The Obama Dog Blog

Socks Joins Obama's Transition Team

Gawker reports:

We have good news and bad news from the Obama transition team. The cutest Clintonite of all is on board, but perhaps not for long.

Socks the Cat, the most adorable White House pet since Hoover's German Shepard, was kicked to the curb after the Clintons left the White House. He was foisted on poor Betty Currie, Clinton's secretary.

Now, here is the good news: Socks is back in political favor! Obama's transition co-chairman is John Podesta, and Podesta just hired Currie to be his secretary!

But here is the bad news: Socks has cancer. He's 19! That is very old, for a cat. At least he outlived his mortal enemy, Buddy the Dog.

Painting by lapata.

Chinese Communist Obama Cat Humor

No, Barack Obama is not a Communist.  This is the latest viral cartoon tearing up the Internets in China...

Translation/explanation from Jeffrey Wasserstrom via his blog The China Beat...

"It was a perhaps predictable play on Deng Xiaoping’s famous line, which has been riffed and mocked and modified in so many ways before, that it is foolish to be too ideologically dogmatic, for when it comes to catching mice, it doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, just whether it gets the job done. The Chinese characters that showed up on my phone said, in essence: 'It used to be that in the electoral process, the American people would only choose white presidents, never black ones. But then after the American people studied Deng Xiaoping Theory, they realized that it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, a cat that can solve a crisis is a good cat.'"