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section125 : 8/30/2015 6:34 pm
to Denali by the White House.

Ok then. How many more groups can this administration pander to?

Just to stir up a bland Sunday.
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I think it's not a bad thing at all  
Moondawg : 8/30/2015 6:50 pm : link
and I'm not a fan of pandering.
How many "Obama is renaming mountains but won't  
Ben in Tampa : 8/30/2015 6:55 pm : link
say Islamic Terrorist!" conversations on Fox this week?

Keep in mind, Mt. McKinley was not named for our former President in tribute following his assassination. It was christened after him following his nomination as Republican Presidential candidate. Sooooo... who cares?
It's always nice to make unilateral decisions...  
Dunedin81 : 8/30/2015 7:26 pm : link
it has been known as Denali in Alaska pretty much forever and that's all well and good, but it is named for a man who was subsequently assassinated.

And his trip promises to be noteworthy for its global warming photo ops, as though the state doesn't have anything else to worry about.
I found something  
Headhunter : 8/30/2015 7:35 pm : link
that I could care less than I do about NY Liberty WBA team. Thank you Obama!
RE: I found something  
section125 : 8/30/2015 7:46 pm : link
In comment 12443641 Headhunter said:
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that I could care less than I do about NY Liberty WBA team. Thank you Obama!


You found something?
Hoover Dam is next.  
Big Al : 8/30/2015 7:54 pm : link
Boulder Dam did not stick for a Democrat erasing a Republican name but time to try again.
LOL  
RasputinPrime : 8/30/2015 8:16 pm : link
How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.
this is just a notch below  
weeg in the bronx : 8/30/2015 8:24 pm : link
State democratic groups erasing of Jefferson. Where does it end?
I think its a cool idea,  
wgenesis123 : 8/30/2015 8:43 pm : link
now we can change the names of all kinds of things whenever we have a new President. Sounds like the Soviet Union!
Please denote sarcasm on previous post.  
wgenesis123 : 8/30/2015 8:44 pm : link
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The Daily Show  
Nick in LA : 8/30/2015 8:48 pm : link
did a segment on this. It is pretty funny.
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RE: LOL  
Nick in LA : 8/30/2015 8:58 pm : link
In comment 12443700 RasputinPrime said:
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.


You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.
As far as I'm concerned,  
81_Great_Dane : 8/30/2015 9:08 pm : link
this is not a thing. The people who lived there called it Denali for centuries before a bunch of guys thousands of miles away decided to give it another name.

Everest was called Chomolungma by Tibetans and Sagarmatha by Nepalese long before the British decided to name it after one of their own. Nepal calls the park around it Sagarmatha National Park. They never adopted the British name, just like the Alaskan native people never adopted "McKinley."

This is not a thing.
It's official.  
manh george : 8/30/2015 9:08 pm : link
The Hip-Hop musical about Hamilton will forthwith be known as the Country and Western Musical about Hamilton.
Why should the federal government decide the name?  
larryflower37 : 8/30/2015 9:10 pm : link
Seams to me if the people of Alaska want it named Denali then that's what it should be.
State's should have that right.
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Dunedin81 : 8/30/2015 9:11 pm : link
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.



You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.


That's not the point. The President decided to wave a wand and change a name, clumsy and insignificant though it may have been, to assuage an ostensibly aggrieved group (that has bigger problems than having a mountain named after a president). It's par for the course for him, but that doesn't make it praiseworthy.
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Kulish29 : 8/30/2015 9:15 pm : link
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.



You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.



That's not the point. The President decided to wave a wand and change a name, clumsy and insignificant though it may have been, to assuage an ostensibly aggrieved group (that has bigger problems than having a mountain named after a president). It's par for the course for him, but that doesn't make it praiseworthy.


:rolls eyes out of hdad:
*head  
Kulish29 : 8/30/2015 9:16 pm : link
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rut17 : 8/30/2015 9:17 pm : link
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.



You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.



That's not the point. The President decided to wave a wand and change a name, clumsy and insignificant though it may have been, to assuage an ostensibly aggrieved group (that has bigger problems than having a mountain named after a president). It's par for the course for him, but that doesn't make it praiseworthy.


You never quit do you?
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RasputinPrime : 8/30/2015 9:20 pm : link
In comment 12443755 Nick in LA said:
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.



You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.


Yes. Who cares is the point. Stop retcon'ing everything to placate interest group "x". Let the Washington have their redskin pigskins and focus on real issues.
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Kulish29 : 8/30/2015 9:25 pm : link
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.



You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.



That's not the point. The President decided to wave a wand and change a name, clumsy and insignificant though it may have been, to assuage an ostensibly aggrieved group (that has bigger problems than having a mountain named after a president). It's par for the course for him, but that doesn't make it praiseworthy.



You never quit do you?


Like the eternal flame, him and the haters must keep hating!
Roll your eyes all you want...  
Dunedin81 : 8/30/2015 9:25 pm : link
this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.
RE: Why should the federal government decide the name?  
sphinx : 8/30/2015 9:26 pm : link
In comment 12443771 larryflower37 said:
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Seams to me if the people of Alaska want it named Denali then that's what it should be.
State's should have that right.

The people of Alaska want it named Denali and have called it Denali for a very long time, so it's a settled issue, right?

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Dunedin81 : 8/30/2015 9:26 pm : link
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How about the United States of un-Natives?

I hate crap like this.



You hate that we are re naming a mountain that we took the name from anyways? He never even visited Alaska, who cares.



That's not the point. The President decided to wave a wand and change a name, clumsy and insignificant though it may have been, to assuage an ostensibly aggrieved group (that has bigger problems than having a mountain named after a president). It's par for the course for him, but that doesn't make it praiseworthy.



You never quit do you?


Shouldn't you be gazing dreamily at a poster of Bernie Sanders?
RE: Roll your eyes all you want...  
Kulish29 : 8/30/2015 9:26 pm : link
In comment 12443797 Dunedin81 said:
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.


No, it encapsulates the sort of things you, and people like you don't like about this President. Get that straight.
RE: Roll your eyes all you want...  
sphinx : 8/30/2015 9:27 pm : link
In comment 12443797 Dunedin81 said:
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.

Ah, you the people.

if he had balls  
The Turk : 8/30/2015 9:28 pm : link
Obama would change the airport in dc back to national or maybe just to marion barry memorial airport and delete that loser Reagan's name
I've been to Denali and no one calls it...  
Crispino : 8/30/2015 9:32 pm : link
Mt. McKinley. It's known to everyone as Denali. That translates roughly to The Great One. Much cooler name.
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Dunedin81 : 8/30/2015 9:43 pm : link
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.



No, it encapsulates the sort of things you, and people like you don't like about this President. Get that straight.


That was implicit, but don't let that stop you.
RE: if he had balls  
Jim in Fairfax : 8/30/2015 9:45 pm : link
In comment 12443807 The Turk said:
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Obama would change the airport in dc back to national or maybe just to marion barry memorial airport and delete that loser Reagan's name

There are no airports in DC.
I find nothing wrong with this at all  
moespree : 8/30/2015 9:46 pm : link
And I think you really, really have to stretch yourself to the limit to get up in arms about it.
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section125 : 8/30/2015 9:50 pm : link
In comment 12443802 Kulish29 said:
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.



No, it encapsulates the sort of things you, and people like you don't like about this President. Get that straight.


No it just encapsulates everything that has become of Washington. Pandering to demographics and searching for the next vote; selling your soul for the next election; demeaning one group for the next. Both parties do it, and this administration revels in it.
Dunedin81  
Samiam : 8/30/2015 9:51 pm : link
Is there anything the President has done, or can do, that you would like?
You just need a reason to bitch about something  
David in LA : 8/30/2015 9:52 pm : link
if this riles you up.
RE: Dunedin81  
Dunedin81 : 8/30/2015 9:56 pm : link
In comment 12443848 Samiam said:
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Is there anything the President has done, or can do, that you would like?


He has done plenty of things I like, and plenty more I don't. To complain that he has a haughty, almost academic disposition is not to say that this is the worst possible quality that one could have in a President. The bitchings of the serially aggrieved on my side notwithstanding, he comes across as relatively honest and decent.
RE: if he had balls  
Johnny Boy : 8/30/2015 10:15 pm : link
In comment 12443807 The Turk said:
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Obama would change the airport in dc back to national or maybe just to marion barry memorial airport and delete that loser Reagan's name



I hear he's getting a pair soon from Bruce Jenner.
Kenny powers has no problem with this  
mattlawson : 8/30/2015 10:18 pm : link
And unless you are an insufferable anti-Obama everything you have no problem with this and see its actually pretty cool of him to do.
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Kulish29 : 8/30/2015 11:54 pm : link
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.



No, it encapsulates the sort of things you, and people like you don't like about this President. Get that straight.



No it just encapsulates everything that has become of Washington. Pandering to demographics and searching for the next vote; selling your soul for the next election; demeaning one group for the next. Both parties do it, and this administration revels in it.


I'd like to believe that but, it's a farce. The moment this President came into a office, the morons on the right have done everything they can to denounce everything he's done. It's pathetic.

But, it's ok, St. Trump and his bigotry is the Republican savior!

Fucking morons.
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Kulish29 : 8/31/2015 12:01 am : link
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.



No, it encapsulates the sort of things you, and people like you don't like about this President. Get that straight.



That was implicit, but don't let that stop you.


It won't. And I'm glad you can embrace your small minded idiocy.
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section125 : 8/31/2015 12:09 am : link
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this sort of haughty bullshit, while minor and insignificant, encapsulates the sorts of things that people dislike about this President.



No, it encapsulates the sort of things you, and people like you don't like about this President. Get that straight.



That was implicit, but don't let that stop you.



It won't. And I'm glad you can embrace your small minded idiocy.


Yep, as usual name calling by the superior intellect.
Wow, I have never seen "idiocy"...  
manh george : 8/31/2015 12:13 am : link
used as a name before.
Headline tomorrow.  
manh george : 8/31/2015 12:29 am : link
"Republican Presidential Candidates Band Together in Denali Denial."

Btw, the Alaskans have called it Denali since 1975, when its name was switched back from McKinley under the auspices of that avowed socialist and anti-American, Gerald Ford.

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when European Americans discovered it in the 19th century, they renamed it Densmore's Mountain and, later, Mount McKinley in an effort to boost the presidential candidacy of Republican William McKinley...The Obama administration's action breaks a 40-year impasse over the name of the mountain. Alaska has been petitioning for a name change since 1975, but a bipartisan effort by Ohio's congressional delegation has blocked the effort by introducing bills requiring it to be named after McKinley, who was born in Niles, Ohio and buried in Canton.

But as Jewell noted in her order, "President McKinley never visited, nor did he have any significant historical connection to, the mountain or to Alaska."


So now we know who is at fault, those f%$king Alaskans. We are lengthening their growing season for them through ample contributions of carbon dioxide. Isn't that enough?
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sorry for ot contributing anything more on this but...  
SethFromAstoria : 8/31/2015 12:51 am : link
...how the hell does anyone actually care about this enough to rage against the "administration"? There are a few other things to worry about.
Seth, have you not heard?  
manh george : 8/31/2015 1:02 am : link
The forces of ISIS are assembling at the foot of Mount McKinley, ready to take it over.
RE: Seth, have you not heard?  
SethFromAstoria : 8/31/2015 1:26 am : link
In comment 12444012 manh george said:
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The forces of ISIS are assembling at the foot of Mount McKinley, ready to take it over.


besides this is nothing compared to renaming the perfectly named Triboro Bridge to the RFK Bridge. Now THAT is a travesty.
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