Obama Teases Critics Of His Immigration Action While Pardoning Turkeys

President Obama pardons turkey and teases critics of his immigration executive action.
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President Obama on Wednesday partook in the annual White House tradition of pardoning two turkeys in celebration of Thanksgiving.

This year he used the official pardoning ceremony as an opportunity to comment on and poke fun at the conservative backlash over his recent executive actions on immigration.

“I am here to announce what I’m sure will be the most talked about executive action this month,” Obama said. “Today, I am taking an action fully within my legal authority, the same kind of action taken by Democrats and Republican presidents before me, to spare the lives of two turkeys, Mac and Cheese, from a terrible and delicious fate.”

“They’ll get to live out the rest of their days respectively at a Virginia estate with 10,000 acres of roaming space,” Obama continued. “I know some will call this amnesty.”

Watch the video below, courtesy of PBS:

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  1. I love our President’s wry sense of humor!

  2. Not only are his jokes still good but his timing is still impeccable.
    Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Drive safe people and enjoy the parade or ballgame, if that’s your thing.

    Now…its the time of year to call the Butterball hotline, just to be sure I got this big tryptophan-inducing plucky fowl planned out properly…

  3. Avatar for grawk grawk says:

    Waiting for the drunken slurring Republican response.

    p.s. Happy Thanksgiving all. Thanks for another year of “support”

  4. Happy Thanksgiving TPM peeps.

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