the newly elected president, unless speculation that the rigged electronic voting machines played a major part in the election, the former governer of texas, who under his watch over 150 executions took place, with no examination or interest by the governer as to whether any of the doomed should have clemency because of judicial misconduct, or in ability of the doomed to even understand what was happening, the same person, who under his watch allowed over 1,000 US soldiers to be killed and perhaps 10 times that many innocent civilians to be killed, has recently had either a burst of conscience, highly unlikely, or has decided he needed some capital for his eventual meeting directly with his maker, decided to grant a pardon to the current thanksgiving turkey, and saved it from execution.