President Obama Just Got His Very Own Holiday

[mfcorey1]

Trump supporters in Illinois must be either simply fuming or else be planning moves to another state as their Republican Governor, Bruce Rauner, signed a bill on Friday declaring August 4th a new state holiday, Barack Obama Day.

Senate Bill 55, designating the birthday of the former president a state holiday, was passed by both houses of the Illinois legislature without a single dissenting vote. The new holiday is “set apart to honor the 44th President of the United States of America who began his career serving the People of Illinois in both the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate, and dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Americans and building bridges across communities.”

The new holiday is strictly commemorative, meaning that banks will remain open, and no one will get any mandatory paid time-off from work, but instead it will be treated as a “day of acknowledgment and celebration.”

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/06/president-obama-just-got-holiday/

[Mystery sage]

1. Oh great Trump going to demand his own holiday as well

I can feel it.

[Tanuki]

4. I suggest April 1 to commemorate Trump

[MyOwnPeace]

8. I see what you did there!

[Metro135]

11. Or October 31st

[ailsagirl]

16. Either date will do

[Maraya1969]

23. February 29

[Ilsa]

41. That's too often. nt

[Maraya1969]

43. You're right. Let's make it the 30th

[MrScorpio]

19. No, no, no, no

I will not stand for that

Halloween is too sacred a time to sully it with Trumpian vulgarity.

[LoveMyCali]

34. Please don't ruin Halloween for me

[ChazInAz]

35. Don't spoil Hallowe'en!

[syringis]

18. It will be hard...

It is everyday 1st april since 20th january

[Nay]

30. How about April 20? (Hitler's birthday)

[tclambert]

13. Make it June 31st.

(If nobody explains it to him, he won't know.)

[Maraya1969]

24. I don't know! Please splain

[tclambert]

25. Thirty days has September, April, JUNE, and November . . .

[Maraya1969]

32. Well Duh on me.

[jayschool2013]

15. May I suggest

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[calimary]

33. Welcome to DU, jayschool2013!

Declare it on Octember the eleventy-third!

[syringis]

17. Yep, the day fatbutt will kicked off

I'm not american. Otherwise, i would have strongly avocated, not only a State holiday but a National one.

The RelievedDay.

With gifts, special meals (avoid pumpkins however :chuckle , celebrations all around the country, fireworks and all, and all...

[drmeow]

21. February 29th? eom

[ecstatic]

22. In NY? LMAO. When pigs fly. nt

[tymorial]

28. The 1st of Neverember.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What a wonderful development!

He certainly deserves it.



Congratulations, President Obama!

[Iliyah]

3. K & R

[Thomas Hurt]

5. shouldn't have done that, now President Power Mullet will have to have one too.

[MontanaMama]

7. "president power mullet"

[Gothmog]

6. This is a well deserved honor

[murielm99]

9. I am happy that this happened,

but it may be a cynical action on the Ruiner's part. He is trying to save his governorship and get reelected. He is republican scum.

[TeapotInATempest]

37. Agreed on all points.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Raumer is the Devil but I applaud his acknowledgement of bipartisanship and President Obama

At least he didn't go on a Twitter sugar tirade and throw every devaluation he could
at Obama. Maybe it's only because he's facing reality, but it is a step.

[Hulk]

12. Sweet.

A day for FDR could also be commemorated in New York.

[sandensea]

14. It's only fair

St. Ronnie has a massive Federal Triangle building and the DC airport (neither of which he cared about in the least) named after him.

Poppy Bush has at least one major Texas freeway and the Houston airport named after him (they should have named the Mena, AR, airport in his honor instead).

Obama definitely deserves this.

[syringis]

20. He deserved it

He did a more than impressive job to fix the mess HE and not the OA, inherited.

[Gothmog]

26. This is a well deserved honor for President Obama

[c-rational]

27. Well deserved....Good for you President Obama.

[MyNameGoesHere]

29. I know what day my floating

Personal day off is now.

[Historic NY]

31. Something Donald Trump will never have.

[Doreen]

36. Yeah Obama!!

[Dream Girl]

38. They should also rename O'hare to O'bama

Heads would explode

[Hekate]

39. Mahalo Illinois!

[DFW]

40. Good for them

Every time I drive when I'm here in Dallas, I have to either cross or take a turn on the George Bush this or the George W Bush that.

Worse yet, when I visit my brother in northern Virginia (heading up there tonight), every day I have to drive by a sign announcing the entrance to the George Bush Center for Intelligence, an oxymoron if ever there was one!

[Achilleaze]

42. If there is ever a Donald-Trump-republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief Day

It will be a day of mourning.

[weydowner]

44. Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead

I think there will be a National Holiday when the Reign of Donald comes to an end. Break out the bottles of Champagne and the Party Streamers in advance because he will get the biggest crowds in US history, whooping and hollering down the whole centre of Washingron and New York. Unalloyed Joy will no longer be just a cliche.

Somehow I don't think it is a scenario he had in mind; the world will celebrate his passing with massive enthusiasm, especially - it seems - his own country.

(the title song from the Wizard of Oz was spontaneously used when Thatcher died, many years after she was deposed by her own party. That level of hatred and disdain shocked the so-called pundits and her dwindling adherents. Strange, but she was very moderate and restrained compared to the nth-raters that succeeded her - she was hated by many many English people but never never as much as this idiot in the White House)