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Boulder High group drops bid for Barack Obama High
Rocky Mountain News ^ | February 12, 2009 | Alan Gathright

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: barackobama; boulder; prb
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1 posted on 02/12/2009 3:45:27 PM PST by george76
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; Morgan in Denver; jazusamo; MileHi

Student Worker members drew headlines — and flack — in September 2007 by unsuccessfully protesting the school’s daily ritual of students voluntarily saying the Pledge of Allegiance


2 posted on 02/12/2009 3:47:07 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Stimulus High
Wm B Ayers High
Rahm Emmanuel High
Barry Dunham High
all still available.


3 posted on 02/12/2009 3:47:47 PM PST by omega4179 (1.20.13 end of an error)
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To: george76
Student Worker Club???

Too funny.
Do you think any members of that club have actual jobs?

4 posted on 02/12/2009 3:48:10 PM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: george76

Perfect for Negro month.


5 posted on 02/12/2009 3:48:44 PM PST by boomop1
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To: george76

The People’s Republic of Boulder: 35 square miles surrounded by reality.


6 posted on 02/12/2009 3:49:45 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Charter Member, 58 Million Club)
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To: george76
... fizzled today in the face of widespread opposition from students and residents ...

Doh - you think?

7 posted on 02/12/2009 3:50:18 PM PST by NCjim ("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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To: SaxxonWoods

ROFL!


8 posted on 02/12/2009 3:52:40 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks geo. They lose again. That’s ‘cause they’re losers.


9 posted on 02/12/2009 3:56:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Wouldn’t that have been some kind of record for fools rushing in - renaming a high school for a president who has been in office only 3 weeks? It’d be at least a lot less delusional to just rename it Leftist Disaster High.


10 posted on 02/12/2009 3:56:36 PM PST by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: omega4179

And don’t forget, Marion Barry’s High


11 posted on 02/12/2009 3:57:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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These are some sort of marxist/trotskyite thugs that infest boulder.


12 posted on 02/12/2009 3:59:49 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: george76
...other kids mistook them them for grandstanding media-mongers doing an end-run around the student body.

No mistake about it.

13 posted on 02/12/2009 4:01:59 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Even in liberal Boulder it doesn’t sound like Comrade Raderstorf and his Student Worker Club cronies have much support.


14 posted on 02/12/2009 4:02:34 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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As far as I can tell, there is no Jack Swigert High School. Unlike Barack, he is local,his heroics are well documented, and he is dead. Certainly a better role model than someone who simply sits around an carps about the ‘Establishment’.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/swigert-jl.html
15 posted on 02/12/2009 4:20:10 PM PST by jmcenanly
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His communist parents are probably disappointed in his failure to get the name changed.


16 posted on 02/12/2009 4:26:36 PM PST by MtnClimber (The "stimulous" will place tax payers into slavery as sheep to be fleeced by government parasites.)
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How could something like this fizzle in Boulder?


17 posted on 02/12/2009 4:28:00 PM PST by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: frankenMonkey
>>>... president of the school's Student Worker Club,...<<<

Right out of Stalinist Russia. You want to know what's wrong with our schools....look no farther than this!!!

18 posted on 02/12/2009 4:33:33 PM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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...protesting the school’s daily ritual of students voluntarily saying the Pledge of Allegiance

They're protesting something that's voluntary? And we're the fascists? LOL.

19 posted on 02/12/2009 4:40:59 PM PST by library user (Rod Blagojevich should have been TIME MAGAZINE'S "Person of the Year.")
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Shame. I wanted that to be a boat anchor for the whole community after the poser crashes and burns.


20 posted on 02/12/2009 4:42:09 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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