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Obama Wants To Rename Washington Redskins
Presented with little comment but to ask what next? The New York Mediums? The Oakland Privateers? The Cleveland Beiges? The Atlanta Cowards?
The President explains his reasoning at 19:50...
President Barack Obama says that if he owned the Washington Redskins, he would "think about changing" the team name, wading into the controversy over a football nickname that many people deem offensive to Native Americans.
Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names like the Redskins offend "a sizable group of people." He said that while fans get attached to the nicknames, nostalgia may not be a good enough reason to keep them in place.
"I don't know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these things," he said in the interview, which was conducted Friday.
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the president appeared to come down on the side of those who have sharply criticized the football team's name, noting that Indians "feel pretty strongly" about mascots and team names that depict negative stereotypes about their heritage.
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You are a disgustingly ignorant and particularly vile piece of shit, aren't you?
This poem is not for you, asshole; it is for the other readers here that have the capacity to open their minds.
Simon Ortiz is a prolific, eloquent, and insightful contemporary poet. I recommend his works to anyone interested in philosophy. Here's one of my favorites of his:
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A VETERAN'S DAY
I happen to be a veteran
but you can't tell in how many ways
unless I tell you.
A cold morning waking up on concrete;
I never knew that feeling before,
calling for significance,
and no one answered.
Let me explain it this way
so that you may not go away
without knowing a part of me:
that I am a veteran of at least 30,000 years
when I travelled with the monumental yearning
of glaciers, relieving myself by them,
growing, my children seeking shelter
by the roots of pines and mountains.
When it was that time to build,
my grandfather said, "We cut stone and mixed mud
and ate beans and squash and sang
while we moved ourselves. That's what we did."
And I believe him.
And then later on in the ancient and deep story
of all our nights, we contemplated,
contemplated not the completion of our age,
but the continuance of the universe,
the travelling, not the progress,
but the humility of our being there.
Caught now, in the midst of wars
against foreign disease, missionaries,
canned food, Dick & Jane textbooks, IBM cards,
Western philosophies, General Electric,
I am talking about how we have been able
to survive insignificance.
http://www.oocities.org/soho/cafe/9942/ortiz.htm
Lots of great stuff on the other end of a google search for this guy.
Just like everything else Western Europe has touched and managed to destory including each other, it is no small wonder that it also has no memory.
As non-Native Americans we can't even begin to imagine what this Country must have looked like before it was occupied. I have family from the Great Lakes region and the bounty that came out of those water was beyond belief. In less than 100 years completely devastated by pollution it has made some residual comeback but it can never be restored to what it once was.
This is the America no one likes to talk about.
Okay, Adahy, I stand corrected. It is not my intent to divide or spread misinformation but I see that I did just that with my uninformed post. I shoulda kept my mouth shut regarding someone ele's tax status I had no knowledge of. As your fellow American, please accept my apology.
I notice the Washington baseball club, once had a really 'offensive' name, the Senators. That was changed to something not so distasteful to the public.
Washington Prolapses
One can hope...
I am a real native american indian and I find it offensive that the president of this country that is slowly going down the shitter has this kind of BULL going on instead of trying to fix the place >_>
+ millions agree with you. I think it's patronising of him to think native americans would put the name of a sports team above serious issues. He gets worse as time goes by, apparently. So do many in Congress, so I guess he's found his natural habitat.
Totally agree. This is just more bullshit theatre. Fuck some stupid sports team name.
Maybe he's trying to win another worthless prize of some kind. Gotta' stroke that ego you know.
The Washington Oligarchs does sound more fitting.
Or The Washington Kleptocrats, with an out-stretched hand accepting a stack of cash, some sparkly diamonds, shiny gold coins.
Obviously, The Washington Gridlocks
The Washington Foreskins --- because they are all obviously dicks.
How about the Washington Thinskins? or Foreskins?
How about the Washington Corrupt Whores? I would seriously be on board with an immediate change to the Washington Corrupt Whores.
Or in typical NFL fashion move them. Send them to Dublin, Ireland and call them the Dublin PotatoSkins.
The Washington Redinks. ... Bombers.
More racial politics to distract from his abject cowardly refusal to answer genuine distress calls from the majority of every creed, color and religion who are sick of him, his minions and his handlers.
Agreed. The classic Magician's Trick:
Distraction (look here!) and Action (there).
Sheeple with ADD* fall for it almost every time.
Think of it as Controlled Talking Points to act as Safety Valves to relieve pressure and buy time.
Cocksucker! With apologies to cocksuckers everywhere, who might actually provide some Quid Pro Quo value.
* Attention Deficit Disorder.
The only person I'd let perfom fellatio upon me is a woman. They provide value most definitely. Yes many women perform fellatio. Now that is not a bad trait for a woman, but a good trait, especially when they know how to do it right. I am rather appreciative of that fact.
Now if it is a mangina who is a Penis Breath cocksucker, well, that is a different story.
So just remember... Most cocksuckers are actually good.
It is just that a minority of manginas that give it such a bad name...like the President, for example.
IT's good to be king. next decree every 1st son born in America will be named : Barry. wink wink
Tall Tom, I agree completely.
the Washington ConMen - would be appropriate, but might offend ex cons and con men, so gee guess that's out too
Let's see. When I read about football players what headlines do I read?
-Beating their wives
-Selling drugs
-Killing people
-Fighting
-Going bankrupt
-Rape
-Bitch about concussions (like they didn't realize concussions come with the job)
Seeing as they are mostly black they should be renamed the Washington Niggers. It's cool for black people to call eachother niggers anyway. Perfect fit and a name Obama can relate to.
That's pretty offensive too.
How about the Washington Obsolete Farm Equipment?
Washington Knuckle Draggers
Knuckle Draggers?
That's even worse!
If you have ever met a North American Pavement Ape you would know that they do not drag their knuckles.
I have yet to hear about The Knock Out Game being played by a NAPA that is "dragging knuckles".
You seem to be racist.
Yahbutt! O half crack'r!
John Riggins is pissed.
John Riggins name is an anagram which may have been used intentionally.
Reverse the spelling of his last name and it becomes Johns Niggir
NFL Owners are in the business of buying and selling people (players) It is a Rich White Man's Slave Trade until the player is given his Free Agency.
Hasn't this guy done enough damage? Everything he touches turns to crap.
With WW3 on the verge of happening and all the shit in the world today, people are broke, cops beating the shit ot of people and killing 34 year old mothers and then marching around calling themselves heroes, corporations and banks robbing us, no jobs, putting poison in our food, etc, NONE of this compares to the IMPORTANCE of the name of a FUCKING FOOTBALL TEAM!! Yes it is of prime importance that when a drunken fan yells "Go Redskins" he may be insulting some passed out drun ken Indian lying in a ditch somewhere in Wyoming, who by the way if he could have gotten tickets to the game would have been drunk and yelling the same thing. This should be priority number ONE!!! Maybe call them the Washington Douchbags, that would insult all the politicians.
Another bullshit distraction.
Bull$hit. Our blood and treasure is being wasted in record speed by this cowardly Animosh (the Algonquin tribe word for dog).
My two dogs are deeply offended by your post and demand that you retract it and pay reparations.
Then they'll have to hire their own legal beagle ;-) Bada boom ! Never gets old...
Obama says this stuff to stir people up. Personally, I couldn't care less what they call that team. Obama and all his jerkoff buddies can go fuck themselves. Go suck a dick you stupid big eared, ass pumpin' douche
bag!
RG3 should just get ahead of this and change his name to RGLove
Call them the Washington Pols - logo could be maybe a shifty looking guy with a hand lifting a wallet out of somebody's pocket while sucking a banker's dick.
how bout........the Washington Whores
When you get the emblem for the helmet and mascot figured out for the new team let us know?
That idea is a winner!
P.S.
Perhaps William7 can make that one happen in his next series of artwork postings?
NFL/Redskins to Obama: FUCK OFF.
Credibility downgrade nationwide and in the D.C. area.
The average denizen inside the Congo Bypass (that segement of I-495 that runs through Prince George's county Maryland as that road is known in areas PG county) does not give a flying fuck about politics, but they might hear a blurb about this during the games tomorrow, because well "Muh Sportz".
Between sports, dealing drugs and spreading STDs (and hoping for a gub'mint jurb) the average person around the Redskins stadium area does not have the capacity to pay attention to what's going on in the jurisdiction right next to them.
Montgomery County and NOVA won't generally care, but the yuppie liberals might pretend to be outraged (for a moment) to show how "cultured" and "sensitive" they are before going back to their beer and 84" flatscreens.
Beer? I thought the lib'ruls only drank Zima.
The Washington Freemasons...after all, DC was designed by them
'cept the NSA would veto use of the word 'free'
If Obama owned the redskins.......
....they'd probably be on the verge of bankruptcy
BUT...
They'd have a great line of credit.
how about washington red-bottoms ...
ZH needs a redskins naming contest
How about the Washington Carpetbaggers
Washington CryBabies....little babies too young to be offended.
The Washington Brown Nosers!
Washington Cowards
Thank God the cowboys are PROUD of Dallas, but they make fun of Obama!
Washington Pirates ?
Washington Thieves ?
Washington Liars ?
Washington Lazy Worthless POS ?
name it after obama... The ThinSkins
How about the "Washington Guillotines?!"
circa 2043:
The beginning of the unraveling of the USA was first started when rioting broke out over the naming of a football team. It was the only thing that could motivate Americans to become militant
Might as well, since there are few redskins left in DC anyway. A better name would be the Washington Parasites, since they have so many inside the beltway. They could even use an engorged bloodsucking tick for their mascot.
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2013/07/16/10932014/engorged%20tick.jpg
Washington Redtape Worms?
Fighting Irish ?
Dallas Cow Boys?
If Obama owned a team they could be named The Stormtroopers.
If Obama owned a team they'd be the Cocksuckers.
How about the Washington Halfbreeds
The term is Mulattos.
The Washington Mulattos.
Cher would be offended
In the back of Obama's evil mind he was actually thinking about the US constitution....
He said that while Americans get attached to these old concepts, nostalgia may not be a good enough reason to keep them in place.
"I don't know whether our attachment to a particular way of life should override my undying desire to crush this society"
I propose "The Washington Free Shit Army"
What? You don't like the Army? Why not just the Washington Free Shits?
Washington Skinheads, that would be different.
I'm not saying these problems haven't existed before. But this clown is such a worthless sack of shit.
A fucking affirmative action cartoon. Not a characture - a fucking cartoon.
And his Protorian Guard in the media slow pitch softballs like this to the horse's ass - bad joke that is going to end very badly for this country.
The Bad New Bombers? Blowing brown people up seems to be PC these days?
Or... The DC Drones - with their Explosive Offense?
This is just a payback for this
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-28/national/40252771_1_enroll-america-law-insurance
The payback never stops. Remember his henchwoman, descendant of communists, Valerie Jarrett's promise days before the 2012 election:
"After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”
Obama is the worst president ever
And Valerie Jarrett is his prophet.
"The Fighting Irish" - How discriminatory!
So - Native Americans are so set upon being seen as different, unique, and special - so that they can't be discriminated against?
And a Mulatto President is going to defend their right to discriminate their name or reference usage so they can't be discriminated against?
How about the Washington Hoodies? Hoodies seem popular and an accepted symbol. Anyone can wear a hoodie.
Or maybe the Washington Trayvon's? Or would that discrminate against Trayvon's who don't wear hoodies?
Or mabye the Washington Geroge's? Or would that discriminate against the memory of George Washington or guys named George who can't throw a football?
We could call them the Washington Something's, but that would discriminate against Some's and Thing's that don't want to be in a relationship.
I'm so confused.
He's not the first to suggest it.
The Washington Stasi.
You guys are on a roll today!
Barry just says shit to irritate people. Barry's father was a drunk (he died behind the wheel while hammered - head first into a tree in Kenya) and Barry's mother was the campus whore.
As Barry's childhood issues continue to manifest and as pressure in Barry's world mounts, expect more stupid shit to come out of this guy's yap.
This is what "hopey changey" gets you - meddling in the branding of sports team while Russia sets Middle East policy.
Good job Barry you useless fuck!!!
Distract, distract, distract.
The hired murderers must be on furlough with the government fake shutdown. So no false flag killings of American schoolchildren today. Instead, let's create a false narrative about a fucking sports team. In a league of sports games that is all, 100% rigged, like American elections and American "markets."
Obama is mentally ill
Suffers from at least 2 personality disorders...
Oh great. He has a split personality and they are both nuts.
The Washington Immolators? They could make a real ash of themselves.
Zero once again wading into controversies he has no business with and further dividing people. Just your typical community agitator and he really has no idea how much half of the country hates this con man.
Fuckin Assclown
Open mouth...Change foot.
Welcome to the Facepalm Presidency. Mortifying America since 2008.
I'd put the following options on the table:
Washington Welfare Recipients.
Washington Dictators.
Washington Thugs.
Washington FUCKYOs.
If we're looking for opposites, New Orleans Banksters.
i steal this from WOPR -
the washington furloughers
All they have to do is change the Logo on the helmet to a Red Skin Onion. Problem solved.
Eh, the Green Onions will probably bitch.
Love it. While reading through this, there is a an ad pitching Redskins jerseys right next to the video of Oblamer yakking.
Washington DC Gangstas
Here are some political correct teams names up for ballot
I have to stop. Partake in your ideas..
Wow. Short attention spans. Look! Ponies!
America is doomed.
You didn't name that...
Opps.
Carbon Credit Critters. They just keep turning up. Walking away from the keyboard
I wish barry would just keep his fuckin mouth shut.
He could not slurp down Reggie's Special Sauce if he did that.
You know, the San Francisco 49ers sounds a little too much like the 69ers. Someone should take a look at that. And then there are the very suggestive St. Louis Rams. Man, a Rams/Packers game. Too much! Shut it all down already!
Don't forget the Pittsburgh Prancers.
OK.. off to dinnner. Just can't help myself.
You do make me chuckle, atomizer.
Thanks. My wife tells me I'm a pain in the ass. In nearly the same breath states, 'you have a heart of gold and I love you'.
We should all be happy that Mrs. Atomizer doesn't post on ZH. We all would be getting a lecture of some sort. Love her dearly.
Yin and yang; Mr and Mrs; the grit in the oyster makes the pearl...and a stitch in time at the end of the day...hang on...I'm lost, again. Cheers, Atomizer.
You make me chuckle, the both of you.
Repeated entry
8-9 years ago. I forget.. Don’t rat on me. She had no idea about the big market scheme. She didn’t even know who Donald Trump was. She learned because of Trump Tuesdays on CNBC Squawk box. She would be snoring away while I was getting dressed. As soon as Trump spoke on the TV, she suddenly woke like a snap of the fingers.
Any time I get into the dog house .. She tells me, Mr. Atomizer! I have the floor, don’t talk, and this is not a Kudlow debate. It warms my heart how she has become more aware of her surroundings. I want her to shake hands with Trump. It’s a hard string to pull.
Sometimes its hard to keep a poker face. I've broken down in laugter and ended up in double dog house.
The dolt has more important issues to tackle and the best he can come up with is this?
Maybe he's just jealous they aren't called the Washington Nigga's.
call them the Washington Pigskins, they'll still be red, and the lobbyists will be honored, although AIPAC will complain its not Kosher
Washington Fireskins?
Washington MOOCHERS!
It begs the question what "Big Chief-Barack-O-Death" will end up naming the Shia tribe in the Middle East he's trying so desperately to wipe out of existence?
Answer: Wahabbi Wampum, perhaps? After all, lots of trading going on over those sandpits. Or maybe: Shekel Sunnis after they undergo full conversion.
The US is on the ropes and all this psycho deviant has on his mind is a PC name for a football team?
Folks, this guy is out.of.control.
He needs to GO. NOW.
Section 8 would be a legal recourse.
Just more canned talking points for him to read from the teleprompter.
This one is truly special because anytime they try to distinguish "us" from "them" you know it's a magic moment to pull out the flag and thump our chests for the brain dead in this Country even though as a nation we keep forgetting that the biggest problem with "Redskin" isn't the name but what our European psychopathic ancestory did to them over 300 years.
So now the President is going to grandstand and tell everybody what differentiates us from the rest of the World like our history of genocide and the NDAA!??? Good timing! You can smell it in the air folks.
We're going for the next biggest stunt. Only this time in the shape of a World War because the powers that be that have had there fists around it for the last 68 years will do anything to retain it, even if it means a billion people. Mike Rivero is right. Anytime you start seeing repeats on the History Channel as we are now witnessing regarding films on the Holocaust our leaders are getting anxious to pull out the PR cannons to remember our "finest hours".
Don't they have other, more important shit to do, like dragging veterans away from open-air memorials?
Thanks for the comic relief in the comments above!
Obama: We don't have those numbers yet. Everyone is interested to see the savings, but cannot log onto the site due to gliches. We see a overwhelming need for ACA, we just cannot give you any feedback at the moment.
Watching the live version of obama bobblehead is priceless.
Washington Enemies. Or Enemas.
Jesus hooky Christ.
.
when o shit head states the fed gov.
finance is as the household he has
disregarded the constitution and the
sovereign entity that is the essential
essence of the federal government,
the nation, aka formerly known as the
the united states of america. the states might want to
take notice that the federation has sold out their
entire interests. yea, but those crime bosses
have been paid off and have most likely
snorted the vig, rule by shit heads ongoing?
no?
yea.
First one that came to my mind is Washington Halfricans.
How bout the Washington BLACKskins like his hometown Blackhawks.
D.C. Indian-Givers?
I'd call them the Washington Mohammed's.
Then, anyone that criticized the team would be beheaded.
They'd be Amerca's team in no time.
Why not rename them to "DC Drones"?
That's a killer name, dude.
Up arrow for you. You made me laugh.
DC Cruise Missiles?
DC MIRVs?
Washington Red Dawn.
"the Washington, All the linemen could have been my Sons" Football team.
Obama's NATO bombs kill three children in Afghanistan. "Let me be clear, this football team needs a new name."
The Washington JIHAD.
Now there's a catchy name. Just think what fun you could have with the uniforms ...
I'm willing to bet the names Washington and Obama are found more putredly offensive to a far greater number. Let's start there and worry 'bout the Skins later.
What are his suggestions for a new name? Washington Marxist? D.C Progressives?
"Your Socialists" ,"Communists United"?
Washington Saxons; he won't go there.
Hello NSA spooks. See how easy it is to make scary phrases into humor?
I hope you're not calling indigenous people cowards, Tyler's. Theway you wrote the header for this has analogus items, eg, "Cleveland beiges" instead of browns. That makes it appear as if your calling "Redskins" cowards.
I know a handful of Lakota grandmothers who have more sand than probably all the free market day traders combined.
Let me chime in. First, the Cleveland Indian/browns bullshit has be going on for years.
I used to spend money in downtown Cleveland as a young legal adult. It was disengaged because I did my evaluation on the sorry ass freeloaders beginning in [1985]. I had to throw my clothing out the window of my second story bed room window so my parents didn't know. Mom [RIP] found my biker jacket/combat boots deeply hidden in my closet.. Now let’s talk locations
Don’t start telling the world your problems about fucking team names. Why not tell them how many times they sold the stadium to new bag holder to hang his sign on the door..
Cleveland is very fucked up. Did you see that woman with the Free Obama phone?
You have another checkpoint charley issued. I didn’t experience this during my old clubbing days.
Linndale, the tiny village known for its highway speed trap, swears in a new mayor who must deal with a cash crunch: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff
http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf/2013/08/linndale_the_tiny_village_know.html
I haven’t dropped a dollar in that Detroit bound managed city. It was fun back in 1985- 1991. Let it rot in hell like the rest collectively driven central planning policies. The added value, I’m living in a tropical paradise. But we have homes in Medina.
Hey Atomizer, you aren't pissed are you? If you are, I'd hate to see you get really mad.
Why should I be pissed.. Life is good. I don't rely on my next paycheck to service central banking loans. Don’t tell me you do?
How are you doing? What do you think about all this debt ceiling business & Obamacare problems. When do you think we can safety log-in and start shopping for healthcare bargains?
Again, You posted why you speculate that I’m pissed. Please elaborate.
I wunner if Barack would rename the NAACP as well?
It's good the man has his mind on what's really important.
By the way they are Native Americans not Indians and all white Americans are immigrants. Trust me the Native Americans are and will always be offended living in a country that was violently stolen from them, therefore they have a higher potential to be terrorists so Obama should just put them all in camps (called reservations) oh wait someone beat him to it, forget it.
Yes!
The Pawnee and the Cherokee and Sioux and Crow and Blackfoot all lived in peace and harmony among one another...
Just like the Myans and Incas and Aztecs to the south!
Peace everywhere before those nasty white people came along and spread their disease and hate....
Read your history about how "peaceful" these tribes were. They warred against each other as mankind and its tribes always have and evidently always will. Hey, how about those Arab tribes? African tribes? American Indidan tribes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjWqxTAVXY
Washington Gender Neutral Racially Indeterminates...
...gotta ring to it any rabid NFL fan could love. The hogs in the end zone, clean shaven, sporting neutral colors, sipping water and eating carrot sticks, flashing Obamacare cards to the panning camara.
Yes! That's it! The Washington Drones
Liitle drone stickers on their helmets.....
Yeah, the Beltway Bombers.... regardless of the name, they gotta have the Banzai7 drone stickers.
Slogan's gotta be Don't Drone Me Bros....
I'm partial to Free Shit Army though. As to distractions.... *sigh*... guys how many of us on ZH on a Sunday? Checked out ESPN Fantasy Football lately? ESPN page ranked 88th most visited website on the Internet.
Americans are the Masters of Distraction. Think it's any wonder not 1 in 1000 actually own physical silver or gold? All the more for us. Don't complain about it. Embrace the insanity and keep stacking.
Sorry, I see nothing in the Constitution regarding the freedom from being offended.
The Constitution?
That stupid old parchment?
My choice would be "Washington Weasels" mostly because anybody within 50 miles of the place is more than likely to identify with the team.
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
The Washington Incumbents?
The Washington Narcissists?
The Washington One Percenters?
The Washington Liars?
So many apply......
Washington Sunburns