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|Upholding the presidential Thanksgiving tradition, President Obama has today pardoned Cobbler and Gobbler, two 40-pound turkeys from Virginia.
This year, however, Americans voted on which turkeys would receive the pardon, giving the president the perfect opportunity to crack a joke about Nate Silver, the New York Times polling wizard who accurately predicted the Election Day results.
Once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it, Obama said. The guys amazing. He predicted these guys would win.
I love his corny jokes when he pardons the turkeys. He's such a dad!
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Obama on turkey pardon: “Nate Silver completely nailed it” (Original Post)
demhottie
Nov 2012
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liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)1. How many here think...
that Mitt Romney would've been the first President to slaughter the turkeys on the White House lawn? Or at the very least, put them atop his car in a crate and take them to one of his vacation homes to be slaughtered by the help? Thankfully, we shall never find out.
demhottie
(292 posts)3. Or start a competitive turkey throw
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)5. Or hold the first Thanksgiving death match then pretend
to pardon the winner. But then order the WH chef to get the seasonings ready.
demhottie
(292 posts)2. I think I'm losing the embedded video, so I'm trying it again ...
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|Bake
(21,977 posts)4. It always reminds me of the turkey-pardon episode of The West Wing
Great episode of a great show!
Bake