It's a Dog Eat Dog World

Why I have seen story after story over the past week involving President Obama, Mitt Romney and dogs? The stories I’ve seen have basically followed this pattern, Liberal attacks Romney over his treatment of the family dog, and Conservatives say story is no big deal and a distraction from issues.  Next story is Conservatives bring up event from Obama’s past involving dog and wonder where outrage is, Liberals say events from the past aren’t important and why are we talking about dogs?  It’s enough to make me wonder why I still read any political “news.” 

So first Romney is attacked because during a family vacation he put the family dog in a dog carrier and strapped it to the top of the car for a 12-hour drive to Canada. When this story starts getting media play, Romney aides pointed out Obama made mention in his book “Dreams From My Father” he had eaten dog while living in Indonesia as child.  Let’s see, a 30-year-old family vacation and a 40-year-old childhood story.  Do either of these events involve a federal crime? No? So why are they taking up air time and attention away from actual issues?

The United States has an 8.3% unemployment rate  (allegedly higher if you factor in people who have run out of unemployment benefits), 15.6 trillion dollar national debt which increases by over 3 Billion dollars a day, and $4 a gallon gas which shows no sign of lowering yet we’re wasting time talking about dogs.

As I said in the last posting, the 24-hour news cycle doesn’t mean we’re more informed. It means a lot more idiotic topics are given time to be talked about instead of devoting time to actual things that matter.  I urge you to tune out all the senseless ramblings and ranting about anything that takes the focus off actual issues.  The past is the past. Lets move towards the future.