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kpete

(72,901 posts)
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:04 AM Apr 2012

Breaking: GOP Compares Romney to 8-Year Old Boy

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The Romney campaign signaled tonight that they are not about to cede any ground when it comes to a candidate’s odd past with man’s best friend.

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Romney Campaign Notes that Obama as a Boy Ate Dog Meat*

The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama’s best-selling memoir, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” the president wrote. “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.”

After his mother married Soetoro, Obama lived in Indonesia from 1967 until 1971, from roughly the age of 6 through 10.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/18/1084333/-Breaking-GOP-Compares-Romney-to-8-Year-Old-Boy
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-as-a-boy-ate-dog-meat/

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Breaking: GOP Compares Romney to 8-Year Old Boy (Original Post) kpete Apr 2012 OP
I've eaten dog on a couple occasions... Scuba Apr 2012 #1
that's nothing compared to Schema Thing Apr 2012 #2
and that's nothing compared to cbdo2007 Apr 2012 #3
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. I've eaten dog on a couple occasions...
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:07 AM
Apr 2012

... in Asia. "Dog on stick" was common fare in southeast Asia circa 1970.

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