Obama: Seriously guys, Romney hates dogs

MSNBC's Chuck Todd highlights one of the more amusing parts of this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner -- Obama joking about eating dogs.

Why would the president bizarrely poke fun at his past history of feasting on man's best friend?  It's a sad attempt to hit GOP challenger Mitt Romney for his own dogged transgressions.  What's more pathetic?  The "Romney hates dogs" line is an attack the White House has been trying to make stick for a while now:

Don’t overlook the fact that the White House used the opportunity of the White House Correspondents Dinner -- when they knew they’d get lighter coverage for what they did – put a story that they’ve struggled to put into the mainstream, quietly trying to do for months, the Seamus story. It was frankly a way to get Seamus out there. Yes, Obama made fun of himself and eating dog, but they’ll take that to get the Seamus story mainlined; They’ve been trying for months.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the sad state of American politics today.