Presidential Christmas Shopping: A Bone & A Bag Of Treats For First Dog Bo

How President Obama spends #40Dollars...
Today's official White House Photo of the Day is an image of President Obama taken on Wednesday afternoon with First Dog Bo, when the duo dropped by a Pet Smart store in Alexandria, VA. The President bought Bo a huge bone, wrapped in a rawhide red ribbon, and a bag of Chew-bacca treats. Total cost: $41 dollars. (Above: surveying the choices)

The White House is currently running a social media campaign, asking Americans what $40 cut from their paychecks means, in an effort to inspire outrage over the US House stonewalling the payroll tax credit.

The President paid with a $50 bill at the checkout counter, where Bo got friendly with a poodle named Cinnamon, a moment also captured by a White House photographer.

"Okay, Bo, don't get too personal here," the President admonished the First Dog.

For the social media campaign, the White House "asked Americans what losing that $40 dollars would mean to them," and soid that "more than 30,000 people across the country submitted responses on WhiteHouse.gov." The campaign is also going on on Twitter, with the hashtag #40Dollars. Here's an infographic the White House created of the responses:






















*Top photo by Pete Souza/White House; second by Chuck Kennedy/White House