The dog - good choice IMO

[fadedrose]

I don't know...I think that if a good friend, and Sen. Kennedy is certainly that...one of the first to endorse the President...offers you something out of affection...and there's nothing to gain for Sen. Kennedy by offering the dog..no quid pro whatever...he knows he hasn't got long....it would have been a great mistake and no higher form of rudeness or unkindness for President Obama to decline the gift dog - - so that he could make a "good" impression on the public . . . and get a dog from the shelter. Kennedy would have been broken-hearted.

I hope that they all love the dog and the dog loves them - what a perfect legacy for Kennedy to leave his friend...

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. It looks like a good dog.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5iuK4RrdQYakZgAF3_iK0WphHFmPwD97HSRD01?index=2

[fadedrose]

2. Gorgeous puppy!

Wish Sen. Kennedy liked me enough to get me one of those...

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. Hehe, yeah, sign me up too! I'll take one! :) nt

[ailsagirl]

4. Now there's going to be a run on that type of dog...

After that Disney movie "101 Dalmatians," people rushed out at their children's
behest and bought Dalmations. Then, when people discovered that Dalmations are not
particularly good companion dogs (unless you're a firefighter?), thousands of those
dogs were abandoned or dumped at the local pound. Very tragic.

"What happened after '101 Dalmatians' is going to happen again," said Stephanie Shain,
director of outreach for The Humane Society of the United States. "You're going to have
moviegoers see the movie, see these adorable puppies, and go run out and buy one."

Hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of those cases of movie-inspired "puppy love" ended
with the abandonment or death of a Dalmatian.

The cute spotted puppies people bought as Christmas presents in 1996 grew quickly into
rambunctious, 60-pound dogs that many new owners found destructive, temperamental
and even dangerous to children."

:(

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/27/dalmations/index.html