Posted on 11/25/2009 12:05:55 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON -- After 10 months in office, President Barack Obama granted his first pardon Wednesday to "Courage," a 45-pound turkey spared from the Thanksgiving table.
Accompanied by daughters Sasha and Malia, Obama stood under the North Portico of the White House to honor a holiday tradition that dates to 1947 -- receiving a bird from the National Turkey Federation.
"I'm told Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson actually ate their turkeys," Obama said. "You can't fault them for that; that's a good-looking bird."
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Dan Rather? Is that YOU?
“I’m told Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson actually ate their turkeys,” Obama said. “You can’t fault them for that; that’s a good-looking bird.”
And the American people have to eat you! I apologize to other FR folks, but this man is a POS!
Well, he couldn’t call the turkey “Dithering Coward” for obvious reasons.
LOL!
Sucker? Thank you for living up to all my low expectations of you.
I fully expected him to delay his decision on whether to pardon the turkey until sometime after Valentine’s Day.
He’s just warming up to pardon all the other turkeys (not) making the news. I wonder: for what do Marxists give thanks?
A turkey pardons a turkey. Big deal. Let’s see if the turkey will pardon some SEALS.
I know one turkey that won’t be pardoned in 2012.
No doubt Obama apologized to the Turkeys of the world for America’s existence, gave them a bow and paid reparations to all living turkeys.
'We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.'
So, when faced with doing something with Courage, he chose to dismiss it....
...true to form
I now know what to give President Obama for Christmas...
...a backbone
So did Obama bow to the turkey before pardoning it.
Courage is what a president will show when he abandons the “pardon the turkey” ritual and says “looks good, where’s the hatchet” & follows thru.
In an unprecedented move, Courage became the first turkey to be pardoned by the first black president, thanks be to Obama.
He really needs to get a clue - or we do!
What does it say when the idiot pardons COURAGE???
You don’t pardon it - you celebrate and reward it. And how does he reward our Miltary’s courage?
Right - he’s slapping us with semantics because he thinks we’re dumb!!!!!
I’m surprised the turkey’s name wasn’t Bo.
“Courage is what a president will show when he abandons the pardon the turkey ritual and says looks good, wheres the hatchet & follows thru.”
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Nah, he’d probably have a staffer do it. The guy is allergic to real work.
Or Slow Joe....
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