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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, Romney is exhausted.  He needs a breather, and the best hope he has of getting one is to talk about dog meat and drill down on quotes from Hilary Rosen.  He's using his best material, dammit![/quote]

Come on, it's funny.  Team Obama makes an issue of Romney's dog transportation techniques, hoping to score some cheap points--and this includes Axelrod, whose status as an Obama surrogate is not in dispute--and it blows up in their face and instead they are the ones who have the cheap points scored upon them.  The biter, bit.  If you have eaten dog, you simply don't have standing to criticize someone for transporting a dog in allegedly insufficient comfort.  "In hindsight, a chilling photo."  That's funny stuff.  [/quote]

Yes, there is an opportunity for humor. But, Romney was an adult when he decided to drive to Canada with his dog on the roof of his car. Obama was a child between the ages of 6 and 10 when he was served dog meat by his step-father. One action reflects on judgement, the other on life experiences. That Republicans seem to think that Romney's adult decision-making is comparable to Obama's childhood experience is telling.

If we are now going to make political hay out of the youth experiences of the candidates, I can't wait to start discussing Romney's experience as a missionary in France, during which time he lived in a 19th century palace.
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In politics, if you are explaining, you are losing, Mr. Steele.  No amount of spin will defuse the visceral impact of dog eating, nor the fact that Team Obama got one-upped this time.  As I said upthread, Obama will have better days. 
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