Posted on 02/12/2009 3:45:27 PM PST by george76
Boulder High rules!
A student groups' campaign to rename one of Colorado's oldest high schools Barack Obama High after the new president fizzled today in the face of widespread opposition from students and residents of left-leaning Boulder.
"It's become a lot more controversial than we wanted to. It's garnered a lot of negative reactions," said 16-year-old Ben Raderstorf, president of the school's Student Worker Club, which drew national publicity when it proposed the idea Wednesday.
"We were somewhat naïve about it," Raderstorf said of the backlash.
The goal was to use the attention to stir up support among fellow students.
Instead, he said, other kids mistook them them for grandstanding media-mongers doing an end-run around the student body.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Well, Jimmie Carter High is still available, and in a couple of years, when zero has proven he is just as big a failure, they can just change it to Jimmie Carter, Jr High
That pretty much sums up the state of mind of the Obama cult.
Why not Rocky Mountain High?
Student Worker
In 1999, Boulder High students founded the Student Worker activist group. Several of the group’s demonstrations have received national attention, including a January 2005 “sleep-in” protesting the war in Iraq and a May 2001 “kiss-in” supporting alternative sexuality.[9][10] In May 2005 Student Worker, in a partnership with Peace Jam, erected 1,650 American flags in memory of soldiers killed in Iraq.[11] In September 2007, the group protested the Pledge of Allegiance, citing an objection to the “one nation, under God” clause, and instead reciting a revised version. In February of 2009, the group proposed a renaming of Boulder High School to Barack Obama High School[12]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder_High_School#Student_Worker
Yes, but Swigert wasn’t a Kenyan born communist, which makes all the difference in Boulder.
When I lived near Boulder in the 70's and 80's ... it was "Boulder, where the hip meet to trip."
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