Hannity asks Romney about Obama eating dog as a child

“Tell us about your dog and what did you think of the revelation — it went viral today — in the president’s book, he admitted eating dog when he was growing up in Indonesia and grasshoppers,” Hannity asked Romney. “And I didn’t make that up.”

“I — Sean, I’m going to talk about jobs and the economy and getting America working again,” Romney replied. “I’m going to talk about the debt. I’m going to talk about the measures people care about.”

“All of these extraneous stories and attacks… nah,” he added.

But other members of Romney’s team weren’t so shy when it came to attacking Obama for something he did before the age of 10.

“In hindsight, a chilling photo,” Romney strategist Eric Fehrstrom tweeted along with a photo of Obama and his current dog, Bo.

I guess it’s tolerable that Romney didn’t play along, but this seems continuous with his other responses to people saying ugly things: don’t disagree, just avoid.

I can’t see how you can hold a six-year-old responsible for what they eat in a foreign land, and frankly I think this whole idea has legs because it paints Obama as foreign and not-white. It’s way too much like the racist tropes that Asians eat dogs (…and do so indiscriminately so keep your pets locked up.)