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If candidates were dogs: Mike Huckabee - Beagle

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Description: Large-eyed and long-eared, with a pure, kindly and sometimes conniving expression best captured in cartoon version by Charlie Brown’s Snoopy.

Beagles have a keen sense of smell, a desire to hunt and track down strange odors and a tendency to bay unceasingly when something seems amiss.

Behavior: Beagles like to please their masters. Training must begin early or the beagle can get out of hand and indulge in its favorite habits -- overeating and making a mess. They are also excellent escapologists and will attempt to dig their way out of any jam.

This breed, for all its apparent innocence, can be stubborn, hard to housebreak and bark to an annoying degree. Yet they are gentle and good natured and get along well with other dogs. Even inside, beagles are prone to cruising around the house with their noses down, sniffing away as they make an olfactory map of the territory, then checking the area periodically to make sure everything is as it should be.

Tendency to bark: High

Level of aggression: Low

Suitability as guard dog: Medium

(Candidate photo by AP; sketch by Susan Donley, petspictured.com; breed photo by Chicago Tribune)

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I HAVE SERVED MY COUNTRY FOR OVER (13) YEARS IN THE MILITARY. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO WATCH (1) VIDEO FOR ME. (THIS IS NOT A R. PAUL VIDEO)

THIS VIDEO HELPS MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN ROMNEY, MCCAIN AND HUCKABEE.

I SERVED YOU AND MY COUNTRY, WILL YOU TAKE JUST 1 MINUTE TO HEAR ME?

HERE IS MY QUICK VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnU3G-HCf9w

SEMPER FI
Dan Campbell

Well, when I want to talk about politics, I go to the politics blog--unless the discussion involves Baltimore City and dogs. :-)

Mr. Huckabee isn't my candidate, but I have to admit I'm partial to Beagles. One president--LBJ--had Beagles at the White House. They were called Him and Her. There was quite a bit of controversy over LBJ's habit of lifting them up by their ears. I don't know why they didn't bite him for that, but they put up with it patiently. It did cause a sort of Beagle-gate, and so many people spoke out against the practice that I believe LBJ finally stopped doing it, or at least he stopped doing it for the cameras.

Despite that regrettable history, the Beagle in this house is a Democrat--at least he is if he knows what's good for him...

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John Woestendiek has been a features reporter at The Sun for six years. Previously he worked as a reporter, columnist, national correspondent and editor at four other newspapers, and received a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1987 for his reporting on prisons and mental institutions for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Woestendiek lives in South Baltimore with his dog, Ace.
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