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N.J. town erupts after council votes to rename Kennedy Center as the Obama Center
Washington Times ^ | 8-11-14 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 08/11/2014 11:10:44 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

The governing body of one New Jersey town voted in favor of renaming the local Kennedy Center after the current White House head — and calling it the Barack Obama Center — and some residents aren’t exactly happy.

Philly.com reported that the renaming came at the request of Willingboro Township Mayor Jacqueline Jennings, after she recalled how the black population in the region reacted with excitement at the campaign and election of Mr. Obama.

“I think that people have a sense of pride about him,” she told Philly.com. “We had so many new people register to vote, people who had never voted before, people who were disenfranchised. … All of a sudden, we had … people wrapping around the buildings when the polls opened. It was a sense of history. Everybody wanted to be a part of it.”

But plenty of local residents are upset at the town council’s name change.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: electorate; jfk; namesake; obama; politics
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

“we done been disinfrenchfried!”

CC


61 posted on 08/11/2014 11:43:08 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There’s plenty to criticize Kennedy about. The man did serve in our military. He did keep nukes out of Cuba. If I were to try to compare him to Obama, he’d practically look like a saint, which he certainly wasn’t.

What has Obama done to merit the Kennedy Center being named after him? For that matter, what did Kennedy do? Still, Kennedy was killed in office and I believe it’s reasoned to have things named after him.

Obama? This should be filed five folders deep inside one named “Absurd” each with the name “Even More Absurd.”

This started out with him not even being Senate Material, and I’m talking Illinois here.

Then it was absurd that he would be Senate Material.

Then it was absurd that he would be considered Presidential Material.

Then it became comical with him being given the Nobel after the election.

All the way along, he has found a new way to diminish himself the office he serves in, and the nation. Now they wish to ensconce his name on the property.

I say go for it. Let this albatross hang around their neck.

They will wind up the laughing stock of the nation.


62 posted on 08/11/2014 11:43:50 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Went and looked at the vid. Kept it on mute. There were a lot of non-Amish in that vid. I’d say no.


63 posted on 08/11/2014 11:46:27 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

Someone may already have posted this, but I say stop going to the center if you don’t like it.

Let his new enfranchised “Knock out Gamers” and his “Flash Mob Boys” support the place.


64 posted on 08/11/2014 11:48:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: Iron Munro

Waaaayyyy back in 1973 we lived in Willingboro, when it was named Levittown.

The houses had 1/4 inch drywall in them. We had six children, four of them boys. Lots of holes in those walls before we moved.


65 posted on 08/11/2014 11:52:41 AM PDT by Loud Mime (arguetheconstitution.com See if the video makes sense to you.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

66 posted on 08/11/2014 11:55:36 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: DoughtyOne
They will wind up the laughing stock of the nation.

For those of us that live in the real world yes they will be the butt of jokes.

But for many they will be lining up to follow in their foot steps

I wish it were not true but I am sure that it will prove to be the truth.

There are just way too many willing to ignore the truth about this man and paper over all of this man faults with the pulp fiction of his accomplishments.

Just as Clinton rides the wave of accomplishments forced upon him by a Republican congress Obama will ride a upon of a falsified reputation.

67 posted on 08/11/2014 11:57:15 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Loud Mime

Levittown... once know as “The great white ghetto”.


68 posted on 08/11/2014 11:58:58 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Wuli
And many of them, WHITE and black voted for all the wrong reasons, beginning with the mistake that mere HOPE can be translated into meaningful change.

You give many of them far too much credit. They voted for Obama BECAUSE HE IS (half) BLACK (they are happy to forget about the white half). If Jeffrey Dahmer was black, and had run for president, these same people would have voted for him even AFTER they found out that he'd been murdering and eating his victims.

69 posted on 08/11/2014 12:04:33 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Sicon

How many times did Marion Barry win his mayoral elections in DC?


70 posted on 08/11/2014 12:05:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: wideawake

They could name it Chavez Center in honor of who will soon replace them


71 posted on 08/11/2014 12:07:30 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: dfwgator

4 terms as mayor
I think he’s now in his 3rd or 4th term as city council


72 posted on 08/11/2014 12:09:30 PM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: wideawake

Willingboro is almost 75% African-American.

An original Levittown provided affordable* housing in the 50s. The first AA residents were professionals and well paid workers fleeing Camden, Trenton and Philly. Then came the white flight and as values dropped, absentee owners, rentals and a population shift. You know the rest.

*Affordable, not subsidized, the new meaning for affordable.

If you are from or live in Willingboro, and over 60 or so, I’d be interested to know if you think my analysis is accurate.


73 posted on 08/11/2014 12:15:10 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: dfwgator

Just call it the ‘National Sewer’ and please everyone.

Mostly Liberals ever perform or are honored there!


74 posted on 08/11/2014 12:19:25 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: El Zoro

Oops! I’ll immediately change the sign to read “Mooch-elle”.


75 posted on 08/11/2014 12:23:23 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Rodamala

Actually, I think Feasterville, and Bensalem have Levittown beat.


76 posted on 08/11/2014 12:40:06 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Just rename it the Karl Marx Center and be done with it.


77 posted on 08/11/2014 12:41:18 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This is Willingboro's Mayor, Jacqueline Jennings and the renaming was her idea. I am not a black woman but if I were, I could think of other black men and women who would be more deserving of such an honor. Heck, if I were a black woman, I'd be even angrier with Obama then I am as a Caucasian woman.

78 posted on 08/11/2014 12:54:56 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
If JFK was alive today he'd be telling associates "a few years ago Obama would have been serving us our coffee".

And he would have been right to do so.

79 posted on 08/11/2014 12:56:08 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

80 posted on 08/11/2014 12:56:48 PM PDT by bgill
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