白宮寵物秀——第一家族的狗狗!
無論是意志剛強的戰時總統羅斯福，還是零九年焦點人物奧巴馬，美國總統展現給世人的總是威嚴莊重的形象。然而私底下他們也有不爲人知的柔情的一面，白宮種類繁多的寵物就是最好的證明。從聰明的拉布拉多犬到可愛的小貓崽，讓我們來看看白宮的“第一寵物”如何“叱吒風雲”。
When Barack Obama won his bid for the presidency, he promised his daughters that they could choose a puppy. One of the concerns is that Malia Obama has allergies. The family chose a hypoallergenic Portuguese Water Dog with encouragement from Senator Ted Kennedy, who presented the first family with the dog as a gift. The puppy received his current name from president Obama's two daughters, Malia and Sasha, in part after their cousin's cat and Michelle Obama's father's nickname Diddley; the dog is a manesake of deceased singer Bo Diddley.
貝拉克•奧巴馬贏得總統大選後，答應兩個女兒領養一隻小狗。考慮到瑪莉亞•奧巴馬有過敏症，第一家庭選擇了一隻不易引起過敏的葡萄牙水犬，這是參議員泰德•肯尼迪送給第一家庭的禮物。小狗現在的名字是奧巴馬總統的兩個女兒瑪莉亞和薩沙取得，一般取自她們表妹的一隻叫“波”德貓，另一半取自米歇爾•奧巴馬父親的綽號“迪德利”，於是這隻狗便與一位已故的歌手同名，叫做“波•迪德利”。
In June, 2009, the White House released a baseball card for Bo with his new official portrait on one side and tongue-in-cheek statistics on the other; information included the facts that Bo's favorite food is tomatoes and that he does not yet know how to swim.
2009年6月，白宮爲“波”發行了一張棒球卡片，一面是它新拍攝的官方照片，另一面是一些半開玩笑的信息，包括“波”最喜歡的食物是西紅柿，它到目前爲止還沒有學會游泳等。
