- Re:New National Holiday Planned - Wolfeboro Community Forums

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"Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

"'Yes We Can' planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald's restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13.

"The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama's honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809..."

http://cjonline.com/stories/110908/loc_353922770.shtml

(Usual foul language in comments).

Hey, I can always use another day off with pay!

Don't you ever give up? Your hatred of blacks is disgusting. The civil rights struggle ended quite a while ago. Accept it, because you are not going to change it back to what it was.

Obama is going to be our President whether you like it or not, so you might as well get used to it. If you don't like it, move out of the country.

Give the guy a chance. He can turn out to be a Lincoln or a Bush. Time will tell, but your disgusting comments are not going to change anything. If he screws up then you and I and the rest of us will have reason to complain and do something about it in the next election.

How is all of this racist? The article talks about a national holiday for a guy who hasn't done anything as of yet to deserve it. Black, white or polka dots, it's stupid. I don't see racism.

Predictably, LS, I agree with you. He might be the worst president we have ever had and they already want a national holiday for him?

He could also be the best President we've ever had.

Talk of a holliday for him is absolute stupidity and likely started by people that just can't accept the truth. Is there a holiday for Kennedy?

WM pretty funny someone who said "all blacks should go back to Africa" criticizing CW.

Better quetion is there a holiday for Carter?

dnf wrote:

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WM pretty funny someone who said "all blacks should go back to Africa" criticizing CW.

Better quetion is there a holiday for Carter?

Chipmunk Whisperer/dnf ?????

Kinda like Mutt and Jeff....Abbott and Costello

Two of the three stooges...

What's the relationship here....kinda like a tag team thingy going on.

The two of you need some fresh air and sunshine!

dnf wrote:

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WM pretty funny someone who said "all blacks should go back to Africa" criticizing CW.

What I said is that blacks that call themselves 'African-American' should go back to Africa. People in this country are Americans and there is no place here for hyphonated references to other countries or continents.

They are black, we are white. I don't call myself a 'European-American' even though I was born over there.

I am proud to call Obama our next President. I think it is about time we have someone representing our country who is what this country is all about. This is afterall a "Melting pot" is it not?! He is half white and half "African-American" which is representative of a lot of Americans these days. When you look around Wolfeboro you see mostly white faces, but if you go into any of the cities around the country that is not the case. I hope (for all of us) Obama turns out to be one of the best Presidents this country has ever had!

Now that he is elected by the people, he now works for the people.

Valerie Jarrett of The One's Transitional Team spoke today. She stated that "[Obama] was ready to RULE".

What kind of mistake is that—in what is supposed to be an administration that works for the people?

wildman wrote:

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He could also be the best President we've ever had.

Talk of a holliday for him is absolute stupidity and likely started by people that just can't accept the truth. Is there a holiday for Kennedy?

We do have a Presidents Day which is supposed to honor all Presidents. When I was a kid we had Lincoln and Washington's Birthdays' off now we just have Presidents Day.

NJoy wrote:

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I am proud to call Obama our next President. I think it is about time we have someone representing our country who is what this country is all about. This is afterall a "Melting pot" is it not?! He is half white and half "African-American" which is representative of a lot of Americans these days. When you look around Wolfeboro you see mostly white faces, but if you go into any of the cities around the country that is not the case. I hope (for all of us) Obama turns out to be one of the best Presidents this country has ever had!

Very well put!!!!

wolf03894 wrote:

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Very well put!!!!

I can't agree. America may have celebrated a melodrama of American racial politics, but I would sooner vote for Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods has NO history of associating with at least two radical Palestinian professors, co-hosting lectures with Chicago neighbor/terrorist William Ayers, listening 20 years to a pastor-racist, and calling his own mother "a typical white person" in his own autobiography! Obama gave a favorable book review of terrorist William Ayers' new book, which put Palestinian assassin Sirhan Sirhan on its dedication page!

Tiger Woods used no effort to gain prominence using Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action cheats achieving minority members in other fields of the respect and accolades that they justly earn. Obama has had Affirmative Action help at each step, beginning at high school, and accelerating to a letter of recommendation to Harvard, begged from a board member by still another Middle Eastern radical!

NJoy can be proud if she wants to, "to call Obama our next President"; however, the reasons she gives make me think that Tiger Woods would have been an even better candidate because he has even more "races" in his blood.

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., once famously said, "a man should be judged by his character rather than by the color of his skin". So why are the colors of Obama's parents even being mentioned when skin color should be irrelevant?

Tiger Woods became a messenger for a larger truth: Our race does not make us who we are.

Lastly, it takes a news-writer from another country to put it right:

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"A victory for the cult of the cult.

"A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

"A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon.

"Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion."

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/11/08/7345431-sun.html

BTW: Welcome to the forum, NJoy.

Get over it CW. He is going to be the President of the United States whether you like it or not.

You should at least have the decency to give him a chance to prove himself. If he screws up, I'll be the first one to take your side.

We all have skeletons in our closets (if we are honest enough to admit that) and what we would do in the future has nothing to do with what we would have done in the past.

Your posting of comparing Michelle Obama to a black widdow spider was a disgusting thing to do when you know nothing about her.

wildman wrote:

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Your posting of comparing Michelle Obama to a black widdow spider was a disgusting thing to do when you know nothing about her.

Just as we don't know anything about ANYBODY (that we don't know personally), do we wildman??

NJoy wrote:

I am proud to call Obama our next President. I think it is about time we have someone representing our country who is what this country is all about. This is afterall a "Melting pot" is it not?! He is half white and half "African-American" which is representative of a lot of Americans these days. When you look around Wolfeboro you see mostly white faces, but if you go into any of the cities around the country that is not the case. I hope (for all of us) Obama turns out to be one of the best Presidents this country has ever had!

For sheer vacuousness and vapid thought...

This is why were are in the mess we are in.

I've felt for a long time that the "melting pot" has gone away, and that is the source of many of the tensions between various groups within the country.

The melting pot is meant to be an example....you have a cauldron of boiling metal....a new metal bar gets dropped in, it melts and becomes part of the whole.

But in these times, the groups coming in do not want to melt in and become part of the whole. They don't want the pot to be boiling, they want the pot to contain all the different bars of metal as separate pieces that happen to be sitting in the same pot. This attitude goes against the very soul of this country.

I don't want to be in that pot and melted down! I want to be an INDIVIDUAL! I thought THAT was what AMERICA was all about.
Anti-I love your guy! I need to borrow him!

That's the whole point of what this country is all about - you remain an individual, but at the same time we all melt together to form one nation - E Pluribus Unum.

Otherwise, it's just a geographic area fractured and divided, each group only interested in its own interests, not the interest of everyone.