President Barack Obama recently chimed in on the topic of Michael Vick, but President Obama did not think Michael Vick has yet played well enough to warrant a Presidential Pardon of his remaining Probation that will last until November 2012.  Like President Bush, President Obama seems to like to pander without putting any substance behind his words.

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President Bush might be one of the few people in the country that actually has benefited from the Michael Vick scandal.  If it had not been for the Michael Vick controversy, President Bush would have been the target of even more bad press and outrage back when the surge was not going so well and when Alberto Gonzalez could still not find his memory.

Now, I’m not trying to suggest that Michael Vick tortured and killed dogs in order to help the President’s approval rating.  In fact I would agree with the sentiment that Michael Vick and President Bush are cut from the same mold in many ways.  However, as much as I dislike President Bush I suspect that he takes his dog responsibilities a little more seriously than Michael Vick did.

He may be a screwed up President, but I do not think that Bush tortures dogs, he seems to save that for prisoners of war, terror suspects and people randomly picked up off the street.  President Bush in a weird inverse way probably is more prone to cute boxers and less likely to torture animals than people . . . as long as those animals do not start threatening the United States or present themselves as an opportunity for political gain.