The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
He Walked Home
“Tennessee Baseball Player Breaks Own Car Windshield With Game-Winning Homer”–headline, Yahoo! Sports, April 25
Obama Ate What?
“David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama’s reelection campaign, said Wednesday it is ‘silly’ to bring something Obama did as a child into the current political debate,” the Hill reports:
“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 foods–including dog meat, snake meat and roasted grasshopper–he ate as a child in Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the New York Times’s Gail Collins, back from an extended leave, reflects on the Republican nomination contest:
Did you ever notice how many of the Republican candidates seemed to have animal issues? Rick Perry shot that coyote, and Jon Huntsman got bitten by a goat–really, that was the high point of the Huntsman campaign. Also, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, the veep front-runner, recently imitated a chicken on television. You will be hearing more about this incident because I think I speak for the entire national media when I say that we are planning to discuss possible Republican vice presidential candidates nonstop through the spring and summer.
And the winner is the guy who drove to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car!
That’s nothing. The Democratic nominee ATE A DOG.
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