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« on: February 13, 2017, 12:39:06 AM »
http://patch.com/illinois/chicago/should-obamas-birthday-be-illinois-holiday

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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2017, 12:40:37 AM »
Yes and it should be a holiday nationwide. August needs holidays in the US.
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2017, 01:06:18 AM »
Yes please!
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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2017, 01:11:20 AM »
No (not a personality cult)
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2017, 01:15:26 AM »
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2017, 01:22:24 AM »
Of course not.
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2017, 01:23:14 AM »
Quote from: Figueira on February 13, 2017, 12:40:37 AM
Yes and it should be a holiday nationwide. August needs holidays in the US.
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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2017, 02:40:54 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2017, 02:43:58 AM »
Give it time.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2017, 02:56:18 AM »
No,

Maybe in Kenya.
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2017, 03:02:58 AM »
No.  If anything, we need fewer government holidays.
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2017, 07:19:47 AM »
Not while he's alive.
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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2017, 07:39:32 AM »
Presidents day already exists. It would be ridiculous to make a holiday for Obama or any other President.
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« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2017, 08:05:17 AM »
Quote from: Mercenary on February 13, 2017, 07:39:32 AM
Presidents day already exists. It would be ridiculous to make a holiday for Obama or any other President.
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« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2017, 09:25:01 AM »
Never. He wasn't nearly a good enough president for that.
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« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2017, 09:45:00 AM »
that's what I came in to say....and certainly not a Federal Holiday....that's just stupid.
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« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2017, 10:35:56 AM »
No. But dems should try to invest what little power they have in congress in attempting to make this happen.

The GOP thanks you.
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« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2017, 10:40:29 AM »
Quote from: dead0man on February 13, 2017, 09:45:00 AM
that's what I came in to say....and certainly not a Federal Holiday....that's just stupid.

This.  Let's keep the bar high for these types of things.  If Illinois for some reason is that obsessed with Obama in 50 years, fine, make it a state holiday (just as Texas is more than welcome to do the same for George W. Bush one day, if they actually want to).
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« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2017, 11:10:28 AM »
Quote from: RINO Tom on February 13, 2017, 10:40:29 AM
Quote from: dead0man on February 13, 2017, 09:45:00 AM
that's what I came in to say....and certainly not a Federal Holiday....that's just stupid.

This.  Let's keep the bar high for these types of things.  If Illinois for some reason is that obsessed with Obama in 50 years, fine, make it a state holiday (just as Texas is more than welcome to do the same for George W. Bush one day, if they actually want to).

People are conveniently forgetting that George W. Bush was a failure. Hopefully people will realize that soon. Elder Bush is more likely, as he is far more well liked and respected.

Then again, both Bushes were born in New England. It wouldn't make sense.
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« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2017, 02:57:02 PM »
If Lincoln's birthday is not a holiday, why the hell would Obama's be?
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« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2017, 03:03:12 PM »
If anything should be a holiday, it's Obama's birthday, which I put on equal footing with Christmas, the Epiphany, Pentecost, and Yom Kippur
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« Reply #21 on: February 13, 2017, 03:13:31 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2017, 03:26:45 PM »
This is a thread on a message board, yet some people here are acting like it's an actual bill in Congress.
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« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2017, 04:21:29 PM »
Quote from: Feeling it yet? on February 13, 2017, 11:10:28 AM
Quote from: RINO Tom on February 13, 2017, 10:40:29 AM
Quote from: dead0man on February 13, 2017, 09:45:00 AM
that's what I came in to say....and certainly not a Federal Holiday....that's just stupid.

This.  Let's keep the bar high for these types of things.  If Illinois for some reason is that obsessed with Obama in 50 years, fine, make it a state holiday (just as Texas is more than welcome to do the same for George W. Bush one day, if they actually want to).

People are conveniently forgetting that George W. Bush was a failure. Hopefully people will realize that soon. Elder Bush is more likely, as he is far more well liked and respected.

Then again, both Bushes were born in New England. It wouldn't make sense.

You sound almost as computer-y as Computer89.  I didn't comment on whether or not Bush 43 was a failure, which was made blatantly obvious by the context of my sentence, which drew a simple comparison between our two most recent Presidents and their home states (which is almost always defined as the state they chose to run from, not where they born ... Reagan was from CA, not IL), making the point that if a state wants to chuck another stupid holiday on the calendar, so be it.
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« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2017, 06:38:12 PM »
Only if Michelle's birthday can be an international holiday.
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