As to your above list, yeah, but this just happened to stop me like none of those did. Maybe because we picked up another rescue off the street yesterday, he's safe somewhere tonight. Though I would like to think I would feel like this on any other day...
I'm not comparing the two people, of course, because there is no comparison. But I periodically recall Michael Vick when someone mentions "pit bull" in the media, and here it came again. I hear I am not the only victim of this affliction by listening to other dog owners. There are perhaps hundreds of thousands of people in dog clubs all over the country, mostly white, and I suspect a fair number of them vote. I wonder what they think about...
Why screw around with something like that?
Or ask George Lakoff - from a technical viewpoint the more we hear "the president eats dog", which this will help people remember or learn about, the more it is going to be remembered in voters minds, voters who may well drive to the polls with a dog in the car, a Golden, or heaven forbid, their beloved "pit" in the minivan. Why do this? Heck, I like the guy - imagine what his enemies could or will do with it. Anything to light those neurons up.
There are movie actors who have turned down well-paying roles because the part required them to just kick a dog because they were afraid they would be pariahs after that. It's not a little thing to a whole lot of people.
It wasn't nothing, it was the President of the United States, not a stage comedian, talking to the person who would think that was funny. For what? Yes it was a "roast" - I get that - carried by a lot of media and reported on incessantly. Lots of people will hear about it.
Too much painful, tragic, unnecessary dog death going on especially of the general type of dog he mentioned, stupid thing to joke about. Not goddamn funny, and it would take someone out of touch with what is going on all over the country to not understand that. Unless a few million animals thrashing and screaming and dying at human hands in the shelters every year is a good subject to mine for political wit. Or maybe you need to add in the inuries and deaths to kids and adults. Oh, this is just gonna be full of material.
So, frankly, in a room full of people who think , or thought, that was funny, or thought they should "look like" they thought it was funny even if they didn't, then fuck every last one of them. I always thought I was the one with mad cow - maybe it's them.
I would just as soon shed people who are so insensitive that they can think it was funny that badly anyway. I've got the dogs and a couple hundred regular acquaintances who likely agree with that viewpoint, so there will be some interesting conversations coming up 
I'm pretty good at defending, even if I think we could do more, but this is going to make me think, and I already know I'm not the only one.
It was a crass remark. Not goddamn funny.
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