(And that he’s still president.)

mark

Not only should the president order the execution of the turkeys, he should kill both gobblers himself. With his bare hands, while wearing a loin cloth. He should then rise, his body glistening with sweat and blood, and take a bite out of its head and display it proudly to the American people.

Of course, I’m all for that.

In fact, I need to get a new loin cloth myself

So, here we have our big federal government wasting money on buying a turkey.

Ok, first, they don’t buy the turkey. Its donated by the National Turkey Federation (or, actually, by one of their turkey farming members).

Then wasting money on security and knickknacks for the ceremony.

Nope, no extra security at all. We went through the regular visitor entrance, and the day’s normal tours were in operation. White House does similar events nearly every day the President is in DC, from the Turkey Pardoning to the Easter Egg Roll, to the baseball game and various bill signings. They all run on basically the same model, and so this event has no additional costs.

In addition, there were no knickknacks. They served hot chocolate, hot cider, and coffee. Nothing to eat (especially not turkey). I managed to take away a couple of napkins with the presidential seal (as well as two bags of equal and sweet and low, each with the seal as well. Interestingly, the Splenda was not graced by the Presidential Seal). Oh, and we all recieved a proclamation thats suitable for framing. Maybe it cost 50 cents to print up, multiplied by the 200 people there, thats about $100. Hardly anything to worry about in the grand scheme of wasteful government spending.

Then wasting money to fly the bird to Disneyland.

I had heard they flew on air force one to Disney, however I also heard there that Disney actually paid for the trip on some corporate plane. I don’t know, but I do know they were not on Marine 1 when the President left.

My complaint is the message that this sends to the world. And that message is that our president is a pussy.

I don’t think any one believes Bush is a pussy. An idiot, maybe, but not a pussy.

For what its worth, btw, you can check out pics of this years Pardoning here

I’d vote to keep such a President in office for LIFE!

It’s the backup turkey that’s really outrageous.