Posted on 03/31/2008 6:53:25 PM PDT by george76
Obama, who has struggled to overcome Clinton's significant advantage among Latino voters in state after state, sought to one-up his rival for the Democratic presidential nod by joining the call for creating a national holiday to commemorate the father of the United Farm Workers.
"That's why I support the call to make Cesar Chavez's birthday a national holiday. It's time to recognize the contributions of this American icon to the ongoing efforts to perfect our union."
Eight states commemorate Chavez' birthday in some fashion. In California, all state offices are closed, but local government facilities and public schools are open.
The other states that officially honor Chavez are Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.
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NO
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.
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.
Don’t forget ammunition. Oh, and lift weights. That’ll do.
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...
Fits.
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!
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.
OK, I’m still waiting for somebody with cool photoshop skills to come up with a funny lotter guy holiday pic.
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?)
Rush Limbaugh Day!
...sorry, that wouldn’t be allowed...Tony (obviously) celebrates gun usage. :)
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.
Work that say = work that day, oy vey!
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.
What’s wrong with that day in September we call “Labor Day?”
I wonder if B. Hussein knows that Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration from mexico.
The (honorary) 8th Mercury astronaut? He's far more deserving of the honor than any stinkin' commie.
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