Why Don’t Presidential Candidates Go Birding?

By Corey • December 27, 2011 • 2 comments

Instead, they use killing birds as a photo-op. Though, honestly, having Rick Santorum as a birder would probably be a net negative anyway…

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Why Don’t Presidential Candidates Go Birding?”

Jean L Dec 27th, 2011 at 9:24 am
unfortunately, the NRA has a lot more $$$ to spend influencing politics than birders who are just interested in counting birds…
Joe Dec 27th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Wouldn’t it be an awesome sight though to see a candidate doing a Christmas Bird Count.
Would love to see how the press would spin that for both sides.

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