Obama autobiography eating dog video

A resurfaced video of former President Barack Obama shows the 44th president admitting he ate dog meat as a child.

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With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner plenty of riceand, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat toughsnake meat tougherand roasted grasshopper crunchy. Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths.

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share. A pit bull is delicious.

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Romney has not shown a similar sense of humor about the fact that he once strapped his dog's crate to the roof of the family station wagon for a hour drive to Canada, during which the dog, an Irish Setter named Seamus, suffered a bout of diarrhea. Romney pulled over and hosed off the car, then got back on the road with the dog still on the roof.

But dog lovers have protested "Crate-Gate" ever since the Boston Globe first reported on it in See our definitive mashup of Crate-Gate coverage above. Scott Crider, founder of an online group called Dogs Against Romneygave Obama a pass for having eaten dog meat as a child. He lauded the president for slamming Romney on the dog issue during his speech, during which Obama introduced a faux Romney campaign video devoted entirely to Seamus.

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Main Menu U. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share. After his mother married Soetoro, Obama lived in Indonesia from untilfrom roughly the age of 6 through The discovery that the president had eaten dog meat prompted wise-cracks on twitter hashtag - ObamaDogRecipes and this tweet from Romney strategist Eric Fehrstrom, who re-tweeted Axelrod's original message with a different take on the picture of the president and Bo.

Democrats and supporters of the president's forcefully took to twitter Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to challenge the notion that Obama as a boy eating food given to him by his stepfather could be compared to actions Romney took as an adult. Republicans pushed back, saying that the dog-eating tale underlines how any discussion of dogs at a time of massive unemployment, with troops in harm's way, is silly.