This just in via AP: President Barack Obama has pardoned the White House turkey.
No, not the one who has been in charge of designing White House strategy and tactics in getting health care reform through Congress, but a turkey who is a real birdbrain.
Here’s the complete ceremony, including Obama’s extensive remarks on this vital matter:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.