Tense standoff ends: Obamas finally settle on a dog
Our long national nightmare is over. The Obamas have finally properly accessorized the White House, with the help of Ted Kennedy:
The first family has settled on a first pet — a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog that the Obama girls are naming Bo.
The selection was one of the White House’s most tightly kept secrets.
President Barack Obama’s daughters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, picked a black and white pup, a White House official speaking on the condition of anonymity told The Associated Press Saturday night.
The dog is a gift from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who owns several Portuguese water dogs himself.
Before taking full possession, the first family will have a trainer break Bo from a canine condition specific to Kennedy-family dogs known as “Dike Nervous Disorder,” which means that every time the dog is riding in a car that’s driving across a bridge, it poops on the back seat.
It took longer than expected for the Obamas to decide on a breed because the teleprompter was having trouble spelling “Portuguese.”
White House insiders tell me that the plan is to let Bo get accustomed to his new White House surroundings before letting him choose a church for the Obamas.
Actually, the best kept secret of “Operation Bo” was that the president took him to the G20 summit meeting.
Here’s the president showing the cute little fella to the Saudi King:
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Well, the coup is complete. A Kennedy is back in the White House!
all those years of indoctrination finally paid off, zero pulled if off, he made a decision. and they said it couldn’t be done.
Bow wow!
whoop dee doo!
I can’t stop laughing
Actually the truth is what I suspected all along; A ten-year-old and seven-year-old are better able to make a decision faster than the sitting president. Maybe they should be in charge from now on.
They say after Bo Diddly, I say cuz he knows diddly.
One thing for sure is the dog is smarter than the VP and the Prez.
Such decisiveness!
No. But I can say
“absurd”
“accusation”
“about”
“something”
“that”
“has”
“been”
“anticipated”
“for”
“months”
“now”
And dogs are loyal.
in the liberal world, zero deciding on a dog makes him an astute world class decision maker. how truly pathetic zero is, chicago should be proud of giving this great country such a parasitic loser.
Idiots
What are they going to say when the dog does something wrong? No
What’s the dogs name? Bo
Dog can’t tell the difference most of the time and is going to be one confused little critter
Maybe the “Water Dog” is the Top Secert plan to fight the Pirates.
No one going to claim this name is another example of Obama’s ego?
Bo? B.O.?
or even secret.
So it’s “Bo.” And, um, what do Barack Obama’s initials spell? Coincidence, or megalomaniacal self-aggrandizement extending to the most trivial minutiae? For what it’s worth, the daughters are said to have named the dog. It’s also said that worship starts in the home.
No Chap, that would have to be B.O.O.B.
In about 10 seconds, I guess.
Interesting that the found a dog before they found a church . . . first things first you know.
I wonder if they will nueter the dog to match the owner?
Now B. Hussain has at least two dogs at his feet…
Bo
and
chappie
Whew! Glad they found a dog with some street kred, rather than wasting valuable time on… oh… I don’t know… PIRACY?
But that’s just me, I’ve been known to have a skewed sence of morality.
Personally I’d name the damn thing LGM so I woudn’t feel bad about kicking it in the head when it craps on the floor.
Just think, some poor secret service agent has just been assigned to the pooper scooper patrol.
Four years of college, painful.
A job in government service, good.
Selection to the Secret Service, great.
Assigned to Presidential Security, Fantasic.
Being handed a pooper scooper and told to watch the dog, WTF.
I know it happens in every administration, but kind of odd we pay big bucks for dog security when I can’t even bribe my friends to watch mine when I am away.
At least I will sleep better at night knowing there is someone with sense at Government Motor’s HQ. It may be dog sense, but hey, its better than no sense at all
$5.00 says the first time he’s off his leach and see’s daylight he runs away.
Now that’s funny!
But seriously, it was Uncle Ted that selected and gave the dog as a gift to the Obamas, and not the One making any decision in choosing a breed. Besides, it won’t be his dog anyway, as this breed will quickly seek out the alpha person of the family and bond with her (oops!).
oe even Leash…. geez.
Seeing its a water dog, I’ll bet it can swim better than an Oldsombile
Tell us, Mr. president, how are you going to negotiate the SAFE return of a Captain Phillips? Oh, silly me! We’re here to talk about Bo! Can you tell us Mr. president, will you be planning to talk about Captain Phillips anytime this coming week? What’s that you say, next week we’ll be talking about the softer side of michelle, her newly designed eyebrows, courtesy of her make-up artist? Gee, I wonder what next’s week diversion, I mean, world news topic will be!!!
Now I see why Obama has not been able to consentrate on the Piracy problem; his mind was already tied up in trying to figure out what kind of dog he would have. These tough Presidential decisions one must make when one is office.
I wonder, did Teddy pick out the dog for Obama so that he would have dniability if the dog screws something up?
Speaking of the pirate situation. Here is the latest on the situation:
And if that is not bad enough:
Maybe now
CarterObama can direct some thought to the hostage situation.He’s taking a page from Bill Clinton when he suddenly got Buddy, the Scandal Dog.
Hey, isn’t there still a US citizen captured by pirates or something?
Any news about ‘Splash’, Teddy the swimmers dog? Who BTY is a Portuguese Water Dog.
An undisclosed Kennedy spokesman stated that the dog is a strong swimmer but shows no proclivity toward water rescue. He is an avid leg-humper and can lay on his back and kiss his own butt.
So allegedly this was a gift, huh? It probably came from a high-end breeder.
How about getting a dog from the Portuguese Water Dog rescue?
Just when we were begining to think he couldn’t make a real decision……….
Finally a decisive move that should not cost us too much.
Hallowed are the Ori.
Why would anyone care about what kind of dog, its name, where it came from, etc.? WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT THE DOG!
This fool is destroying the ideas this country was founded upon, and the MSM is worried about the dog?
The order of the day…
distract, deflect, misdirect, obscure…
More Americans know whose on “Dancing With The Stars”, or the latest wrinkle on “Survivor”…
than know the first thing about how the Constitution is designed…front to back…to limit the federal government to a VERY few activities.
Uh… ummm…. kids picked it… and named it…
apparently he voted Present…
These dogs cost around $1,500. I guess Obama will feed him leftover $100 Kobe steaks on Friday nights. Ahh, yes, the good life. Maybe they’ll get a female too, and name it “Monica” so the Democrats can continue their tradition of fooling around in the White House. I can see dozens of little “Monicabo’s” running around and chewing on the furniture.
B.A.L. …
My understanding is that the dog comes from the same “elite” breeder somewhere in Texas that provided the Kennedy’s with their dogs … also the Obama dog is related to the Kennedy dogs …
As a dog person, I can assure you that they insisted the dog was going to come from a rescue. Campaign promises.
We might as well all make donations to that rescue now, because there will be millions of them purchased and subsequently abandoned by the Obamatrons in the next few years.
http://tinyurl.com/ctbakj
So am I to understand that the First Lady actually sold rights to this story? Wow.
I understood that the First Pooch was a gift from dog breeder (now, THERE’s a punch-line waiting to happen…) Uncle Teddy Kennedy…
I find it hard to believe Ted has anything to do with water.
Well, other than the water he puts in his scotch.
*You have to be happy for the girls at least; More time spent with the dog means less time with the Rev. Wright’s of the world their parents have happily subjected them to.
*Please let the dog be Mary Jo Kopeckne reincarnate so when Teddy the Killer pays a visit, the dogs’ teeth can visit his c.o.jones.
Seems like you thought of it first, so you own it. Out of the mouths of babes, as the saying goes.
In REAL news…
May it be so…
I’ve long thought it was really weird that Ted Kennedy has a Portuguese WATER dog named SPLASH.
After reviewing documents, it was found that Bo had cheated on his taxes for 2005 through 2007…this was automatic cause for the White House nomination…
cnredd
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Own it? No.
Can guess how simple minds think? Yes.
Yeah, I’m sure there is a plausible explanation for the name that has nothing to do with his initials….They just haven’t crafted it yet. Maybe it is pronounced BOW as in bow in submission. (I mean stoop, yeah, stoop)
Except they have.
Funny, I was thinking Bo Diddley when I heard it. I think I need my brain washed.
Now that the hostage is alive and well and the terrorists were “slain,” we can move on and pretend that the whole little incident just barely happened. In the coming months and years, expect to hear and read a few more stories about piratical terrorism (but they won’t be referred to in such words), and expect to know more about Bo the White House dog (in many, many words). People probably know more about this dog before the Obamas actually got it than in what they knew in all the eight years previous regarding Bush’s pets. As soon as Bo gets its own blog and twitter account, prepare for the ensuing hijinks to provide a plethora of mirthful headlines.
I would like someone to try this—poll your average American citizen a week from now with the following questions:
1) What is the name and breed of the Obamas’ dog?
2) What was the country of origin of the pirates who took over the American ship last week? Extra credit: What was the name of the ship? (Partial names are acceptable. Hint: it shares part of its name with one of the fifty U.S. states.)
How much does the dog owe in back taxes?
Doug, a wonderful post, very “cheeky” you made my day!!
… (singing) … you’re so vain, you probably think this dog is about you…
No, I own it. Sure, mocking Obama vanity is like shooting poisoned fish in a barrel, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be effective. Go ahead, make fun of Obama for naming his fluffy dog after himself, even if you don’t think it’s true (which never stopped Dubya mockers). You could make your lib acquaintances cry without having to give them any crap about their ponytails.
Speaking of Obama vanity, I continue to see new magazine covers featuring Michelle O. It doesn’t stop. What’s next, the cover of Hustler?
I hereby deny all responsibility for any vomit-ruined monitors and keyboards.
If that’s the case, he’ll end up with a whole zoo in the Whitehouse.
Enough about the drive-by media, what’s going on in the real world of news?
Marco is right. BO promised they would adopt a shelter dog while he was campaigning. Them getting a specially bred dog means that shelter dog will die. When will the media or animal welfare people (of which I am one) make hay of this?
Pander much?
three letters: ODS. Get a life.
My collie says:
It would never work, collie. All the other cabinet members would be SO jealous — with Bo clearly being the smartest member of the cabinet, and all.
I would have figured that a weasel or Siamese cat would have made a much better fit.
They could have called it Squat under this theory…