Posted on 11/11/2008 12:41:56 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama Holiday Rallies Turned Away by Topeka McDonald's @ 3:12 pm by Chris Good
After Internet news circles buzzed Monday about an activist's plans for a national holiday in honor of President-elect Barack Obama, the Kansas McDonald's slated to host the holiday-promoting rallies has said "no."
Activist Sonny Scroggins, leader of a group called Bias Busters of Kansas, had planned to hold rallies at a downtown Topeka McDonald's every Tuesday to plan a push for an Obama holiday. A Topeka Capital-Journal story about Scroggins' plans caught some national attention Monday after being featured prominently on the Drudge Report.
The McDonald's has turned Scroggins away. The manager of the McDonald's, Lamont Lassiter, called Scroggins to tell him the rallies were off after seeing the Capitol-Journal story.
"I called him and said, 'Look, you can't do this, you can't have a Barack Obama rally, you can't serve Barack Obama cake,'" Lassiter told The Hill. Scroggins had planned on serving such cake, according to the Capitol-Journal.
The owner of the McDonald's called Lassiter as well, after recieving a call from the McDonald's corporate offices. Lassiter says he called Scroggins on his own, without pressure from above.
"We can't picks sides discuss political things right here at McDonald's," Lassiter said.
(Excerpt) Read more at briefingroom.thehill.com ...
Kwaanza is coming up...Maybe Obama can be a day in there?
Everyday is a holiday for welfare receipients under an Obama administration.
Barack Manic Syndrome
BMS
Out of curiosity...
Just what kind of cake is Barack Obama cake? The story doesn’t say.
“Just what kind of cake is Barack Obama cake? The story doesn’t say.”
Devil’s food.
Why, Devil's Food, of course.
McDonald's is all about throughput. They don't want a bunch of marginal deadbeats sitting around nursing their 50-cent cups of coffee all morning, taking up seat space that paying customers could use. Too cheap to rent meeting space somewhere?
Beat ya by 27 seconds!! ;-)
Chocolate icing on Red Velvet Cake.
i.e. Brown on the surface, but Red through and through. . .
(diving for cover)
These people are like DeadHeads after Jerry Garcia died.
“What do we do with our miserable, pathetic, empty lives now?”
LOL! I saw. My ISP is slowwww today.
I’ll point this out...and the historians will likely double-check...but I don’t even think Hitler or the pro-Hitler Germans ever discussed a holiday for him. Not that Germans are anti-holiday because I think they have around 13 of them.
I'm going to go out on a limb...
I believe its a type of fruitcake, with a nutty-type topping. Its green on the outside and has a red filling that is slightly bitter.
Kwaanza is coming up...
Will it be on HGTV as the annual tour of the White House decorations?
Gubmint’cheesecake.
Guess they were going to raid the dollar menu
Who? WHO!!! will not eat the Obama cake?!
ROFL!
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