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Viewpoint: Dog days ahead for the Obamas

In case you hadn't heard, Barack Obama's daughters are getting a dog. They were promised one after the election regardless of the outcome, and as the president-elect noted at his first news conference, the subject is generating "more interest on our Web site than just about anything." He said this in the same somber tone with which he also discussed Cabinet appointments and Iranian nuclear proliferation, referring to "criteria that need to be reconciled" (the need for a hypoallergenic dog and a preference for a shelter dog) and calling it "a pressing issue in the Obama household."

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