Why all the stink about President Obama changing the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali?

[raccoon]

In the first place, the Native Americans were there millenia before Europeans.

In the Second place, did anybody make a stink about changing the name of
Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy and then back to Cape Canaveral? I don't recall
it, but that was a less media-saturated time.

[Ghost in the Machine]

1. Obama Derangement Syndrome... n/t

[beac]

24. Obama could cure cancer and the rightwingnuts would all be blathering

"Cancer has been the bedrock of our medical ailments since Jesus walked with the dinosaurs. How DARE he????"

[shenmue]

26. Yep

[SeattleVet]

34. They'd blame him for the newly-unemployed in the medical field.

How *dare* he put those researchers and doctors out of business!

[Ghost in the Machine]

36. Sounds about right to me! n/t

[4139]

2. August, not much to talk about... Alaska had been pushing it for decades

[madokie]

3. Denali sounds like,

you know, Kenyan or something. I shit you not I'm sure that is what some think

[TexasProgresive]

8. Hadn't you heard

Stupid is as stupid does Do these ijitits every even think before that let this shit come out of their mouths?

[madokie]

9. Quick answer

NO, screamed at the top of my lungs.
Now my wife knows I'm nuts for sure
Hell, I've known it for years

[pinboy3niner]

10. It's not exactly a secret here

[madokie]

11. I was hoping no one noticed

knowing full well everyone does though.
Oh well, what the fuck, over. Been a while since I used those words in that order

OT: would you have ever believed 45 years ago that we'd still be here fighting some of the same fights we thought we won all those years ago. I sure didn't. I thought we'd be on to bigger and better battles. At least we haven't been held down and still have some fight left in us

[TexasProgresive]

13. Don't worry, just keep on being who you are. n/t

[still_one]

4. I am sure it has nothing to do with him being an African American... cough cough

[Danascot]

5. If Obama said the sky is blue

the outrage from the right-wing noise machine would be deafening.

[uponit7771]

14. +1

[SeattleVet]

35. They would probably call for a special session to ...

redefine 'blue'.

Just so they could say that he was wrong.

[AngryAmish]

6. People got upset when Pluto was no lomger called a planet.

People do not like change.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Pluto is a not a black man, is it? It is the racists that are upset because they are racists.

There has been a massive propaganda campaign, repeating a lie relentlessly - Obama is an "other"- until a large segment of the public, to wit, racists, believe it and so can confirm and justify their racism.

In other words the reason for the very limited numbers of very outraged and only RW folks is the usual simple explanation - racism gone wild and encouraged by the media.

[cloudythescribbler]

7. It's all about something called "strategic whining" -- which the GOP has mastered

No doubt they would do the same when Clinton was president. The point is to whine about anything and everything, sometimes shifting to opposite positions (especially on foreign policy issues where the details aren't as closely followed by the general public); it is in general accelerating over time and indeed somewhat increased by Obama's race. But remember how ridiculous the GOP was during the Clinton years? That's a pretty high base line. The trick of strategic whining is that you target something and continue to act out your talking points no matter what the facts are (eg Planned Parenthood). By proceeding as if they were proven guilty rather than innocent you can gain a similar effect to having the facts on your side in a normally functioning democracy. It also implies throwing whatever you can at the wall and seeing what sticks (eg Benghazi). The notion that people anywhere give a crap about President McKinley is ludicrous, but just hearing swarms of politicians and political operatives and sympathetic media complaining about how Ohio (a swing state) has been slighted, well the idea of Ohio pride being slighted sinks in, especially precisely among a public that is so vague about their anger that large numbers of them are ready to support Donald Trump

It's a sign of the times that isn't going away anytime soon

[Cyrano]

15. Josef Goebbels would smile on them

"Strategic whining" is also known as loud, never-ending propaganda.

[struggle4progress]

12. Where's the confederate flag that used to fly on Mount McKleiny?

Really, nobody would object if Obama went back home to Kenya and gave Swahili names like Denali to Maui or some other mountain there -- but proud Alaskans like Senator Boehner are understandably offended when Obama disrespects our heritage in this way

[TNNurse]

16. He is everything the right wing hates,

He is smart. He is educated. He is tall and fit. He has a funny name, it doesn't sound "Merican".

Oh, yes, he is Black and a Democrat.

Please understand that when you use irony and sarcasm, the trolls take it literally.....they really do not think that well.

This "Christian Nation"that they speak of is certainly a hateful one.

[bemildred]

17. I've heard he has unusually dark skin for a President, and some people find that disorienting. nt

[spanone]

18. because President Obama did it. no other reason.

[jberryhill]

19. Becaus the county clerk refused to issue the papers for it

[truebluegreen]

21. Remarkably, ex-half-term governor Sarah Palin avoided the pitfall

but, hilariously, her daughter did not. "I don't know anybody who calls it Denali."

I don't know a single Alaskan, or even anyone who's ever been there, who did not.

[Ms. Yertle]

22. Could PBO change the name of Reagan National Airport

back to Washington National? Been wondering about that . . .

[WinkyDink]

23. You really aren't promoting the change of all erstwhile N.A. names BACK to them, are you?

Yes? No?

[raccoon]

25. Hadn't thought of that, but I could see an argument for it. OTOH, many

Native American names are hard for English-speakers to pronounce.

[WinkyDink]

30. Yes, okay.

[Aristus]

27. Here in Washington State, we have many, many place names that are N.A.

Snoqualmie, Snohomish, Skykomish, Suquamish, Duwamish, Toppenish, Quilayute, Puyallup ( where I live), Tacoma (which was originally Tahoma, and Mt. Rainier's first name), etc, etc, etc.

It's something that we're used to. If President Obama, or any other President in the future, wants to change European names, like Rainier or Puget, back to the original names, most people around here would be cool with that.

[zappaman]

28. Because Obama. N/t

[madamesilverspurs]

29. Because

Republicans believe that the name HAS to be Reagan. Hell, they've splattered his name over so much stuff it's impossible to get away from it. It shouldn't be Denali, it should be Mt. Reagan. For that matter, EVERY mountain should have that name. And every river, every highway, every ship, every school, every government building....................

[LadyHawkAZ]

31. A black man gave back a Native American name to a landmark

previously renamed by whites for a white. EOM

[odd_duck]

32. As long as....

a President has a legal right to do it, who am I to complain.
Of course, Presidents have been naming Czars to his Cabinet since what, Ray-Gun??
But we all know how that went when PBO did it.........

[lunatica]

33. Who cares? He's done it again. Make the change and walk away

The change is now permanent.

George Bush and Dick Cheney did it with the Presidency. It works.