This sort of comment makes me wish I had a dog and I was drinking coffee or beer so I could say something like: "Ha! This comment just made me spurt my coffee

This sort of comment makes me wish I had a dog and I was drinking coffee or beer so I could say something like: "Ha! This comment just made me spurt my coffee all over the dog!" You mean to say a politician is on record having made a promise, and you believe them? Because that doesn't seem like an argument anyone would intentionally want to make.