Just when President Barack Obama's Justice Department does something completely head-scratching that contradicts his campaign promises, he goes and does something like this:
Proving that he is more than just mentally adroit, President Obama swats and kills a fly with his bare hand. Then, like the media-savvy guru he is, he points out its dead carcass on his very presidential carpet. According to Issabella Rossolini , the Musca Domestica, or common housefly, can see movement 200 times better than a human, so a swatting newspaper (or presidential hand) seems very, very slow. PETA sent him a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, which allows you to release the offending buzzer once it is caught. A PETA spokesperson said, "We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals. We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals." They should have just sent Obama some chopsticks, I bet he could have put them to good use:
