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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama Just Got His Very Own Holiday
Trump supporters in Illinois must be either simply fuming or else be planning moves to another state as their Republican Governor, Bruce Rauner, signed a bill on Friday declaring August 4th a new state holiday, Barack Obama Day.
Senate Bill 55, designating the birthday of the former president a state holiday, was passed by both houses of the Illinois legislature without a single dissenting vote. The new holiday is set apart to honor the 44th President of the United States of America who began his career serving the People of Illinois in both the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate, and dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Americans and building bridges across communities.
The new holiday is strictly commemorative, meaning that banks will remain open, and no one will get any mandatory paid time-off from work, but instead it will be treated as a day of acknowledgment and celebration.
http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/06/president-obama-just-got-holiday/
Mystery sage
(576 posts)I can feel it.
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Maraya1969
(22,506 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Maraya1969
(22,506 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I will not stand for that
Halloween is too sacred a time to sully it with Trumpian vulgarity.
LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)It is everyday 1st april since 20th january
Nay
(12,051 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)(If nobody explains it to him, he won't know.)
Maraya1969
(22,506 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Maraya1969
(22,506 posts)jayschool2013
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|calimary
(81,519 posts)Declare it on Octember the eleventy-third!
syringis
(5,101 posts)I'm not american. Otherwise, i would have strongly avocated, not only a State holiday but a National one.
The RelievedDay.
With gifts, special meals (avoid pumpkins however :chuckle , celebrations all around the country, fireworks and all, and all...
drmeow
(5,026 posts)ecstatic
(32,734 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,721 posts)He certainly deserves it.
Congratulations, President Obama!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Gothmog
(145,628 posts)murielm99
(30,771 posts)but it may be a cynical action on the Ruiner's part. He is trying to save his governorship and get reelected. He is republican scum.
TeapotInATempest
(804 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,340 posts)At least he didn't go on a Twitter sugar tirade and throw every devaluation he could
at Obama. Maybe it's only because he's facing reality, but it is a step.
A day for FDR could also be commemorated in New York.
sandensea
(21,677 posts)St. Ronnie has a massive Federal Triangle building and the DC airport (neither of which he cared about in the least) named after him.
Poppy Bush has at least one major Texas freeway and the Houston airport named after him (they should have named the Mena, AR, airport in his honor instead).
Obama definitely deserves this.
syringis
(5,101 posts)He did a more than impressive job to fix the mess HE and not the OA, inherited.
Gothmog
(145,628 posts)c-rational
(2,596 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Personal day off is now.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Heads would explode
Hekate
(90,842 posts)DFW
(54,447 posts)Every time I drive when I'm here in Dallas, I have to either cross or take a turn on the George Bush this or the George W Bush that.
Worse yet, when I visit my brother in northern Virginia (heading up there tonight), every day I have to drive by a sign announcing the entrance to the George Bush Center for Intelligence, an oxymoron if ever there was one!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)It will be a day of mourning.
weydowner
(100 posts)I think there will be a National Holiday when the Reign of Donald comes to an end. Break out the bottles of Champagne and the Party Streamers in advance because he will get the biggest crowds in US history, whooping and hollering down the whole centre of Washingron and New York. Unalloyed Joy will no longer be just a cliche.
Somehow I don't think it is a scenario he had in mind; the world will celebrate his passing with massive enthusiasm, especially - it seems - his own country.
(the title song from the Wizard of Oz was spontaneously used when Thatcher died, many years after she was deposed by her own party. That level of hatred and disdain shocked the so-called pundits and her dwindling adherents. Strange, but she was very moderate and restrained compared to the nth-raters that succeeded her - she was hated by many many English people but never never as much as this idiot in the White House)