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originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
No, I think the Dems would be fine with it, actually.
Like Mystic said.
It's a decent thing to do. A non-issue. The Repubs could have earned a bit of respect by doing so!!........but Noooooo!!! They blow it again by continuing the knee-jerky obstructionism and pitch a fit (because they didn't think of it first?). They just can't get along or agree with ANYBODY that they have summarily villainized.....
seems to be...
to me
Not really a feasible trip since he would have been incommunicado for a lengthy period of time.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
What?
Okay. I'm lost here.
He was alive when the gold prospector named the mountain as a campaign contribution. Then he won. He was unaware that the guy did that???
What am I missing? Why would he be incognito?
Do you honestly believe if there was a Republican in office there would be no manufactured Democrat 'outrage'? Both parties are filled with s***heads and the only difference is the little letter they use to preface their names.
NYT article
The government formally recognized the name in 1917, and efforts to reverse the move began in Alaska in 1975. In an awkward compromise struck in 1980, the national park surrounding it was named Denali National Park and Preserve, but the mountain continued to be called Mount McKinley.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, introduced legislation in January to rename the peak, but Ohio lawmakers sought to block the move. In June, an Interior Department official said in testimony before Congress that the administration had “no objection” to Ms. Murkowski’s proposed change.
In a video released on Sunday, Ms. Murkowski cheered Mr. Obama’s decision.
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
It was an Alaskan Republican...who basically went against their own party's thoughts on it.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
What? This happened in a Republican state. It was first introduced like 50 years ago.....(ETA 40 years ago - see below) (renaming it)
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
It never should have been renamed to begin with. It was Denali first. This is fitting and right.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
ok, did he at least send a letter saying he was grateful and recognized the campaign contribution?
If not, that just proves it was trivial and not worthy of his attention. How long had Alaska been a state?
My contention is that neither party fails to capitalize on a good non-issue. They are both equally intellectually dishonest.
WDumb-43
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: Bearack
Well ya when you have an uninformed look at the situation you could say that, doesn't make it true.
It was the Secretary of the Interior that did the name change with the power given by a law passed decades ago.
The native people have been trying to do this for 40 years and it is finally done.
Ohio can take a hike, if they want to honor McKinley so bad, do it in their own state.
Just more political bickering saying that this is barry just going around congress, congress didn't need to get involved.