This is either May or Flower, we're not sure which, but it's one of the two turkeys that Vice President Dick Cheney wanted to name Lunch or Dinner but President Bush pardoned this week at the White House -- see the reassuring first hand on the bird -- meaning that neither will serve as the oven roasted turkey on today's menu at Camp David. Photo by Mark Silva.
by Mark Silva
It's been a quiet week at Camp David.
That's because the president didn't get there until Tuesday.
And today, President Bush is celebrating Thanksgiving with his family in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, where the presidential retreat of Camp David is perched atop a low range, some 1,600-feet high and somewhat cooler than its surroundings. The peak of autumn colors hit these parts about one week ago today, so you know the faded leaves are falling.
And today, all the president's menus are on the table and all the president's chefs are serving: Oven roasted turkey. Surprise.
Plus cast iron skillet cornbread dressing, jellied cranberry molds, sautéed green beans, zucchini gratin, whipped sweet potato soufflé, buttered mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, Morelia style gazpacho, fresh clover rolls with honey butter, pumpkin pie with whipped topping, apple pie, apple crisp and pumpkin mousse trifle.
So, it's a happy Thanksgiving.
At Camp David. And from the Swamp, to you.
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Comments
I wasn't aware thatturkeys ate their own kind.
Posted by: John Chuckman, Toronto, Canada | November 22, 2007 10:20 AM
Please remember to keep in your prayers all the men and women of our nations armed forces
Posted by: john | November 22, 2007 11:06 AM
As much as my friends John D, Terry, bruce, and others on the right want to say that liberals hate America, I would like to wish them, and all, a Happy Thanksgiving.
Posted by: bill r. | November 22, 2007 11:25 AM
We give thanks for many things...
For families, for friends, for health, happiness, success, tasty things....
But on this day lets not forget to send
a warm thank you to the Swamp...
that bring us together round its page
to share our thoughts and talk some political trash without having to act our age.
Happy Thanksgiving To Everyone!
Posted by: The Left | November 22, 2007 12:05 PM
How about keeping the poor people of Iraq in your prayers?
Do you really think He/She reserves his concerns for American invaders?
Posted by: John Chuckman, Toronto, Canada | November 22, 2007 1:22 PM
I want to wish all the patriotic Americans who question authority in the name of freedom a happy thanksgiving. I wish my brothers in arms overseas a safe and happy day as well. George Bush and the Bush crime family can choke on their turkey!
That goes for all his spineless, brain-dead defenders like John D, Bruce, and Paula. You guys are mindless sheep. Enjoy your Kool-Aid.
Posted by: Little G-DUB | November 22, 2007 3:24 PM
Little G-Dub, er John E., again thanks for your kind words. Just remember to give thanks to Mumsy and Dudsy for allowing you, an adult male, to continue living in their basement and off their hard-earned dollars.
Bill R., in all serious here, Happy Thanksgiving back to you.
And, yes, Happy Thanksgiving to the Swamp for even working on this forum on Thanksgiving!
Posted by: John D | November 23, 2007 2:35 AM
Good old John D living free while others fight and die in the desert.
Like an arm chair quarterback he cheers from the dead-end zone while others perish in a war created on lies perpetrated by Bush/Cheney & their corporate cronies.
Stuffing his pie-hole with turkey while others eat MRE's waiting for the day when they (hopefully) make it home to celebrate the holidays with family.
Yep keyboard commando, you have a lot to be thankfull for. Not that you and those chickenhawks in the Whitehouse deserve or have earned it. Your a bufoon.
I cringe at the thought of reading your vacuous drivel. Spewing out like sewage from a right wing cesspool, it bares no resemblance to real-life!!!
John D, The dark sordid underbelly of the American dream stares at you from your bathroom mirror.
Posted by: Jello Biafra | November 23, 2007 1:35 PM
Maybe he ate pork.
"President Bush had the gall to stick some of his own pork into the budget, in particular to support his own family.$24 million went to fund the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Another $8.9 million was requested for the Points of Light foundation, a program begun by his father ("a million points of light"). Congress nixed the request...."
http://www.thestreet.com/s/five-dumbest-thing...
Posted by: Logic Prisoner | November 23, 2007 1:55 PM
Well,another Black Friday has passed, and tens of millions of Americans have stampeded their way through America's stores and malls, trampling everything in their path for bargin screwdrivers and George Forman grilles.
Anyone else see the pictures of distressed kids and angry adults?
Anyone know if these people consider themselves;
1. Christian or atheist
2. Conservative/Liberal
You just have to wonder who they are, risking themselves for landfill junk.
There is a lesson about us in these stories. What is it?
Posted by: C.Morris | November 24, 2007 8:31 PM