Presidential Election Going to the Dogs?

Columnist Kathleen Parker says it is.  All the hoopla about Romney's dog and Obama eating dog meat.  http://lubbockonline.com/editorial-columnists/2012-04-24/parker-dogs-drive-presidential-race-issues-yield-absurdity#comment-220652

I have a cat of a breed that was raised for meat and fur over in France.   When times get hard and you can't get beef or pork at an affordable price, it's good to have some kind of meat on the table.   And I guess cat is better than rat.   Best to let the cats dine on the rats then you can have yore pic of rat-fattened cats.

Same with dogs of course.  We turn up our noses at eating dog, and prefer to gas hordes of dogs at "animal shelters."    Maybe if we ate our surplus dogs, we'd have better appreciation of life.  Is mass killing followed by disposal into mass graves all that much more "humane" than eating them?

Anyway.  Back to politics.

Parker is too young to remember, but a lot was made of it when LBJ pulled the ears of his dogs because, he said, he liked to hear them howl.    And anyone who is spotted mistreating his dog will not be elected president.  Don't be so sure this side of a candidate's character is all that irrelevant. 

If Romney's dog survived the experience of being hosed down with water and dried off on top of the car in a 55 mph wind that could give the pooch hypothermia, all that means to me is that Romney doesn't have much sense -- not that he is a deliberate pet-abuser.
   
One reason why this event was latched onto by Romneyphobes is because Romney is such a mystery.  
Do you know what it is that Romney actually works at?   I don't.   Romney had an office at Bain Capital, but, we are assured, was not in charge of lay-offs at companies that were being scavenged by Bain.   So what did he do? 

Romney could have invited the press into his office, shown them the papers lying on  his desk and gone over a typical workday in the life of Mitt Romney.  "I look at these print-outs to decide if a company is undervalued as to underlying assets so as to give us a good profit by buying the company and selling off those assets."  But no.   No details, no explanation.   Why?? 
 
What does the man do?  What are his skills?  What are his interests, other than running for office and being a Mormon?

Romney claimed he was an expert in economics.  What does that mean?   What area of economics?  Academically, he has a JD/MBA from Harvard, and seems to be more qualified in management than economics.   But we are not told exactly what he did at Bain Capital.