What if they saw the front of my bike?

[DCXCV]

WASHINGTON - The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he's bedeviled by a fly in the White House.

PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside.

"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."

During an interview for CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly intruded on Obama's conversation with correspondent John Harwood.

"Get out of here," the president told the pesky insect. When it didn't, he waited for the fly to settle, put his hand up and then smacked it dead.

"Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood. Then he added: "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."

Friedrich said that PETA was pleased with Obama's voting record in the Senate on behalf of animal rights and noted that he has been outspoken against animal abuses.

Still, "swatting a fly on TV indicates he's not perfect," Friedrich said, "and we're happy to say that we wish he hadn't."

Deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said the White House has no comment on the matter.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31422688/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001

[NAKID]

YOUGOTTABEmake the beast with two backsINGKIDDINGME!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I maintain that PETA to me stands for

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

[Howie]

Obama's killing blow was so swift and precise I am sure the fly did not suffer, though, I suppose, you should eat what you kill

[herm]

did he do it with the presidential chopstix?

[Howie]

Obama Kills Fly During Interview

[redxblack]

The guy has nuclear launch codes and they're sending him a non-lethal flyswatter. GREAT PERSPECTIVE, PETA!!

I sometimes think they're funded by the meat industry to make vegetarians look like morons.

[GAAN]

The guy has nuclear launch codes and they're sending him a non-lethal flyswatter. GREAT PERSPECTIVE, PETA!!

I sometimes think they're funded by the meat industry to make vegetarians look like morons.

I still can't get over the sea kittens thing

[Kopfjäger]

"Sea Kittens" From PETA

[KnightofNi]

groups like peta really make me want to start my own activist group that admonishes people for wearing the color yellow or some equally illogical act.

[redxblack]

I generally agree with the core of what PETA is about, but as an INTERNAL choice for myself. I'm not a mission to change everyone else through the power of illogical arguments and failed analogy.



When people find out I'm a vegetarian, they often ask if I'm a PETA member. It's really too bad that association is so prevalent.

[somegirl]

When people find out I'm a vegetarian, they often ask if I'm a PETA member. It's really too bad that association is so prevalent.

It's even worse being vegan.

[Popeye the Sailor]

groups like peta really make me want to start my own activist group that admonishes people for wearing the color yellow or some equally illogical act.

I'd join-I don't really like yellow. We'd have to make up reasons though.


"Wearing yellow detracts from emergency vehicles-when people don't take them seriously people die!"

[KnightofNi]

I'd join-I don't really like yellow. We'd have to make up reasons though.


"Wearing yellow detracts from emergency vehicles-when people don't take them seriously people die!"

"yellow is the color of the sun. are you trying to say you are more important to life on earth than the sun is?"

[NAKID]

Depends, what if you live in Seattle? There is no sun there already...

[spolic]

Any press is good press for PETA?

Now lets eat some