A Daily Kos blogger has an amusing, albeit apparently fake, headline on a post from Monday: "Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's dog, Otis, comes out publicly against forced high-speed canine car roof incarceration." You can see a cute photo here -- also, apparently, not from the Massachusetts Senate candidate's website.
Too bad Warren (and Otis) didn't actually do this. For it shows a weakness of the Democratic candidate thus far: She is not quick enough to the draw ... and her opponent, Republican Sen. Scott Brown, is a master of aggressive tactics.
In life, you have to seize opportunities when they arise, or someone else will get to them. Let me give you an example from my Westie Rescue days. Whenever my benevolent human caretakers would place my food dish on the floor, a malevolent fellow Westie named Zoe would beat me to it.
So has it proven for Warren. Both she and Sen. Brown are dog owners ... or, as I would prefer to call them, "human companions." Yet of the two candidates, only Brown has created a "Dog Blog" about his pets, Koda and Snuggles. Brown's public unveiling of his dogs is more impressive, I must admit, given the fact that Snuggles, a 15-year-old Shih Tzu, is camera-shy. (Watch his body English in the video.) Meanwhile, Warren's dog Otis is obviously anything but camera-shy. Look at him here, having fun at Fresh Pond, Cambridge! Yet Warren has no "Dog Blog" equivalent that I can find ... much less a woof-out by Otis against driving with your dog on top of your car.
Warren needs to show more initiative -- not only on the dog front, but also with her campaign in general. Brown is going after her resume like Zoe with my doggie dinner plate. Brown criticized Warren's interest-free, 20-year loan from Harvard in 1996 ... and wanted to know if she used her Native American background to advance her career. This second claim seems to have opened up some embarrassment for her, as one of her ancestors may have actually been a member of the Tennessee militia rounding up Cherokees on the 19th-century "Trail of Tears." And yet Brown continues to get a free pass for one way he advanced his own career: by posing for Cosmo, wearing as many clothes as I do.
Elizabeth, it is time to start playing some offense instead of going into continual catch-up mode. Otherwise, you will find the same thing happened to your opportunities that befell my vittles after Zoe got to them first: They're gone, baby, gone.
Daisy is a 9-year-old West Highland white terrier living in Cambridge, Mass. Her column runs regularly.
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