Dogs and 30 Years Ago ?

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Much has been made recently about Mitt Romney driving his family on a vacation with the dog on top of the car in a pet carrier. Animal rights folks can claim what he did 30 years ago was animal abuse and political enemies can somehow make the claim that it's how a "President" Romney would treat the old, the poor and everyone else. I think the bigger more interesting question might be what was his opponent President Barack Obama doing 30 years ago? And does it matter?

Source: Time.com

The President himself on many occasions has admitted to various activities about 30 years ago ranging from pot and cocaine use in high school and college years. Also in 1980 it is reported that he had strong Marxist beliefs and believed that America was broken and needed to be transformed with wealth redistribution. In April of 1983 as a senior at Columbia University he attended the "Socialist Scholars Conference" that led to his community organizing path and may have been the kick start of his political career. This article by Stanley Kurtz on NationalReview.com has many details of the Presidents radical, socialist and Marxist activities in his college years, 30 years ago.

This election season is going to be both ridiculous and historic. We would all be better off to ignore the ridiculous and petty and concentrate on judging based on the candidates history, associations and actions. If we do that it seems to me that the choice is obvious. In the 2008 election then candidate Obama was not vetted and researched with an adequate level of scrutiny. I am sure his supporters believe that he is a centrist President, governing from the middle and would bring all Americans together but he has not done that. If you consider his history beginning well over 30 years ago, combined with the makeup of his administration and it's clear that he has not changed. I contend he is farther to the left than anyone to hold the office of President. On second thought, perhaps it's a toss up with Woodrow Wilson? President Obama sold hope and change, but history and truth will show that who is guiding and molding the hope, and who is leading the change is critical to America's future.

I would not put our dog Nellie in a car carrier on top of the car to go on vacation. I am sure that she would rather be up on top of the car and going with us on vacation than going to spend time in a boring cement cage boarding at the vets office. 30 years ago as kids we were riding in the front seat without a seat belt and occasionally even in the back of a pickup truck! On a less ridiculous and serious note, do we need a leader that would support, believe in or pursue studies and activities promoting socialist and Marxist ideas? Ideas that could be used 30 years later to "fundamentally transform the United States of America".

On a purely unrelated side note, I know that my wife was PROUD of her country 30 years ago.