Traditional or not, pardoning a turkey is rather stupid on the face of it. Now this one must join all the other turkeys in TURKMO who enjoy freedom from unwarranted search, seizure, and whatever other abuses might be heaped upon a hapless population. As for me, I’d like to be pardoned for not participating in Obamacare and for producing CO2.
Worst job in the country: presidential turkeys #3 and #4. You get no publicity, no chance to make the Secret Service yell "bird!" after you get in one desperate peck. Instead you are just beheaded, plucked, gutted and roasted off-stage.