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2008-11-22 Home Front: Politix

NY elementary school is renamed for Obama

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Every time I read of something or the other being named after a living person I'm reminded of RJ Reynolds. In 1911 Reynolds considered naming his company's first brand of cigarettes after Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm. Reynolds ultimately changed his mind and named his cigarettes "Camels." But Reynolds hesitated to name the product after a living figure because "you never know what the damn fool might do." That was just before the start of WWI in 1914.

Posted by GK 2008-11-22 00:41|| 2008-11-22 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone note the irony of a half-black Hawaiian being the purported source of pride for Hispanic students???

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-11-22 00:50|| 2008-11-22 00:50|| Front Page Top

#3 "you never know what the damn fool might do."
now that's the real bitch isn't it

Posted by Jan 2008-11-22 01:01|| 2008-11-22 01:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Joseph Visarionovich Obamarx.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-11-22 03:43|| 2008-11-22 03:43|| Front Page Top

#5 RJ Reynolds was an entirely different era. Our ability at least here in the United States to rewrite history has progressed. We now have liberal judges who can direct that the FBI seal the files on public figures until 2027, or until some future date when no one is alive to remember the truth.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-22 07:09|| 2008-11-22 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Anyone note the irony of a half-black Hawaiian being the purported source of pride for Hispanic students???

No. Given the anti-American anti-West anti-White propaganda given in our public school system. And did I mention the anti-male propaganda. Anything that had to do with those who believe in real democracy [where the rights of majority are elevated above those of special interest groups], real values of the individual [versus the state and collective], or the most successful cultural present on the planet [which sustains all the others in anything above historic pervasive poverty] is the object of self loathing and intolerance.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-22 08:06|| 2008-11-22 08:06|| Front Page Top

#7 School officials say most of the 440 students there are black or Hispanic, and Obama's victory is a source of great pride for school teacher unionists and liberal school board members.

There, I completed the sentence for you.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-22 08:58|| 2008-11-22 08:58|| Front Page Top

#8 In other news, Sidwell Friends School not likely to change name.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-22 10:11|| 2008-11-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#9 "Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama Elementary School" - what about the separation of Church and State? Quick! Someone call the ACLU!

Posted by DMFD 2008-11-22 13:05|| 2008-11-22 13:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey I attended Herbert Hoover Junior High in the 1970s.

Posted by regular joe 2008-11-22 16:03|| 2008-11-22 16:03|| Front Page Top

#11 yeah, but he was, like... dead, then

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-22 16:21|| 2008-11-22 16:21|| Front Page Top

#12 George W. Bush Elementary School

William J. Clinton Elementary School

Posted by Snakes Shaving1019 2008-11-22 19:25|| 2008-11-22 19:25|| Front Page Top

#13 George W. Bush Elementary School

In 2006. Mr. Bush had been president since 2000.

William J. Clinton Elementary School

In 1995. Mr. Clinton had been president since 1992

Mr. Obama has not even been sworn in yet.

Your point?

Posted by Milton Fandango 2008-11-22 21:30|| 2008-11-22 21:30|| Front Page Top

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