Promise Kept: A puppy for Sasha and Malia

It may not be as momentous as his promises to

 

end the Iraq war

 

or

 

cut taxes for 95 percent of American families

 

, but President Barack Obama’s pledge to buy his daughters a puppy has spawned intrigue (the dog’s identity was disclosed by

 

a mysterious Web site

 

), lobbying (a Washington Labradoodle owner launched

 

“Labradoodles for Obama”

 

) and controversy (a PolitiFact reader wrote us recently to consider this a broken promise because, two months into his presidency, Obama still hadn’t delivered the dog).

But Obama has fulfilled the promise. The White House announced Sunday that the Obamas are adopting Bo, a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog.

The dog is a gift from Sen. Ted Kennedy, a Portie owner, which means that Bo comes, in the words of Howard Dean, from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. According to exhaustive reporting by the

Washington Post

, we also know

 

details of the dog’s conception

, such as the fact that the kennel owner sipped a Budweiser while Bo’s parents mated. 

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