Update: National Obama Holiday hits some road bumps

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 11, 2008 10:20 AM

Uh-oh. The planned Adoration of the Obamessiah has run into some planning snags.

Turns out that the Obama cult member who wants to lobby for the holiday doesn’t have as many supporters as he claimed, according to the Topkea Capital-Journal.

You’ll also be happy to know, he doesn’t have permission from McDonald’s to serve “Obama Cake” there on Inauguration Day:

“You absolutely do not have permission to do any kind of Obama planning,” owner Karen Tyler said in a voice mail left on Scroggins’ phone and played for The Capital-Journal.

No worries, though. The NAACP is receptive to the idea:

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for one, was receptive if not officially behind the idea. Hilary Shelton, the national vice president of advocacy, said Obama’s election was of tremendous significance for “a community that was once enslaved.”

“Certainly this very historic moment in our history is something that should be recognized, commemorated and celebrated,” Shelton said.

Hope for The Holiday lives!

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  1. #1
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:24 am, rplatt said:

    Hopefully it will hit a large pothole, blow a tire and be forever forgotten. This is the biggest pile of horse crap I’ve ever heard of.

  2. #2
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:24 am, Craig said:

    I hope they trip and fall.

  3. #3
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:29 am, The Master said:

    “a community that was once enslaved”?? This was like 150 years ago! Are we ever, ever, ever going to stop hearing about it? Must be nice to blame all the problems in your community on things that were done to their great, great, great, great grandparents. Hell, I think my ancestors 150 years ago got screwed over too. Where’s my symphathy and reparations?

  4. #4
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:29 am, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    I would like everyone to get behind the movement for a national day of remembrance and celebration for my childhood dog “Spot”

    He was a great dog.

    He should be commemorated.

    He is missed.

  5. #5
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am, tre said:

    Sounds as if the honeymoon is over before it even starts.

    Are some people starting to see what they’ve gotten themselves into? I sure hope so.

  6. #6
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:33 am, BlameAmericaLast said:

    This guy needs to get a day job.

  7. #7
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am, iamsaved said:

    There will be a constant drumbeat, increasing in crescendo, to declare a national holiday for “The One”. One holiday for MLK isn’t enough. To be politically correct and not to appear rascist, the spineless weasels will give in.

  8. #8
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am, frostrt said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:30 am, tre said:

    Are some people starting to see what they’ve gotten themselves into? I sure hope so.

    _______________________________________
    I think so – and it isn’t even Inauguration Day.

  9. #9
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am, procopy said:

    I still want to know who will make reparations to my family for losses incurred fighting against slavery and to my country for the same?

  10. #10
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:39 am, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    The Thanksgiving day parade is coming soon.

    Is it too late to get an Obama balloon head in the flotilla?

    Does anyone have the street width dimensions?

    With an Obama balloon head those Giant Obama Ears might have some trouble clearing the passage way.

  11. #11
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:40 am, CantCureStupid said:

    Here’s my attitude.

    I have school today, and I have work today. So there’s no way in hell I’ll take a day for Obozo when I don’t get one as a veteran (at least not a paid one).

    These wankers need to get a grip.

  12. #12
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am, txvet2 said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am, procopy said:

    I still want to know who will make reparations to my family for losses incurred fighting against slavery and to my country for the same?

    Beat me to it.

  13. #13
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am, StrangeLove said:

    I never knew we enslaved Kenya. I learn something new on the interweb every day.

  14. #14
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:44 am, cyrebus said:

    Since a colored person has been advanced to the highest job in America, president, shouldn’t the race-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People be dissolved now?

  15. #15
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:45 am, J S Ragman said:

    So it will only be a half-day holiday, right?

  16. #16
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:46 am, johnsteele said:

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for one, was receptive if not officially behind the idea. Hilary Shelton, the national vice president of advocacy, said Obama’s election was of tremendous significance for “a community that was once enslaved.”

    “Certainly this very historic moment in our history is something that should be recognized, commemorated and celebrated,” Shelton said.

    Hope for the Great Racial Divide lives on … thank Heaven for The Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP and The Obama™ ; we were in serious danger of being a color blind society but thankfully they prevented that from happening.

  17. #17
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:46 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Obama, road bumps? I was raised better, I really was-good parents.

    “Yes officer I backed up to see what I ran over and seemed to run over him again- I am SO sorry officer- can I go to traffic school?”

    “You absolutely do not have permission to do any kind of Obama planning,” owner Karen Tyler said in a voice mail left on Scroggins’ phone and played for The Capital-Journal.

    I have been boycotting MickeyDs ever since they dropped the Arch Delux

    BlameAmericaLast said:

    This guy needs to get a day job.

    He does, right after people leave for work. Lock your doors.

    That every man be armed-you too ladies.
    America First
    America Alone
    Americans Come Home

  18. #18
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:52 am, publiuswarmac9999 said:

    Change MLK day to minority day – and then we can all celebrate because America is a nation of minorities.

  19. #19
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am, Tennessee Dave said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am, StrangeLove said:
    I never knew we enslaved Kenya. I learn something new on the interweb every day.

    Well, Kenya was a colony of the British Empire and at the time they were ruled by Caucasians. That makes it guilt by association.
    Maybe some just want another day to party. They can add the day to this site.

  20. #20
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:55 am, Digshot said:

    “a community that was once enslaved”?? This was like 150 years ago! Are we ever, ever, ever going to stop hearing about it? Must be nice to blame all the problems in your community on things that were done to their great, great, great, great grandparents. Hell, I think my ancestors 150 years ago got screwed over too. Where’s my symphathy and reparations?

    No interracial marriage, segregation, the back of the bus, Jim Crow laws, the assassination of Martin Luther King, all of that happened a few decades ago, within people’s lifetimes. This is pointless to bring up here, but the first and last line of defense against Obama’s candidacy wasn’t much more than crazed, racist stupidity.

    You’re…. basically a moron.

  21. #21
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am, Auggie Dog said:

    Obama’s election was of tremendous significance for “a community that was once enslaved.”

    But shouldn’t Obummers white half cancle out his enslaved half? That’s means his election is a wash! Sorry nothing significant here. Time to move on.

  22. #22
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:58 am, DBNinKY said:

    Uh-oh. The planned Adoration of the Obamessiah has run into some planning snags.

    Obama’s best chance for any kind of success as president is to follow the Clinton model: Get rid of the Democrat majorities in both Houses and govern through triangulation!

    He could easily remove the Democrats from control of both Houses simply by approving everything they put in front of him, signing into law the types of liberal policies that are guaranteed to offend and alienate the electorate into voting into office a Republican landslide in 2010.

    I mean, the Republican landslide is gonna happen anyway, so Obama should just speed it along by acquiescing to Pelosi’s and Reid’s every proposal and begin enjoying its effects sooner.

  23. #23
    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:58 am, sonofdy said:

    This is pointless to bring up here, but the first and last line of defense against Obama’s candidacy wasn’t much more than crazed, racist stupidity.

    You’re…. basically a moron.

    I am rubber, you are glue… :roll:

    Grow up. That racism lie doesn’t fly here. Your master may still get his adoration day.

  24. #24
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am, torabora said:

    I wanna paid holiday for EVERY Democratic President that’s ever been elected….and that includes Jefferson Davis! We should get a day for each time they get elected. We also should get a day off for the losers and the ones that died. Maybe we should just give registered Democrats those days off…let the Republicans do all the work.

    You can see where all this is going. This is payback for us fighting the Civil War. We should have let them go their own way then. Now we can’t get away from them owning us.

  25. #25
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:02 am, Southpaw said:

    Since they lumped Washingtons’ and Lincolns’ birthdays into one holiday, the logical thing to do is do the same with Obama and Martin Luthor King. I’m sure most people equate Mr. Obama with Dr. King.

  26. #26
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:02 am, Madam President said:

    I have a friend that lives 10 minutes away from Topeka. When I mentioned this story to him, he told me that the Cult’s little get together wasn’t even a drop in a bucket. I didn’t believe him at first, but after reading this article.. :D

  27. #27
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am, LOBOMAN said:

    I think there is already a holiday for him (and the others) —- It’s called “Presidents Day”

  28. #28
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am, raybury said:

    What’s in an Obama cake? Besides Kool-Aid mix, I mean.

  29. #29
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am, frostrt said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:44 am, cyrebus said:
    Since a colored person has been advanced to the highest job in America, president, shouldn’t the race-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People be dissolved now?
    ______________________________________

    We can dream.

  30. #30
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am, Larry L. Sharp said:

    Speaking of holidays. Is Obamanation commemorating Veterans Day today? Perhaps he is having a low key affair over coffee with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and his bitter wife?

  31. #31
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am, jedijson said:

    We have a holiday for presidents. It’s called President’s Day for a reason. It’s even in February–which is Black History Month.

    How much more does he really need?

  32. #32
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    May Day is already celebrated.

    Why not change the name to Obama Day?

  33. #33
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am, Digshot said:

    I am rubber, you are glue… :roll:

    Grow up. That racism lie doesn’t fly here. Your master may still get his adoration day.

    Take some responsibility. It’s not like you guys were even trying to be subtle about it.

  34. #34
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Kenya was slaved by the Omani Arabs-slaves sold to the Portuguese for Brazil. The British and German navies put an end to ARAB slavers, the Sultan of Zanzibar-Omani Arab- in 1885, by the arrival of the Imperial British Fleet. The Sultan of Zanzibar-Omani Arab might owe somebody something, but he would be really, really old by now.
    BroBama might owe himself reparations.

    Source- a really, really old high school history book.

    That every man be armed-you too ladies.
    America First
    America Alone
    Americans Come Home

  35. #35
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am, Digshot said:

    Since a colored person has been advanced to the highest job in America, president, shouldn’t the race-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People be dissolved now?

    Christians get elected every four years, can we dissolve all of their stupid organizations and associations?

  36. #36
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am, sonofdy said:

    Take some responsibility. It’s not like you guys were even trying to be subtle about it.

    If you say so :roll:

    Isn’t your master telling you to email the lastest Obama video or something?

  37. #37
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am, FamilyMan said:

    Digshot
    Its time to grow up. The black population has had ample time to get their lives together. Most of their problems are created by their own attitudes. We can all wallow in the past. Some of us have chosen to move forward without the burdens we’ve placed on ourselves or by others.

  38. #38
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am, FamilyMan said:

    Digshot
    Its time to grow up. The black population has had ample time to get their lives together. Most of their problems are created by their own attitudes. We can all wallow in the past. Some of us have chosen to move forward without the burdens we’ve placed on ourselves or by others.

  39. #39
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am, FamilyMan said:

    Digshot
    Its time to grow up. The black population has had ample time to get their lives together. Most of their problems are created by their own attitudes. We can all wallow in the past. Some of us have chosen to move forward without the burdens we’ve placed on ourselves or by others.

  40. #40
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am, sonofdy said:

    Christians get elected every four years, can we dissolve all of their stupid organizations and associations?

    You could try…

  41. #41
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:14 am, FamilyMan said:

    Digshot
    Its time to grow up. The black population has had ample time to get their lives together. Most of their problems are created by their own attitudes. We can all wallow in the past. Some of us have chosen to move forward without the burdens we’ve placed on ourselves or by others.
    STOP WHINING LIKE A BABY

  42. #42
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:14 am, sonofdy said:

    Family man, I agree all 3 times. ;-)

  43. #43
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am, sonofdy said:

    make that 4 times…

  44. #44
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am, pueblo1032 said:

    A national holiday for this EMPTY SUIT??? You have got to be KIDDING… Why not though??? In my local RAG, day after election, political cartoon, B. HUSSEIN up on MT RUSHMORE with the 4 BIG GUYS, not even with , but ABOVE… Now that’s DISGUSTING!!!

  45. #45
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am, FamilyMan said:

    OPPS! SORRY

  46. #46
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am, RedDog said:

    Hilary Shelton, the national vice president of advocacy, said Obama’s election was of tremendous significance for “a community that was once enslaved.”

    I feel enslaved myself. How about the rest of us getting liberated from the constant droning onslaught of your “community”? Fifty years and trillions of dollars later is enough enslavement for me.

  47. #47
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am, sonofdy said:

    Familyman: Just pray to obama for forgiveness, prostrate with your head towards chicago. You racist you ;-)

  48. #48
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am, Digshot said:

    Digshot
    Its time to grow up. The black population has had ample time to get their lives together. Most of their problems are created by their own attitudes. We can all wallow in the past. Some of us have chosen to move forward without the burdens we’ve placed on ourselves or by others.

    I responded to a comment that said blacks should stop complaining because slavery was done with 150 years ago. Even a cursory glance at American history, from a few decades back up to the modern election of the first black President, proves that racism has been and still is pervasive. It is absolutely racism to insist that Colin Powell only voted for Obama because they’re both black.

    What do conservatives know anyway?

  49. #49
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am, chotii said:

    Thank you, Michelle, for reporting the input of the McDonald’s franchisee or manager in this case.

    I saw people demanding to boycott McDonald’s over this, and as the adult child of a retired McDonald’s owner-operator (who by the way did NOT vote for Obama this time and feels his ideas are anti-business), I tried to imagine these people simply deciding that *his* store was a public location to use to plan a National Obama Day.

    Police coming to insist on group departure, charges of trespassing, and “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone at any time” came instantly to mind.

  50. #50
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am, Boomer said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am, Tennessee Dave said: #19

    You beat me to it, but you must remember the founding fathers were British subjects before the little disagreement we had about taxation without representation. Therefore by liberal feeling (remember they can’t use logical thought) we are guilty of all crimes real and imagined the once great British Empire is guilty of. ;)

    Don’t even get me started on the states rights disagreement that cost over 600,000 American lives resulting in an end to slavery in this country. :roll:

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

  51. #51
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:20 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Triangulation? Is that strangulation with three knots? I think that is illegal in most states and seriously disapproved of in others.

    If you have not been called a RAAAACIST! by a troll you are NOT doing your job. Subtle is a code word for sissy. :roll:

  52. #52
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:20 am, sonofdy said:

    It is absolutely racism to insist that Colin Powell only voted for Obama because they’re both black.

    Digshot, most honest blacks ADMIT they voted for him because he was black. I don’t even blame them. Grow up and stop blaming everything on “racism”.

    What do conservatives know anyway

    Obivously more than you.

  53. #53
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:21 am, FamilyMan said:

    Digshot said: What do conservatives know anyway?

    HEY!
    ARE YOUR PROFILING ME SPORT?

  54. #54
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am, chotii said:

    Digshot, can you explain something? Why is it that racism somehow only applies to blacks? People come here from other countries – in Asia, Mexico, central and South American – work their butts off, and in a few years (or maybe a bit longer) are doing WELL? How about the illegal immigrants who manage to send home hundreds of dollars a month, working minimum-wage jobs the rest of us couldn’t even live on?

    Why can they do it, and yet the prevailing tone I hear from blacks is that they’ve been victimized?

    I’ll tell you what. It isn’t just skin color. With the exception of a few people my father’s age, I don’t know anybody who gives a d@mn about skin color. But we sure do get sick of “victims”.

  55. #55
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am, oldbuckaroo said:

    This is almost as goofy as the plan to commemorate Obama’s birthplace …. IN KENYA!

  56. #56
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am, guitarguy said:

    So, rather than wait to see if ‘The Amazing Barry’ actually accomplishes something while in office, they’re ready to give him his own holiday?

    How about when we elect an asian as President?
    Or a woman?
    Or a muslim?

    I wonder how different this world would be had we not had slavery.
    Black people would’ve emigrated here just like the italians, poles, jews, etc. There would be no ‘victim mentality’ to embrace.

    It exists still because we never had leaders that stood tall and said: “Yeah, yeah, yeah! Boo-frikkin-hoo! Just shut-up and go to work and earn a living, and stop looking for a handout!”

  57. #57
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:26 am, sonofdy said:

    This is why I say if the government offers us money we should take it because we will pay for it anyway… Come on 2010!!!

    BTW got to love the Obama effect on the market. Ugh.

  58. #58
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:26 am, mike.musculus said:

    I thought that having a holiday was like having a postage stamp issued: you had to be dead awhile.

    Of course, I guess it doesn’t really matter whether that is or isn’t the law. They don’t seem limited by those old-fashioned things anymore.

    To avoid the gastopo, I won’t mention the other obvious branch that reason takes, except to say there is a page, a bumpersticker, a book, a movie which outlines how to meet elegibility for the stamp requirement for GWB. I also know that while the Lefties think it chic for GWB, they’ll go @pesh!t if anyone takes the same liberty w/their god.

  59. #59
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:29 am, CleanGuy said:

    And what happens if during his presidency all hell breaks loose and the country ceases to exit? Let’s wait until he’s out of office before we decided that this historic time in our lives is a good thing.

    In the meantime, just make it part of Kwanzaa…

  60. #60
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:30 am, jdubya said:

    Please serve my Obama cake in an airsickness bag.

    Cheers!

  61. #61
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am, spidgy said:

    I love it. Keep up the kookiness. These nutjobs are priceless. Quick! Give them more rope!

    We have to get our house in order, folks; and we only have 2 years to get it done. Obama is a “distraction” – but we still need to keep an eye on him.

  62. #62
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:32 am, jsr said:

    Even a cursory glance at American history, from a few decades back up to the modern election of the first black President, proves that racism has been and still is pervasive.

    Boo Hoo Hoo

    Black folks just can’t get a break.

    Boo Hoo Hoo

    White people are jus always dicriminating agaianst us , and the whole system is rigged so they don’t even have to try hard to get ahead. Hell, most of them are born rich.

    Boo Hoo Hoo

    And all those millions of immigrants that come from other countries with nothing but their dreams are just fooling themselves if they think they they aren’t oppressed.

    Boo Hoo Hoo

  63. #63
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am, FamilyMan said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal said: If you have not been called a RAAAACIST! by a troll you are NOT doing your job.

    I need to work harder at this. I’ve only been called a racist twice in the last three months.

  64. #64
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am, guitarguy said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am, chotii said: Why can they do it, and yet the prevailing tone I hear from blacks is that they’ve been victimized?

    Amen!
    Years ago, during the Dinkins administration, there was an incident in NYC involving a Korean deli. The Koreans moved into a largely black neighborhood and setup shop. They worked long hours and provided a service to the community. But black agitators decided to trash their business.
    Why?
    Because the success of the Koreans disproved the claims (of the black whiners) that minorities couldn’t succeed in that area. The Koreans closed shop – because Dinkins failed them…..what a surprise. The local people were angry because they liked shopping at that deli…..but the black agitators won the day….and the incident was forgotten.
    I’m sure the Koreans returned home with a very low opinion of the USA.

  65. #65
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:35 am, SoCal said:

    It is absolutely racism to insist that Colin Powell only voted for Obama because they’re both black.

    Morons. We are being overrun by morons…

    We are letting them spread like a virus. I don’t know why we are so afraid to speak or act. We USED to be in charge of this nation.

  66. #66
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am, Flyoverman said:

    Why is everyone getting in a lather over one guy in Topeka, KS?

    Message to Sonny:

    “Everyone has the right to their opinion,but no one has the right to be taken seriously. – Will Rogers.

    Next topic, please.

  67. #67
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am, max said:

    pigshot said:
    What do conservatives know anyway?

    pigshot, just because your candidate won the election does not mean that all his ideas are the right ones and all conservative ideas are the wrong ones.
    It simply means he got more votes and won the election. period.

  68. #68
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:43 am, englishqueen01 said:

    Christians get elected every four years, can we dissolve all of their stupid organizations and associations?

    Stupid, stupid equation, Digshot. I don’t see the Catholic Church clamoring for reparations after the rather…nasty treatment we (usually Irish Catholics) received in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century:

    Prejudice against Irish Catholics in the US reached a peak in the mid-1850s with the Know Nothing Movement, which tried to oust Catholics from public office. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Nast published popular political cartoons of Irish drinking, fighting, ignoring their children, gambling, and crowding poorhouses.
    After 1860 the Irish sang songs (see illustration) about signs reading “HELP WANTED – NO IRISH NEED APPLY”, which were also referred to as “the NINA signs.” The song had a deep impact on the Irish sense of discrimination.

    I don’t see quotas in hiring or college admissions specifying that x number of Christians need to be hired or enrolled – even if they’re not fully qualified – to make some liberal feel happy.

    In fact, in Canada, their lovely Human Rights Commissions have basically said Christians have no human rights and can never be offended – not even by songs containing the non-ironic, non-satirical lyrics “Kill the Christians.”

    Liberals have no one but themselves to blame if there is a backlash over claims of “racism” because it is liberals who’ve played that card so much, and in instances where no racism is present but they just don’t like the opinion of another person (usually a conservative), it’s rather become a badge of honor because you’ve destroyed and undermined any significant meaning the word once had.

  69. #69
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:44 am, UglyBagOfMostlyWater said:

    Usually holidays observe people who have, oh, I don’t know — done something.

    Winning a popularity contest does not constitute “doing something.”

  70. #70
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:44 am, southsideironworks said:

    Obama has never done anything except run for office, spend our tax dollars, and write legislation that helps make it easier to kill unborn babies.

    Where does an official holiday fit in here?

  71. #71
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:45 am, SoCal said:

    WATCH THIS… it explains why the MORONS are not outnumbering us… VERY FUNNY, and unfortunately true.. Pass it on to your conservative friends.

    click here

  72. #72
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am, PirateLady said:

    He won the election THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH. He’s going to be the 44th PRESIDENT OF THE USA. If he does great & might things and history proves him to be a great leader then fine – give him a holiday.

    What they want is to give him a holiday before he becomes a major bafoon and screws the USA up.

  73. #73
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:49 am, flmom said:

    We are letting them spread like a virus. I don’t know why we are so afraid to speak or act. We USED to be in charge of this nation.

    I’ve been thinking about this for a while and have come to the conclusion that the Left have hit on a perfect comeback to any logical argument that gets in the way of what they want. Rather like children, their comebacks usually involve insults, rarely discussion. For instance, I can’t count the times my daughter has told me she ‘hates me’, when I say no to anything she wants. The solution; ignore the insults, realize the source and stand firm in knowing that you know what is better for them. We need leaders who understand this concept, too many of them wince at the insults and rush to make it all better by capitulating their beliefs.

  74. #74
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:53 am, robhic said:

    Don’t be so quick to criticize. This holiday idea might’ve been an edict from the “Office of the President-Elect” or something official like that.

    Can’t go against an official office now, can you?

    sarc/off

  75. #75
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am, flmom said:

    SoCal
    That link was hilarious.

  76. #76
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:56 am, mojack420 said:

    Hilary Shelton, the national vice president of advocacy, said Obama’s election was of tremendous significance for “a community that was once enslaved.”

    the truth is every race color creed has been enslaved at one time or another in history .
    Just seems most have seemed to get over it.

  77. #77
    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am, sandyb said:

    Please serve my Obama cake in an airsickness bag.

    I’m guessing Obama cake has arsenic and cyanide as the main ingredients. I’ll have mine with a spot of hemlock, please.

  78. #78
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:02 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Did Digshot run back to his sandbox?

  79. #79
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am, Digshot said:

    What do conservatives know anyway?

    1. President-elect Obama hasn’t done anything except get elected so far.

    2. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees a pre-existing individual right to keep and bear arms.

    3. The government doesn’t produce anything and doesn’t generate a single dime of the Gross National Product.

    4. The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle can be laid squarely at the feet of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank who blocked “bipartisan” efforts to rein them in.

    5. Senator Chuck Schumer is a self-serving idiot.

    There are five things right off the top of my head, digger.

    ECS

  80. #80
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm, Weary Citizen said:

    From the story.

    Shelton, the national vice president of advocacy, said Obama’s election was of tremendous significance for “a community that was once enslaved.”

    On November 11th, 2008 at 10:55 am, Digshot said:
    “a community that was once enslaved”?? This was like 150 years ago! Are we ever, ever, ever going to stop hearing about it? Must be nice to blame all the problems in your community on things that were done to their great, great, great, great grandparents. Hell, I think my ancestors 150 years ago got screwed over too. Where’s my symphathy and reparations?

    No interracial marriage, segregation, the back of the bus, Jim Crow laws, the assassination of Martin Luther King, all of that happened a few decades ago, within people’s lifetimes

    .

    First, “The Master” made a legitimate comment in response to the whining about “enslavement” by the race baiting organization’s spokeswoman. The “enslavement” comment referred to slavery (which did end 150 years ago) NOT discrimination. Second, are you seriously equating slavery to discrimination? That is a really really far stretch to equate ownership and complete control of another person’s life to being treated as a 2nd class citizen. THough, most would argue that discrimination is horrible, it is not even on the same planet as slavery.

    So, you are either: A) incapable of discerning a perfectly logical argument and responding logically B) are yourself a perpetual victim who will always find a way to blame others for your own shortcomings and will always support any ridiculous claims made by the race baiting organizaitons C) lack comprehensive reading skills D) are intentionally dishonest by creatinga strawman or E) all of the above. I vote all of the above. Go whine to someone who actually believes your nonsense.

  81. #81
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm, sgcwi said:

    The guy better see if he can afford cake mix after the “one” gets done with his money. He might just need that cake to make it so that he can work for all the non worker bee’s about to get his money.

  82. #82
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, SoCal said:

    This was like 150 years ago! Are we ever, ever, ever going to stop hearing about it?

    I think we have put up with it long enough too… but what can really be done?

  83. #83
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:22 pm, b-cat said:

    To point out the obvious, which is neccesary with the left, it was white people that elected Lincoln.

  84. #84
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    last line of defense against Obama’s candidacy wasn’t much more than crazed, racist stupidity.

    No Digshot – you’re the moron. And slavery has never happened in our lifetimes. Stupid people like you think any injustice is slavery and it’s not. Normally I keep a civil tone but you are a complete ass.

  85. #85
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:25 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    mike.musculus #58 said:

    I thought that having a holiday was like having a postage stamp issued: you had to be dead awhile.

    :-)

    Something you want to share?
    But in all fairness I think we should wait as long to attack President Elect BroObama as the Left Wing Wackos waited to attack Bush.
    Election night? Have a hanging chad.

    That every man be armed-you too ladies.
    America First
    America Alone
    Americans Come Home

  86. #86
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pm, rpg1616 said:

    This is all Bill Clinton’s fault. Most of the black community didn’t even realize that Obama was black until Clinton went down to North Carolina to try to scare the white people.

  87. #87
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:30 pm, frostrt said:

    On November 11th, 2008 at 11:17 am, Digshot said:

    What do conservatives know anyway?
    _______________________________________

    How to not be taken in by a “cult of personality”.

    How not to be intimidated by baseless accusations of racism.

    How to leave the past in the past.

    Time will tell what kind of President Obama will be; but do we need a holiday in his honor before he has even been inaugurated?

  88. #88
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    All of this discussion about a potential Obama Holiday is fun. I would suggest we consider naming it National Lay-Off Day. Because that may become the enduring symbol of his presidency. No longwinded stem-winder of a speech is going to help him out of this mess. This is not something that those Law Classes at Harvard and all-nighters spent discussing the virtues of redistribution have prepared him for.

    Not only has he never had to meet a payroll, he has never considered what that means.

    Everything in his background has prepared him to debate about taking the profits from any successful business.

    What if those same businesses are no longer profitable? What does the redistributionist do then?

    Look at GM.

    Remember the old adage, “As GM goes, so goes the nation.”

    Well today they are a speculation buy. Well that old adage may be more correct today than ever before. As today GM is standing in front of congress with hat in hand, arm outstretched, begging the people who for years raided the coffers of GM and told them not to be greedy. Give Give Give some more, they were told. Now the tables have turned.

    Obama has spent his life waiting to get power, so his redistribution policies can be enacted. Only he arrived late. Now he faces not coffers overflowing, but coffers which have ran dry. Now instead of being able to go forth to foreign nations telling them how he will offer them assistance, he is faced with having to possibly go to them with his hat in hand. Begging them for relief. Instead of sitting at the G-8 summit as leader of the most powerful nation in the world, he is now faced with sitting there begging for scraps.

    Nothing in his worldview ever prepared him for the world he now faces. He is now faced with a business and investor world that has heard his words and believes them. The investor has heard how he wants to take from them and they have responded by selling them holdings that could be sold. Yes there is still the 401k money, but how many have reduced their input into these funds.

    Or will reduce their contributions before the 20th of January?

    This is a man who has gained everything he hungered for, only to find that the world has changed. The dreams of power and graft are coming crashing down as the quickly as the Dow is dropping. Who faced with Mr. Obama’s ambitions of redistribution will invest their money in his schemes? I had rather put it under my mattress than give it to the redistributionist. What will you do? Bonds, yes they are an option, but I had rather wait to see the direction his plans take before I return my money to the government, for any potential return.

    What if he decides the needs of the government deems the returns it has promised to pay out are suspended?

    Crazy, you say! Really?

    What in his history would makes you think he does not see himself as a megalomaniacal autocrat? With his world view so twisted by Marxism, I submit this man sees no limits on his power. I accept that I could be wrong, but am more satisfied with my net worth not in a market left to the whims of a Marxists desires.

    Ok so I am all wrong, then you tell us how low you think the Dow will go. Anyone want to play that game? Are you on the phone with your broker saying Buy, Buy, Buy? Or are you instead saying Bye bye?

    There will be some intrepid people picking off selected stocks for what may be a perceived bargain. This could later be seen as a Sucker Surge. Those who simply refuse to believe the market could go farther down. Do you want to lead the charge in buying?

    What make me so sure it is going lower?

    I submit that as Americans, often we cannot bring ourselves to believe the American economy is not resilient enough to come back. While I am not declaring the American Economy DOA. I am saying that too many still do not understand the problems facing the economy. Meaning that for the market to rebound the big investors must know that the true losses are already built in the price they will eventually pay to reenter.

    How can that be figured? One example. A house bought near the top in early 07’ for $565,000, and another being offered this weekend for $189,000. Virtually the same house, same neighborhood, less than one block apart. The lower priced home even has more amenities, poll spa etc. The owner of the first home, who I spoke with, refuses to believe they have taken $376,000 haircut. Or a loss of 66%.

    Is this all, no! This price represents the retail price in one area. However the real numbers will come in what the government pays for those failing mortgages. The number paid by the government is likely to be to be in the 20% range. Imagine a million dollar home being scooped up for $200,000. It could happen. It will happen without some massive turnaround in our economy. But with the major manufacturing base of our economy already gone. The auto industry in line with the banks, hats in hand, and the airlines in front of them. Where is the rebound going to come from. You and I can go to McDonalds every day and that is worth spit in the big picture.

    This turnaround is going to be long and deep. So prepare yourself. There are no magic bullets left in the government’s arsenal. And the individual elected to man the helm is ill-equipped to take the wheel.

  89. #89
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:48 pm, rambler said:

    All the Obama hype is just going to make near impossible for him to live up to expectations. Reality can be cruel when the “happly ever after” fades.

  90. #90
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:51 pm, sonofdy said:

    oldcollegeguy1980: Luckly for me at least I have an out if it all falls apart. New Zealand. I suspect when the spoiled masses grasp that they will no longer be able to have a easy life, even with government assistance, then I expect alot of very unhappy americans.

    Who will they balme when dems control everything and it all falls apart?

  91. #91
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pm, rambler said:

    oldcollegeguy1980,
    AMEN!

  92. #92
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:56 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    Well said. I once had an Econ Prof who said that someday everyone in the class will work at McDonald’s or Burger King, and cross the street for lunch.

  93. #93
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:57 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Who will they balme when dems control everything and it all falls apart?

    Bush.

  94. #94
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:58 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    Blame who they like.

    The question is who will listen?

  95. #95
    On November 11th, 2008 at 12:59 pm, oldcollegeguy1980 said:

    Even democrats get hungry…

  96. #96
    On November 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pm, max said:

    Otopia – It’s what’s for dinner…./not!

  97. #97
    On November 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    I think that McDonald’s would need a full description of what is IN the “Obama Cake” before they could serve it. I’d hate to eat a piece of “Obama Cake” only to find out that HE was part of the ingredients.

  98. #98
    On November 11th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, yohannbiimu said:

    Oooooh…was just thinking that “Obama Cake” might be part of a new religious communion-like thing–as you eat the “Obama Cake,” you are partaking in Obama’s body.

    Everything coming out of this coming administration is simply CREEPY.

  99. #99
    On November 11th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, RetFireman said:

    Laugh all you want, but I will bet a years salary that it will happen before the century is done.

    The only question is, what other holiday will be rep[laced or consolidated with another in order to allow “Obama Day” to become a reality.

    And what will the Furniture Store and Car Lots do to advertise their “Obama Day Sales Event”?

  100. #100
    On November 11th, 2008 at 1:09 pm, Send_Me said:

    Since when does someone need accomplishments to receive recognition? Doesn’t everyone deserve a trophy in this league?
    /sarc

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