Presidential Candidates: Friends or Foes of the Animals?
Aren’t presidential election years fun? The name calling. The semi-legitimate debating taking up precious reality TV time. The need for every Joe on the corner to call into question your moral stances, while proclaiming why his - and his candidate’s - are better.
And, most of all, being forced to narrow your choices for nation ruler and decision maker down to one person, when you likely only agree with him (or her!) on 50-60 percent of the issues.
Doug, a vegetarian who writes about current events, found a good online quiz that ranks your views and opinions in comparison with the candidates. It is one of the best of it’s kind that I have seen, though it still doesn’t include animal rights. It had me pegged as a liberal-leaning populist, agreeing most with Barack Obama and second with John McCain (though no more than 50 percent with either).
I can guess Mr. Mike Huckabee’s feelings towards animals and their rights - this picture here is of him taking a hunting breaking in Iowa while on the campaign trail.
From there, the National Shooting Sports Foundation was kind enough to lay out each candidate’s belief on hunting (though I’m sure that I am not their intended audience).
* Huckabee: “I’m a hunter, I have been my whole life.”
* Mitt Romney: Even though his statement was later deemed not 100 percent true, he did at one point say, “I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.”
Other animal rights issues, etc.:
* Romney: During a 1983 family vacation, reportedly strapped the pet dog to the roof of the car - because he was upset - for the entire 12-hour drive.
* Obama: He has sponsored pro-horse-life bills, and has promised to be a president for the animals as well as the people.
That’s all that I see so far. If you know anything else - let us know! Leave a comment, or e-mail LivingWithoutMeat at Gmail dot com.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Not that I knew anything about Obama’s statement about being president for the animals as well as the people, and not even that would have probably swayed my vote, it’s just one more reason that I feel proud about checking his box today! And the Romney thing???????? That is appalling. Then again, mannequin’s don’t really have brains, so who can really blame him.