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Obama: ‘I’d think about changing’ Washington Redskins team name
Washington Post ^ | 10/5/2013 | By David Nakamura

Posted on 10/05/2013 10:12:00 AM PDT by tobyhill

President Obama became the latest, and most high-profile, figure to weigh in against the Washington Redskins’ name, saying he would consider changing it because it offends many Native Americans.

“If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizeable group of people, I’d think about changing it,” Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press published Saturday.

It was the first time Obama, a big sports fan who roots for teams from his native Chicago, had been asked his opinion publicly on the controversy surrounding the name of Washington’s professional football franchise.

Team owner Daniel Snyder has said he will not change the name of the team, which has been called the Redskins since George Preston Marshall owned the franchise in Boston in 1933. Marshall moved the team to Washington in 1937, and it has since become one of the National Football League’s most profitable franchises.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nativeamericans; nfl; obama; pc; redskins; sportsnanny; washington; washingtonredskins
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To: tobyhill

FUBO^gogolplex


21 posted on 10/05/2013 10:32:05 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: tobyhill

Excerpt: “Tribal leaders in Virginia not offended by Redskins’ nickname”
http://www.timesdispatch.com/sports/professional/football/redskins/article_26b0f8d8-eb22-52f0-87df-c05e24bbfc0e.html

and: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2013/05/03/despite-liberal-media-push-poll-shows-vast-majority-americans-arent-of

Obama seems to be out of step with America.


22 posted on 10/05/2013 10:32:47 AM PDT by Bronzy
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To: tobyhill; LucyT
and what about 0bama's team?


23 posted on 10/05/2013 10:33:32 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: digger48

Reminds me a bit of the liberal meltdown over the Obama rodeo clown. These liberals never go to a rodeo, and have no idea what a rodeo clown is or what he does. Yet these liberals are going to tell the rodeo assoications how to run their business.

I don’t care much for Dan Snyder but am happy to see he won’t give in to political correctness.

You may remember that the owner of the Washington Bullets gave in to PC, and renamed his team the Washington Wizards. Couldn’t take the whole bullet violent imagery, and had to be politically correct.


24 posted on 10/05/2013 10:34:07 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (C)
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To: MNlurker

He is feeding his lapdogs (read the entire alphabet network media) something to raise a fuss over, to distract the dumbed down public from his criminal thuggery which the pirate Roberts endorsed.


25 posted on 10/05/2013 10:34:14 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It was ok because they had no fire power.


26 posted on 10/05/2013 10:35:48 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: BenLurkin

He will change it to The Washington Progressives!!!


27 posted on 10/05/2013 10:37:07 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: tobyhill

Washington Foreskins sounds about right!


29 posted on 10/05/2013 10:39:53 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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To: tobyhill

They need a new name?

How about the Washington Traitors?
Or the Kenyan Mulattoes?
Or maybe the Washington Blueskins?
Or even the Presidential Thinskins?


30 posted on 10/05/2013 10:40:35 AM PDT by dead and gone (dead and gone dead and gone)
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To: tobyhill

I had my thread on this pulled because there was another one. I love FR, but I wish they merged threads instead of just dumping them.


31 posted on 10/05/2013 10:41:46 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: tobyhill
The Washington Gerbils!
32 posted on 10/05/2013 10:42:17 AM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracka -- Don't Call Me Cracker)
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To: tobyhill

Washington Down Lows


33 posted on 10/05/2013 10:48:00 AM PDT by csvset
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To: tobyhill

Barky thinking on making life difficult for them if they don’t?


34 posted on 10/05/2013 10:49:03 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
BO didn't grow up in America. He has no idea that a name like the Redskins portrays a tough, resilient , fighter. Just the type of name that's right for a pro football team.
35 posted on 10/05/2013 10:52:24 AM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: tobyhill

Hey, Sh*thead, let’s change the name of the Blackhawks too while we’re at it....?

Question:Why can’t you circumcise Obama?

Answer:There’s not end to this pri*k....


36 posted on 10/05/2013 10:53:53 AM PDT by nikos1121 (“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet)
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To: tobyhill

Quit watching espn and work on the gub mint shut down ya freaken moron.
Poser punk.


37 posted on 10/05/2013 10:54:00 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: tobyhill
Washington DC needs a new name similar to District of criminals.
38 posted on 10/05/2013 10:56:09 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: BenLurkin

if I was the author of a ‘healthcare plan’ that was offending ‘a sizeable group of people... i’d think about changing it’.


39 posted on 10/05/2013 11:04:00 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: tobyhill

Obama prefers the Washington Foreskins


40 posted on 10/05/2013 11:08:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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