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How Hill and Bill Treated Their White House Pets

Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 06:13:10 PM PDT

Surprise, surprise. From veterinary sources in 2002:
"The Clintons were not the animal lovers they appeared to be in those family photo ops...."
The powerful "first couple didn't allow Buddy or first cat Socks in the White House residence."

Surprise, surprise.
Barack Obama is a better person than I am.
I think ill of people who fake caring, who use pets as props.

Socks, famous for his postumous and Internet-erased interview "Hillary Left Me For Dead," was stored "down in the basement."

About like caucus voters, eh.
When you ain't of use to these people, its down to the basement fer ye....

Socks and the Clintons in his own words.

And do watch for the pro-Hill and pro-Hill sock puppets to trundle in, faking disgust at trivial background material.
Fact is that Mrs. Clinton described these pets living with the family. Did that hundreds of times. Wrote a book saying so. And it ain't true.

Echoing the original items:

The Clintons were not the animal lovers they appeared to be in those family photo ops walking with first dog Buddy on the South Lawn, a former White House veterinarian says. Turns out the former first couple didn't allow Buddy or first cat Socks in the White House residence, according to the Army vet.

They even kept Socks "down in the basement," he said, before palming him off on secretary Betty Currie as they left the White House last year.
"They didn't care about those animals," the vet told WorldNetDaily. "It was all for public consumption. It was show."
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The Bushes live with their pets in the White House residence.

There's a place for animals.

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