POTUS, Pets, and Passports

We should have seen this coming. Eight years ago when Bush and Gore were vying for the Presidency, we should have seen this coming. We should have known that every cravat of their lives and those of every other candidate in the future would be probe, prodded, licked, and sucked until a good story comes of it.

The latest comes as a report from the State Department yesterday that Barrak Obama’s passport file was “looked” at three different times by three different people over the last few months. The bulk of the story can be read in the Washington Post, and I really don’t want to delve into the facts too much, but rather I want to focus on what was gleaned from his records.

I don’t know what would be in my “passport file” other then the basics (name, address, dob, ssn, etc.) and the places I’ve traveled. I wonder if Senator Obama has been to the Bahamas or Fiji anytime recently, or if he took a quick jaunt up to Canada last summer to get some R&R?

Really I could care less! What I want to know is do Obama or McCain have pets? I exclude Hillary from this because we know about Socks the Cat (is he still alive?) and Bill’s dog, Buddy. But do Barak and John have pets? Are they pets that are representative of the leader of the free world? I wish somebody had asked this of Bush before the election in 2000.

Even though there are a good amount of Americans (a little over 50%) of them who think that Bush really didn’t win the election of 2000, I think that it wouldn’t have been as close as it was if voters knew and thought about Bush’s choice in pets. A small fu-fu dog (“dinner” as the Mooks likes to call them) is not a pet for a president who so closely resembles Yosemite Sam. Surely Karl Rove or another advisor would have seen this coming…Bush walking solemnly on the West Lawn of the White House with this small ball of hair in tow. I don’t want to go to the other end and say he should have a German Sheppard or a Pit Bull, but certainly a Retriever or Boxer or something would be better.

To close, if we are going to evaluate every word the candidates speak, analyze every person they’ve ever met at a cocktail party, and dig for every bit of dirt that might make a good headline and sell a few more papers, then we should also take the time to evaluate their pets and make sure they properly represent the good ole’ US of A.

STOP! STOP NOW! PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU, PLEASE STOP!

This is a note to all the presidential candidates out there, please stop trying to be:
1) My best friend
2) My neighbor
3) The everyday man/woman

Didn’t we learn something eight years ago when we elected the slightly retarded son of a former President for the role? He was the common man who was “in touch” with America. Well he proceeded to touch us alright. He touched our security into the toilet; the same goes for separation of church and state and the economy.

As the current group of candidates are ever more analyzed, probed, and prodded they yield their sense of right and wrong to the advice of pundits and advisers who tell them, for example, going on the David Letterman show is a good idea. Today’s example is Barak Obama.

Mr. Obama you are not a funny man. That’s not an insult, just the truth. Not everybody can be funny. I am but there are some people that would debate that as well. Your delivery is staunch and reserved, not outgoing, which is (again) not a bad thing. I would like a president who has an austere look and feel (better then the goober in the oval office now). You were reading the list provided to you by Letterman’s writers, who in their own right, aren’t funny. You are speaking to people who stay up to 1130pm or later at night. They tend to be college students and the chronically unemployable, both of which aren’t large, important voter blocks.

Your delivery of the #1 on the Top 10 List: Vice President Oprah is again not funny. Ignoring the obvious fact that it was a joke, but if you think the American public hates Hillary, just try putting Oprah on your ticket. Even Dr. Phil would vote for the Republican. Furthermore as we all know, the #1 is never as funny as the #2 yet the crowd still goes bananas...again the chronically unemployed!

Now if you can read this blog chances are that you have a job (and shame on you for reading this during working hours…and shame on me for writing this during working hours) and you were sleeping during Mr. Obama’s floundering on National TV. For you, here’s the video:

STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Two more quick things:
1) I’m now 10% of who I used to be (down 18 pounds since October)!
2) Today’s Fun Friday Fact: A jiffy is actually 1/100 of a second.