One of the campaign promises Obama made was to adopt a dog right after the election.
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos President-elect Barack Obama confirmed that the family did narrow their search for a First Dog and that it will definitely be coming from a shelter.Michelle Obama announced on Entertainment Tonight that Her family was indeed planning to “adopt a rescue dog,” So what did he do? They accepted a pure bred Portuguese water dog that came from some high end breeder. In fact over the past five generations, 29 out of 30 of the first dog’s relatives have succeeded in becoming American show champions.
Thank you president Obama. You Lied dogs died!

The blood of thousands of shelter dogs are on your hands. You promised to rescue a shelter dog. You had a chance to set an example that thousands would have followed.
Every year over Two million shelter dogs are euthanized because they can not be placed in homes.
How many people would have rushed to the nearest shelter to rescue some of these Two million pets with a death sentence hanging over them?

Let’s look at a few examples of the first family influance.
When Michelle Obama wore $500 sneakers to feed the homeless sales skyrocketed on those sneakers. A quick check of Bluefly.com shows only two pairs left. The cardigan Sweaters the kids wore quickly sold out at J crew. The kennel club has seen over a 100% increase in inquiries about Portuguese water dogs. Prices for Portuguese Water dogs have sky rocketed up to 3000 dollars or sometimes even more for pups. Puppy mills are churning them out as fast as they can and reaping big profits.
The lie gets worse. He tried to spin it to make it look like it was a rescue saying that a family returned the dog to the breeder. It turns out this is a flat out lie the dog was meant to be kept by the breeders as a breeding dog but they could not resist the idea of the president owning one of there dogs.
It gets even worse! The vice president also promised to rescue a dog and instead he bought a Dog from a Puppy Mill that had just been cited for multiple violations including: unsatisfactory ventilation, inadequate maintenance and sanitation, and missing sale and vaccination records.

When he caught heat for not rescuing a dog he promised to get another one and it would be a rescue. Of course that has not happened.
President Obama if you had just done like you promised not only would thousands of Kool aid drinkers marched like robots to the nearest shelter and saved the life of thousands of doomed pets but the whole issue of rescuing from shelters would have been raised to a national level and thousands no tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of free thinking Americans would have done the right thing and brought these unwanted pets into there lives and would have received in return grateful and loving companions.
How simple it would have been to just to do the right and moral thing. You had unlimited resources to rescue any dog from any shelter in the country Obama and Biden not only are you both outright liars and typical slime bag politicians. But I hold you directly responsible for the death of thousands of dogs.
You pretend to be these big progressive liberals protecting the Poor and under privileged masses, spreading the wealth and all of that. You are just big phonies and care for nothing but power, your own personal agendas and your own selfishness.
You lied dogs died

I agree with you 100%

I’m equally outraged by the comments I’ve seen on other blogs from people who claim to be animal rights advocates but who think this “isn’t a big deal” or who say we should give Obama a break! WTF!?!

If you are for animal rights, you can’t possibly be okay with someone purchasing an animal, or excepting one as a gift from someone who purchased the animal. It is a violation of animal rights to breed them as products. It is a violation of animal rights to tear families apart. I don’t care if Obama can provide a “good” home for the dog. The dog belongs with his own family, just like human children belong with their families. Adopt an orphan – great! Adopt a shelter dog – great!

Tear a family apart by purchasing another sentient being – shame on you slave master!