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Obama open to name change for Washington Redskins
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Posted on 10/05/2013 7:32:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama open to name change for Washington Redskins

Associated Press JULIE PACE 5 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says that if he owned the Washington Redskins, he would "think about changing" the team name, wading into the controversy over a football nickname that many people deem offensive to Native Americans.

Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names like the Redskins offend "a sizable group of people." He said that while fans get attached to the nicknames, nostalgia may not be a good enough reason to keep them in place.

"I don't know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these things," he said in the interview, which was conducted Friday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barry; namechange; nfl; redskins; soetoro; washington; washingtonredskins
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To: Sub-Driver
Good grief! Brown skin wants to rename the Red skins.

If I had a football team, I'd name it “The Conroe Crackers” or “Flighty Whiteys”....how’z bout the “Houston Anglos”.

Man on man, I can just keep on goin.

Hep me, Hep me out y'all.

Ok, one more for I go......Texas Pale Faces.

41 posted on 10/05/2013 8:02:19 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Sub-Driver
He's right for a change. Let me suggest a few more apropos alternative names...
  1. Washington Tyrants
  2. Washington Bureaucrats
  3. Washington Slavers
  4. Washington Overlords
  5. Washington Overseers
  6. Washington Dominators
  7. Washington Freedom Killers
  8. Washington Smotherers
  9. Washington Inertias
  10. Washington Fedbloats
  11. Washington Usurpers
  12. Washington Fedbugs
  13. Washington Oppressors
  14. Washington Fedcoats
  15. Washington Snoops
  16. Washington Taxers

42 posted on 10/05/2013 8:02:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sub-Driver

Da Washington Playas


43 posted on 10/05/2013 8:03:00 AM PDT by NCcatdaddy
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To: Sub-Driver

Fine. Sounds like a fair trade. Give Soetoro The Redskins and let The Redskins’ front office run the country.


44 posted on 10/05/2013 8:03:21 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
You forgot Washington Foreskins.

;^)

5.56mm

45 posted on 10/05/2013 8:04:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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46 posted on 10/05/2013 8:05:16 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Who says it’s any of his f’n business?” +1


47 posted on 10/05/2013 8:05:25 AM PDT by OKSooner (What's the NCAA gonna do, suspend OSU from the first half of its first game next season?)
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To: onedoug

“He suggests the Washington Islamists.”

Every time the quarterback drops back to throw the bomb, “Homeland Security” locks down the stadium.


48 posted on 10/05/2013 8:05:25 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Sub-Driver

Best answer I ever saw was on FR a couple of weeks ago. Change the Indian Head to a potato...problem solved. Next.


49 posted on 10/05/2013 8:06:53 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, as if Obama’s basketball knowledge is going to be useful to an NBA team. God help such a team.


50 posted on 10/05/2013 8:07:55 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Sub-Driver

Washington Traitors.


51 posted on 10/05/2013 8:08:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

Since when is it up to him?


52 posted on 10/05/2013 8:10:00 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver

Change it to this. Let the hilarity ensue.

53 posted on 10/05/2013 8:14:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Sub-Driver
The only race I know that has "Red skin" are white people.

Indian with sun burn:

White man with sun burn:


54 posted on 10/05/2013 8:23:49 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Unless he owns significant shares in the franchise, it is NOHB [None of His Business].


55 posted on 10/05/2013 8:26:09 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Stormdog

I know right, this coming from a POTUS who locks out WW2 vets from seeing the PRIVATELY FUNDED WW2 memorial! This guy is just the biggest freakin’ POS going. The ONLY reason he is making this comment on the Redskins is the exact same reason he commented on the Trayvon case: To exacerbate racial tensions. That is ALL he has done since day one: Destroy the US from within while doing everything he can to empower and spread radical Islam. When the hell is Congress going to wake up to the fact that we have a foreign enemy agent “leading” this country and impeach his ass before he does anymore damage?


56 posted on 10/05/2013 8:27:38 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just change the team mascot to a potato and you don’t even have to change the name. See how easy that was!


57 posted on 10/05/2013 8:46:42 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: central_va

Washington Red Ink would be an appropriate name.


58 posted on 10/05/2013 8:47:48 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: central_va

Washington Red Ink would be an appropriate name.


59 posted on 10/05/2013 8:47:48 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: dfwgator

The Congressional Black Caucus should be renamed the Washington Thinskins.


60 posted on 10/05/2013 8:52:28 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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