MARION, Ala. (AP) – A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.

The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as “The Barack Obama Day.” County offices will close and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid holiday.

The sponsoring commissioner, Albert Turner Jr., said the holiday is meant to highlight the Democratic president-elect’s victory as a way to give people faith that difficult goals can be achieved.

Not a day in office and he’s got streets, mountains in Antigua and official holidays in his name.

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shfelby

Anyone remember these comments by the usual suspects back on November 9th?

Peeved Guy

Bada-boom, bada-bing! Nice catch sheflby! :lol:

Flip11101

Why does this bother you people so?
Why do you care?
A few days ago the whole senate was clapping in tribute to a an indicted felon. This doesn't bother Toolboy or Shelfhead. No article posted in distain of Ted Stevens. But a small town filled with African Americans wanting to celebrate the person who has fulfulled a century of dreams, this bothers them no end.

Bitsygal

You got that right on Flip. these are the mean-spirited, hate-filled members of the radical right who can't bear to see their hero leave office in disgrace, reviled by the majority of Americans and the world

RacerX

LOL
I think Peeved is so old and disgruntled he probably won't be around by the time this little town passes their new legislation.

Peeved Guy

Do you want to know why this type of stuff bothers me?

Because people are acting like Obama has already fixed the world economy, brokered a peace between in the Middle East, discovered nuclear fission and cured the common cold, and he hasn't even taken office yet!

Paying tribute to a person who has DONE NOTHING but win a few popularity contests makes my skin crawl.

I have no problem with "days" being named in honor of deserving people (MLK, Lincoln, Washington, etc.), but at least stick to the convention of waiting for the honoree to earn it first.

Peeved Guy

Yeah... that's it.

Peeved Guy

Good grief! How old do you think I am? My name is Peeved Guy, not Peeved Old Fossil.

Wayne

It's not as if it's an official national holiday. At least not yet.

Read the text again. "A small central Alabama county."

And for the record, I hope he does get an official national holiday someday. He needs to earn it first though.

RacerX

umm
you seem to be missing some information Mr. Guy, this man has managed to galvanize enough support to be elected president by a large majority of all Americans, in a country with a history of black slavery and racism that many people thought our country would never be able to overcome, and to refer to this accomplishment as "nothing" is an interesting way to look at one of the most important events in the history of our country. If that's not enough he was the first black head of the Harvard Law Review, state senator, U.S Senator and ran one of the most succesful presidential campaigns ever, all this starting from a poor, single-parent household.

Peeved Guy

Er.. I don't think so...

While I agree that the election of the first black president was historic and something of which I am proud (even though I didn't vote for him), elections are still, at their core, simply popularity contests. What landmark legislation has he passed in either the Illinois State Senate or in the US Senate? Let me ask you this, if exactly the same circumstances surrounded ANYONE else (a Caucasian, a woman, a Latino, etc.) would you still be so supportive of a "day" in their honor before they even took office?

I just think that by honoring him with a day at this point dilutes the gesture (not to mention insults those that did something significant to earn their "day"). Let him earn it and in 5 or 10 years, I'll support it.

shfelby

Voting for an African American reflects more on the American people than it does on Obama. All his victory has done is prove what many of us already knew.
America is not the racist country many have painted it to be.

Though I am proud of my country for coming such a long way in such a short period of time and I congragulate Obama for running a brilliant campaign and for having the courage to take on such a task, I didn't need him to win an election to prove something I already knew.
And I especially don't need a holiday to honor him for being popular, or for being black.

He needs to do something first.

And lets not forget, Bush Derangement Syndrome helped pave the way. In a way you should be thanking the president. :D

wildofski

Bush Derangement Syndrome,Ha You folks are still chasing that
red herring of Obama's birth certificate. :mrgreen:

wildofski

P.S. and I'm still waiting to hear that tape of Michelle
Obama using the term "whitey".

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