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.

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.

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.

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.