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Obama Mocks Romney In
Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon,
Won´t Comment On Gaza Ceasefire

BuzzFeed, by Zeke Miller

Original Article

Posted By:PageTurner, 11/21/2012 9:19:01 PM

WASHINGTON — Fresh off a four-day trip to Asia, President Barack Obama pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey Wednesday, taking a shot at his former Republican opponent and cracking jokes about his reelection. "They say that life is all about second chances and this November I can´t agree more," Obama said. "So in the spirit of the season I have one more gift to give," Obama joked in apparent reference to Mitt Romney´s claim after the election that Obama won by giving "gifts" to minority groups, Obama said he was going to pardon the National Thanksgiving Turkey, named Cobbler, and his stand-in, Gobbler.

Comments:
What a nasty, hateful degenerate sore winner we have in the White House. Dirties up Thanksgiving itself with his own petty personal grudges. Always all about him. Not only do I find the mockery of Mitt distasteful, I am doubly offended by Obama´s sarcastic sign of the cross over the turkey. This is a vile, vile man.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: snapper451, 11/21/2012 9:26:18 PM     (No. 9028525)

The lowest of the low! What a scum bag. Meanwhile, there is Mitt Romney out west pumping his own gas, living a normal life. Thanks to.a bunch of fools who re-elected an egomaniacal statist / Marxist.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Kathleentexas, 11/21/2012 9:28:30 PM     (No. 9028529)

My grandmother, born in 1904, had only one insult, which was to call a person "common". Wow, she never envisioned a day when the POTUS was "common".


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: TXknitter, 11/21/2012 9:30:12 PM     (No. 9028532)

OP, couldn´t have said it any better. I find myself speechless.


Reply 4 - Posted by: MMC, 11/21/2012 9:30:36 PM     (No. 9028534)

What a small small man...


Reply 5 - Posted by: mws50, 11/21/2012 9:35:05 PM     (No. 9028545)

Did anyone see the video of our "Home Boy" Prez pardoning those turkeys? No, he didn´t pardon Rice and Petraeus, he pardoned real turkeys.

In the video he went to bless the turkeys, pretending he was The Pope. Unfortunately, half-way through the blessing he had to look to his left to see how to finish the blessing. He could not even pretend to be The Pope without "off-screen" instructions.

He is the most clueless buffoon to ever be President of the USA, if you watch his actions.


Reply 6 - Posted by: CEP, 11/21/2012 9:35:11 PM     (No. 9028546)

He is such a ridiculous man. Nasty, scummy, low individual.


Reply 7 - Posted by: bob913, 11/21/2012 9:37:17 PM     (No. 9028551)

obama reminds me of Justin Bieber.
Beiber however is more mature.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: john56, 11/21/2012 9:37:19 PM     (No. 9028552)

I understand that the pardoned turkeys also got free Obamaphones, free contraceptives, and 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Phantomll, 11/21/2012 9:43:50 PM     (No. 9028567)

Lowest of the low. No class whatsoever.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Scout Finch, 11/21/2012 9:54:57 PM     (No. 9028579)

And the saddest thing of all? Children who have been students since 2008 will grow up thinking this is acceptable, or even laudable, behavior in our president.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Malia2012, 11/21/2012 10:22:53 PM     (No. 9028606)

What OP said so well!


Reply 12 - Posted by: M Stuart, 11/21/2012 10:25:38 PM     (No. 9028609)

You are so right #11. We need always to be mindful of our children´s limited experience and help them understand the long view.

He´s just so low. Cool. I guess. yikes


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: mitzi, 11/21/2012 10:26:36 PM     (No. 9028611)

More than just one turkey at the pardon!


Reply 14 - Posted by: englishleigh, 11/21/2012 10:27:55 PM     (No. 9028613)

Classless.


Reply 15 - Posted by: janylou, 11/21/2012 10:37:11 PM     (No. 9028625)

Talk about a sore winner!


Reply 16 - Posted by: Vaquero45, 11/21/2012 10:49:14 PM     (No. 9028642)

Zero would have to stand on Moochelle´s shoulders to kiss Romney´s butt.


Reply 17 - Posted by: lil dotty, 11/21/2012 10:51:12 PM     (No. 9028648)

As DH GM would say (were she sill alive) ...."That dirty ´tinker". Personally, speechless here.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 11/21/2012 11:06:18 PM     (No. 9028663)

No wonder our embarrassing, immature Commoner-in-Cheap is so ashamed of his bottom-of-the-barrel past, he’s gone to extraordinary lengths to hide it from the entire world. Just take a good look at how he turned out. Without his corrupt media lapdogs always available to conceal everything about his sordid background, he’s not even close to being qualified to enter 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, except perhaps on the guided tour.


Reply 19 - Posted by: clw54, 11/21/2012 11:46:17 PM     (No. 9028711)

And I used to think Clinton was as bad as it could get.


Reply 20 - Posted by: glcinpdx, 11/22/2012 12:05:53 AM     (No. 9028729)

No Class Punk. Hey, Jug Ears, Go Leahy Yourself.

I weep for the Nation and its future...


Reply 21 - Posted by: zzzghy, 11/22/2012 12:19:06 AM     (No. 9028736)

How ironic that a muzzie like stinky can also be such a pig.


Reply 22 - Posted by: reddfroge, 11/22/2012 12:59:53 AM     (No. 9028753)

what an angry, small man...the man who will destroy America as a ´free country"


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: DonQuijote, 11/22/2012 1:01:50 AM     (No. 9028755)

He is a fool. How sad!


Reply 24 - Posted by: No Arm, 11/22/2012 1:36:26 AM     (No. 9028774)

He is mocking the 10s of millions who voted for Romney. Setting the example and lead for viscious and brutal tyranny coming soon.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Nimby, 11/22/2012 3:18:08 AM     (No. 9028804)

Classless dork


Reply 26 - Posted by: MissMann, 11/22/2012 4:49:54 AM     (No. 9028830)

I´ve decided that the people who voted for this low-life are the same people who made Jersey Shore and that poor little hick girl famous. What else would we expect from our culture?

Blech!


Reply 27 - Posted by: JLoophole, 11/22/2012 5:13:57 AM     (No. 9028837)

Ick. I´m going to avoid reading anything about the foul president on thanksgiving day because I cannot find it in my heart to be thankful for anything about this turkey except for the fact that inevitably his chickens will someday come home to roost. I know he´ll be roasted all over America today, too, probably toasted in some blue areas, but as for me and mine...we´re gonna ignore him.


Reply 28 - Posted by: lydwho, 11/22/2012 5:50:09 AM     (No. 9028855)

Why shouldn´t he pardon them???? He was elected by a bunch of turkeys!!!!

Art


Reply 29 - Posted by: pineledger, 11/22/2012 6:04:05 AM     (No. 9028863)

2, my grandmother (b. 1883) also used "common" in a similar way. If you were "common," you were so beyond the pale you weren´t even worth noticing.

I think The Won hits a new high (or low), though, and because he is TOTUS, we cannot ignore him and his tacky antics. His arrogance (rubbing our faces in the gifts we pay for that bought his election); his sacrilege (making the sign of the cross over the turkey); his slouching, pouting, poorly-dressed princesses; his total and utter lack of grace that he squeaked this one out with the help of illegals and bought votes....

My grandmother was the sole Democrat in a family of pretty rabid Republicans, but I think this performance alone would cause her to shift her allegiance.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Judith, 11/22/2012 7:03:56 AM     (No. 9028906)

I am comforted to know that Gov. Romney and his family (together on the same plane)went to Disney and had a good time. Romney will be comforted by a loving family (something obama does not have)and a strong faith (which obama, apparently, does not have). Romney suffered a small defeat in the larger scheme of things. Obama was never in the game.


Reply 31 - Posted by: hamrman, 11/22/2012 7:29:47 AM     (No. 9028935)

The gift that keeps giving...His Goofiness!


Reply 32 - Posted by: rightdog, 11/22/2012 7:30:59 AM     (No. 9028938)

What a small, self-absorbed little man the wise electorate has returned to another 4 years of torturing the rest of us.

Here´s the video of the pathetic ceremony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDfucX18so


Reply 33 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 11/22/2012 8:28:24 AM     (No. 9028999)

Hmmm- can´t access that video using MSN - wonder why? Did find it otherwise and noticed that those two girls couldn´t be any more sullen and stern looking. Must be because they know Stinky even better than the rest of us.


Reply 34 - Posted by: JimS, 11/22/2012 9:10:57 AM     (No. 9029058)

I just hope that those Chicago steam bath down-low trysts that Obama had back in the mid and late ´90´s lead to a raging case of AIDS.



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