To those of you who are upset that there is a REAGAN Airport...

[Delano]

I had to connect through Houston Intercontinental Airport this spring, and I was dismayed to find that it has been re-named "Bush Intercontinental Airport". Ecch.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, I passed THIS as I walked through the terminal...





It's the best photo I could find, but it's a huge statue of Poppy.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[Fenris]

1. I've been there so many times. No one in Houston calls it Bush.

It's either "the airport that isn't Hobby" or "Intercontinental".

[Bridget Burke]

9. Or just "The Big Airport"

Hobby Airport is closer to the city & the Hobbys were a much more liberal family.

[Bridget Burke]

10. Duplicate

Nothing to see here....

[The_Gopher]

20. and nobody in DC calls it Reagan.

[Supormom]

2. Is he wearing a cape?

I can't see the statue clearly, but it looks like he's wearing a cape.

"It's a bird, it's a plane..."

[Delano]

3. It's Poppy in his Navy Pilot days...

with a bomber jacket jauntily draped over his shoulder, waving in the wind. Very heroic...

[Fenris]

4. Caption: "What other flyboys?"

[Vickers]

5. Yup, and just like his son, it exaggerates his height

That thing must be 7' tall or more.

[salin]

6. I have only flown in and out of NATIONAL airport

what is the RR airport?

[WI_DEM]

7. this is going too far

it's time we start campaigns to rename airports and whatever else we can in favor of Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.

[ibegurpard]

8. They also named a freeway in Dallas after him.

Ironic, considering they're from New England.

[maveric]

11. And an aircraft carrier too.

That has to be stationed here in San Diego.
:puke:

[Bridget Burke]

12. Don't forget the baseball leagues!

(old joke)

[Les BOOGIE]

13. a conspiracy; one day we woke up and the name was changed

surely there's a procedure to let voters decide instead of <Vast Right Wingers>

[GOPisEvil]

14. I made Will Pitt fly through that airport on his way to Austin.

Seriously, Continental had the lowest fares. Really. Promise! :evilgrin:

[Kellanved]

15. What is it with things getting named after living persons in the US?

I don't get it :shrug: .

And what a nice choice of persons it is...

[apsuman]

17. It rarely happens

It rearely happens here in the US.

I have always lived south of the mason-dixon line and the prevailing thought *EVERYWHERE* is that you don't name a building after a living person. I have asked and I have always gotten two answers.

1. You don't want the living person to do a bad thing and ruin the name.

2. It's unlucky and wishs death upon the person.

The only cases I have encountered where a building was named after a living person are for GHW Bush, Reagan (albeit he had alheimers), and Strom Thurmond (ditto?).

The thing is I really don't think that Reagan would want the airport or a federal building, or a mount rushmore like monument.

[WI_DEM]

16. I would be in favor of the George W. Bush Maximum Correctional Institute

with the Chimp sharing a cell and toilet with Cheney--O think that Cheney would probably make the Chimp his "bitch".

[cmf]

18. I saw it the last time I flew through there

My husband and I insta-puked. :puke: We just loved how he jauntily holds his jacket over his shoulder. :puke:

I refuse to call it "Bush" just like I refuse to call National Airport "Reagan". It will always be Intercontinental (or Intergallactic in jest) to me.

[LTR]

19. Looks like a giant piece of shit!

Not a very nice statue, IMO.

Well, I was in Phoenix a month ago, and there is a Barry Goldwater terminal at Phoenix Airport. But he meant a lot to the state of Arizona.

In Minnesota, they named a football stadium after Hubert Humphrey.

[Catherine Vincent]

21. Most people here in Houston call it "Intercontinental". Only bush

fans and republicans call it that.

[Book Lover]

22. Not for nuthin', but

aren't you supposed to wait until people are dead until you start doing this kind of thing?