Romney Says Election Isn’t About Dogs, It’s About Jobs

On Wednesday, Mitt Romney responded for the first time to the controversy swirling over reports that President Obama ate dog meat while he was a child in Indonesia, saying that the general election will be about “jobs not dogs,” in an interview with Bill Cunningham on WLW radio in Ohio, ABC News’ Emily Friedman reports.

“This campaign is ultimately going to become about jobs not dogs,” Romney opined. “You recognize of course that some members of the media, and certainly the DNC and the White house itself are going to do everything in their power to divert the attention of the voter from the failure of the president to try to turn around the economy.”

The Daily Caller’s Jim Treacher uncovered the inflammatory revelation in a long unseen passage in President Obama’s bestseller Dreams From my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance:

With Lolo [Soetoro], I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

(h/t ABC News)

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