In America, we love our pets. We really love our dogs and can't stand it when people mistreat them. Today, one of the big debates in the Presidential election is about dogs. This all started back in 1983 when Mitt Romney put the family dog, Seamus, in a kennel on top of the family car when driving from Boston to Canada.

This has been used against Romney ever since. Well, it appears as though even President Obama has had a run in now with dog lovers. Granted, it's for something he did as a kid, but still. When Obama was a child he lived in Indonesia and while growing up there, according to his book, he ate dog meat. According to ABC:

The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama’s best-selling memoir, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” the president wrote. “Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

After his mother married Soetoro, Obama lived in Indonesia from 1967 until 1971, from roughly the age of 6 through 10.

This is my favorite part of Jake Tapper's story:

The Seamus story was discussed again Monday when Ann Romney told Diane Sawyer that “the dog loved” traveling that way. “He would see that crate and, you know, he would, like, go crazy because he was going with us on vacation. It was to me a kinder thing to bring him along than to leave him in the kennel for two weeks.”

Certainly kinder than eating him.

True. The Romney's never ate dog meat. Not that we know of, or they will admit to anyway. So which is worse? Romney putting his dog on the top of the car for a road trip or Obama eating a dog when he was younger?

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