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Barack Obama released
Comments 0 | Recommend 0July 04, 2009 11:08 PM
Barack Obama is now back in the waters off the Florida Keys. Not the president of course, but Barack Obama the turtle. A resident rescued the turtle back in January, the day before the president's inauguration. Now, the Turtle Hospital in Marathon released the 200-pound creature after experts help nurse it back to help. The hospital says since the turtle came near such a historic day it was appropriate to set it free on the Fourth of July.
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