Posted on 02/16/2009 12:58:22 PM PST by library user
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The head of the Colorado Springs NAACP is crying foul after a picture of President Barack Obama was removed from a sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary.
The picture accompanied a sign near the entrance saying the government-run military grocery store would be closed on Presidents Day.
The Defense Commissary Agency, which oversees the store, says employees took it down after customers complained that the holiday is about presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, not Obama.
Rosemary Harris, president of the Colorado Springs branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says the commissary's decision "bodes poorly for the progress that we hoped we would see in this country."
*Pssst* ... Rosemary ... you don’t want to know what our military really thinks about The Messiah...
Not to be racially insensitive, but this smacks of tribalism. ‘Our chief won - everybody else on your knees’.
Well, the history is that we used to have Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday—two holidays for the two greatest presidents, as people used to think of them.
Then the revisionists changed it to “Presidents Day.” It’s still presumably in honor of Washington and Lincoln, but they are no longer named. They don’t really want little kids to know too much about the history of their country. Also, Lincoln was a Republican.
No doubt those who changed it hoped that people would think it was also about celebrating FDR and JFK or something.
This wasn’t accidental; it was deliberate and Orwellian.
That was “Red Dawn”. Flags were Soviet, and it was a Soviet - or Cuban - officer.
The NAACP does more damage to the cause of black folks than the KKK.
Hopefully the South will WIN this time!
So was Martin Luther King Jr.
Thanks to the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie Foundations for their financing and development of the NAACP and other racist organizations bent on turning America into a communist regime.
Turn the picture around, their fixed.
Support 10th amendment sovereignty legislation in your state.
Give it time. I'm sure it's coming.
I’m for trying.
On someones dart board?
Ya can’t take a print of him to a Florida sponsored gun range.
They get excited.
I always thought that President’s Day was to honor Presidents who are no longer breathing. Since Hussein fits in the category that can still spew uhs, ahs, umms, ers, I don’t think today is his day.
The North had a much larger population during the War Between the States. They had and still have a much larger source of cannon fodder.
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I'm in on that.
FMCDH(BITS)
The holiday is Washington’s Birthday. Nixon made the mistake of calling it “Presidents’ Day,” presumably trying to include Lincoln, but there had never been a national holiday in honor of Lincoln. That allowed it to morph into a celebration of all the Presidents, or at least of the ones the liberals like.
Just imagine the reaction if the Commissary folks had slapped their foreheads and said, “Damn!! The witch-doctor is right!! Today we should celebrate a good man who became President of the United States,” and then replaced Obama’s pic with a nice color portrait of President George W. Bush....
Those "customers" are Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines, both Active Duty and retired. Most of us that fought for other people's righta and justice aren't likely to keep quite when ours are infringed.
Oh, and as for you Mssssssssssssssss NAACP: Up Yours!
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