A National Holiday for Barry? No thank you!
There was a time in this country when we celebrated greatness… things great people had done for others, or our country. We have a tradition in this country of honoring these great men/women with days of recognition, or sometimes even months of lessons and television specials.
Apparently some feel those days of celebrating accomplishments are a thing of the past.
A group dubbed “Yes We Can” in Kansas has made its goal to initiate a National Holiday on November 4th to commemorate the election of Barack Obama. The group points to national holidays having been established for past Presidents such as Washington, Lincoln etc. as reason enough to celebrate Obama’s election.
One HUGE problem with that argument folks. Washington, Lincoln, MLK etc are all DEAD for one, and another thing… they all ACCOMPLISHED monumental achievements for their country. Barack Obama has yet to do a single thing aside from becoming our 44th President.
If we exit an Obama Presidency having seen monumental achievements accomplished by this man, I could see there being a sound argument for a possible commemoration of his success but, to quote friends “he hasn’t even been inaugurated yet!
People keep talking about this historic event that has happened… the first black man to rise to the highest office in our country and that’s excellent! The only problem with that is, to commemorate that with a national holiday is to celebrate an accomplishment with race as a motivating factor.
Let the man do something, and let the history books decide if he deserves a national holiday.
Do you like the idea of Nov. 4th becoming a national hoiliday in honor of Obama?
- No (88%, 15 Votes)
- Yes (12%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 17
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nick
10 Nov, 2008
I heard about this one this morning, completely ridiculous. I want a holiday for Bush then, he made me proud, he was the first president who couldn’t say nuclear right. That alone should earn him something.
James
10 Nov, 2008
Before we go handing out holidays for “POTENTIAL” greatness why not set up some for people who actually WERE first.
Besides… why is Presidents Day not good enough? That’s one of our only “holidays” that recognizes both living and dead Presidents.
Rob
10 Nov, 2008
If this folly occurs, I’d like to suggest March 15th – the Ides of March. That way “Black History Month” (officially the month of February) could begin in January as they begin talking about the upcoming MLK day and continue through BO day. We could have Black History Month for a full 1/4 of the year then! Sheesh!
Rich
11 Nov, 2008
national holiday, whatever, but so much for your “respect” nonsense in earlier posts. who the hell is “barry”? furthermore, there are tens of millions who think a black man becoming the President of the United States is quite the achievement. generation defining some have said. turning point in the cultural history of an entire country, etc.
what do those pesky “smart” people know though eh? don’t learn nothing from book learning!
James
11 Nov, 2008
Boy Rich… you have some anger issues to work over.
Electing our first Bi-Racial President IS an accomplishment, but the man himself shouldn’t be the focus of a holiday. If we want to make Election Day a national holiday so people could get out to vote that’s one thing… but putting a man up on a pedestal simply for being elected is ridiculous.
BTW, “Barry” is the name Barack went by as a kid before changing back to Barack later in his life.
Rich
11 Nov, 2008
anger issues, you do make me laugh! folks on the right seem to be in a perpetual state of anger over something or other. marriage, guns, taxes, flags, holidays, health insurance, you name it you guys are in a huff about it.
fixed elections, wars, criminality, torture, corruption, incompetence, intolerance, not so much!
i’m aware that folk used to call him Barry but it would be President-Elect Obama surely, you guys are all about the respect thing, right?
James
12 Nov, 2008
I think it’s safe to say both “sides” can be pretty heated on issues that they feel passionately about.
A friend of mine will be marching in a protest today against the newly voted for Prop 8 in California and she’s mad as hell.
You’re list is full of vague issues that are more than just black and white issues… I know people on the left that are against any and all war no matter what. Who were against ANY sort of retaliations against those who DID attack us on 9/11. To me, that’s just stupidity.
I’m just pointing out that of ALL my regular commenters you seem to be the only one who has to stomp and spit when you’re making your point, as if it makes your opinion more important.
James
13 Nov, 2008
It's apparent that you are not going to budge on your stance that more government is a good thing and Conservative values don't fit into America. You can have those… and I hope they work out for you.
As a Conservative I believe that people are at their best when left to their own devices, not controlled by a bureaucracy.
As for "democrats want your money and want to spend it on stuff"… infrastructure is one thing, bailing out companies who have priced themselves out of the market and driven their companies into a ditch with tax dollars is not something I approve of… but before you flip out, the Republicans in Washington are largely at fault on this, just as much as the Democrats are.
I make regular posts to my blog, so rather than detail each of my stances I would just suggest you keep reading. As for the election response thread where it was mentioned that the author did not vote for McCain/Palin… go back and take a peek at the Author section under the post title. I did not write that post, it was a guest post by a close friend. For the record I DID vote for McCain Palin.
This country may need change, but MORE government is not it…
Lenella
13 Nov, 2008
No, Nick he WASN'T…Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer in the Navy and HE couldn't pronounce it!
toade
13 Nov, 2008
Rich…I can allow your nonsense…but there's this thing called English…with rules…Cap/lower case letters, proper punctuation, sentence structure…condusive to actual communication. I can tell why "smart" people bother you.
toade
13 Nov, 2008
You talk the game, but don't practice it. The candidate/Senator's name is McCain. See how lack of concern for proper language negates efforts to communicate? Laziness is very telling…and does not promote any form of respect from readers.
toade
13 Nov, 2008
This remark was obviously aimed at Rick's remarks above, not James…
James
13 Nov, 2008
FYI Rich, there is a big difference between Conservative and Republican… just as there is a huge difference between Liberal and Democrat.
Rich2334
13 Nov, 2008
heh, those issues are not vague, you know exactly what each one of those is referring to. look, you run a Mcain/Palin badge on your blog, then you say, I think it was hard to tell from the post, that you didn't vote for them because they are not "real" conservatives but you are a "real" conservative and the "real" conservatives need to take control.
it seems to me that you guys switch your allegiance on and off at will when the people in power screw up enough that you want to distance yourself from them and claim you never voted for them in the first place because you are "real" and they are some weird hybrid republican/conservative.
all you have by way of counter argument is the ancient nonsense that democrats want your money and want to spend it on stuff like healthcare and schools and roads and the other stuff you use all the time. you also have fake arguments like this one. some group gets a little excitable and asks for a national holiday and you want it to be a big thing.
you diminish "your" President by calling him Barry/rockstar/the one/ etc, etc. you have no substantive argument, no counter policy, no reason why your country is not a million times better off with Obama and the Democrats in charge than the last 8 years of unrelenting misery that you have all been caused by a failed ethos of tax cuts/small government/warmongering nonsense.
it doesn't work, it never did and it never will. the USA is a big complex country and it needs a big complex government run by smart people (whatever party they may be) to make it work properly. you've seen what happens when it's done badly (reagan/Bush/Bush) and you've seen what happens when it's done well (Clinton/Obama (we'll see)).
I reckon the right is more hacked off that, like communism before it, your ideology has failed and now, like Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly you're just going to lash out at anything and everything no-matter how small and petty.