Presidential Pet Project

During a recent interview with CNBC, President Obama did what any normal person would do when confronted by a large relentless housefly — he swatted at it. And when the fly persisted he continued to swat until he killed it, to the sound of applause.

But not everyone was cheering. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals frowned on the President’s approach. "We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich, told the Associated Press. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals." Always in the solution, PETA backed this sentiment with a wonderfully realistic idea: a bug catcher that can be purchased from PETA’s online catalog.

Watch this video:

Now imagine the Commander-in-Chief wielding a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher. (Absurd, I realize.) Let’s play it out even further: In a perfect world Obama catches the fly, excuses himself from the taped TV interview with a major news outlet, walks out back to the Rose Garden, sets the fly back into nature where it belongs and then heads back into the White House, Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher and Secret Service at his side. There’s compassion, and then there’s crazy.

Photo courtesy of PETA catalog.