No real conservative can help but feel a pang of regret that the turkey wasn’t chosen as the official symbol of the American republic.As Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to his daughter Sarah, the bald eagle is “a rank coward,” for “the little king-bird, no bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out of the district.” He is “a bird of bad moral character” who “does not get his living honestly”; being “too lazy to fish for himself,” he resorts to stealing from osprey.The turkey is “a much more respectable bird,” Franklin argued, “a true original native of America.” And...…No real conservative can help but feel a pang of regret that the turkey wasn’t chosen as the official symbol of the American republic.As Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to his daughter Sarah, the bald eagle is “a rank coward,” for “the little king-bird, no bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly, and drives him out of the district.” He is “a bird of bad moral character” who “does not get his living honestly”; being “too lazy to fish for himself,” he resorts to stealing from osprey.The turkey is “a much more respectable bird,” Franklin argued, “a true original native of America.” And...WW…
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