Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool[W:122]:

Hatuey said:

Fine, then read your own posts complaining about how bad Palin, the multimillionaire woman has it because people have negative opinions of her. :lol:



I don't know, I don't care. What I know is that it would be stupid for PETA to take Obama to task for eating dog 35+ f'n years ago.



Eh... the "infamous" situation you're discussing what Romney talking about tying his dog to a roof and PETA saying it was cruel. That's about it. When Obama swatted a fly, they also went on record:

PETA miffed at President Obama's fly execution | Reuters



They criticized him for killing a bug. Again, these vicious attacks you feel are being pushed on your side's politicians are fictitious. People do things in public? They'll be criticized for it whether they like it or not. Welcome to the 21st century.

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Hatuey said:

Eh... Obama isn't a vegetarian, vegan and eating dog is perfectly normal in Indonesia's non-Muslim areas. Why would Obama have to say he regrets doing something which is acceptable in a culture he visited? Does Obama have to apologize for eating chickens too? What about turkey? PETA is also opposed to eating all of those. You're being ridiculous.

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tres borrachos said:

Okay, I know. You want to defend PETA and you think I'm criticizing Obama, and it's making you upset. I get it.

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We have to disagree. You can go on defending PETA and raging about people (not me) criticizing Obama for eating dog. I'll go back to criticizing PETA for their hypocrisy and continuing to post that I think Palin is like many stupid Americans who have no idea what the limitations interaction between their children and their pets should be.

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Kobie said:

World Net Daily. Enough said.

A google search of "American Health Association + Florida" turns very little. And even so, we're talking what, 50 people? That's such a small sample size as to be completely meaningless.

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Post Election Selection Trauma or PEST is a term coined by a Boca Raton psychologist, Rob Gordon, who has noted a growing number of Democrats experiencing depression since the election. This story has been covered on Fox throughout the week and Brian Wilson interviewed Gordon at 12:30 PM ET 11/21/04

Rob Gordon told Wilson that there are thousands of people in Palm Beach County, who have never gotten over the 2000 election and what occurred in their county. Since this election, they are concerned about the future of the country especially the voters who are more centrist in their views. Gordon stated that "Americans are not red or blue but are actually red, white, and blue."
Their fear that the White House is too far to the right has caused depression and
and physical symptoms that echo those of people with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

News Hounds: Post Election Selection Trauma

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Post-Election Selection Trauma

Post-Election Selection Trauma or PEST for short, is a made up disorder for pompus, self-centered, elitist individuals that can't fathom the fact that they lost an election. It is mainly experienced by liberals and French lovers alike, and was first diagnosed after the 2004 Presidential Election. It's symptoms include but are not limited to: feelings of withdrawal, feelings of isolation, emotional anger and bitterness, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, nightmares, pervasive moodiness including endless sulking, and being excessively worried about the direction of the country.

In otherwords, the diagnosis is "You're a Sore Loser, get over it."

Hippie: "Bob stopped showing up to our drum circle meetings and couldn't eat his organic humus anymore. He's having intense hypno-therapy sessions and electroshock therapy now. His therapist said he is suffering from PEST, Post-Election Selection Trauma."

Normal Person: "What a *****."

Urban Dictionary: Post-Election Selection Trauma

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Mycroft said:

You're not very good with that Google thing, are you?



I suppose you are going to say, "Fox News. Enough said.", right? :roll:



The original story...from bocanews.com of Boca Raton, FL...is no longer available but a copy of their article can be seen here:

https://www.englishforums.com/English/PestAmericanPoliticalDisorder/mlvgz/post.htm

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jamesrage said:

I seriously doubt you would have given a **** if the photo had no name attached to it.You die hard anti-Palin extremists have a unhealthy obsession and hatred of the woman. So stop pretending that it is something other than those things why you care. Again if child was hurting the dog the dog will let the child know.Kids do this sort of thing all over the country with large pets.The most tolerant kid friendly pet will not put up with a child seriously hurting it. They will bite the child, run away, growl, yelp or something else.

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Hatuey said:

Nope, I showed why it would be pointless for them to go after Obama on that. He ate dog 35 years ago and wrote about it in his book 20 years ago. They didn't criticize him. He then swatted a fly on TV and they called it an execution. They chose to comment on the event which happened recently as opposed to the event which happened 35 years ago and which Obama hadn't really discussed outside of the book. In Romney's case, they chose to comment on it because he brought it up during the election period. It's not as if they dug it up and criticized him for it as a cheap shot. They commented on something he discussed.



Lmao, are you kidding? I asked you why PETA is being hypocritical for not discussing what Obama said did 35 years ago as a kid and not adult man like Romney was in the 80s.

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Mycroft said:

You're not very good with that Google thing, are you?

I suppose you are going to say, "Fox News. Enough said.", right? :roll:

The original story...from bocanews.com of Boca Raton, FL...is no longer available but a copy of their article can be seen here:

https://www.englishforums.com/English/PestAmericanPoliticalDisorder/mlvgz/post.htm

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Hatuey said:

... Newshounds, WND, Englishforums and Urban Dictionary? Lol. I chuckled at your reputable sources for information.

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tres borrachos said:

PETA found out about it in 2007 and continued to attack him on the dog story. PETA hates the Republicans historically and they make no secret of that fact. PETA doesn't give a pass to children who in their opinions hurt or disserve animals, by the way. I don't care what Obama ate as a kid but I'm not with PETA, who does care about animals used for food, and what children do. And they don't usually find dog eating jokes from adults funny, but they didn't seem to mind when Obama made them (and admitted he would eat dog again).

PETA should have called out Obama when he made the dog eating jokes. They didn't. PETA is hypocritical. Palin was spot on. You think they aren't. We have to disagree. I support your right to defend PETA.

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Kobie said:

Again, you're still talking about too ridiculously small of a sample of people for it to have any meaning whatsoever. But hey, if you can use a relative handful of pissed off people to paint the entire "left" as unhinged, why not, right? It's not like intellectual honesty is particularly important to most party hacks.

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Hatuey said:

... Newshounds, WND, Englishforums and Urban Dictionary? Lol. I chuckled at your reputable sources for information.

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tres borrachos said:

PETA found out about it in 2007 and continued to attack him on the dog story.

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During the 2012 U.S. Republican presidential primaries, candidate Newt Gingrich aired an anti-Romney attack ad that featured the story.[15][16][17] While appearing on the ABC show This Week, Republican candidate Rick Santorum stated, "As far as Seamus the dog ... the issues of character are important in this election. We need to look at all those issues and make a determination as to whether that's the kind of person [Romney] you want to be president of the United States.”[18] Santorum's view was at odds with that of Bill Wasik, senior editor of Wired Magazine: "Yet looking back on the Seamus Romney story today, what is most striking is its forgettability, how indistinguishable it seems in retrospect from the idiots' parade of meaningless stories that came to define the [2008] campaign."[19]

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PETA hates the Republicans historically and they make no secret of that fact. PETA doesn't give a pass to children who in their opinions hurt or disserve animals, by the way. I don't care what Obama ate as a kid but I'm not with PETA, who does care about animals used for food, and what children do. And they don't usually find dog eating jokes from adults funny, but they didn't seem to mind when Obama made them (and admitted he would eat dog again).

PETA should have called out Obama when he made the dog eating jokes. They didn't. PETA is hypocritical. Palin was spot on. You think they aren't. We have to disagree. I support your right to defend PETA.

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Mycroft said:

Go ahead and chuckle...but I noticed you didn't mention Fox News or BocaNews.

You are sooo transparent in your forum hackery. LOL!!

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Mycroft said:

shrug...

All I said was "Heck, lefties even had to seek mental treatment after Bush got elected." I never painted the entire left as unhinged, so please refrain from putting words in my mouth, eh?

You asked for citations...I gave them. I'm not interested in nitpicking about sample sizes.

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Kobie said:

I am curious as to what Ebaums World has to say about this!

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Hatuey said:

Lol, I didn't mention it cause I thought it'd be pretty ****ing obvious that your ridiculous story about a made up condition is pretty laughable. Get serious, Mycroft.

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tres borrachos said:

You apparently don't understand why she mentioned Obama (the "infant" Obama?). She didn't say he was guilty of anything. She was pointing out PETA's hypocrisy. Obama wasn't the one who attacked her for the picture.

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Kobie said:

By that rationale, since I've seen a few conservatives on Twitter refer to Obama as the N-bomb, I can run around saying "righties are racists." Amirite?

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Mycroft said:

Well...you had ONE interesting post, but now you are back to normal.

So it goes...

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danarhea said:

Somebody throw that cat in jail........

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Hatuey said:

It seems like Sarah Palin really is desperate for attention. She's been reduced to picking Twitter fights with PETA and having to drag Obama and Ellen into the issue. As if PETA were the only people who didn't think her mentally challenged son should be encouraged and praised for stepping on a dog. I almost feel bad for this lady. She went from the right's darling, to this. That's got to do some damage.

Also, I think she posted it for the reaction. There is no way that 20-25 pound dog would have held up that kid. She probably told him to just put a foot on its back and stand there. It's about as staged​ as you can make an image.

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SheWolf said:

Palin herself is blowing the issue way out of proportion. Dragging Obama and Ellen into is just going to put herself in even more negative light. It makes me wonder if she could be mentally ill, because the average person wouldn't let themselves get so worked up into a frenzy and then attack people not even involved... and all of this publicly.

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tres borrachos said:

Half the dogs that come into our rescue that are owner turn ins come in because they did "something" to the kid. When probed, the idiot parents say "Well all little Harry did was pull his tail" or "She tried to ride Spot like a pony". Takes everything in me not to snap.

There should be a test for dog ownership. It amazes me how many people don't understand that dogs are not teething rings, tetherballs, step stools, etc.

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Hatuey said:

It's absolutely insane what she is doing. I'm thinking this is her train of thought: Someone said something negative about me? I must drag Obama and anyone I can into it!

I wonder if she took the time to address the other thousands of people who thought it was a ****ty idea to let her mentally handicapped kid step on a dog.

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