King Pup's NYC Blog Dog

So far it’s all been pretty civil on the Republican front. The election of controversial hope-and-changeist Barack Obama inspired a noble concession speech from John McCain, countless messages of good will from the right-of-center blogosphere - and an encouraging address from George W. Bush, who is thrilled at the prospect of the first African American President of the United States of America moving into the White House.

Only nobody thought to ask Barney, President Bush’s reticent Scottish Terrier, what he thought about the end of his White House stay - that is until Reuters political reporter Jon Decker extended an inquiring hand. And like any self respecting dog who’d just been told he had but a few weeks left in the velvet lined Presidential Dog Basket - his answer was a resounding “fangs for nothing.”

Barney raised the ceiling 8 years ago by becoming the first Scottish Terrier to crouch on the White House lawn. Since then he’s laid countless eggs on the premises - and I’ve no doubt Dick Cheney has stepped in a few.

My advice to Barney would be: trash the place before you leave. Do a bang-up job like Clinton’s staff did in 2001. I hear they cut telephone cables, drew obscene pictures on the walls with crayons and slashed the drapes with scissors.

But I bet they didn’t poop on the Presidential Chair.

Go for it, Barney. We’ll be ashamed of you if you don’t.

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