divide and conquer in practice.

We try to unite.

to an adult male with five sons.

And they're doing it straight-faced, with sincere invective, completely unaware of the subtext they, themselves, are creating.

My take away?

-- Romney's behavior in torturing his dog is in the same ballpark as that of a ten year old kid, eating what is put before him at mealtime?

-- Romney, as an adult, has as much judgment as a ten year old kid?


I mean, really--pull it apart and that's what you end up with!

In some countries. And bugs and body parts of animals we wouldn't consider. So thats not the point at all.

They just want to divert attention from the absolute idiocy and insensitivity of a grown man who doesn't give a f about treating an animal well.

And with these aspersions, they remind people of obamas foreignness and that he grew up in a - gasp - Muslim country!

Of course they still eat dog and cat in China, the PI, Korea, etc. Monkey meat is on the menu, too, along with all sorts of snakes and shit.

My point was that they are comparing an ADULT Romney brutally torturing a helpless dog to the CHILD Obama eating what was put before him at meal time.

That's where the comparison falls down. It's not the foreign-ness as much as it is that they are saying "Harrrumph--you think torturing a dog for ten hours on top of a car is bad? Why, eating a dog is WORSE!" That's what they are trying to say, that's what Palin said, that's what these other idiots are saying.

The take away is that ADULT Mitt Romney is equal to the CHILD Barack Obama. They lose.

White missionaries!!1111

and their dogs!!!1111

THIS IS NOT SARCASM.

This is Romoney Nugent GOP logic.

yup

But they don't put a cow on the car roof.

Just saying!

who barbecued a dog. He says he didn't but even if he did he was drunk at the time. Fred Malek is a fund raiser for Rmoney.

There's a reason they cost more!

Regular hot dogs are pretty damn gross.

They have decided to voter neither based on this issue. People are so focused on this issue that they are blind to other things that matter- like policy positions.

didn't have to. we had food for humans in the house, but i was 2 and i ate dog food. darcy needed to lose weight anyhow.

Adults make those choices for them. A child eats what's put in front of him or her or face the consequences of going hungry for the rest of the day.

Kids have to eat what's put in front of them, whether they like it or not. It doesn't matter if it's broccoli, spinach, liver, chicken, or dog. If you are served it, you eat it, whether you like it or not, or whether or not it's taboo in your native culture.

Obama himself pointed that out in the book. Much to the dismay of people on the right and apparently quite a few on the left this election will not be decided on Obama's choice of food as a child or Romney's means of pet transportation.

where as Obama's political team is not going to waste a lot of time on Romney and the dog story. All the GOP has is distraction, Obama has the fact Romney's policies will make peoples lives substantially worse.

If it is ok to eat pork, goat, lamb, beef and chicken, then what is wrong with eating cat, dog and horse meat?

I don't get it, and I never have.

If you don't understand why eating dog/cat meat is disgusting then you have apparently a blindness to our culture.

but I think we ourselves have blinders on when it comes to culture. Most people on the planet do not live the way we do and do not share our prejudices and taboos. In China, for example, cats and dogs are treated as livestock.

Eating human meat, because we are all vulnerable to the same pathogens, is dangerous. I can understand why that is taboo (and illegal in most of the world). It makes sense. I'm assuming you aren't talking about treating humans as livestock, because that has obvious hazards and is a violation of human rights.

the other is a powerful symbol. And you should neither be shocked or surprised.

That said, it's gotten ugly here since some people here can't accept that yes, dog is consumed in a few cultures around the world, or has historically been consumed among a few cultures around the world.

He was living in a culture were OUR food taboos are not there.

And quite frankly it should not even be close to an issue.