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Obummer! Board nixes bid to rename Jersey City school for prez
The Jersey Journal ^ | August 26, 2016

Posted on 08/26/2016 10:18:06 AM PDT by SMGFan

President Obama can't catch a break in Jersey City.

A first-term assemblywoman's effort to rename a city elementary school after the nation's first black president fizzled this week when the school board rejected the move, two months after the board approved naming a different school after Maya Angelou instead of Obama.

The board's action this week came amid accusations of backroom deals and officials being left in the dark about the school renaming process. And it has left Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, who made renaming a Jersey City school after Obama one of her first initiatives after taking office in January, livid.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


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A school's name has never educated a disadvantaged child.
1 posted on 08/26/2016 10:18:06 AM PDT by SMGFan
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Assemblywoman Angela McKnight

2 posted on 08/26/2016 10:20:03 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Good move...who would want a school named Villian Idiot. That gives a poor impression of its ability to educate.


3 posted on 08/26/2016 10:23:30 AM PDT by 556x45
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That’s racist...

I don’t think so, and I’m glad they had some common sense here.


4 posted on 08/26/2016 10:25:24 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: SMGFan

That particular newspaper should select better words.
Livid means being angry and a "dull, ashen, gray tone" which it sounds like she is NOT. :-)

5 posted on 08/26/2016 10:25:47 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: SMGFan

Yeah!!! My birthplace did the right thing!!


6 posted on 08/26/2016 10:25:54 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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I’ll be honest....I’m all broke up about it (smirk).


7 posted on 08/26/2016 10:27:39 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
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To: SMGFan

“Obama School” would be far worse than “Martin Luther King Boulevard”. Besides having high crime, any schools named for the parasite soon to leave our White House are certain to have exceptionally high dropout rates.


8 posted on 08/26/2016 10:28:04 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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She looks on the same par intelligence-wise as Obamaphone Woman: a drooling idiot.


9 posted on 08/26/2016 10:28:42 AM PDT by EinNYC
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We have an Obama high-school in Pittsburgh.

Except whenever their sports teams play they are called University Prep, not Obama.

So as to avoid headlines such as “East Allegheny Crushes Obama” or “Obama Killed By Crusaders”.


10 posted on 08/26/2016 10:30:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Just 2 months after naming a school for the worst poet in the world instead of Obama - the worst president in history. That had to be a tough call.


11 posted on 08/26/2016 10:30:20 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: DarthVader

Did you have to have a new birth certificate issued after the Hudson County scandal?


12 posted on 08/26/2016 10:31:30 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she now supports HRC :()
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To: 556x45

Kenyan Usurper High is not exactly a resume item.


13 posted on 08/26/2016 10:32:00 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Liz

ROFL!!!


14 posted on 08/26/2016 10:32:03 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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Talk about stupid....who would name their school “Zero” ?


15 posted on 08/26/2016 10:32:12 AM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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It’s a shame about the University Prep name. The Crusaders headline would be fun.


16 posted on 08/26/2016 10:36:17 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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Obama? Angelou?

A few better choices below. People who follow the American spirit by inventing, building, innovating... People who created jobs if not entire industries. People who changed lives.

Henry Ford
Louis Chevrolet / William Durant
Horace & John Dodge
George Eastman
Thomas Edison
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alexander Graham Bell
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Colt
Eliphalet Remington
William Ruger
Charles Goodyear

Could go on and on. I acknowledge that there’s a certain commonality among these men that is demonized. A damn shame, they should stand on their accomplishments alone.


17 posted on 08/26/2016 10:50:14 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: EinNYC

That lady later repented of her blindness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLZuKGTZlEY


18 posted on 08/26/2016 11:11:53 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: EinNYC

It’s not over. She has 60 days to resubmit her request, and she will do so. This is a dyed in the hair extensions Obot is forever brainwashed. I have relatives just like her. They hear no ‘evil’.


19 posted on 08/26/2016 11:16:14 AM PDT by lee martell
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Yes


20 posted on 08/26/2016 11:39:55 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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