Hey Arizona WTF?

[Egnever]

So I just got back from a trip to Arizona. Let me say Sedona is lovely.

Having said that I had something happen while there that has never happened to me any place else I have ever visited before.

The first time it happened I wrote it off as an aberration. The second time in three days I started thinking WTF is going on out here.

We took our dog with us on vacation as we often do and while walking down the street in Sedona a man walks up to my wife who is walking the dog and says "cute dog I bet he is smarter than Obama"....

The second time it happened was outside of flagstaff at an in and out. Almost identical to the first a guy walks up to my wife who is again holding the dog and says that dog looks smarter than Obama.

What's up Arizona? Is there a local add or something running comparing Obama to dogs?

It seemed such a bizarre thing to walk up to a stranger and say out of the blue I wrote the first instance off as a nutjob ,when it happened again in the space of two days I started wondering if I there is something going on out there I am unaware of.

Was I just lucky enough to run across two morons with the same mindset of is this some sort of inside joke in AZ?

[Kali]

1. seems to be some teaparty crap

https://www.google.com/search?q=dog+looks+smarter+than+Obama&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

although I live amongst some of that bunch, I haven't heard of this being said to random people walking dogs ever before

[Egnever]

5. I figured it must be some sort of Meme for it to happen two times in a row.

Was just the strangest thing. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what would make someone walk up to a stranger and say such a thing.

[RKP5637]

2. It's weird. I wrote off Arizona a long time ago as a place never to be near. n/t

[MBS]

3. My sympathy.

Having once lived there, I can all too easily imagine the kind of person you ran into, alas.. but what is depressing to me is that you found them in Sedona and Flagstaff, which I would have thought would attract fewer of these kinds of folks than elsewhere in the state.

[KarenS]

4. Were they wearing their confederate flag Tshirts and carrying weapons too??

Seriously, we have lots of the Libertarian Crazy types here.

Hope you enjoyed the rest of your trip, tho.

[Egnever]

6. Haha nope no flags or weapons

Was just very strange.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. What breed of dog were you walking???

[Egnever]

13. She is a pound puppy no idea what breed she is

some sort of terrier mix.

Here she is in her typical traveling spot.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Does she have a bushy tail?

Cause I see Golden Retriever-ish head

[Malraiders]

7. Cafepress.com is promoting mugs and bumperstickers with

that expression. But Cons have never beenseen as being long in the logic department.

They also offer a 'Mutts for Mitt' sticker. Not sure why since Mitt is the one that abused his dog.

Sore losers.

edit for the site:

http://www.cafepress.com/+my-dog-is-smarter-than-obama+bumper-stickers

[LiberalElite]

16. Mutts would never be for Mitt. Morons eom

[azmom]

8. Welcome to Arizona

[oasis]

11. Gov. Jan Brewer, sheriff Arpiao. Both AZ Hall of Famers.

[phantom power]

9. No, it's not anything special to AZ. But we have no shortage of tea-billies.

[beevul]

10. "We took our dog with us on vacation as we often do..."

No dog pics?

[Zorra]

15. Sedona has a lot of wealthy new agey libertarians. Flagstaff is actually

pretty liberal, but there's some repubs and teabaggers around somewhere wherever you go in AZ, except for on rez.

Can't say I've ever heard of anyone saying somebody's dog looks like Obama though.