Posted on 03/26/2015 12:36:08 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared to suggest renaming one of Chicago’s airports after President Barack Obama on Thursday, but also sounded confused about how the O’Hare and Midway got their current names.
During a mayoral forum at Chicago State University, the mayor seemed a bit flustered as he answered a question about his quick about-face after he suggested naming a Chicago high school for President Barack Obama, and renaming Stony Island Avenue for the late civic leader Rev. Arthur Brazier.
That’s when the mayor brought up the city’s two airports.
“We have to, in some way, whether it’s President Obama or in the other case, Dr. Brazier, acknowledge people who have done significant things. We have an airport, two of them, named after – Midway Airport, O’Hare Airport – these are people who have been transformative in the city of Chicago,” he said.
The problem was, Midway International Airport is not named after a person at all. It’s named after the 1942 Battle of Midway, a pivotal conflict in the war with Japan during World War II. When moderator Charles Thomas pointed out Midway is not named after a person, Emanuel still couldn’t seem to pin down the origin of the Midway name.
“I’m just saying, but we have airports named after, obviously, battleships,” Emanuel said.
That’s not true of either airport. O’Hare International Airport is named after World War II pilot Edward “Butch” O’Hare, who became the Navy’s first flying ace in 1942, when he single-handedly attacked a formation of nine bombers attacking the aircraft carrier Saratoga, and shot down several of the bombers. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the first member of the Navy to receive that award during WWII.
Regardless of the mayor’s confusion over where Midway and O’Hare got their names, the mayor’s office told the Chicago Tribune he does not plan on renaming either airport.
I doubt the putz even knows what the Battle of Midway was.
Don’t they have a nice sewage treatment plant they could name after our president?
“The Battle of the Midway? Wasn’t that when all the youths showed up at the State Fair and started fighting?”
Just wait for the day they’re renamed Obama and Alinsky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O%27Hare
Edward “Butch” O’Hare, Medal of Honor in the Pacific theatre WWII.
Shouldn’t be too long...
He probably Midway is something to walk on at the State Fair.
But Rahm Emanuel got a trophy in history.
Well, I certainly remember the Battle of Midway. But I must admit that having stopped over in Midway Airport numerous times on the way to somewhere else, I just assumed it was midway on many trips. I would guess that it might be the biggest stopover airport in the country.
Chicago also used to be the biggest railroad hub.
His father, “Easy Eddie,” was an attorney for Al Capone and aided the prosecution on the tax evasion charges. Mr. O’Hare was later murdered by persons unknown. Butch O’Hare was ultimately listed MIA.
I learned that from an episode of Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.”
Hey Rahm, rename Midway for 0bama, that way I will never go into there during inclement weather (or any other time). You will keep me safe, Rahm...just like you do with all the people of color in the Southside.
5.56mm
Wasn’t Butch O;Hare’s father a corrupt Chicago politician? I seem to remember reading that as a young man Butch was very much ashamed of him.
Boy Howdy! Did not Butch make up or his father’s short comings.
“Don’t they have a nice sewage treatment plant they could name after our president?”
No, no, no.
Name a smelly outhouse after Dorkbama.
One that we can still use in order to give to Obama what he so truly deserves.
Obama: “I lived close to Kaminski Park”
He probably thinks its the fight over who gets the middle spot in a three man daisy chain.
sure he does: it was when the imperialist American aggressors, led by noted right wing gun nut Charleyon Heston, attacked the peaceful Japanese persons of color trying to preserve their ancestral fishing lands.
History starts fresh every morning when a Liberal wakes up! The soviets used to have a joke phrase that they would say to each other, “The future is known, but the past is unknown!”
He served 4 years on Freddie Mac’s Board. He knows all about lying and thieving. Typical Chicago Politician.
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