And yet he had no problem hitting Romney for a story that happened 29 years ago.
How loving owners transport their dogs.bit.ly/xGeJuZ
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) January 30, 2012
(The Hill) — David Axelrod, a top advisor to President Obama’s re-election campaign, said Wednesday it is “silly” to bring something Obama did as a child into the current political debate.
“I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what the president had done as a 10 year old boy,” he told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Axelrod was referring to recent criticism prompted by a description from Obama’s 2007 memoir “Dreams of My Father” of the various food — including dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper — he ate as a child in Indonesia.
The fact that Obama once ate dog quickly became a subject of both mirth and insult, especially on Twitter, where another campaign-related “dog war” has taken place over the 1983 story of the Romney family driving cross-country with their dog in a carrier tied to the roof of the car.
“What are we going to do, go back to kindergarten and before that and that’s going to be part of this debate? It’s silly,” Axelrod said.
Axelrod has taken a shot at Romney over the dog story in the past, drawing a contrast between Obama and other pet owners by tweeting a photo of Obama with Bo riding inside the car.