Uh Oh...They Bit The Hand

Shasta just told me that the White House people bit the hand that feeds and protects them.  I wasn’t sure what she meant, so I went to ask my human.

“Well Patton it’s like this, the Petulant President has been counting on the main media to help promote his ideas and plans.  He depends on them to smooth over mistakes he makes.  So far this has been working just fine.  But last week that started to change and it got worse today when the news broke about his buddy, Eric Holder, that runs the Department of Justice had wiretapped and gotten two months worth of phone records for phone numbers that belong to the Associated Press and some reporters,” she said.

As I sat and listened, I tilted my head to the left.  When I do that it means I’m a little confused about something.  That’s when Shasta explained the those main media people were like pets to the Petulant President sort of like other people think of me and her as our human’s pets.  (We know that she’s our pet but we let others think she takes care of us.)

“So, the White House people are supposed to be looking out for those media people so the media people will continue to guard them like we guard our human.  Right?” I asked Shasta.

“Right” she said.

OK…I know I’m just a puppy and I still have a lot to learn, but it seems kind of silly for the White House people to do that stuff.  I guess this is what Shasta means when she says that they have no “canine common sense”.  Every dog knows you don’t bite the hand that feeds your or takes care of you. 

I don’t think a time-out is going to fix this.  I don’t think I’d like to be that Eric Holder guy or any of those White House people right now.  I bet those media people have really sharp teeth…know what I mean?

How Not To Be A Blowhard

My human is teaching me all kinds of things.  From history and politics to good behavior and manners, she’s determined to make me a good puppy.  Today I’m learning about a new word.  The word is narcissism and she says the President is a really good example of what it means.  She got this definition off the Webster’s Dictionary website for me:

nar·cis·sism

   [nahr-suh-siz-em]  noun

1.

inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love;vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness,egocentrism.

2.

Psychoanalysis . erotic gratification derived from admirationof one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normalcondition at the infantile level of personality development. 

If you go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/ and check out the biographies on the different President’s, you will see that Obama has put himself into at least 13 of those.  My human says this is the height of arrogance and that it is a perfect example of the word I am learning about today.  She says, “Obama is a blowhard who just can’t see or hear his own name enough.”  I think she might be right.  I’ll show you one of those bio thingys and you will see.

My human says that this is a perfect example of how Obama has to show how great he is.  He hates the last President so he has to show how he ‘one-upped’ him when it comes to doing that “State of the Union” speech thing.  Candi also says that is a stupid thing to do.  That if you have to constantly remind people how great you are…you probably are only great in your own mind.

I don’t think I should ever follow Obama’s example.  It seems that people don’t care for ‘braggarts’ and ‘blowhards’.  I really want people to like me, so I think I’ll learn to be good and just let my actions speak for themselves.  Shasta and Candi says that is exactly how NOT to be a blowhard and make myself look stupid.  And I don’t think I want to look stupid or make people think I have to talk about nothing but myself all the time.  Besides, I can get in trouble all by myself.  I don’t need to put myself into other people’s stuff and make things worse.

Do you think if I sent the definition of the word I’m learning about to Obama today that he would understand and try to do better?  We could learn how not to be blowhards together.  I would help him and he could help me.  Well, we could help each other if Candi would let him into her home.  But she says it’s too late for him and refuses to invite him.  I’m gonna have to learn this lesson on my own I think.  Oh well.  Anyone got a shoe I can chew on?  

Thrown Under The Bus????

I learned something new last night.  My human kept talking about that man in that place called the White House throwing that Rosen woman under the bus.  I didn’t understand what she meant so I thought I’d ask Shasta.

“Patton,” Shasta said, “throwing someone under the bus is what I do to you when something gets broken in the house.  I point my paw at you and Candi thinks you did it and I had nothing to do with it.”

That still doesn’t make any sense, but…ok.  When Candi explained it, she said that “throwing a person under the bus” means that they did or said something stupid and you try to claim that you have nothing or very little to do with that person.

OK…so let me see if I get it.  That Obama person tried to say that the Rosen woman doesn’t talk for him because she doesn’t really talk to him very much.  I think that’s what they were telling me.  Anyway, here is my thing.  Why does that man spend so much time “throwing people under the bus”?  Everytime I see him on that TV thing, he’s always explaining how he doesn’t feel the same way as someone else that is on his side.

Maybe the people throwing other people under the bus need a timeout just like the person who said the stupid thing in the first place.  I’m not sure, but that seems kind of fair to me.