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Why Presidents’ Day Matters

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 2/21/2022 4:11:22 AM

Presidents’ Day is one of those uniquely American holidays. As such, it is under scrutiny and condemnation of the anti-American Left. Honoring men, white men for that matter, who engaged in colonization and racism, the argument goes ad nauseum, is bad. Shame on us who honor these despicable men. The condemnation of Washington, and even Lincoln, fails to miss a broader and bigger story that their inspirational memory is meant to reveal: the growth of liberty and equality in the United States that Washington helped give birth to and that Lincoln helped to preserve and expand. Focusing on the detriments of Washington and Lincoln as individuals obscures the bigger story

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Reply 1 - Posted by: planetgeo 2/21/2022 6:02:54 AM (No. 1078076)
I'll be ready to celebrate Presidents Day when we once again have a real President.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: HPmatt 2/21/2022 7:06:37 AM (No. 1078123)
Using our new calendar, February 22, every year, is Geo Washington’s birthday. Not the 3rd Monday or whatever is convenient for a 3 day weekend for democrat spying, lying Federal stooges and democrat union election thieving postal workers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: marbles 2/21/2022 9:07:32 AM (No. 1078252)
I disagree. Lincolns birthday and Washingtons birthday were specific. " Presidents '" day ? That includes horrors like Carter and barry and LBJ, Wilson etc. No thanks. It's all about it being a 3 day federal holiday. Nothing to do with truly great men.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40 2/21/2022 9:07:41 AM (No. 1078253)
Put PDT back in the Oval Office on 01/20/25 and I will REALLY celebrate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jennie C. 2/21/2022 9:11:08 AM (No. 1078258)
Hey, Paul: it's spelled "ad nauseam."
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Reply 6 - Posted by: msjena 2/21/2022 9:18:02 AM (No. 1078267)
The federal holiday is Washington's Birthday, not Presidents' Day. Calling it Presidents' Day is an attempt to cancel George Washington, the first President and founder of our country.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bigfatslob 2/21/2022 9:18:10 AM (No. 1078268)
It's president's day and we don't have a president to celebrate. Oh! You mean that fraud standing in front of us, not my president. FJB
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Talk2 2/21/2022 9:55:53 AM (No. 1078310)
Useful idiots of today believe the films they have been forced to watch in class represent the real world and are not propaganda put out by some producer with a socialist agenda.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Lawsy0 2/21/2022 10:43:23 AM (No. 1078373)
I will honor all these American celebrations that are so uniquely our own for the remainder of my life. Remembering my uncles coming home from from the ETO and the PTO bringing souvenirs from Germany and some lovely silks and figurines with little labels ''Made in Occupied Japan'' for us to take to school for Show and Tell. The first time I remember my father with tears in his eyes was during a parade, as the Flag passed by. First through 3rd grades, I participated in paper drives, coat hanger and aluminum drives to help the war clean up efforts. We were very patriotic children which could have only come from our upbringing. During the days of my life that are left to me now, I don't have time for anger and hatred towards people who think differently. In my callow youth, I'm sure I ''hated'' stuff and said so. But not America the Beautiful. If we are all blown off the planet tomorrow, the American dream was the one worth having. We can't cave in just because a petty tyrant sits in the office.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Zigrid 2/21/2022 10:47:36 AM (No. 1078378)
WE've had many wonderful Presidents in these many years of American freedom...and I'll celebrate their terms...not by bad mouthing America...but by appreciating our history...so the woke community...in their twisted narrative can say what they want...I appreciate the freedoms WE enjoy....
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Rumblehog 2/21/2022 10:49:07 AM (No. 1078380)
Oh, yeah, like Juneteenth Day doesn't matter, huh? s/o
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Italiano 2/21/2022 10:49:41 AM (No. 1078382)
I lost "respect for the Office" with Clinton. Never got it back. Never will.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: columba 2/21/2022 11:00:22 AM (No. 1078398)
The reader may wish to take a look at the daily forecast by the weather bureau. It identifies today as WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY as it has done for years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: stablemoney 2/21/2022 1:45:26 PM (No. 1078574)
The left has destroyed the meaning of the day, and most of the other holidays. I don't think much of their history either.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Timber Queen 2/21/2022 3:45:06 PM (No. 1078636)
I just returned from town. Old Glory lines Main Street every 100 feet. There are permanent holes in the curbs and every National Holiday our Boy Scouts put out the flags. We had the perfect breeze today so all the flags waved fully. A beautiful sight, but this year I didn't quite feel the same certainty in our country I used to feel. I even wondered if this would be last time I saw this display. I felt a twinge when I saw no flag on the Post Office pole, then I remembered it would be closed for the holiday. I can't remember noticing no flag at the P.O. in years past, so perhaps it was the news of day which made me consider it a possible deliberate snub. I hate the way I've come think now. I so want to remember and honor our great presidents, but all I feel is shame for our current sorry condition. May God help us and keep President Trump free from harm.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Deborah Grannet 2/21/2022 4:11:31 PM (No. 1078656)
I teach first- and second-graders at a school for the gifted, and we had a lesson about Lincoln and why he was important on his birthday on February 12. We'll be having the same for Washington tomorrow on his birthday. My students may someday be indoctrinated elsewhere. but they'll learn honest American history on my watch.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: dman 2/21/2022 4:12:58 PM (No. 1078657)
Lincoln's Birthday (Feb 12) and Washington's Birthday (Feb 22) morphed into this 3-day holiday weekend as part of the 1968 "Uniform Monday Holiday Act", passed in the waning days of the LBJ administration and effective Jan 1 1971. Don't blame it on Nixon. This act placed 3-day weekends ahead of honoring their actual birthdays, and diffused their individual importance by including all POTUS's , not unlike granting illegal migrants privileges formerly reserved for US citizens - devaluing citizenship itself. Broadening to honor all Presidents cannot 'deprecate' the legacy of these two great patriots. Our Republic has been blessed by them and a few others. Let us pray that God will provide yet more to save it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Strike3 2/21/2022 8:45:10 PM (No. 1078867)
Without reading what promises to be a low information article I'm going to guess that the answer is so we can have real presidents to compare to the current monkey-brained placeholder.
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