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Barack Obama calls for Cesar Chavez holiday
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 31, 2008 | Mark Silva and Don Frederick

Posted on 03/31/2008 6:53:25 PM PDT by george76

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101 posted on 03/31/2008 10:30:29 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: george76

NO


102 posted on 03/31/2008 10:50:44 PM PDT by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: F15Eagle
Each day brings a new revelation from this Manchurian Candidate.

No offense but isn't McCain the Manchurian Candidate? After all he really completely fits the profile of the character in the movie. He really was held and tortured by Communists for 5 years, not Obama. Obama is a straight up Communist/Socialist, McCain is the question mark.

103 posted on 03/31/2008 10:54:47 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Faith-Hope
We all sit here and and complain and then do nothing to try and make things better. When was the last time you contacted your Congress Critter? I have written one of mine twice this past year but have made my mind up to maybe give his office some calls. If they started getting a lot of calls, letters and faxes per day they might just wake up to the fact that most of the folks are just tired of their job performance.

Oh Please! Stop with the junior high civics stuff. It's totally clear tha they are simply bandits, particularly the Democrats. I have a Democratic congressman. He could care less what I say. I'm sure he's already done the simple database comparison with the FEC doner database and seen that I've given a few hundred bucks to Republicans in the last few election cycle.

If you want to help America buy gold, silver and guns and run every day.

We are well past the point of expecting anything from the pandering socialist criminals who are stealing every dime we make to give it to their gay/lesbian/black/grievance group buddies.

104 posted on 03/31/2008 11:00:37 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black

Don’t forget ammunition. Oh, and lift weights. That’ll do.


105 posted on 03/31/2008 11:07:27 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Jack Black; Faith-Hope

Ever since the anthrax scare, your letters will be witheld for months, if they’re EVER delivered, due to screening et cetera.

Emails are simply deleted by the staff unless you have the super secret, password protected URL.

Phone calls to a Senator, or Representative are not accepted by same... again, the staff intercepts and takes a message... which rarely are passed on... Same with faxes.

Unless you have a highly paid Lobbyist, with some campaign funds in their pocket, your message will rarely, if ever, be presented to, or even seen by our Masters is D.C...


106 posted on 03/31/2008 11:20:50 PM PDT by JDoutrider (No 2nd Amendment... Know Tyranny)
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To: george76
Between Martin Luther King and Ceasar Chavez, two race-identity commies will have replaced BOTH Washington and Lincoln.

Fits.

107 posted on 03/31/2008 11:33:23 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: george76

I thought this was the Onion or ScrappleFace. Tell me bro. Obama is kidding on this one! A national holiday? Let’s have Ronald Reagan Day first!! And then William F. Buckley Day? I’ll make them a deal: after we get Rush Limbaugh Day, they can have one day for whomever they want!


108 posted on 03/31/2008 11:35:49 PM PDT by guitarist
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To: Trteamer

I lived in the Fresno area during that time.

I was under the impression that Chavez didn’t like illegals?
That it was a Union deal...

Maybe I was wrong about that.


109 posted on 03/31/2008 11:49:57 PM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: JRios1968

OK, I’m still waiting for somebody with cool photoshop skills to come up with a funny lotter guy holiday pic.


110 posted on 03/31/2008 11:54:08 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: ladyjane; USF; Fred Nerks

yes exactly! We eliminated Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays as separate observances, for an expedient and generic “President’s Day”...

Then we allowed February to be named “Black History Month”, thus overshadowing/crowding out “President’s Day” to the point where it is essentially a footnote among the mainstream, anathema to “dead-white guy” - hating Liberals, and celebrated only among real patriots.

And finally we allowed the lionizing of a single black man’s birthday in January, a person who was known to have been violent with, and philandered on his wife.

I don’t mind a black man having his birthday observed as a holiday - but let it be a more worthy figure such as George Washington Carver, or Frederick Douglass, and for heaven’s sake, restore to Lincoln and Washington their own observance days.

As for Chavez - he is a non-starter.

I would no more observe a holiday for him than I would for Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Mexican Gen. Santa Ana (of Alamo infamy) or either one of the Castro brothers. One makes as little sense as any of the others.

A.A.C.

(wondering if the C. Chavez holiday is already on the “nation of Aztlan” yearly calendars at ‘La Raza’ HQ?)


111 posted on 04/01/2008 12:24:17 AM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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Rush Limbaugh Day!


112 posted on 04/01/2008 12:41:45 AM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: Kickass Conservative

...sorry, that wouldn’t be allowed...Tony (obviously) celebrates gun usage. :)


113 posted on 04/01/2008 4:07:55 AM PDT by xc1427 (It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...Midnight Oil (Power and the Passion))
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To: george76

I love the way Texas “honors” Chavez. It’s an official optional state holiday. What that means is that all state offices are open and all services are available. If you, as a state worker, want Cesar Chavez day off then fine - the state won’t make you work that say. But it will make you take a day of vacation.


114 posted on 04/01/2008 11:25:01 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: green iguana

Work that say = work that day, oy vey!


115 posted on 04/01/2008 11:32:15 AM PDT by green iguana
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To: Travis McGee

Chavez hated “wetbacks” and ran them off to protect jobs for American farm workers. B Hussein probably doesn’t have a clue is my guess.


117 posted on 04/01/2008 11:52:32 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: gunservative

What’s wrong with that day in September we call “Labor Day?”


118 posted on 04/01/2008 12:04:07 PM PDT by Help!
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To: george76

I wonder if B. Hussein knows that Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration from mexico.


119 posted on 04/01/2008 12:58:16 PM PDT by Mogollon (Vote straight GOP for congress....our only protection against Obama-Clinton, or McCain.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
When will we have Jose Jimenez day?

The (honorary) 8th Mercury astronaut? He's far more deserving of the honor than any stinkin' commie.

120 posted on 04/01/2008 1:15:34 PM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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