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Topic: Bo, Bo, Bo! Adorable White House dog steals the spotlight from Michelle Obama when he jumps on her lap as she reads ´Twas The Night Before Christmas´ to sick children in hospital |
Bo, Bo, Bo! Adorable White House dog steals the spotlight from Michelle Obama when he jumps on her lap as she reads ´Twas The Night Before Christmas´ to sick children in hospital
Daily Mail [UK], by Meghan Keneally
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 12/26/2012 6:33:30 AM
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| Michelle Obama is typically the star of the show when she attends a charity event. That wasn´t the case when she recently read Twas The Night Before Christmas at a Washington area children´s hospital. As she sat down on stage to begin reading the classic tale to the tiny tots, Bo the First Dog jumped right up on his mother´s lap. He seemed quite comfy as well, since he didn´t move from the position throughout the seven minute session.[Snip] That was no matter for Michelle, however, as she gamefully played along and even jokingly held the book out so that
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Comments: Bo was trained to do that--staged. Where´s M´s usual surliness? Botoxed out? Yes, it´s the Christmas season; yes, I´m jaded and cynical; no, I don´t have any evidence--do I need it this time?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/26/2012 6:37:55 AM (No. 9083760)
May be botoxed, but most unattractive. You´d think her many makeup people could do a little better than that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nina584, 12/26/2012 6:57:33 AM (No. 9083779)
It´s Christmas give her a break.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
provide, 12/26/2012 7:11:46 AM (No. 9083789)
Did she also lecture them about childhood obesity?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rotten In Denmark, 12/26/2012 7:21:32 AM (No. 9083796)
A ticking click keeping time would be a scene stealer too vs wookie posturing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 12/26/2012 7:23:33 AM (No. 9083799)
All animals entering a hospital are supposed to be certified "service" dogs. And certified service dogs do NOT jump on people.
Absolutely no limit to the special privilege that the obama´s take.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 12/26/2012 7:29:24 AM (No. 9083803)
One does wonder if it was staged, but from what else we´ve seen of Bo, he is probably untrained. (The Obamas are notorious rule-breakers.)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 12/26/2012 7:32:20 AM (No. 9083806)
"Adorable W.H. dog"? Hardly. BTW, we´ll give them a "break" when they give US, a break on what it is costing US for THEIR many excellent adventures back and forth to whatever parts unknown they choose. Now the "family" and their clown-posse have to fly back to D.C. on separate jets, AGAIN at OUR expense, so that obama can have another photo-op to beat up on John Boehner and Republicans. A "break"? They don´t need one.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Judith, 12/26/2012 7:48:10 AM (No. 9083819)
what a difference! Remember the Bush´s reading to children? A lot of the time, they were gathered right around the First Lady and the President. Now they are many feet away behind a rope. Even the royals in England get closer.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 12/26/2012 7:51:16 AM (No. 9083824)
Since it´s Christmas,I´m not going to beat up on this witch. However, if she and Barky had a third child by in-vitro fertilization and it was a boy , he would look like Bo.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HistoryBuff, 12/26/2012 7:53:43 AM (No. 9083830)
And no one in the media smart enough to realize that the president named the dog after himself.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Laureen1, 12/26/2012 8:04:32 AM (No. 9083835)
#9 - My dog is offended by that comment. Bo had no choice, like us Americans, to be stuck with these communists! LOL
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 12/26/2012 8:36:06 AM (No. 9083886)
Which one was Bo? (ba-dum-dum.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
vesicant, 12/26/2012 8:47:27 AM (No. 9083910)
That was the first ever dog-based combination teleprompter and ventroliquist. Can´t have her not being able to read in public.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LouD, 12/26/2012 8:54:24 AM (No. 9083921)
The article says the dog jumped up on his mother´s lap. His mother? I guess Ms. Keneally is calling Mooch what I thought she was. A byootch.(sp)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 12/26/2012 9:48:18 AM (No. 9083997)
I was glad for Bo that Michelle likes him. Bill Clinton never liked his dog. He was just for show.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mitzi, 12/26/2012 9:50:56 AM (No. 9084003)
She had a pork chop in her pocket.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
earlybird, 12/26/2012 10:10:22 AM (No. 9084029)
The Mail is hammering away on this cutesy story. Second article I´ve seen this morning.
The video shows that she plops down in the chair and promptly beckons to Bo to come into her lap, where she wrestles a bit to get him positioned just right. And she continues to stroke him.
She was not surprised. More Mail drama where there is none.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 12/26/2012 10:12:10 AM (No. 9084033)
Re #5, the hospitals in our area allow certain dogs to be brought in to soothe and comfort patients. Especially in the rehab units. (They would not be in the CCU or other acute care areas.) None of these dogs is a certified service dog. Just mannerly pets.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 12/26/2012 10:29:25 AM (No. 9084069)
Icky-poo.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rakasha, 12/26/2012 10:51:24 AM (No. 9084115)
Let me just say right off the bat that I have no intention of reading this article. I will, however, point out that the headline calls Bo the ´White House dog´, not ´the Obama´s dog´ or ´President Obama´s dog´, but the ´White House dog´. I find that interesting.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Muguy, 12/26/2012 11:00:20 AM (No. 9084138)
Was the dog named "Bo" in honor of his owner?
LBJ used to name everything he could with the moniker intials "LBJ"--Lady Bird Johnson, Lucy Baines Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson... he was a megalomaniac too, so...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Baracks Sox, 12/26/2012 12:17:49 PM (No. 9084318)
I didn´t think Mudslims liked dogs
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
msjena, 12/26/2012 12:22:05 PM (No. 9084331)
If you watch the video, it is actually the little boy on the left who steals the spotlight. He keeps waving at someone off stage--his parents, presumably--and at the audience and reprimands Michelle when she isn´t letting the dog see the book (and can´t "read" it). He is more interested in the dog than the story or the First Lady.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
shepsmum, 12/26/2012 1:06:49 PM (No. 9084429)
Bo wants to sit on her lap and races to get there before the girls. Really? Girls that old want to sit on mommy´s lap? Enough! (and that goes for the girls always holding their parents´ hands. Sure.)
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