"Please... I wish to be relocated to at Barack H. Obama International Airport!"
-PJ
Posted on 12/30/2008 6:46:29 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Behind the scenes work is already underway to rename Chicago’s Midway Airport after Obama — becoming the Barack H. Obama International Airport.
Apparently, there are those in the city, especially on the Olympics Committee, that want this done before October 2009, to give the IOC a little more incentive to award Chicago the 2016 games (despite the fact that here in Chicago it’s already considered a done-deal we’ll get the Olympics, and has been since November 4th). The Obamafication of Chicago begins with renaming Midway…and is partially designed to remind the IOC, in as loud a voice possible, that Chicago’s what gave the world Obama, and thus Chicago should be rewarded with the 2016 games, in “The One’s” adopted hometown.
Incidentally, for those wondering, Midway was named in 1947, after the Battle of Midway, but with so few veterans of WWII left, and so much for the city to gain by renaming Midway after Obama, don’t think for a moment the WWII honor will stand in the way here.
With 50 states competing for federal dollars, and Chicago competing for the Olympics (with Mayor Daley obsessed about winning those games), renaming Midway is part of a concerted effort to keep Obama focused on Illinois above all others. It’s also part of the Mayor’s scheme to privatize Midway airport…which he has been trying to do for a few years now, as privatization will give Chicago $3 billion in rent and cost savings. Currently, several of the major carriers flying out of Midway have been holding up the privatization deal (because they are concerned privatization will mean higher rent and other fees). The renaming is thus part of a rebranding and revamping that’s partially meant to force these holdouts to get on board. “What are you racist? You don’t want to stand in the way of an airport honoring our first black president, do you?”
It also, no doubt, will enable a great deal of private fundraising, to convert Midway into an Obama shrine while funding all the fancy improvements the Mayor wants for the airport but currently can’t afford. All those hopium laced contributions Penny Pritzker is so good at bringing in are expected to flow freely to Barack H. Obama International Airport.
Just watch. It will take a few months for the media to admit this is going on, but people we know in city government tell us this is the Mayor’s latest scheme (along with building room for the future Barack H. Obama Presidential Library and Museum into Chicago’s Southside Olympics plans, to guarantee Chicago lands that prize, and not Honolulu).
The man hasn’t even done anything, WTF is wrong with these idiots?!
They are dazed and confused?
Hey, maybe they could rename the hospital in which he was born in Honolulu after him... er, ah ... oh, never mind.
A Workout For The Media
By Kathleen McKinley | December 29, 2008 - 11:49
Just looking at the hypocrisy of the media. So what else is new? But sometimes you just have to point out the obvious.
Christmas day the Washington Post slobbered (metaphorically speaking) all over it’s front page about Obama’s workout:
“The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.”
Now, if that doesn’t make you wanna puke in your cornflakes, I don’t know what would.
"Please... I wish to be relocated to at Barack H. Obama International Airport!"
-PJ
That was Miggs Field. In downtown Chicago near Burnham Harbor.
Will this be the first airport in the US named after a foreigner?
The cape may have been renamed, but the town was always Cape Canaveral. During the years that the headland was called "Cape Kennedy," I never called it by that name. After all, it had been Cape Canavaral since the days of Martin Luther and Michelangelo.
Man that stinks.
YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET!!!
Come on people give it a break already.
Come on people give it a break already.
Premature, to put it mildly. Let’s see how this underqualified Kenyan performs first.
“The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.”
Now, if that doesn’t make you wanna puke in your cornflakes, I don’t know what would.”
Wow, (thankfully) I missed this article! :(
They should wait until after he is out of office before they put his face on a coin or name things after him. He might be worthy of the honor or he might become the worst person to even step into the White House. lets wait and see before we give him this treatment.
It’s not April 1st is it...............Just damn.
Sheesh.
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