A brief recap:
February 2009, the Student Workers Club of Boulder High (Boulder, CO), petition the county school board to change the name of the school from “Boulder High” to “Barack Obama High”. The school’s SWC president says
“the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth to commemorate both the role he had in making the election of Barack Obama possible and the social progress that has been made since he issued the emancipation proclamation.”
Boulder High principal Bud Jenkins retorted with an ever-supportive:
“With all due respect to the president,” the principal added, “of all the things in the world that need to be changed, Boulder High School’s name is probably way down the list.
This campaign came almost on the heels of Long Island’s Ludlum Elementary changing their name to, clevery put, “Barack Obama Elementary School”. That’s right. “The students wrote mock debates and watched the polls and were excited to do something they could feel pride in”, a parent said. On another note, the schools population is 62% Hispanic and 36% black African-American. I believe the remaining 2% of the students child prodigies must be somewhat divided between these three socio-economic groups:
Recently, the Young Conservatives of Texas spoke out against a bill which would rename a portion of Interstate 20 in honor of Obama.One of the YCT’s Directors had this to say about the bill:
“Finally, naming memorials for sitting politicians is not consistent with American traditions. We believe it represents the dangerous trend of Americans blindly worshiping politicians rather than diligently holding them accountable to the best interests of the nation.”
The above-quoted Mr. Ed Oden (if that is your real name), also a champion of the obvious, offered this interesting musing:
“Soviet Russia erected hundreds of statutes of Stalin while he ruled. In Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, one would drive down the Saddam Hussein Expressway to the Saddam Hussein Airport… You don’t find this in America.”
Hmm. Very poignant indeed. I’ll have to keep abreast of that situation.
Fast forward… circa summer 2009, Orlando.
Well, while we didn’t build a statue, Orlandoans now have something else to bitch about.
We the people, of the City Beautiful, now have our own piece of history. Congrats!
Apparently this has been official since late May, but no one I know has seen this, and the sign looks as if it was just built last week. Moving on…
It was a unanimous vote, partly spearheaded by Orlando’s favorite racist hypocrite beeyatch, Commissioner Daisy Lynum. [For those of you who don’t know her career has been a little scuffed when it comes to the subject of racial lines, as you can read here and here.]
Anyway, I briefly heard about this a month ago, but nobody knew exactly where it was. A quick Google Maps search on my iPhone (apparently the B.O. Parkway is in the MMS messaging update?) yielded no such luck:
Hmm.. Not quite what i expected.
No fear, just head down Conroy road to the “old” intersection of Conroy Road and Mission Road. And you will be greeted by this:
All 800 or so feet of it. Ahh, what a fitting honor. A street driveway with nothing on it.
“Yet”, says the City of Orlando. They plan to expand on it.
Although anyone that’s driven on the 408/417/528/E. 50/Turnpike/W. 50/Church Street/Downtown/I-4/pretty much any street that’s not in Windermere, knows that that statement is bullshit bullshit (let’s be honest.) And by the time that B.O. Parkway is “filled out”, America will be caught up in a maelstrom of some other razzle-dazzle politician, and we will be chomping at the veritable teat and/or teabag of whoever the next great worthless hopeless politician with enough panache to send us to the polls in record numbers, blindly just voting at the next great white biracial Muslim philandering draft-dodging smoke-but-not-inhaling eskimo female (just not Palin, please) hype.
Happy driving Orlando! Oh, and click it or ticket! That 0.2mi stretch of road is dangerous. Until we can get one of these up… take it easy out there.
