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President Obama's first pardon: A turkey named 'Courage'
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 25, 2009

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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1 posted on 11/25/2009 12:05:55 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Dan Rather? Is that YOU?


2 posted on 11/25/2009 12:07:24 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“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!


3 posted on 11/25/2009 12:09:53 PM PST by MCCC
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Well, he couldn’t call the turkey “Dithering Coward” for obvious reasons.


4 posted on 11/25/2009 12:10:03 PM PST by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: Reaganesque

LOL!


5 posted on 11/25/2009 12:11:58 PM PST by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Thanks to the interventions of Malia and Sasha -- because I was planning to eat this sucker -- 'Courage' will also be spared this terrible and delicious fate,"

Sucker? Thank you for living up to all my low expectations of you.

6 posted on 11/25/2009 12:13:02 PM PST by DogBarkTree (Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The turkey understood the Chicago way.


7 posted on 11/25/2009 12:13:32 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I fully expected him to delay his decision on whether to pardon the turkey until sometime after Valentine’s Day.


8 posted on 11/25/2009 12:14:06 PM PST by philled (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.-- GB Shaw)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He’s just warming up to pardon all the other turkeys (not) making the news. I wonder: for what do Marxists give thanks?


9 posted on 11/25/2009 12:14:43 PM PST by ronnyquest (That's what governments are for: to get in a man's way.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A turkey pardons a turkey. Big deal. Let’s see if the turkey will pardon some SEALS.


10 posted on 11/25/2009 12:14:57 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: philled

I know one turkey that won’t be pardoned in 2012.


11 posted on 11/25/2009 12:15:03 PM PST by Pavegunner72
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


12 posted on 11/25/2009 12:16:30 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is Americas First Failed Black Pres-dent.....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Lady Macbeth:

'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

13 posted on 11/25/2009 12:18:36 PM PST by NorCoGOP (Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
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To: Gator113

So did Obama bow to the turkey before pardoning it.


14 posted on 11/25/2009 12:22:28 PM PST by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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.


15 posted on 11/25/2009 12:37:40 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Psalm 109)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

In an unprecedented move, Courage became the first turkey to be pardoned by the first black president, thanks be to Obama.


16 posted on 11/25/2009 12:49:19 PM PST by lacrew (The 274th trimester is a very late procedure)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

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!!!!!


17 posted on 11/25/2009 12:50:52 PM PST by sodpoodle (Stop spreading wealth and start spreading the truth.)
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To: SERKIT

I’m surprised the turkey’s name wasn’t Bo.


18 posted on 11/25/2009 12:52:12 PM PST by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: ctdonath2

“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.”

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Nah, he’d probably have a staffer do it. The guy is allergic to real work.


19 posted on 11/25/2009 12:56:14 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: edge10

Or Slow Joe....


20 posted on 11/25/2009 1:09:47 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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