This awesome: Kids are taking the initiative and having their schools re-named in Obama's honor

[wndycty]

New York elementary school is renamed for Obama

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK---- At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama.

The Hempstead Union Free School District board voted unanimously Thursday night to rename Ludlum Elementary School as Barack Obama Elementary School. The change went into effect immediately, school officials said Friday.

Officials for the Long Island district say they think the school is the country's first to be named after the first black president-elect, although similar efforts to rename schools, parks and streets are under way elsewhere.

The Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream, N.Y., also on Long Island, will consider a renaming resolution in December. Students at the Clark K-8 At Binnsmead school in Portland, Ore., are seeking to rename it after Obama. And the prime minister of the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has said he wants its Boggy Peak renamed Mount Obama.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1293436,new-york-school-obama112208.article

[bunnies]

1. wow.

I feel so lucky to be witnessing this era in history.

[glowing]

2. I know what you mean.. my parents talk about JFK and the whole

civil rights movement.. all that history... and I finally understand why they still talk about JFK like it was yesterday... those secret service better keep our man protected better than that.. if they could keep shrub's ass safe, they better keep the most popular, beloved world figure alive. Give him a pope-mobile when he wants to wander.

[bunnies]

4. Yep.

Thats exactly how I feel.

And you know... Obama is not as 'left' as he would be in my perfect world, but I dont see how anyone else could have lifted the countries spirit the way he has. And I almost feel sorry for the people who are so twisted up by his appointments that they're missing the awesomeness of the moment we're in right now.

President Obama :loveya:

[mucifer]

3. but if you go to the george w bush school you might learn how to read

"my pet goat" while the nation crashes and burns.

[patrice]

5. This is good. nt