#998 OMG PWD

The Obama’s have recently finally selected the first dog. First dog for the family and First Dog of the nation. And I have no doubt the more rabid of the right wing attack dogs will be bemoaning the fact that it’s a foreigner. A Portuguese breed to be exact.
The Portuguese Water Dog.
Portugal was the country from which came that first euro-discoverer of America. From Native Americans’ point of view, our very first illegal immigrant, Columbus.
As the phrase Portuguese Water Dog is long and the word Portuguese hard to spell, we can expect the media to rapidly decide on the designation PWD. And how tailor-made for the tweeting constituency that put Obama into the presidency.
PWD is a text abbreviation waiting to happen. “OMG did u c the P’s PWD? He was so cute I had to LOL!” And then they’ll end with the secret code initials they use that mean We’re Totally French.
The plot continues to thicken for us conspiracy theorists. First the Prez lowered taxes for 95% of Americans and triggered a teabagging tax revolt. Now he’s got a foreign dog.
With a rainbow lei around his neck no less. And we all know what rainbows stand for. Another secret code. Soon he’ll be arranging a white house marriage with another PWD and they’ll be playing AC/DC at the wedding, if you know what I mean.
From water-boarding to water dogs, how the administrations have changed. Still, it is cool to have a new text designation to add to the text lexicon. Or should I say text-icon?
And the fact that the dog is both sweet and tweetable will endear him to the hearts of millions. All in all, a clever public relations gambit from the best public relations president in a long time.
But he did seem to take a long time to pick the dog. Another example of the careful deliberative decision making that infuriates his critics. Although I read somewhere that they picked it a while back and it was being trained for a while before the Obama’s actually got it.
Being groomed for office, as it were...
America, ya gotta love it.