County Declares ‘Barack Obama Day’ a New Holiday
FOX News
Small central Alabama county commission votes 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as “The Barack Obama Day.”
MARION, Ala.
A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.
The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as “The Barack Obama Day.” County offices will close and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid holiday.
The sponsoring commissioner, Albert Turner Jr., said the holiday is meant to highlight the Democratic president-elect’s victory as a way to give people faith that difficult goals can be achieved.
The majority of the county’s 12,000 residents are black.
The county commission’s three black members and one of its two white members voted for the resolution.
Commissioner Brett Harrison said Wednesday he voted against the resolution because of the holiday costs to the county, which has a $2.2 million annual payroll and is one of the poorest in the state. He said closing the courthouse would also idle some state employees.
“I’m a Democrat, but just in these financial times, it’s not using the county’s money wisely,” Harrison told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday. “The recognition is certainly well-founded.”
Turner said copies of the resolution, adopted at a Nov. 25 meeting, have been mailed to Obama and his transition team.
An Associated Press exit poll found black voters in Alabama almost universally supported Obama while more than eight in 10 whites backed Republican John McCain. McCain carried the state with 60 percent of the vote.
Wild Thing’s comment…………
This is as stupid as their Kwanzaa, their artificial holiday.
Ronald Reagan doesn’t have a holiday set aside for him, and this guy, for whom it remains to be seen if he can accomplish anything gets a day before he’s even sworn in as President?????
To name a holiday after a man who has not even been officially elected President yet takes some cojones. The idea that a black socialist has the popular vote for President is very historic, perhaps we should call the day “Death of a Nation” day.
Let’s see there is Black History Month, Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth , there Kwanzaa, isn’t that good enough?
Have these idiots ever even heard of Presidents Day?
….Thank you Lynn for sending this to me.
Yes, and to top things off it is one of the poorest counties. I guess this is Obama’s change. What a joke.
Bob A.
” The sponsoring commissioner, Albert Turner Jr., said the holiday is meant to highlight the Democratic president-elect’s victory as a way to give people faith that difficult goals can be achieved.”…
Just like obama achieved his goals, through deceit, fraud, and lying, you too can achieve your sordid goals. This these people already know how to do.
…Its developing a strong work ethic and honesty that is the hard part for these poor unfortunate lemmings. The lie just keeps getting more and more convoluted. So now they have their own holiday, another day not to work and actually earn a living, like… uh normal people.
While refueling our C-5 Galaxy in Nairobi Kenya after offloading cargo / troops in Mogadishu (1992/1993)we asked the Kenyans, “Where’s your Kwanzaa decorations?” They replied, “That is only an American thing and we celebrate CHRISTMAS here!” Our black crew-chief was stunned. Imagine that?
– Ho Ho Ho DAKTARI 1993!
Gee, and I thought the election wasn’t suppose to be about color or race?
I’d sure like a holiday from Obama. The only way to get it is to leave the TV off. I hereby declare freedom from Obama–No TV–No Internet for the rest of the year. Enough of this Obama Obsession!
Hey, wait a minute! Obama is half White. Maybe that should only be a half day off for county workers.
Thanks WT and Lynn.
You need to patent that calendar Chrissie, but try to make all those 4 day holidays Friday’s through Monday’s, then they can rest the remainder of the week.
The month of Ramadan isn’t enough? EID? That’s right, he’s Christian, Wright said so. The first two commandments are for the elucidation of Annointed One.
The world is on fire and this fool occupies the full media spectrum.
This is a classic parody of the Gospel preachers about another lost sheep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQA6tBYAvms
I have no problem making a Barack Obama Day a national holiday commemorating the election of the first affirmative action half black president. However, it must be coupled with making April Fool’s Day (aka All Fool’s Day) a national holiday too commemorating all those fools who drank of the Kool-Aid and voted for Barack Obama.
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Koolaid.jpg
Bob A., thanks for the information. I figured it was mostly Obama voters that lived there haha.
No way could they pull this off across our country, I pray not anyway.
Mark, good point about that. Yes the same thing.
Darth, LMAO that is such a great story, thank you.
BobF, haha yes I thought that too, I sure had it wrong. Obama has made it all about race.
Horace, LOL me too, I would love a holiday from Obama.
Tom, hahaahhaha yes, good one.
Jack, giggle, thank you. I had fun making the calender. heh heh
Jack oh my gosh, I remember hearing that recording long ago. Thank you.
Les, hahahaha perfect graphic, thank you. Heh heh April fools day.
Can we combine it with:
Same-sex marriage advocates urge “Day Without a Gay” to protest ban
Phoenix Business Journal – by Mike Sunnucks
Gay rights groups and same-sex marriage advocates are urging gay workers to call in sick or take the day off Wednesday in protest of the passage of gay marriage bans passed last month in Arizona, California, Florida and Arkansas.
The “Day Without a Gay” effort encourages gays and other who oppose same-sex marriage bans to take off work and volunteer for an advocacy group.
The passage of California’s Proposition 8 came as a surprise to many. It received strong support from Mormon voters, as well as from Hispanic and African-American voters who turned out for Barack Obama in the presidential race.
The “day off” concept mirrors past efforts to have immigrant (mostly Hispanic) workers take a day off work to show their economic importance.
The Prop. 8 vote came after California’s Supreme Court overturned a previous same-sex marriage prohibition.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was a prime backer of California’s and Arizona’s gay marriage bans. In Arizona, the ban also received support from Hispanic voters.
Ron Carlson December 9, 2008 7:05PM EST
That’s a wonderful idea, but why day, why not a week! or month – heck I could go a year without a gay at work – lets do it, this will be great! No more office drama – woot!
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/12/08/daily23.html
Suggestion for a new thread:
“That year [2002], he [Obama] gained his first high-level experience in a statewide campaign when he advised the victorious gubernatorial candidate Rod Blagojevich, another politician with a funny name and a message of reform. Rahm Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago and a friend of Obama’s [now PEBO’s chief of staff], told me that he, Obama, David Wilhelm, who was Blagojevich’s campaign co-chair, and another Blagojevich aide were the top strategists of Blagojevich’s victory. He and Obama “participated in a small group that met weekly when Rod was running for governor,” Emanuel said.”
Ryan Lizza, writing in The New Yorker, July 21, 2008 (h/t DoraExplora at RD’s)
Today Obama told reporters, “We had no contact with the governor or his office, so we were not, I was not aware of what was going on.”
Erm, well then why did Axelrod tell Chicago Fox News on November 23rd, “I know he [obama] has talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced.”?
And how did Blagojevich know that obama wouldn’t trade a cabinet position for Blago in exchange for the senate seat for his advisor Valerie Jarrett (widely believed to be Senate Candidate #1 in Fitzgerald’s criminal complaint)? SOMEONE close to obama must have told Blago that all he’d get from obama for placing obama’s woman in the Senate would be a cushy, high-paying, no-show job for Mrs. Blago or, even better, a foundation job with the SEIU (service employees’ union) offshoot, “Change To Win.” There’s that pesky word, “Change” again.
I’m not making this up. I’m quoting from the FBI affidavit. Obama’s pick for the Senate seat was his close friend and advisor, Valerie Jarrett (Senate Candidate #1 in the affidavit). Harris is Blagojevich’s top aide and was also charged today with corruption. He was caught on tape making these statements:
“The FBI affidavit said Blagojevich had been told by an adviser “the president-elect can get Rod Blagojevich’s wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect’s pick to the Senate.””
AND
“HARRIS said they could work out a three-way deal with SEIU and the President-elect where SEIU could help the President-elect with ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s appointment of [Valerie Jarrett] to the vacant Senate seat, ROD BLAGOJEVICH would obtain a position as the National Director of the Change to Win campaign, and SEIU would get something favorable from the President-elect in the future.”
as Joe Cannon said, sounds like a bribe to me.
http://pumapac.org/2008/12/09/holy-smokes-11/
Duane thank you for the information and links.