downs, with only one actually coming from a shelter. Read the endoresement here.
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