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Boulder High group drops bid for Barack Obama High
Rocky Mountain News ^
| February 12, 2009
| Alan Gathright
Posted on 02/12/2009 3:45:27 PM PST by george76
Boulder High rules!
A student groups' campaign to rename one of Colorado's oldest high schools Barack Obama High after the new president fizzled today in the face of widespread opposition from students and residents of left-leaning Boulder.
"It's become a lot more controversial than we wanted to. It's garnered a lot of negative reactions," said 16-year-old Ben Raderstorf, president of the school's Student Worker Club, which drew national publicity when it proposed the idea Wednesday.
"We were somewhat naïve about it," Raderstorf said of the backlash.
The goal was to use the attention to stir up support among fellow students.
Instead, he said, other kids mistook them them for grandstanding media-mongers doing an end-run around the student body.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: barackobama; boulder; prb
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:45:27 PM PST
by
george76
To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; Morgan in Denver; jazusamo; MileHi
Student Worker members drew headlines — and flack — in September 2007 by unsuccessfully protesting the school’s daily ritual of students voluntarily saying the Pledge of Allegiance
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:47:07 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Stimulus High
Wm B Ayers High
Rahm Emmanuel High
Barry Dunham High
all still available.
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:47:47 PM PST
by
omega4179
(1.20.13 end of an error)
To: george76
Student Worker Club???
Too funny.
Do you think any members of that club have actual jobs?
To: george76
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:48:44 PM PST
by
boomop1
To: george76
The People’s Republic of Boulder: 35 square miles surrounded by reality.
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:49:45 PM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
To: george76
... fizzled today in the face of widespread opposition from students and residents ... Doh - you think?
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:50:18 PM PST
by
NCjim
("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
To: SaxxonWoods
To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks geo. They lose again. That’s ‘cause they’re losers.
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:56:07 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: george76
Wouldn’t that have been some kind of record for fools rushing in - renaming a high school for a president who has been in office only 3 weeks? It’d be at least a lot less delusional to just rename it Leftist Disaster High.
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:56:36 PM PST
by
Post Toasties
(Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
To: omega4179
And don’t forget, Marion Barry’s High
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:57:19 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: george76
These are some sort of marxist/trotskyite thugs that infest boulder.
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posted on
02/12/2009 3:59:49 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
To: george76
...other kids mistook them them for grandstanding media-mongers doing an end-run around the student body. No mistake about it.
To: george76
Even in liberal Boulder it doesn’t sound like Comrade Raderstorf and his Student Worker Club cronies have much support.
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posted on
02/12/2009 4:02:34 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: george76
As far as I can tell, there is no Jack Swigert High School. Unlike Barack, he is local,his heroics are well documented, and he is dead. Certainly a better role model than someone who simply sits around an carps about the ‘Establishment’.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/swigert-jl.html
To: george76
His communist parents are probably disappointed in his failure to get the name changed.
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posted on
02/12/2009 4:26:36 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(The "stimulous" will place tax payers into slavery as sheep to be fleeced by government parasites.)
To: george76; beaversmom
How could something like this fizzle in Boulder?
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posted on
02/12/2009 4:28:00 PM PST
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: frankenMonkey
>>>
... president of the school's Student Worker Club,...<<<
Right out of Stalinist Russia. You want to know what's wrong with our schools....look no farther than this!!!
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posted on
02/12/2009 4:33:33 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
To: george76
...protesting the school’s daily ritual of students voluntarily saying the Pledge of AllegianceThey're protesting something that's voluntary? And we're the fascists? LOL.
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posted on
02/12/2009 4:40:59 PM PST
by
library user
(Rod Blagojevich should have been TIME MAGAZINE'S "Person of the Year.")
To: george76
Shame. I wanted that to be a boat anchor for the whole community after the poser crashes and burns.
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posted on
02/12/2009 4:42:09 PM PST
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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