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Let then, eat cake … on inaguration day

Planning under way for Obama holiday.

Really.

Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation’s 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

“Yes We Can” planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald’s restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama’s honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.

At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will be served at the downtown McDonald’s, and a celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight Jan. 20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, 420 S.E. 6th.

I’m all for cake.

Flopping Aces links to Peter Hitchens’s thoughts on a cult of personality. Jazz Shaw’s saying “uncle!”, Please. Please make it stop. I beg you.

Jazz is right.

Aside from the cake, the last thing we need is yet another federal holiday, folks.

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3 Responses to “Let then, eat cake … on inaguration day”

  1. Kate Says:
    November 9th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    National holiday? How about he does something first before we start putting him in the same category of some of the great Americans who have gone before…

    Fausta, donde vamos a parar?

  2. Pat Patterson Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 1:36 am

    If we could drop Cesar Chavez Day is a state holiday in California I would be all in foavor.

  3. Jeremayakovka Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 4:42 am

    Talk about “something for nothing”!

    There’s a reason why it’s forbidden in the US to issue even a **postage stamp** in anyone’s image until after that person is DEAD. (DEAD and presumably having done worthy things.)