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Socks the Cat is dead!
« on: February 22, 2009, 07:16:45 am »
First Vince Foster, then Buddy the dog, now Socks.  Will suspicious deaths ever stop haunting the Clintons?

Oh, wait.  He was 20?

Nevermind.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2009, 03:44:49 pm »
The scandal here is not his death. The scandal is that they gave the cat away to their secretary. If you want to make a scandal out of something, anyway.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2009, 11:33:55 pm »
It's... not like they abandoned it in the streets or nothing... or put it in an unethical kill-shelter.

They gave the kitty to someone who wanted it and someone that it seems like they trusted, yeah?

I dunno. When you travel as much as the Clintons do and "live" out of apartments (luxury apartments but still...) in two or three cities, it's gotta make it really difficult to care for pets in ways that don't just accidentally torture them with the constant travel and the small spaces and the total lack of routine. Pet-type animals need a lot of routine to not go crazy, yeah?

I'd say that'd be better life for a cat than basically living out of an airline kitty-carrier between Manhattan and Washington and all-points-everywhere.

Or being abandoned alone in an apartment in NYC basically only kept for legal reasons and twice a week an embittered assistant cleans the litter box and drops off food.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2009, 12:18:38 am »
Nice try, LFM, but they kept the dog, which is a lot more trouble to take care of.

Not that I really care, it's just that it seems silly that such a big deal is made out of Socks being the Clintons' cat when for most of his life he wasn't. But I guess once you are in the White House, that is likely the biggest job of your life and so you are always referred to as former White House staff.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2009, 12:29:41 am »
Fair enough.

All I'm saying is... Socks seems to have had a long and comfortable life as lives for housecats go, even if he kind of was a "show" pet in the White House that the family never bonded with enough to keep after Bill termed out. Sure, it's a little regrettable that the cat got given away but... that happens to a lot of pets, one of my dad's favourite cats ever was given to him because someone was moving into a no-pet situation.

It lived long and prospered and to attach fully-human senses of betrayal to the fact that it had multiple owners in its life is a bit much.

Pets are certainly more aware and conscious than a lot of people give them credit for but to assign the full value systems of human thinking to them... again, a bit much.

Good kitty. May there be an afterlife and may God have a really bitchin' laser pointer for you to chase.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2009, 01:40:54 am »
The Clinton's daughter adopted that cat right around the time Bill became governor of Arkansas.  Didn't she go to college right around the time they left office?  It would make sense that it was her cat and Bill and Hilary didn't like it as much and could give it a better home without them, no?
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2009, 02:24:08 am »
I'm just jealous. I have a cat I can't stand and I don't have a secretary to give it to.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2009, 02:46:54 am »
If I wasn't living with four dogs now, two of whom are large and evil and would eat a cat in minute, I'd like a cat.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2009, 03:23:45 am »
You wouldn't like THIS cat. Trust me.

Edit: Wait a minute? Cat-eating dogs, you say?
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2009, 04:20:15 am »
I need one of those cat eating dogs for this shithead.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2009, 07:11:01 am »
DAMNIT USA STOP TALKING ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL PETS AND GO BACK TO BEING  A PROPER WORLD POWER.
You're as bad as poms with the bloody monarchy.

That was mainly at the article, not at you guys.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2009, 02:47:34 pm »
Paul, have you had your cat looked at for a urinary tract infection and/or have you cleaned up the urine with Nature's Miracle?
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2009, 09:00:05 pm »
See this is the thing that needs to be emphasized.  THIS IS NOT MY CAT!  It's a cat that somehow has the belief that he owns my house.
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2009, 09:07:32 pm »
Sure, but how is that really different from other cats?
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Re: Socks the Cat is dead!
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2009, 04:54:40 pm »
Quote from: Doc on February 23, 2009, 07:11:01 am
DAMNIT USA STOP TALKING ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL PETS AND GO BACK TO BEING  A PROPER WORLD POWER.
You're as bad as poms with the bloody monarchy.

That was mainly at the article, not at you guys.

Sorry, man. We just can't keep our priorities straight.
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