Posted on 11/06/2008 5:36:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda paid lofty tribute to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama by renaming the volcanic mountain known as "Boggy Peak."
"I shall take immediate measures for Antigua and Barbuda's highest mountain peak to be dedicated in your honor and renamed 'Mount Obama,'" Prime Minister W. Baldwin Spencer wrote in a congratulatory note to the victorious U.S. presidential candidate on Wednesday.
The 1,327-foot (402-metre) volcanic peak rises over southwestern Antigua in the former British colony whose 85,000 residents are mostly descended from African slaves brought in to harvest the sugar cane fields in the 1700s.
"Your message of change will ignite hope and action in people of many countries who might still be passive in the face of inadequacies and injustice," Spencer wrote to Obama, who will be the first black U.S. president. "Your election will not only transform America, it can transform the world."
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I’m sure Bawney Fwank would like to.
Get ready for all of the Barack Hussein Obama Airports
and Barack Hussein Obama Boulevards. Maybe a Barack Hussein Obama Center at Harvard? To study Fabian Socialism and Saul Alinsky theory, of course.
They are going to be very dissapointed when they find out their “messiah” is not all he’s cracked up to be.
I predict Obama will go over like a lead balloon.
Man... these black leaders act like there has never been a two bit black communist elected president of a dying republic before!
Uh, maybe they might want to wait. Remember how Leningrad had to be changed back to St. Petersburg on the Russian map. The way things are going there, maybe they’ll be changing it to Putingrad or something.
Barney strikes me as more of a pillow-biter. If he named it the hill would be Mount Meobama.
Good one.
PUKE!
This is beyond ridiculous already.
It’s going to be funny seeing all these idiotic places rushing to rename or get rid of all the Obama idoltry
they foolishly rushed to erect when their messiah crashes and burns.
Doing some renaming of my own here...trying out Antiguano and Barfuda.
[cue Ponchiello’s “Dance of the Hours”]
[...and Allan Sherman...]
“Hello, muddah...hello, faddah...
“Here I am at...Mount Obama...”
A little premature to do this before he has done anything worthwhile. Just like Lenin or Stalin to have a cult of personality while they were still alive.
Don't call me, I'll call you! (NOT!)
ES, Mofo.
Have to admit I didn’t think of it till you beat me that post.
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