Mostly for Show

Do you think Barack Hussein Obama who dined on dogs in his youth in Indonesia really loves the First Family's new Portuguese water dog or is this one more "bread and circus" prop? With millions of dogs a year destroyed by animal control, would it not have been a much better choice to have adopted a dog from a kill pound? After all, every US President "pardons" a turkey for show each Thanksgiving, but none so far have set an example by rescuing an animal from certain death in the so-called "shelters" that do not really shelter strays that come into their custody.