Obama would never put a dog on top of a car. Dries out the meat.

This meme of Obamaloot bites dog is becoming a trend, at least among conservative and libertarian bloggers. It is funny, I think, though it always reminds me of my little tour in the Southeast Asian War Games in 1969.

American military advisors (as I was to the South Vietnamese light-infantry militia) had to spend at least one day a month (sometimes weekly) having lunch or supper with a hamlet or village chief—who invariably served us dog or cat meat. They would have preferred monkey, and some actually apologized for not having any monkey meat to serve, but dog and cat was the rule.

I knowingly ate dog and cat and probably unknowingly ate rat, since fat rats were ubiquitous in the villages and hamlets (even in the rice paddies) and dogs and cats, even skinny ones, were seldom seen. At least in the countryside southwest of Da Nang, where I was. But no one ever admitted to serving rat and so I can’t be sure.

And, no, dog and cat meat does not taste like chicken.

Via Treacher.