With the second presidential debate airing last night — and Sarah Palin still being compared to a pit bull — we were thinking: If John McCain and Barack Obama were dogs, what dogs would they be? So we scoured our dog breed directory to look for canines with characteristics that …

Vice president-elect Joe Biden made news (and caused a lot of controversy) when he bought a German shepherd puppy from a breeder recently. But this weekend he said on This Week With George Stephanopoulous that he plans to get another dog — and this one will come from a shelter. …