These Turkeys Lead a Pretty Lavish Life

With Thanksgiving just days away it's time for an old Washington tradition – the annual Presidential pardoning of a turkey. This will be Obama's first year in the White House, and the tradition lives on. As I read the article though, it strikes me that with their suite at the Willard and trip to Disneyland, these turkeys are living a pretty posh life.

From U.S. News:

Each year, a presidential pardon saves the National Thanksgiving Turkey and his "alternative" from the holiday oven. This year will be no different. President Obama gets his chance with the national gobbler on Wednesday.

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But along with keeping Pecan living, Mickey's magic is working for two older birds. The 2007's turkeys, May and Flower, are still showing off their stuffing at Florida's Disney World.

The two birds Obama will pardon next week will join Pecan in California.

This year's turkeys are expected to get the royal treatment, just like Pumpkin and Pecan did. Those two spent the night before the pardon in a suite in Washington's posh Willard Hotel and then were flown first-class to Disneyland to head up the Disney Thanksgiving Day Parade. They then went to live at Big Thunder Ranch in Frontierland, where the two Obama birds also will live.