EATIN' DOG

If you were one of the several million or so Americans who passed through Southeast Asia back in, oh, ’60 to ’73, you might’a eaten a little dog meat. Of course, present-day anti-Obamaists who are trying to make an issue of the President eating dog meat in his youth in Indonesia would probably not have been so adventuresome. No, many of these present-day anti-Obamaists would likely have been part of the Dick Cheney crowd of pudgy boy tough guys who talked a helluva war but when it came to their own service, preferred the deferment approach. Or if they did happen to end up in Southeast Asia, never made it out of a U.S. military mess hall.

Yes, dog meat was a staple in Southeast Asia during those years. And if you found yourself in a rural area, you might even have gorged on field rat from time to time. Vietnamese troops would often catch and roast the rodents while on operations, and any Americans who happened to be accompanying them (the Vietnamese troops) were often invited to participate. Hey, it tasted like chicken.

So if anti-Obamaist followers of a certain stuff-shirt, pressed-jeans, slick-haired 2012 Presidential candidate want to make an issue of eating dog, go for it. As for this child, he’s branching out. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.