Mount McKinley Mount Obama 
Posted on 08/31/2015 12:25:31 PM PDT by Jim W N
Ohio lawmakers reacted angrily Sunday to the White House's announcement that President Obama would formally rename Alaska's Mt. McKinley — North America's highest peak — "Denali" during his trip to The Last Frontier this week.
"Mount McKinley ... has held the name of our nation's 25th President for over 100 years," Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, said in a statement. "This landmark is a testament to his countless years of service to our country." Gibbs also described Obama's action as "constitutional overreach," saying that an act of Congress was required to rename the mountain, because a law formally naming it after Ohio's William McKinley was passed in 1917.
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Great! LOL! I live in Southern Illinois where there are many gob piles which are waste in the coal mining industry. And we have a connection to Obama being at least in name a senator from here. I'd like to see perhaps a low, nondescript gob pile as Illinois' Mt. Obama.
Obama wants to name Mt. McKinley after a GMC SUV? What ev.
“Seemingly the point is to deliberately erode the American heritage... and the “Republican” Congress stays mute.”
Interesting today we also read the state of South Dakota has decided to remove the first 100 years of American history from the public high school curriculum. No more teaching the Declaration of Independence, American Revolution, framing of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Louisiana Purchase, the Erie Canal, the War of 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Mexican American War, the wagon trains rolling west to California and Oregon, the California Gold Rush, and the Civil War. Another major effort to erode the common understanding of our heritage.
Hey Kiddies !
That mountain was named in honor of 25th POTUS Wiliam McKinley who was asassinated in 1901. You don’t hear about that in this discussion do you ?
Actually it was named after the Congressman running for President in an attempt to get him more name recognition for the election.
He can't rename a national park -- that was already done made Denali by Congress -- because Congress established the park.
The naming of other geographical places is an administrative decision by the Board of Geographic Names of the Department of the Interior.
The BGN can't act if there's pending legislation and Ohio's Congressional delegation has introduced bills on the topic for decades, so the name remained "Mt. McKinley."
It's not like the executive has to go to Congress to get the name changed, but I don't see how Obama can get around the "pending legislation" rule if the legislation is still on the table.
Ralph Regula, the Ohio Congressman, who led the fight to keep the old name, was not only Representative from McKinley's old district, but also the most famous graduate of the William McKinley School of Law in Canton. He left office some years back but other Ohio Reps have kept up his fight.
Maybe the most surprising thing is that so many rough and tough Alaskans go with the crunchy Indian name.
Mount McKinley Mount Obama
“Maybe the most surprising thing is that so many rough and tough Alaskans go with the crunchy Indian name. “
Alaskans by and large don’t like a small group of Ohio politicians telling us what we can and can’t name mountains in our state.
It was Denali for a thousand years (or so.) the ONLY people who want it named McKinley are from Ohio.
This is a non issue.
Not unprecedented: “ After Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to President Johnson that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial. Johnson recommended the renaming of the entire cape, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination. Accordingly, Cape Canaveral was officially renamed Cape Kennedy.”
And, because of popular opinion, back to Cape Canaveral 10 years later.
Not unprecedented: “ After Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, suggested to President Johnson that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial. Johnson recommended the renaming of the entire cape, announced in a televised address six days after the assassination. Accordingly, Cape Canaveral was officially renamed Cape Kennedy.”
And, because of popular opinion, back to Cape Canaveral 10 years later.
You’re so right.
I have a suggestion (not that he takes them):
Islamabamarama. Covers everything...the POS.
Rename Ohio Obama. Show them their votes count.
Not as long as the cable's on, the water's running, and the A/C is working.
They dealt it, let ‘em smell it.
Other than getting shot, what did McKinley do to deserve a mountain being named after him?
Yes, there are a lot of sleep walkers, but it is up to us who are awake to wake them up.
“Islamabamarama”
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When I want a Whopper I buy them at Burger King.
McKinley was a fairly popular Pesident at the time he was asassinated. I heard that story but it stikes me that that claim was politically motivated and the real reason for the place name was made in honor of the murdered President.
I am originally from Ohio and used to live in Alaska.
When I learned the real history of the naming of Alaska, I fully supported restoring the name to Denali.
As did the State Government in Alaska.
The peak’s official name has been a long-running irritation for many Alaskans, since William McKinley never saw the mountain or even set foot in Alaska before he was assassinated early in his second term. A prospector informally named the mountain after McKinley in the late 1800s, and the name was adopted by Congress two decades later.
Gov. Jay Hammond and the Alaska Legislature first asked that the name be formally restored to Denali in 1975. The Alaska Geographic Board has recognized the name of the peak as Denali since then, putting it at odds with its official federal designation as Mt. McKinley.
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