Obama's turkey pardon: Traditional fest

"The last president, who already was a lame duck when he pardoned his last birds, may have seemed a more natural fit for this fowl-excuse of an event"

My Turkey was too dry, BLAME BUSH. There's too much Holiday traffic..BLAME BUSH.
As all you whining libs like to say here is the swamp...BUSH IS NOT THE PRESIDENT ANYMORE. Face it Mark, you miss writing artciles like this since Bush left office. I think deep down you really miss the guy.

Will he pardon the one that looks like a turkey or will he pardon the one that looks like George Bush?
From the picture, it looks like McConnell like looking at the dark meat of the one that looks like Bush.

And in the spirit of the holidays, let's not forget how the Repuke frontrunner pardoned some turkeys last year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJd_vm9VhpU

BUbba,

Have fun eating your sprouts this thanksgiving. I'll have the drumstick

According to the White House official website on the stimulus, President Obama "pardoned or saved" 630,000 turkeys!

Say, isn't that Palin's ghostwriter?

I don't blame President Obama for pardoning the turkey and not having to eat it. Most turkeys being cooked this Thanksgiving are not like yesterday's birds. Today, commercially-produced turkeys stand toe-to-toe in huge poultry houses. The turkeys Grandma used to bake were raised in the pasture, got real sunshine and ate bugs. Their gizzards had gravel! Althoug the birds were sweet, the smell of their feathers in scalding water (to loosen the feathers) certainly was not sweet and the job of plucking a turkey by hand, not machine, was hard work. Ethic Soup has a funny post, "Help, Help Me Grandma! A Headless Turkey Is Chasing Me," at

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/11/turkey-neck-on-the-chopping-block-toddler-crying-while-daddy-holds-down-the-turkey-and-grandpa-has-axe-ready-to-off-the-t.html

Actually Ter, the sprouts will be on the leftover turkey sammies this weekend.

Tomorrow I'm grilling an entire backstrap from the white tail I shot a few weeks ago. I know, it's tough wrapping your brain around that.

Happy Thanksgiving.

For the last two decades, the Republicans have steadily purged themselves of all moderates, of anyone who did not toe the party line, of anyone who did not support the party leaders with every fiber of their being. Under leaders like Tom DeLay and a dozen other of the top far-right powerbrokers, apostasy was ruthlessly punished. Moderates were primaried out, the religiously or socially tolerant were excoriated, the legislatively balanced were forced from their positions -- all in service to a supposed permanent ideological governance, one that valued ideological purity over all else. Over knowledge, over experience, over common sense, over the very fabric of the law -- the ideology of hard-right conservatism trumped it all. Toe the line, and you were granted jobs in the Bush administration, or positions of leadership in Iraq, or plum committee assignments. Voice disapproval -- you were nothing. You woke up the next morning to a White House Press Secretary declaring that you were a disgruntled brat, one with emotional or mental impairments that were responsible for your pitiable desertion.

After twenty years of purging, all the Republicans have left is that hard-right extreme (Teabaggers). They shoved everyone else out willingly: it seems hardly surprising that now, faced with the fruits of it all, they are finding that all constituencies of the nation that they sought to condemn, belittle or purge are no longer interested in supporting them now.

As far as I am concerned the last thirty years have proven modern conservatism to be not just ill conceived, but paranoid, divisive, willfully incompetent, obtusely premised, and in sum utterly valueless to the nation -- a waste of political oxygen. Something to be burned at the stake, and the ashes scattered, never to be heard from again.

But I expect they will, in the next years, at least try to retool their party into one that at least pretends to be more tolerant of, well, anyone not fully immersed in the notion that Ayn Rand and James Dobson rule the universe. The bloodshed between the two factions -- conservative true believers (Beck, Rush, Hannity etc) who can look at the last eight years and see absolutely nothing worth doing differently, nothing but a smashing but sadly misunderstood success, versus those that truly wish to temper the party in an effort to regain at least some semblance of their former power -- is a glorious thing to behold.

I am grateful every single day that the person sitting in that office (Pres Obama) was put there by the people, and he has tried to tackle the many things we need tackled.

What kind of America would we have today if we hadn't turned the Clinton era over to George Bush and his wars, his credit card reform legislation that turned banks into loan sharks, and his No Child Left Behind that turned the public schools into disaster areas of fiscal failure?
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...BUSH IS NOT THE PRESIDENT ANYMORE.
Posted by: wingnut master | November 25, 2009 12:03 PM

Just think...this time in Bush's presidency, he already ignored a warning on 9/11 attack and allowed it to happen....and people just like this one were blaming Clinton.......funny how that happens. What bus was that that they are so eager to throw him under? Are these the same clowns shouting about "history"?

I take it Bubba doesn't eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Of course, my Lefty Loons just think the meat they eat is blinked into the grocery store by Jeannie!

GOP Condemns Obama for Pardoning Turkey

In a move rich with tradition, today President Obama met briefly with reporters and photographers in the Rose Garden to announce the official pardon of "Courage" the White House turkey. Obama told a few jokes, patted the stately bird on its head, and returned to work.

"Just show me where in the Constitution it says that a president has the power to just wave his hand and pardon a turkey on Thanksgiving? Look, this isn't a partisan thing - I just want to know why this man hates our white Thanksgiving traditions."
- Glenn Beck

"I think what you see here is when you have someone who is pardoning, or in not pardoning, turkeys or birds of some kind they have a real duty to not be seen in doing that. Who gets to make a call like that?"
- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

"What kind of signal does this send to America's turkey enemies?"
- Bill O'Reilly

"This is clearly a capitulation to Obama's PETA-loving liberal base, and it's a move far outside the normal American mainstream."
- Rush Limbaugh (before unveiling a new song, sung by an impersonator of Rev. Al Sharption, which Limbaugh entitled "Jive Turkey")

"Rrrrrarr... Turkey."
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney

"Turkey... Rrrrarrr."
- Former What Was She? Liz Cheney

In addition: a variety of small, downhome grassroots organizations like the "NRA" and the Dick Armey Astroturf group "Teabaggers against Socialized Turkey Farms" called for a series of "Turkey Party" rallys across the nation in protest of Obama's move.

When reached for comment, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters, "The President understands these concerns, the president shares these concerns, and we just ask that everyone remember that the president already has a lot on his plate this Thanksgiving, and we should not get sidetracked by these distractions." As of press time, there were reports that the White House was scheduling a "Turkey Summit" for the president to meet with the turkey and several members of the Republican House Caucus, to share a conversation over a tall, hot glass of gravy.
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I'm sorry, but the pictures and captions don't differentiate between characters. So, which one's the turkey?

Bubba,

I have no problem wrapping by brain around that. Hope Bambi taste well.

Here are some pardons that should move to the top of BO's list, if these 3 SEALS ever need it:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/25/crimesider/entry5773734.shtml

Donut,

Unlike you and Terry I don't compartmentalize tiny pieces of information into the tiny black and white boxes in my tiny brain.

As my post at 3:43 shows, as usual, you are wrong again.

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my Lefty Loons just think the meat they eat is blinked into the grocery store by Jeannie!
Posted by: John D, still right, as usual | November 25, 2009 6:00 PM
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Really? I thought all the meat we ate came from your head, Lil' Johnny Turducken?

Seems like I saw a similar gesture in a Renaissance painting in a church in Italy....

What is all the more remarkable: Before the blessing of St. Barack, that big white bird was a pigeon.....

Happy Thanksgiving, Swampies!

We are having soogiplats and vodka!

John D,
Actually we know how and where most of our meat is produced which is why we think twice about eating it.

Put down the Butterball!
PUT DOWN THE BUTTERBALL!!
IT IS NOT BUTTER!
IT IS NOT BUTTER!!!

I don't blame President Obama for pardoning the turkey and not having to eat it. Most turkeys being cooked this Thanksgiving are not like yesterday's birds. Today, commercially-produced turkeys stand toe-to-toe in huge poultry houses.

Posted by: Sharon McEachern | November 25, 2009 2:42 PM

So, you're saying that Obama didn't pardon a REAL turkey. It's an astroturf turkey. Makes sense.

Happy Thanksgiving, anyway.

Hey, let's not forget that great turkey GWBush gave to the troops in Iraq a few back! Now that was a true blue gesture!
A fake prop turkey with all the fake trimmings!
Oh for the old days!!

So, you're saying that Obama didn't pardon a REAL turkey. It's an astroturf turkey. Makes sense.Happy Thanksgiving, anyway.

Posted by: Free to Watch Whatever I Want | November 25, 2009 8:49 PM
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Teresa,
You should know all about Astroturf Turkeys, you post them on here under different post names every day of the week.

He made out better than mine. I made a video for youtube but when the blood hit the camera lens I figured it was a little too graphic for general consumption. farm fresh turkeys are on the other hand very consumable.

It's wonderful to see our President take the initiative and accomplish something! Perhaps he could accomplish some other things too.

President Obama's second holiday pardon was just announced.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/obama-thanksgiving-pardon/

Happy Thankgiving all.

And in the spirit of the season, here are some words of wisdom from the Repukelican base.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk
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I wonder how long it took him to make the decision and how many czars were involved. hmmm........

Teresa,
You should know all about Astroturf Turkeys, you post them on here under different post names every day of the week.

Posted by: B Mobbie | November 25, 2009 10:29 PM

Your the one that takes other's posting names there slick. I'm about 2400 miles away from Teresa.

A big Thanksgiving greeting to T Herman Zweibel for reminding us of that iconic photo of George W. [worst president ever] Bush and his fake turkey & trimmings on a platter mugging it up for the grunts.

Mercifully for him, history doesn't record what those soldiers really thought about his posing antics at their expense.

Truth be told, some of the harshest and most obscene commentary on the Bush Dynasty comes from those soldiers......

Bush & fake turkey on a platter:

Second in inconic status only to Bush in front of "mission accomplished" banner.

I wonder how long it took him to make the decision and how many czars were involved. hmmm........

Posted by: jfr | November 26, 2009 2:35 AM

Ref-
Quite sure he had to connsult his Teleprompter,agree?

How about, we pardon the other turkey in that second picture, Bush&Cheney ??
In spite of how he left America, in its worse economic crisis since the Great Depression, two unfinanced wars and occupations, an unfinanced drug bill and of course, the highest debt in our nation's history. He desperately needs a pardon, given his legacy !!
I am gratefully thankful, that he, Bush&Cheney, is no longer gobbling at our White House !!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone !
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

terry, the teabagging turkey:

Have fun eating your sprouts this thanksgiving. I'll have the drumstick

there you go with your over-developed sense of entitlement. gobble-gobble ;)
typical r-con.

You can tell a lot about a man by the type of turkey he pardons.

Always Wrong,

Nice obsession you have. Was merely refutting Bubba's weak stomach for how turkeys are prepared for feast.

Entitlement of what? You whinny libs, there you go again.

yo obama whats up man i havent heard from u since we went to harverd 2gether yeah fun times member da stuff we used 2 do ooh mm aaah ha ha any way i was wondering if u & me like 2 get a vadka or somethin i dont know peace man *

Does anyone remember or care what a pardon is ? Wikipedia: A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it. What crime could possibly have been committed by the turkeys in question (or any turkey) that might warrant a pardon ? People who distort the moral scenario by their thinking and self-righteous talk of "pardoning" turkeys could indeed be pardoned, but I'm not sure that they should be.

Ter,

No weak stomach here. As a kid, I grew up in western Michigan in the woods on a lake. Pretty familiar with how food gets to the table. Actually, we had a field trip in third grade to the now defunct Bil-Mar turkey farm in Holland where we were allowed to watch turkeys strung up by their necks and run across an electric wire.

I don't care about the turkeys in the Palin snippet, but I would suggest you watch it again and actually listen to how pathetically stupid the Repug frontrunner is. Completely incapable of anything other than rambling right wing talking points.

BTW, not quite sure what this "refutting" business is all about.

Bubba,

When you made you initial remark, I thought it was about the process of getting turkeys get the dining room table, thus my remark about sprouts.

As far as what Palin sounds like - no worse than Gore, Edwards, Kerry, Bush, Biden, McCain or BO w/o TOTUS.