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Regardless of party lines, of course all of them, like them or not. Would you want to fill in there shoes, for just one day. Some don't even give thought to President's day, just another day.
WTF made Reagan particularly honorable? Grenada or Iran-Contra?
Honor all of them. Or at least send them a thought. It's a sucky job - long hours, no gratitude from at least 40% of the population, pathetic pay and moody loners thinking you're their ticket to herostratic fame.
Uh... How about honoring Ronald Reagan from saving the United States form 10 years of Liberal stagnation and inflation (stag-flation) of the 1970s or how about for his leadership in confronting the Soviets unilaterally, effectively winning the Cold War and bringing down the Berlin Wall by supporting the pro-democracy movement in Poland (unlike Hussein, who spits on the face of anti-dictatorship protesters in Iran today)?
No doubt, the job of a President is horrible and yet, the Presidents can't seem to get enough out of it. Power corrupts people. That is why the Founders wanted limited government, not the BushBama government that takes over everything and borrow the country into submission!
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Originally Posted by North Beach Person
Originally "President's Day" was two holidays, Lincoln on the 12th and Washington on the 22nd. At some point, I guess in the late 70s or so, the were combined and became President's Day.
Other than government, schools and banks, businesses don't observe most holidays other than Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.
Liberals like to compare Lincoln with Washington and try and say Lincoln was greater than Washington. He was NOT. Lincol is just loved by Liberals because it's PC "Lincoln freed the slaves", while Washington chaired the writing of that annoying document Liberal-Progressives hate: The US Constitution.
President's Day should be called George Washington's Day, since he is da man!
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The President is just some guy--not anyone important.
.... With the power to effectively destroy the Republic with supermajorities in Congress, just as we saw in 2009. Obama came very close to collapsing the Republic... he might still pull it off, but we will see.
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Regardless of party lines, of course all of them, like them or not. Would you want to fill in there shoes, for just one day. Some don't even give thought to President's day, just another day.
I would like to be President for one day. I would hope we would not run out of missiles by the time I was done with Iran. lol
Iran is a huge problem and if we do not act soon, Israel will and it will be much worse.
I am only in my late 20s. But I understand President's Day used to be in honor of HONORABLE Presidents of the United States, like the beloved George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
So should we honor crooks like Bush and Obama today, President's Day 2010???
Or should we honor the truly honorable Presidents of Old (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Reagan)??
Who is YOUR fav President, who do YOU think of of when thinking honoring President's Day???
I notice you only put list the middle name for Obama....
I am only in my late 20s. But I understand President's Day used to be in honor of HONORABLE Presidents of the United States, like the beloved George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
You precocious thing.
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So should we honor crooks like Bush and Obama today, President's Day 2010???
Or should we honor the truly honorable Presidents of Old (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Reagan)??
Who is YOUR fav President, who do YOU think of of when thinking honoring President's Day???
FDR... also cousin Teddy.
(Puzzled by "FDR/Dwight Eisenhower" and "Barack Hussein Obama/II")
At one time Lincoln had a birthday and Washington had a birthday holiday, both in February. Some schools gave both days off (mine did) but Washington's birthday was the only federal holiday. Some brainiac decided to combine them and later some other brainiacs decided to make it the more general Presidents Day. At one time they were thinking of a separate early March holiday to honor the office but it never came to pass because it was too close to Washington's birthday.
I thought it became Presidents day when they added MLK to the holiday list, so that already short February didn't have too many holidays.
Uh... How about honoring Ronald Reagan <snip> for his leadership in confronting the Soviets unilaterally, effectively winning the Cold War and bringing down the Berlin Wall by supporting the pro-democracy movement in Poland
hell no, I cannot honor any president from teddy roosevelte to the current president, it would have been better if all the administrations of the 20th and 21st century would be forgotten.
all these presidents did was to limit the freedom of its citizens, they violated their sacred oath and should all be tarred and feathered.
I remember as a kid getting free cherry lollipops ( two red cherry flavored hard candies on a bent green plastic "stem". They'd be free from the local bank, you'd just go in and ask for them or you could get them from some stores. This was back in the 1970s. People still ask for them but the company doesn't make them any more.
Cherry pies, and apple pies too were big on presidents day. Now the big grocery store chains don't sell them( Giant, Wal mart). I don't think many people even know what America was or is anymore. And not just all the immigrants and foreigners, people born here as well. The Fourth of July is just a day off with fireworks and God forbid you play patriotic music and not current crap music at parades and events. And they don't even know what Memorial Day or Veteran's Day or Flag Day or Labor Day is. Even Christmas is losing its religious importance.
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Power corrupts people. That is why the Founders wanted limited government, not the BushBama government that takes over everything and borrow the country into submission! 
lol
Who should we honor during President's Day?
