We can’t guarantee that the Obama family will take the slightest bit of notice, but we’ll find a way of sending your suggestions to the Transition Offices of the Obama administration.
This will, after all, be one of the key decisions of the first 100 days of the Obama presidency: what to call the puppy Barack has promised to buy for his children.
Give it your best shot. Tell us your suggested name and preferred breed. Send entries to boss@crikey.com.au. Put “dogname” in the subject field.
FirstDogOnTheMoon will draw a little something for the name he likes best. One FirstDog to another.
We’ll announce the winner this time next week.
Or ‘Rex’ – because he’s certainly not the President
Well it has to be a border collie, because they are highly intelligent, neatly black and white, and detirminedly round up stragglers and persuades them to go in the right direction without frightening them. So what would be a good name for a border collie, Shep, Cobber or Bonnie.
The best border collie I have had was called Peppa, she was not only good with sheep but would tell me that the chooks had got into the garden, that a snake had moved into the rockery, that a fox was lurking in the creek of the lambing paddock and would guide me to a lamb had been abandoned by its mother. A dog like Peppa would be a great help to President Obama, she could warn him of threats from those close to him, from known protagonists, from opportunists who would take advantage and guide him to help the vulnerable who have in need of help to reach their full potential.
Checkers, because that was Nixon’s dog and it never did make it to the white house. It died after he lost his first tilt at the Presidency
‘Aloha” – to remind Obama of where he grew up, and because puppies are the world’s greatest ‘greet and meet’-ers.
It should be called Guantanamo – to remind it not to misbehave.