Presidential pardoning of turkeys: Is this Thanksgiving tradition past its prime?

Of all the indignities a president must endure, officiating at the annual turkey pardon is perhaps the most unbecoming. Being mocked by late-night comedians or spit up on by a baby or called a liar by a member of Congress? Those things happen. But they pale next to this bizarre spectacle ? sort of the turkey population?s version of the ?Hunger Games? ? in which the leader of the world stays the execution of two overweight birds while another 45�million or so shuffle off to the chopping block.

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