As President Bush was pardoning a pair of fat turkeys on Wednesday, I tried to imagine Barack Obama doing the same thing.

I have never seen a politician more dignified than Obama, and I imagine it would pain him greatly to be trotted out to the front yard to make cornball jokes about the prize hen and tom that have been brought before him.

Bush seems to genuinely enjoy the folksier aspects of the office, which Obama may abjure. They may not be beneath the dignity of the office, but I suspect it would be beneath his own dignity.

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