As the author of a book on adoption and puppy mills that featured Obama with a 3-legged puppy mill survivor (A Rare Breed of Love), and having received his pledge that he would support the mission of the book – adoption as a way to end puppy mills – I was beyond devastated when he broke that pledge by not adopting a shelter dog. The illogical spin about taking a gift of a dog from Kennedy because they needed a hypoallergenic dog for their daughter was just that – illogical. He and his camp were shown months in advance that there are thousands of hypoallergenic homeless dogs available for adoption – and Baby, the rescued dog he posed with in my book is hypoallergenic! I and many animal rescue groups sent them pics and profiles of healthy, adorable hypoallergenic homeless dogs of every kind imaginable. Yet the Obama camp couldn’t have cared less. I hope someone lets him know that he also disappointed many school children across the nation, who I spoke to while on our book tour, showing them the beautiful picture of the Democratic nominee with a rescue dog, telling those kids of the public pledge he and his wife made to adopt. Oh, but that was while he was running for president. Silly kids. Don’t they know that campaign promises made by men and women who will say anything to get elected are meaningless and manipulative? Mr. Obama squandered the chance to set a humane example which could have emptied out the shelters in a year, closed puppy mills and saved taxpayers billions of dollars – the tax bill for killing millions of homeless pets each year. As for his Nobel Peace Prize, until one fully embraces the notion of peace toward all living beings, so eloquently stated and embodied by men like Gandhi and Schweitzer, such a person hasn’t earned that honor. As for the arrogant and ignorant ass who thinks we ought to “dial back the compassion society has toward animals,” using examples of human needs that should trump those of animals, let me remind Mr. Gross (a fitting name if ever there was one) that dogs can save your life by detecting cancerous tumors, by warning diabetics of oncoming insulin shock, and epileptics of oncoming seizures. They can fly without the use of an engine! Their sense of smell, sight, hearing and countless other sensory feats range from predicting earthquakes to doing complicated tasks that allow disabled people to live independently, to saving your children and you from dying in a house fire, and yet morons like Gross love to claim human superiority. The endless list of miraculous feats performed by non-human animals will hopefully be a reality check for this Gross man and others like him whose human arrogance is undeserved and one of the chief reasons the earth is in peril. Yes, we can do things they can’t, like perform surgery, but they can do things we can’t, like detect the cancerous tumor being removed by that surgeon. Non-human animals deserve our protection, respect and appreciation. And to Mr. Obama, here are the words of the kind of men who deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, those whose definition and understanding of peace is truly complete: “The greatness of a nation and its’ moral progress can be judged by the way its’ animals are treated” (Gandhi) …. “Until man extends his circle of compassion to all living beings, man himself will never find peace.” (Dr. Albert Schweitzer). Millions were duped by Obama, myself included, who thought he was the real deal. He’s as phony as they come. He talks of empathy but obviously that doesn’t include the most voiceless and powerless among us, those who give us so much and yet receive such abuse in return. One needs only to watch the evening news, or to see the inside of a puppy mill, a slaughter house or a veal farm to know that humans are the most evil, depraved, cruel, destructive, and deranged animals on earth.
