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Obama is nothing like a dog

September 8th, 2010 | Author:

Dan Calabrese

President Obama, ever cognizant of what others are saying about him, told an audience in Wisconsin the other day that faceless Washington insiders – long accustomed to controlling the nation’s agenda – are so upset with him that “they talk about me like a dog.”

Well. Nothing could be more wrong than that. Obama is nothing like a dog.

Apology owed.

Dogs can be trained. That’s how they learn that it’s OK to do some things but not to do others. Pee on the kitchen floor? Endure a smack to the head. Run after the mailman? Get an electric shock from one of those invisible fence gizmos. Dogs are smart. They figure out before long that certain kinds of behavior bring unwanted consequences, so they don’t do those things.

Obama appears incapable of learning anything. His first big priority as president was to spend $862 billion to try to kick-start the economy.

Not only did it fail, it made the economy worse, because it increased public debt so severely that employers everywhere figure massive tax increases are coming, so they’re not about to spend any reserve capital hiring people. Thus, unemployment has  jumped from just under 8 percent at the time to 9.6 percent now.

A dog would figure it out: Stop spending.

Not Obama. He comes back with endless extensions of unemployment benefits and now wants to spend another unbudgeted $50 billion on infrastructure. (Of course, since the Democrats didn’t bother to pass a fiscal 2011 budget, all spending is unbudgeted, but that’s a topic for another day.)

Dogs listen. Hey Chaos, get me my shoes! No, not my bowling ball, my shoes! And Chaos dutifully wanders in with your shoes. They’re covered with slobber, of course, but you were too lazy to get them yourself, so you gratefully reward Chaos with a pat on the head, and he’s happy as a clam. You asked, he complied. Life is simple and good.

Not Obama. When the nation was pleading with him to do something about the faltering economy, he spent his entire first year and then some focused on passing a massive government takeover of health care. The public repudiated the effort everywhere it could – in town hall meetings, in off-year elections, even electing a Republican to Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat in Massachusetts, for crying out loud.

But no matter how clearly the message was sent, Obama ignored it. A dog would never sit there and ignore you when you’re talking to him. A cat would, you bet! But not a dog.

A dog is loyal. Once he knows you and understands that you’re his peep, the dog will stick with you through thick and thin. He’ll protect you. He’ll do stuff for you. He’ll go for walks with you. He’ll play with you. He’ll even sit there and do nothing if you tell him to – probably not liking it much, but that’s how loyalty works, and no one is more loyal than a dog.

How loyal is Obama? All you need to do to answer that one is to peer under that bus of his and see how things are going for Jeremiah Wright, Shirley Sherrod, Samantha Power, Christina Romer, William Ayers, Michael Pfleger . . . dude even threw his own grandmother under there when it served his purposes.

Obama keeps his friends close until it’s inconvenient for him to do so any longer. That kind of disloyalty would never fly with a dog.

Finally, dogs love it when you praise them. Obama gets quite bent out of shape when he’s criticized, but he doesn’t need anyone else’s praise. He’s quite happy to simply praise himself.

The Obama-as-dog comparison could not have been more off the mark. And if anyone actually made the comparison, which they probably didn’t, they owe an apology to loyal, attentive, well-trained dogs everywhere.

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