Is it time for a NEW face on Mt. Rushmore?

[DontTreadOnMe]

Now that we have the GREATEST PRESIDENT of all time, should we add Obama to Mt. Rushmore?

Or maybe a new $100 bill design?

How about TWO aircraft carriers - Obama I and Obama II?

I will settle for renaming Washington National?

... just making Rethug heads explode is worth a National effort.

[RT Atlanta]

1. Im all for renaming National...

n/t

[Warpy]

5. I don't know, naming an obsolete and dangerous airport

that was kept open mostly for the convenience of bureaucrats for the worst president we've ever had was very fitting.

I'm calling Reagan the worst because he did the most and longest lasting damage.

[calimary]

58. That I'd do in a heartbeat!

Anything named for reagan should be RENAMED. His horrendously destructive legacy is best buried with him.

[Pab Sungenis]

2. You can't put an actual person's face on coins or bills

until they are dead.

[zappaman]

4. In that case

I look forward to one day seeing Jr's face on a 3 dollar bill.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. As it should be. n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

18. Agreed.

Honestly, I'd rather see all Presidents taken off of our money. There are so many people from the arts and sciences, not to mention other fields, who should be honored. And a couple of women, at least.

[joeybee12]

25. That's the way other countries do it...

except for the British...

[Pab Sungenis]

54. Even the British.

The Queen may be on the front, but they have different figures like Elizabeth Fry, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Matthew Boulton and James Watt.

Imagine Martha Washington on the $1.00, Harriet Tubman on the $5.00, Thomas Edison on the $10.00, and so on....

[somone]

64. And Isaac Newton

[csziggy]

31. But people hated the Susan B. Anthony dollar

And the Sacagawea dollar has not been much more popular.

[Shiver]

33. I think it's because people tend to confuse them with quarters in their pocket.

In the case of the Susan B. Anthony dollar especially. I know there's been more than one instance in which I handed one over thinking it was a quarter.

[csziggy]

60. Yeah, they screwed up on that one big time

Originally it was supposed to have eleven "facets" but they decided to stick with a regular round coin instead. When they did that, they should have changed the size to make it a different size from any other coin.

Heck, any more I have trouble telling the difference between nickels and quarters, now that they have the same sheen and different designs than I am used to. I really don't want to get my glasses out just to count change!

[madokie]

3. I think we should just rename the country,

Obamica :-)

[Igel]

10. Absolutely.

And while we're at it require that all women over age 18 undergo artifical insemination so that they can bear his child.

Hero worship.

How undignified, esp. when the hero is far from fallible and still has quite a ways to go before reaching his apotheosis.

[madokie]

11. I love you too ;-)

[Youth Uprising]

56. Well said.

People who lovingly refer to the president as "My President" or "Our President" creep me out as much as people who lovingly refer to John Boehner as
Leader Boehner.

[Malikshah]

20. I prefer

Obamistan.

Or Baracki Obamia

Either one would sting more... ;)

[madokie]

51. After all the sting is really what we're after, huh :-)

[Malikshah]

69. Sting--Bilbo's sword or otherwise is my goal. A collective aneurism on the part of the

teabaggers and Islamophobes is long past due. Anything to bring it along is just jim dandy fine by me

[whistler162]

49. Nah lets rename Maryland to Barryland;)

[madokie]

52. Took me a second to get that one. :-) LOL

[RKP5637]

7. Let's rename 'Reagan National Airport' to 'Obama National Airport' for starters. n/t

[Terra Alta]

48. I could go for that.

Naming the airport for Reagan was a disgrace.

[Lucian]

8. You're kidding, right?

I think he's marginally acceptable as president, but he's definitely not Rushmore material.

[Auggie]

12. FDR first

[lamp_shade]

26. President Obama is "marginally acceptable" to you? Oy!

[Lucian]

61. Yes.

I prefer my Democrat presidents to be liberal, not moderate.

Is there a problem with that?

[virgogal]

9. The greatest president of all time?

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. Past. Present. OR Future.

How could any future President ever live up to the accomplishments of Barack Obama? We already know He's the Most Wonderful President we've ever had... The challenge is now to prove no future President will ever live up to his hype, uh, accomplishments.

[virgogal]

34. Aw man,you got me !!!!! :-)

[Bunny]

13. That would be awesome!!! But until then, we'll have to make do with this:

[deaniac21]

30. Funny Bunny

[Motown_Johnny]

14. way to soon, lets get him a second term first.

and as I understand it, there is no more room on Mt. Rushmore. The surrounding area is to fractured to hold a sculpture

[JoePhilly]

16. You pissed of the trolls, nice job!!!

If Bush killed OBL, the right wing would want to build a NEW Rushmore with only Bush II and Reagan on it.

[Obamanaut]

17. What happened? Did GITMO close today? nt

[immoderate]

19. ** Let's rename the Ocean!! **

It goes everywhere. :)

--imm

[TygrBright]

21. Oh, YEAH! Let's rename National the "Barack HUSSEIN Obama Airport"... n/t

[EFerrari]

22. This is a GREAT idea. Let's start now.

We need a stamp, a new mug on Mt. Rushmore, an airport, a freeway, a national park. What else? :thumbsup:

[emulatorloo]

23. An Obama Coin Collection. And An Obama Doll brandishing a sword

Already been done though. Check it out, worth a laugh or two.

Obama Coin Collection
http://thepatrioticmint.com/Obama-Coin-Collection.aspx?gclid=CMi7gcv426gCFRG4Kgodoj_ABQ


Obama Doll Brandishing a Sword

http://1.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_hJV_htAFMU4/TBErHuZjauI/AAAAAAAADm4/69YdzMfRg6Y/s1600/obama-doll-2_fwH2w_20137.jpg

Obama Doll Brandishing Killer Abs

http://1.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_hJV_htAFMU4/TBEedo935EI/AAAAAAAADk4/DC41_TNoRSA/s1600/900972_press01%281%29.jpg


More info at http://terrigoldphoto.blogspot.com/2010/06/sideshow-toys-hot-toys-true-type-12.html

[BrendaBrick]

24. A different perspective...........

Original Founding Fathers
The term “founding fathers” can be traced back to most of our adolescent years when our social studies teacher used it to define the early presidents and their various documents that forged and formed this great and powerful nation we live in today. What we weren’t taught was that before the first American president there was already a system and order decreed by renown Native American elders and chieftains.

Chief Joseph for example lived a life that personified his courageous beliefs. Joseph, a Nez Perce, grew up in Oregon’s Wallowa Valley, a region that his ancestors occupied for centuries. In 1874 the U.S. government ordered his people to resettle in Idaho. In the month of June 1877, Joseph began leading his people to Idaho in peace, but on the way found himself confronted by some hostile whites. Gunfire was exchanged which eventually escalated to an all out war with the United States. For 1,800 miles Chief Joseph courageously led 800 men, women and children to a Canadian refuge but was pursued closely by the U.S. Cavalry. Ambushed only 42 miles from their destination and with only 418 of his survivors he bellowed this unforgettable lament, “I will fight no more forever.”

Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Sioux was not only known as a great warrior but a skilled hunter as well. Being a respected Sioux leader, one of his main objectives was to feed his people and lead them to the ever changing migrating buffalo herds. As he strove to fulfill this role, he was met by much resistance from the from the U.S. government. Eventually his zeal to make a way for his people met its fiercest opponent in General George Custer that soon crescendoed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Although Custer was defeated and killed and despite Sitting Bulls heroic acts, westward expansion soon took its toll resulting in the near extinction of the buffalo.

Geronimo, a Chiticahua Apache, was as famous a figure as they come in the history of the West. Elusive and crafty, he was feared by all those who pursued him. Cynical of the corrupt Indian agents he dealt with, he determined in his heart not to surrender inevitable fruit of warfare being loss of loved ones and family, Geronimo seemed to have an inexhaustible appetite for vengeance. Eventually after many failed attempts Geronimo and his “renegade” band were finally captured and he was sent to a Florida Jail as a prisoner of war.

Red Cloud, an Oglala Sioux war chief, wanted nothing more then to see his people flourish and to see their rights justly protected. He startled his white contemporaries at government councils with his sincerity and boldness and was revered on the battlefield as a first rate military strategist. In one of the most stunning victories in the Indian Wars, Red Cloud assembled a force of 2,000 Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahos to drive the U.S. Army away from their territory which was located west of the Black Hills. He spent his whole life tenaciously fighting to defend Siox homeland that rightfully belonged to him and his people.

If the term “founding fathers” was propertly defined for us a young people it would first apply to the many American leaders who fought so valiantly to preserve their people’s way of life. A way of life where land was not something to be bought or sold but instead was a gift to be governed by good and humble stewards.

Source: http://www.davidbehrens.com/ffii.html

....may you put that in your (peace pipe) and smoke it!

[blondeatlast]

27. Hardly--enough damage has been done already. What a godawful

thing it is--I've been there.

[scarletwoman]

36. Thank you. Mt. Rushmore is an absurdity, and a deliberate insult to the Native Peoples

who have always held the Black Hills as sacred.

I would hope that we would desist from carrying out any further desecrations on land that we stole from its legal (Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868) owners.

sw

[BrendaBrick]

44. Here Here. I'm with you! nt

[wickerwoman]

47. +1. Tackiest national monument... ever.

It makes Graceland look dignified.

[david13]

28. The best face for Mt Rushmore is no face at all. The face of nature

is what is supposed to be on any and every mountain, and no damn politician of any type should ever have been put onto a mountain in the first place.
dc

[lamp_shade]

29. LIKE!!!

[bluestate10]

32. If President Obama brings the economy back to even by the end of

his first term not only does he get re-elected with love, but if his second term is steady, President Obama at least gets his image on money and several military vessels and many streets.

[jp11]

35. No.

If it was time it would be Reagan the most beloved saintly president of all time.

[Adsos Letter]

37. Adding FDR would be more appropriate, I think.

[MineralMan]

38. No. Not Reagan. Not Obama. No more big heads at that

monument, thanks. Maybe 50 or 100 years from now.

I don't think so. Unrec.

[animato]

39. good idea! nt

[underpants]

40. Trump?

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. I am hoping that Bush Intercontinental will be changed then...

[yurbud]

42. only on things Republicans have or want to name after Reagan.

[yurbud]

43. Replace the star for Hawaii on US flag with Obama's face, so conservatives have to salute him

[Snoutport]

45. well...somebody good with photo shop get working! It will make the Repubs blow a vein

[Zax2me]

46. No. It is history. Leave it that way.

If you want to honor someone let's do it in another way. Another carve on another mountain.

[NNN0LHI]

50. Man, starting this thread was like administering a group Rorschach test for Obama haters

[demwing]

67. lol for the win! /nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

53. Mount Rushmore will collaspe with further "scultping."

So, no.

[BREMPRO]

55. bamma w/ sunglasses on mt rushmore for sure!

[Octafish]

57. Couple consecutive numbers of USS Gerald R Ford class should do the trick.

Mr. Magic Bullet Mover kid you not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford_class_aircraft_carrier

[Brickbat]

59. God, no. The place is an abomination anyway. It's so Soviet! How can people not be weirded out by

it?

[ErikJ]

62. FDR FDR FDR!

FDR deserves it more than anybody. He stood up to the monopolist bankster capitalists and yelled in his famous speech "and I WELCOME their hatred!" He got us out of the Republican Great Deprwession and beat Hitler. Obama will never be an FDR-nobody will again probably.

[midnight armadillo]

63. How about a statue of Obama astride the Wall St bull?

Considering how much he loves Wall St it seems apropos.

[bigwillq]

65. No (nt)

[demwing]

66. What if we just paint the Whitehouse black for the next 4 years?

Would enough heads explode?

[DontTreadOnMe]

71. now we are talkin'!

Just the IDEA of it... will make their heads explode.

Nothing needs to be actually done... just a bill sent to the Senate would be enough.

[applegrove]

68. I've always thought Mount Rushmore was kinda kitchy. Don't let Obama's likeness deface a poor

mountain. Just name an aircraft carrier after him.

[Javaman]

70. I want Spong Bob

After all he brings nothing but joy and happiness.

Is that so ridiculous?