Gene Lyons on Choosing a White House dog

[mooseandsquirrel]

A bit of warm satire for the Holidays. Today is my 56th birthday. Season Greetings to all here at D.U.

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Since the election, Barack Obama apparently doesn't care whom he offends. In an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, the president-elect insulted her dog, a Havanese named Cha-Cha.

"It's, like, a little yappy dog?" Obama asked. "It, like, sits in your lap and things? It sounds kind of like . . . a girly dog."

Never mind that our normally articulate leader sounds as if he's, like, seen too many "Beavis and Butthead" episodes; he speaks for men everywhere. A Havanese is one of those shrill, rodent-like creatures that a certain kind of woman likes to carry around in her purse and babytalk. Cha-Cha, Boo-Boo, Tu-Tu, the names alone make you want to light out for the territory, like Huckleberry Finn.

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[IndyOp]

1. Oooh - Bassetts would be wonderful.

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