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World’s most powerful cat dead at 20.

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FILE--Socks the cat peers over the podium in the White House briefing room in this March 19, 1994 file photo. Socks took questions regarding a proposed bilateral agreement with Canada, and also about whether cats actually ask for meow mix by name.

FILE--Socks the cat peers over the podium in the White House briefing room in this March 19, 1994 file photo. Socks took questions regarding a proposed bilateral agreement with Canada, and also about whether cats actually ask for meow mix by name.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/socks.obit/index.html

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  • The Nazz
    GMT-0500 10:23:49 0902.24 (Tue)

    A cute cat dying is sad period, but two things sorta make me think twice about getting too mournful here:

    (1) the cat lived to be 20 years old. I mean ………… wow.
    (2) apparently the Clintons gave the cat away the moment they vacated the White House. Imo this suggests that Socks was only ever a PR stunt to them and not a genuine member of their family. You wouldn’t give away a cat you had genuinely loved for over 10 years. You would only give it away if you didn’t care for it or couldn’t provide for it. And the Clintons, being who they were, most certainly could afford to provide for it.

    In other words, the cat spent only just barely over half of its like (’89 to very early ’01) with the Clintons and spent roughly the other half (from Jan ’01 to Feb ’09, about eight solid years) with another owner. If anything, the real tragedy to be mourned here is Socks’ being abandoned in 2001, and not his natural passing at the antediluvian age for felines of 20 years. I mean …………………. wow.