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Obama Pardons Turkeys: ‘Feels Pretty Good to Stop at Least One Shellacking This November’
- Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:49pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s official: President Barack Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey.
Continuing a decades-old White House tradition, Obama issued pardons Wednesday to a gobbler named “Apple” and its alternate, “Cider.’ The two 21-week-old, 45-pound turkeys were raised on a California farm.
Obama said it “feels pretty good to stop at least one shellacking this November.”
The president wished America’s families, including many buffeted by the economic slump, a safe and happy holiday.
After the Rose Garden ceremony, the turkeys were to be taken to George Washington’s estate at nearby Mount Vernon, Va., to live. For the past five years, the pardoned turkeys had been sent to Disneyland in California.
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Comments (97)
Jim in Houston
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:51pmThe pardon was from one turkey to another.
Report Post »phoenixrising
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:51pmFunny Mr President, good to see you still have some sense of humor!!
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 25, 2010 at 9:14pmHe’s still a pompous dick head.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:35pmHappy Thanksgiving everybody! Enjoy the blessings and bounties and your family, and for a day, forget about politics and this site. No matter how bad things are, we’re still truly blessed in so many ways, always be thankful. :)
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:31pmYou know, even when when this guy does do some presidential tradition, he still looks like a dope.
Why doesn’t he do something really presidential and pardon American taxpayers for whatever we did to tick him off?
Must of been hard for him to pardon a white turkey.
Report Post »The butcher must have been acting foolishly.
tobywil2
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:20pmWill Mr. Obama have a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner? Perhaps he will have leg of lamb.
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oldasdirt
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:16pmHappy Thanksgiveing to all the Blaze people from an Old Texan.
Report Post »Oh!,,,and a happy one to all the liberals that come here as well,,,,,If I have to,,,,,,,I guess. *-*
Star Spangled
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:16pmAfter POTUS pardons the Turkeys FLOTUS spends the next 2 hours discusiing the Turkeys nutritional value , fat content , free range vs farmed . Suddenly the Turkeys lay their necks on the chopping blocks begging : “Please Just get it over with , Please stop the torture !”
Report Post »GoingBeck
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:11pmSo whatever He has declined to pardon is what’s for dinner.
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:07pmMaybe he should set a turkey aside for 2012. That‘s the only way he’s going to stop a shellacking in 2012.
Report Post »WestTexasCountryBoy
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:01pmWould say it looks like Nasty Pelosi after missing a botox injection and getting the sh#t stomped out of her but wouldn’t want to insult the turkey. just sayin
Report Post »SRone11
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:57pmMakes me hungry.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:45pmOn a positive note, at least he had to stay at the White House to do the pardoning instead of travelling more and spending millions more on transportation and protection. It’s nice that he visits the White House once in awhile.
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:10pmToo bad we can’t lock him in there for a couple years. I‘m sure he wouldn’t mind, Socialists love ‘house arrest’ it goes over so much better than ‘internment’.
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wilmo
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:42pmTwo turkeys pardoned by the biggest turkey in history.
Report Post »The Glennbeckian
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:25pmThe Glennbeckian would love to see a President actually slaughter and eat one of the turkeys. Then slaughter and donate the other one to that great American homeless shelter known as congress.
Report Post »Bobby P
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:24pmNow he’ll expect the turkeys to vote for him. Next piece of legislature will be to give turkeys the right to vote.
Report Post »13thgenerati0namerican
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:16pmI’m so glad that OBlahblah is spending his time working with pardoning a turkey while we spend 180 thousand dollars per hour for him to fly all over the place telling people how terrible America is. Great president people, thanks for electing this no nothing community organizer into the most powerfull seat in the entire world. I hope you libs are enjoying your run because when 2012 comes around I have a feeling your little party will be over.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:35pmWho are you and what have you done with 13th.?
Report Post »Dan Foster
grandmaof5
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:00pmOh my gosh, I think I just woke up and the ghosts from Thanksgiving past were here. Happy Thanksgiving 13th (and you too, Dan Foster). Have a blessed day!
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:07pmBack at ya Grandma,
Hope your family has a safe and happy Thanksgiving
Sailor
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:08pmWow.. did 13 take the red pill last night? Heck I was moving on til I saw his name at the bottom and decided to find out what bait he was using today.
Report Post »-Line
“It’s a trick. Get an axe.” -Ash
Bad Thunder
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:16pmGood question…….where is 13thGEN South American????
Report Post »Gita
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:13pmHAHAHAHA This story is too funny on so many levels. Nothing like the POTUS creating a huge opening for all the jokes. The man has no clue what a joke he is. His narcissism just gets in the way!
Report Post »jmrec100
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:04pmPardoning turkeys IS the ONLY thing he has done worth mentioning.
Next will be Probably leading up to pardoning his whole staff at the next election.
Report Post »Jessica Bergen
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:00pm@Nickderinger – Ha ha!
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:00pmThe White House pardoned a big turkey! How can the White House forgive Obama?
Report Post »AZfreeman
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:31pmRush announced this morning that Oblah-blah had pardoned the turkey, but “there’s still no word if the turkey had returned the favor”…ya’ gotta love Rush.
As for me, I say go ahead and behead the turkey, and one good turn deserves another (metaphorically speaking of course).
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:58pmI’ve always despised this “tradition”, no matter the president. Some think its homey and cute, me I think it’s emasculating and effeminate.
Make me President folks and I promise you, I’ll behead that gobbler with a hatchet and wood block on national television and have a nice photo shoot of my family eating the birds in full savory golden brown glory. If there‘s any left over we’ll donate it to the bums, vagrants, drifters and other people we now call “homeless”.
You don’t celebrate and give thanks for things that you reject outright. Just a pet peeve of mine.
Report Post »me
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:18pmyou are a very kind man
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:20pmHilarious! You have my vote, sir.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:53pm@ME
Actually, I am. I just don’t believe in turning your nose up at that for which you give thanks. We have dominion over the animals of the earth, and when we give thanks for plenty we give thanks for the animals and other food we’re about to eat. When I’m thankful for something, I partake of it, I don’t reject it or “pardon” it. The turkey is an animal, not a criminal needing a pardon, and being a good American I‘m proud to give thanks for such bounty as plentiful turkeys and I’ll proudly eat one without the slightest shred of regret. If I were President I would never consider changing that policy and would eat the most succulent juicy turkey that could be found, especially if I could hunt it up myself.
As I said, this “awwww” tradition is effeminate and emasculating. It is meant to placate weak minded emotion driven people who, last check, eat turkeys on Thanksgiving but don’t have the guts to actually kill the bird themselves. Apparently to them, their turkeys roam the wild without head, feathers or feet, wrapped in a cozy plastic wrapping and mesh.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:13pmHere‘s George Washington’s original Thanksgiving Day Proclaimation, 1789.
http://wilstar.com/holidays/wash_thanks.html
Report Post »JimOhio
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 5:39pmI like the way you think. Grew up spittin’ buckshot out on the plate (when one would be missed during cleaning) from squirrel, rabbit, and pheasant at the dinner table. We gave thanks for what came to the table be it from the garden or the woods. God Bless you and our freedom.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 6:07pmYou must be a PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals) member. I think us meat eaters need to remember where meat comes from and stick up for 2nd Amendment rights.
But I think this is all about Obama having something to put on the plus side when he runs for re-election – he doesn’t have much else.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:58pmHe looks like he’s scared of the turkey. Why, in this economy, are we flying turkeys from Ca to DC? Are there no turkey farms in the east? then we pay to transport these stupid things to disney land? Spend as much as you can a-holes your time is limited.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:42pmfeel bad for the TSA agent that had that pat own!!
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:51pmPat down….fat fingers today!
Report Post »jb1972
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:52pmagreed total waste of money for a pony show! I bet Palin would end the tradition and whip out the old 12 gauge and say “turn em loose”.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:58pmThere has been a thunderous silence from our so called “leader”, on so many issues of late. But this “turkey” getting a pardon from a “turkey” has to fill in the “photo op” gap left by POTUS.
Report Post »I’m betting that the “feathered” turkey is hoping to avoid the TSA pat down when he leaves for Disney Land on the next available flight. The other “turkey” doesn’t even get pat downs by……………………….
angelcat
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:56pmOne turkey pardoning another. I like the one with feathers better.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:20pmAmen,
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:26pmThat is a great comment, I like that and agree with it 100%. Thanks, made my day.
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Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:37pmOnce President Palin takes office, we will see an end to this turkey-pardoning. I hope she butchers it on the white house lawn.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:53pmLater Oblame-a signed the DREAM Act and pardoned more than 2 million turkeys.
Report Post »super_jalapeno
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:02pmCan’t wait to see what turkeys get pardoned just before he leaves office? I bet it will be fat turkeys with a lot of cash on hand, gotta make a living somehow after losing the 2012 elections!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:03pmThinks more of the turkey than our economy…
Report Post »When the Marxist fully take over the people’s heads will be cut off…
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:21pmAnyone want to figure the left will claim it was a ‘tea party loving turkey confused by the propagands of the hate filled, anti turkey, conservatives?” These eco-terror groups most likely will.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:25pmMy turkey named Scooter Libby did not get the pardon so he is baking in solitary as we speak.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:25pmThis story is talking about the wrong Turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:39pmSlap my knee that man is funny.
Report Post »DonoRomantico
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:14pmJive Turkeys
Report Post »sawman
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:28pmThat’s what he says, but I‘d bet a million that he’s munchin down on the big bird sometime this week.
Report Post »SHTFMilitia.com
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 4:53pmLOL do not give them any ideas.
If you are prepared you may survive,
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Robert W
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 6:19pmThat turkey took a long hot bath after Obummer touched him. That Chicago filth is hard to get off!
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 8:32pmSorry progressives, there will be no pardons for your actions. NO HAPPY MEALS FOR YOU!!!
Report Post »Macgyver
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:02pmHe spared the turkeys… would he (or those in charge of the “life and death thing” soon) do the same for those elderly who will inevitably be targeted under Obamacare for the same fate?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on November 25, 2010 at 7:22amIs it me, or is this “decades old tradition” a little ridiculous?
Report Post »Pardoning a freakin turkey is about as mundane a thing the president of the united states can do.