Care for Pets, Obama?
My master likes Barack Obama, but I’m not sure I do. Among the main U.S. presidential contenders, he is the least pet-friendly. I’ll tell you why: According to VisitMyPet.com, Obama’s fellow Democrat, Hillary Clinton, owns a chocolate lab named “Seamus,” while John McCain owns three turtles, three parakeets, a ferret, two dogs, a cat and 13 salt water fish (hmm...you’re a good man, McCain). Obama? He has no pets, but he promised his kids a dog.
Promises from a politician are usually meant to be broken. If he wins, however, he’ll probably make good on his promise--maybe for photo ops purposes (have you noticed how President Bush’s pet dog “humanizes” him when the latter is around?). That’s not a good enough reason for me, though. The fact that he still doesn’t own one now at his late age speaks volumes to me. If only dogs could vote, I won’t vote for him!
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Your master’s smarter than you are, jaspitz. You give it away when you use the words “owns”; Clinton “owns”....; McCain “owns”.... and “pet-friendly”. “Owning” a “pet” has nothing to do with love of animals; it has everything to do with exercising control over an “inferior” being. Most humans who “own” animals treat them as slaves, and not as companions afforded social equality. (Think of a “good dog!” who is “trained” to “obedience"- “sit!” “roll over!” “heel!”, ad nauseam. Sound familiar? Hear any of these things yourself?) Now Obama, who I’m sure you know is a Black man, is very sensitive to intimations of slavery, and refuses to keep a “pet” who is nothing more than a slave. I commend him on standing up for animal freedom! He sure has our votes!
Nicely argued, Alice. Here is Animal Internet’s take on the “P” word…
http://animalinternet.com/Pword
That is a well-written statement, Casey. Animal Internet can stand on its merits. But it isn’t so much the use of the P word that is the problem; it’s the attitude that humans display toward “inferior animals” that betrays their microcerebral arrogance. We can’t count the hours spent arguing with supposedly intelligent humans about the essential wrongness of viewing other beings as “inferior”, no matter what their shape or genome. We felines probably have much less tolerance for feckless human slavemongers than do you, Casey.