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Illinois Residents Celebrate First Annual ‘Barack Obama Day’
Breitbart ^ | 4 Aug 2018 | Katherine Rodriguez

Posted on 08/06/2018 4:06:38 PM PDT by detective

Illinois residents celebrated their first annual “Barack Obama Day” on Saturday after the state legislature voted in 2017 to make the day honoring former President Barack Obama a state holiday.

The bill establishing Obama’s birthday as a state holiday unanimously passed the Illinois state legislature last year, and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the measure into law on August 6, 2017.

The legislation declared August 4 “Barack Obama Day” in the state of Illinois, but did not make the holiday an official legal holiday over concerns the state could not afford the cost of giving state employees a paid holiday.

Some legislators also balked at the idea that Obama—who made Illinois his permanent residence in 1995 and only lived in the state for ten years full time—got his own holiday while former President Ronald Reagan—who was born in the state and lived there for 21 years—never had a day in his honor.

#ObamaDay became the top trending topic on Twitter Saturday afternoon, with celebrities and left-wing personalities—many of whom do not live in Illinois—celebrating Obama Day by tweeting the former president a happy birthday while bashing President Trump:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: barackobama; barackobamaday; chicago; illinois; obama; obamaday
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To: Paladin2

**John Wayne too, I think.**

Winterset, IA


21 posted on 08/06/2018 4:35:23 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Paladin2
I was just referring to presidents. Sorry, I should've said that. I could always be wrong of course, but RR was the only president who was born there. afaik
22 posted on 08/06/2018 4:35:44 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: detective

Illinois was a nice place to grow up but I’m sure glad I don’t live there anymore.


23 posted on 08/06/2018 4:35:59 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: detective

“Bring out your dead!”


24 posted on 08/06/2018 4:36:54 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: detective

San Fran has Zero Day every day as people crap on the sidewalks!


25 posted on 08/06/2018 4:37:20 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: detective

To some, it is a “Barrack Obama” day. (With the double-r)


26 posted on 08/06/2018 4:39:53 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: BitWielder1
I hope it turns into a groundhog day so they have to live it over and over.

Trash pick-up day?
27 posted on 08/06/2018 4:46:18 PM PDT by RW_Whacko (RW_WHACKO)
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To: detective
Øbama's legacy in 13 letters:
BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA.
New axis of evil.

"New axis of evil" also has 13 letters!

28 posted on 08/06/2018 4:48:05 PM PDT by lightman (Obama's legacy in 13 letters: BLM, ISIS, & ANTIFA. New axis of evil.)
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To: lightman

Basil An Misfit?


29 posted on 08/06/2018 4:50:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Huskrrrr

“I’m not dead yet!”


30 posted on 08/06/2018 4:58:13 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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To: detective

I would like to have seen the carnival games at the Obama Day Fair.

Ring toss onto Jughead’s ears?
Moochelle’s arm wrestling machine?
Drone water gun strikes on civilians?
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And they all give out food stamps, Obamaphones, and Dreamer cards as prizes!


31 posted on 08/06/2018 4:59:08 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: detective

Barack 0bama day on Saturday was followed by Murder Day on Sunday.


32 posted on 08/06/2018 5:00:37 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: LibWhacker
Ronald Reagan was born in Illinois. Do they have a day for him? No (not that I’ve heard), they celebrate a damned Kenyan.

To complete the lunacy circle, it should be noted that the second monday in November is a national holiday for Øbama.

In Kenya.

33 posted on 08/06/2018 5:00:51 PM PDT by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Trump20162020

Illinois should secede from Chicago.


34 posted on 08/06/2018 5:02:51 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: detective

I had the runs...


35 posted on 08/06/2018 5:06:46 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: detective

OH YUCK!! This is gross.

Grew up in a south side suburb til we moved to corn field in Indiana. (Which much to my surprise I ended up loving)

Everybody knew Daley was corrupt but he kept the city sane. (Or at least as a kidlet I thought so!)

Good memories of Chicago. Went downtown several times a year. Marshall Fields every Christmas and Easter.(They sold the best 1000 isle dressing EVER. And wonderful Christmas windows.) Lincoln Park and Brookfield zoos. Riverview park. The museums. CUB’s game. Seeing the ticker tape parade for the Apollo 11 men! (Saw my dad cry 3 time. Death of Olde Yearer, his mom’s death and the moon landing.)

Love this city, hate their politics.

Sad the libs in Chicago have destroyed the whole state. Can the rest Illinois put an end to this?


36 posted on 08/06/2018 5:19:55 PM PDT by lizma2
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Dear Freepers, let us cause dhimmicrats heads to explode nation wide.

On the back of each 20 dollar bill is a nice drawing of the white house.
I propose that on every bill you get your hands on that you take a few seconds with a sharpie and write

“Donald Trump Lives Here”


37 posted on 08/06/2018 5:27:05 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: detective

So now we have a Second Black Holiday, to go with the first one which is September 6th, the Day the New Cadillac comes out!


38 posted on 08/06/2018 5:30:54 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: detective

So now we have a Second Black Holiday, to go with the first one which is September 6th, the Day the New Cadillac comes out!


39 posted on 08/06/2018 5:31:24 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Trump20162020

Thank you for posting this! It graphically shows dramatically the effect of large. RAT-run cities. This is the future! So, if the rest of us sane people have any hope of keeping the city $hit from taking over, we must isolate these $hit hole enclaves and remove their ability to affect our lives so adversely.


40 posted on 08/06/2018 5:47:46 PM PDT by vette6387
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