LI school renamed for Obama

[Sing4Him]

LI school renamed for Obama

BY CHRISTINA HERNANDEZ | christina.hernandez@newsday.com
12:30 PM EST, November 21, 2008

Like Barack Obama's campaign, the plan to rename a Hempstead school after the president-elect was "a remarkable grassroots approach," the district superintendent said Friday.

At a meeting Thursday night, the five-member Hempstead school board voted unanimously to rename one of its schools Barack Obama Elementary School, said Superintendent Joseph Laria.

The change was effective immediately, although the district does not have a new sign yet. The school, formerly called Ludlum Elementary School, is on Williams Street in Hempstead..........

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liobama1122,0,6164823.story?track=rss

[icebear]

isn't there supposed to be separation of false messiah and state....


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[bkp1]

Absolutely ridiculous :idunno

[Seabird]

Well, why not? George Washington is getting kind of worn out and the such (sarcastic).

[Tres Wright]

GRAAARRRRR!!! That just makes me want to say bad words! :doh

[saved by Grace]

they are really taking this too far.:twitch

[Gina_63]

Don't they usually wait until someone is dead to name a school after them?

[jadeeyes]

Don't they usually wait until someone is dead to name a school after them?

They don't always wait until the person is dead. However, when naming things after a presdent, they usually wait until he is no longer president. President-elect Barak Obama hasn't even served the first second of his presidency. I wonder how they're going to feel about our soon to be president at the end of his first term.

[eve_anne_gelical]

They will have his face on Mt Rushmore within 2 years...

[Gina_63]

They will have his face on Mt Rushmore within 2 years...

:doh You're probably right!