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I'm assuming that your

Elusive Trope — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:20:56 +0000

In reply to pointless article. Unlike Bo,

I'm assuming that your comment is one of those hyper-hip tounge-in-cheek comments.

pointless article. Unlike Bo,

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:13:09 +0000

In reply to The oval office needs a new dog.

pointless article. Unlike Bo, the Chesapeake bay dog is not hypoallergenic.

Thanks, should be

Oxy Mora — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:43:53 +0000

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Thanks, should be "retriever".

Yes, Bo, having backed down from a fight, is even harder to take seriously this morning than before. In fact Bo seems almost giddy, something like the mannerisms and facial expressions of Republicans today.

In Teddy Roosevelt's White House, which was full of dogs, we seem to have the perfect opposite of the ponderous poker playing policy wonks in the Obama White House--who don't seem to know that if you win the game in the parlor, you'll have to fight them in the alley with knives if you want to get home with your winnings.

For the record, in addition to the chessie-Sailor Boy--Roosevelt had Pete--

"...variously identified as a bulldog or a bull terrier--who terrorized the White House between 1905 and 1908. He caused an international incident in 1905 when he treed the French ambassador, Jules Jusserand, who had come to play tennis with the president."*

But today in the White House we have faux poodles and vegetable gardens. So we can relate to the French, if that's a help. It's the domestic terrorists in the alley that we don't understand and have no bulldogs, or chessies--when they do have to fight they fight to the death--to even the odds.

*Mark Derr. "A Dog's History of America. How our best friend explored, conquered and settled a continent"

I think that's Chesapeake Bay

Lazy KGB — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:27:10 +0000

In reply to The oval office needs a new dog.

I think that's Chesapeake Bay Retriever ("dog" sounds oddly generic) ... chessies. Good dogs, usually rather spendy.

Bo's problem is that he comes off like a dopy, grace-free standard poodle ... impossible to take seriously. Hmmm ... come to think of it, there *is* a of a Vietnam-French connection .... just saying ...

Message from a Portuguese

Oxy Mora — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:18:07 +0000

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Message from a Portuguese Water Dog.

"Harry Reid was just in here and he groomed a bunch of us. It seems that if you working stiffs ever want to play around again with the Bush Tax Cuts, you'll just have to vote us back into office in 2012."

Atheist, mutts are best. This

Oxy Mora — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:13:13 +0000

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Atheist, mutts are best. This one is a "mix", with a lab, I think, but looks close to a full breed. She'd been on the run in the country for a good long time.

Although I have nothing

Verified Atheist — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:47:42 +0000

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Although I have nothing against Chesapeake Bay dogs, I think the absolute best "breed" of dog is the mutt one typically finds at an animal shelter. My favorite mutt was one that was part German shepherd, part Lab, and part horse (he could even cantor and trot).