Sacrilege: Students torpedo measure to rename high school after Obama
posted at 7:30 pm on February 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
A predictable case of teens rebelling against the establishment’s newest authority figure? Of course not. Barack’s counterculture, man; if he wasn’t, would he be the subject of totalitarian art? Turns out it’s (mostly) a case of school spirit. Boulder High is Boulder High, our new Messiah notwithstanding.
This story was gift-wrapped for me by Slapstick Politics, so I’m going to make you click over there to see who’s responsible for proposing the name change. Do note the photo near the bottom. You’ll find video of the group’s irritatingly self-important press conference withdrawing the petition at the top here. The kid at the mike’s going to end up as some Democrat’s press secretary someday, isn’t he?
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I went to school in this district. Centaurus High School in fact. Boulder high has an extremely leftist, new agey, and rich reputation. These kids are blowing my minds. Where were those types when I was 15?
Go Warriors!
Dr. Manhattan on February 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM
No stimulus money for Boulder!
Bow down before the One!
Realist on February 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Someday, yes, but in the near future he will be the subject of a swirly.
InCali on February 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Racist!
Is that beginning to sound a bit redundant yet?
Glenn Jericho on February 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM
what a bunch of RACISTS!!!
they just need to get their mind right opposition to the dear leader is not allowed…
right4life on February 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Hell has officially frozen over in Boulder for at least 5 minutes.
elpresidente on February 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM
They are proud to be a catalyst for discussion. Does that translate to pain in the ass?
herrevery on February 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM
The kids are alright.
Christien on February 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Also known as Socialists Hard In Training…figger the acronym out for yourselves…
bikermailman on February 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM
Uh……. oh………
…… Bolder has just caught the eye of “Dear Leader“.
Seven Percent Solution on February 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Hey, at least the kid can speak well without a teleprompter.
misslizzi on February 13, 2009 at 7:39 PM
Is this press conference really 12 minutes because I’m at 4 and falling asleep. He’s like a young Obama with the “uhs” and repetition.
herrevery on February 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Doesn’t a person usually have to accomplish something before getting buildings named after him. Washington and the rest of our founding fathers risked their lives to create our republic. Lincoln was assasinated for trying to keep our country together. Eisenhower was a highly decorated general who saved the world from evil.
I hate Obama, but I do however like the obvious mascot; the rainbow unicorn with sparkles.
Laura in Maryland on February 13, 2009 at 7:41 PM
New name, new mascot…hmmm?
The Obama High Unicorns?
JetBoy on February 13, 2009 at 7:42 PM
lol
JetBoy on February 13, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Because people dared to disagree, these kids think it’s just because they failed to explain the Obama plan better.
And what they think they could have done better is COMMUNITY ORGANIZING.
herrevery on February 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
whoa, that girl in black has quite the attitude.
ctmom on February 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM
May their rich little butts be the first to “sacrifice” as their parents pay more taxes.
Alana on February 13, 2009 at 7:53 PM
lol
TheJoker on February 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I particularly enjoyed the kids that said, “This is a great change for the country and all, but, our school has been named this for sooooooo long. It just doesn’t make sense to change that.”
Apparently change is good and all as long as nothing REALLY important gets changed.
JadeNYU on February 13, 2009 at 7:54 PM
That was pretty amusing after the rest of the news today. I appreciated the 30 second long, concise statement from the kids representing Boulder High as a whole (was it the Student Council, maybe?)
herrevery on February 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Too bad Obama didn’t rush out there so he could get punked by those students like he did by Gregg and Owens from Caterpillar
genso on February 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I listened to news reports about this on KOA yesterday and was suprised it had so little support in a place like Boulder. But then we have what is important and what is not really mixed up these days.
boomer on February 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM
MB4 on February 13, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Will Student Workers wash my car. Sorry, couldn’t last the entire twelve minutes it was taking this kid to explain that he’s a dumb ass. Color me skeptical about the surprise about the media coverage, especially while they are voguing it up for still shots. I was born at night, not last night.
Cindy Munford on February 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Student Workers Group? No partisan agenda? Right.
InterestedObserver on February 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM
The leftism is strong in Colorado but there is a sort of rugged individualism at play there as well. More than anything this story reflects the pride these students have both in Boulder, Colorado and Boulder High. That pride is well founded, good for them!
Dr. Manhattan on February 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM
“Student Workers’ Club”… holy irony, Batman!
Boulder is a VERY wealthy town… the housing values there are 2-3 times what they are for any neighboring municipality (I live about 20 minutes down the road). A friend just bought a house for over $200k that is slightly less than 700 square feet in living space.
And so I just have to wonder when these spoiled brats ever “worked” a day in their lives, much less gained any real perspective on the lives of the proles they believe they represent.
Ye gods…
kiltedscotsman5 on February 13, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Near as I can tell, there is only one Jimmy Carter High School, in La Joya, Texas. There is a problem, however:
http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/005444.html
Realist on February 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Those kids warm my heart. Dissent is patriotic again.
What could be better than this? The school changing the name anyway and a student riot breaking out because of it.
keep the change on February 13, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I would pull my kids from the school and send them to a private school.
Claypigeon on February 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM
The Obama High Stimuli!
malclave on February 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Boulder is such a worker’s paradise in fact the property values have forced many police, teachers, and firefighters to live out of town! And that was 1998.
Dr. Manhattan on February 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM
“there is a sort of rugged individualism at play there as well. More than anything this story reflects the pride these students have both in Boulder, Colorado and Boulder High.”
Are you kidding me??? Where do you live, exactly???
Boulder is colloquially known among people who live here in Colorado as “25 square miles, surrounded on all sides by Reality.”
Rugged individualism? Perhaps the rest of the state, but Boulder is an elitist Leftist commune that revels in the sort of nanny-statism and hard-Left Marxist ideology that these kids (the – *laughs out loud* – Student WORKERS Club) embody. This story reflects nothing like pride in their school; it represents a magnified version of the same delusions regarding Obamessiah as those which have gripped much of the rest of the country.
kiltedscotsman5 on February 13, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Idiots… Unity? Like blocking debate on the Destroy America Bill? Not allowing Republicans to offer amendments? Holding secret meetings and sliding pork in to a massive bill no one has time to read? Promising to to post bills online for 5 days before signing them in to law, so we can all review the bills, and then already breaking that promise? Saying Congress can review the bill for 48 hours, and then breaking that promise and forcing a quick vote so Speaker Botox can go meet the Pope? IS THAT UNITY YOU STUPID, STUPID IDIOTS!?
How about “Hope”? Like condemning fear mongering during the campaign… then repeating, countless times, that this is the “worst economy since the great depression” and constantly whining about how “I inherited this”, etc. etc. IS THAT F-ING “HOPE”!?
Granted, these are just idiot high school kids… Being idiots is what they do. But we’ve got a country full of people like this, and it’s infuriating.
RightWinged on February 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Maybe they could compromise and name it Sea Kitten High.
Lily on February 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Hah, Boulder is a whacked-out Lib Town.
Everyone there is white, rich and thinks they have spirit animals like “Grizzlies”, “Grey Wolves”, “Eagles”, and “White Buffalo”.
Har har.
I have a spirit animal too. It’s name is Jimmy and it’s a road-kill-possum.
I saw it once. I was crossing a road on a hike and it spoke to me. At first I was like, “whoa, why is that carcass talking?”
But then it gave me it’s wisdom…
“Montana, look both ways…”
Ok ok…point being, Boulder is a town of posers.
But congratulations to those kids for not being mindless-Obamacons.
Montana on February 13, 2009 at 8:11 PM
This is Ward Churchills’ old neighborhood. What do you expect?
BobMbx on February 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Obama didn’t do anything at all historic by getting elected. America did something historic by electing him.
29Victor on February 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Hmm, it didn’t even connect at first with me that this was Boulder…
Mork, calling Orson, come in Orson.
Can I come home now, Your Largeness? This place has gone to shazbot and Exidor’s the sanest one left.
malclave on February 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM
That’s no joke; it is actually something my wife and I remarked on a few weeks ago: how lily-white Boulder is. It is probably one of the most racially homogenous (there are precious few Mexicans there, either, and this in COLORADO!!!) towns you are likely to find in the country… maybe New Hampshire could compete…
kiltedscotsman5 on February 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM
NO, NO, NO, those favoring changing Boulder HS have got things all confused.
See, the way it works is to first change the name of Boulder to “Obamagrad”.
Before you change the pillowcase, change the sheets on the bed it rests upon.
Silly liberals.
Scribbler on February 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I didn’t watch the press conf. , just the other video. The contrast between the two groups was interesting. The kids who were NOT in favor of changing the name were well spoken and had good reasons… the kids who did want to change the name could hardly look at the camera and make noise at the same time, and the one girl, of course implied that the reason SOME people didn’t want to change the name was because they’re racist!
4shoes on February 13, 2009 at 8:16 PM
lol the Student Workers? Whats the bet that not one of these pampered little pinko’s has ever done a hard days work in their life. Maybe we should send them off to China during the next summer holiday’s to work in a Chinese coal mine to learn what it truly means to be a member of the working class in a Communist state.
As for wanting to have the schools name changed to Obama high I’m surprised the little Marxist scumbags didn’t go for the gusto and try to have the place renamed the Alyinski centre for socialist re-education.
Dreadnought223 on February 13, 2009 at 8:16 PM
It doesn’t matter. In six months, all schools will be named for Osama Obama by directive from Washington.
Postage stamps will bear the image of His head as well, and all churches will place His statue on their altars.
MrScribbler on February 13, 2009 at 8:17 PM
How about the Obama High PUMA’s? (little nod to Hill-Rod)
JetBoy on February 13, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Nah Id go for the Obama High Skunks, because stinking up the place with their backward ideologies is the only way they would ever get noticed.
Dreadnought223 on February 13, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Precisely.
They want to name their high school after Barack, but if three black men were spotted walking downtown the place would go on RED ALERT.
Boulder is the San Fran of Colorado–or the Marin County.
I am pretty sure it got nuked at the end of Stephen King’s book, The Stand.
/chuckle
Montana on February 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM
vee need to indoctrinate im into ze Obamaz Yuth… ee vill see ze light…
phreshone on February 13, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Liberals…. everyone should be diverse and multi-cultural in other neighborhoods…
phreshone on February 13, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Nope, actually it was Las Vegas that got nuked… Boulder was the home of the good guys…
kiltedscotsman5 on February 13, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Proven fact… Drum circles and hacky sack repel minorities…
phreshone on February 13, 2009 at 8:34 PM
heh, that works!
Or…The Obama High “High Obama’s”?
JetBoy on February 13, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Their cheer can be “heil Obama”
phreshone on February 13, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Wasn’t there another bomb, in Nick Andross’s closet? I read about that in On Writing, by King. He discussed the book.
Montana on February 13, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Just so O doesn’t feel bad…I’ll name my toilet after him……anyone want to help me with the name?
Old Hippie Vet on February 13, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Would they consider iBama High: Home of the Um-uhs?
BHO Jonestown on February 13, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Those kids give me hope.
Urban Infidel on February 13, 2009 at 8:46 PM
Boulder HS is literally down the hill from CU–about 5 minutes walking.
Went there as an undergrad to talk about College GOP/College Dems to a social studies class. Moonbat central at that point, and that was before the 2000 election.
Looks like those lefty professors (minus Churchill, of course) will have some reeducating to do!
elpresidente on February 13, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Obama High Frumcoke
fogw on February 13, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Christien on February 13, 2009 at 7:37 PM
:)
bridgetown on February 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Obama High?
haha
faraway on February 13, 2009 at 9:11 PM
as a now deceased wrestler (hawk) used to say
SNIFF…whatta rush!!!
right4life on February 13, 2009 at 9:27 PM
What is wrong with these people?
Name it after Dear Leader then get what you can; then name it anything you want.
Say you have an emergency or make an exception or something. Check the press secretary’s comments for the new administration for the last month. They have NOT lived up to anything they promised. Like living behind the old Iron Curtain. Except it was more organized and would protect itself.
IlikedAUH2O on February 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Except they’ve probably never heard of him.
4shoes on February 13, 2009 at 9:36 PM
hmmmm…. Boulder is like a totally college town, like. who woodda thought
billypaintbrush on February 13, 2009 at 9:40 PM
The Leeching Obots.
The Mumbling Hopeys.
The Delusional Lemmings.
viking01 on February 13, 2009 at 9:47 PM
ha!
JetBoy on February 13, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Filthy Liar Tech was taken?
Seriously, the
manfilthy liar has been in office for less than a month. It is hardly time to start figuring out which side of Mt. Rushmore he’s going to be carved.highhopes on February 13, 2009 at 9:52 PM
kiltedscotsman5 Steven King is kind of a dreamy libtard. Vegas had to be sinful. Boulder goodness.
IlikedAUH2O on February 13, 2009 at 9:53 PM
I love it but that more describes the idiot following than the creature itself. I went to James Madison HS and our teams were the warhawks to describe Madison’s ideological bent. In that spirit, Obama high’s teams should be:
The unindicted co-conspirators.
highhopes on February 13, 2009 at 9:54 PM
The Taxing Evaders?
viking01 on February 13, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Gee, did the evangelicals in 2001 demand everything be renamed George Walker Bush?!?
Still waiting…
Okay, what’s going to be named George Walker Bush?!? Possibly a sewage treatment plant. In San Francisco. But I heard it failed last November.
HotAirJosef on February 13, 2009 at 9:58 PM
And about this school…
Would a school named after The One have transcripts?
Birth certificates?
Can’t have friends…just people in the neighborhood.
Would you ever hear a speaker in the auditorium?
Everyone goes to Harvard but realizes the unfairness of America.
IlikedAUH2O on February 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Boulder is the dumping ground for burn-out hippies and all the kids they brainwash.
Peace, Love & lock-up.
christene on February 13, 2009 at 10:05 PM
I don’t think anything receiving public funds should be named for a living President or ex-President. Too soon. While naming an aircraft carrier after GHWB (a WWII Naval Aviator) or a sub after Jimmy Carter (a submariner) makes some sense, what do you name after Clinton? The Navy doesn’t have floating brothels.
highhopes on February 13, 2009 at 10:09 PM
I thought that was what Portland and Seattle were for.
highhopes on February 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Add Boulder to the list.
The drive is beautiful,…
: o )
If the lights are left on for ya,..just keep on driving.
christene on February 13, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Yeah, but that was a smaller bomb, a couple sticks of dynamite wired up to a walkie-talkie… nothing like a nuke.
kiltedscotsman5 on February 13, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Yes, but in Boulder they can pretend to be Mountain Men.
Montana on February 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM
The 16 year-old leader of a high school club, he made up, called a news conference?
When, exactly, did I became a citizen of Coo-Coo-Bananas-Land?
Sorax on February 13, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Mascot? hmmm.
The Acorns.
trigon on February 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Living here in Boulder is like putting a fire out on your head with an ice pick…
Please, nuke this place from orbit… just to be sure…
odrady on February 13, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Affirmative!
elpresidente on February 13, 2009 at 11:30 PM
They will be the new occupants of GitMo.
Maxx on February 13, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Nothing new for Boulder High in the People’s Republic of Boulder. They are quite full of themselves.
Unfortunately, my sister-in-law and her family live there and she raised her kids to be the moveon.org types. She was a hippy back in the day, mini-skirt wedding dress and all.
Common Sense on February 14, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Jean-Paul Sartre stated ‘man is condemned to be douchey because once thrown into the world he is responsible for every douchey thing that he does.’
On this sad day note that some justice was done. H/T to Patterico.
Mr. Joe on February 14, 2009 at 12:41 AM
great i am glad they want to support BHO , let them pay off the trillion dollar debt then . Yes the change your going to get is the change in your pocket .
Mojack420 on February 14, 2009 at 1:25 AM
The Student Workers Group needed San Fran Nan to shove it through at mid-night while everyone was sleeping before she jetted off to Rome.
hawkdriver on February 14, 2009 at 2:35 AM
Talking about the mentally ill:
“The GOP is borderline autistic in its understanding of the necessary to-and-fro of democratic government. Or rather: its ideological nature prevents it from engaging in the actual tasks of pragmatic government.”
Andrew “The Conservative Soul” Sullivan
Sullivan Says: Respect Mah Authoritah!
Mr. Joe on February 14, 2009 at 2:52 AM
Watch this guy closely! Very closely! Ponzi Scheme comes to mind after he get’s out of Harvard and becomes a gay Wall Street banker…
sabbott on February 14, 2009 at 4:41 AM
Quite so. And among those who can afford to live there is one officer who had his personal vehicle set ablaze by two 17 year old miscreants who were p!ssed that they’d gotten a speeding ticket and summons for marijuana possession.
Fortunately, the new get-tough DA who doesn’t offer first class airfare and wine-and-dine service to child molesters who claim to know something about Jon-Benet Ramsey’s murder will apparently happily be prosecuting these two as adults.
Captain Scarlet on February 14, 2009 at 5:00 AM
White guilt on full display…………
adamsmith on February 14, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Your friend is a fool then. In a year it will be worth $100K.
Oh wait never mind. Boulder is different. Just like Las Vegas, Phoenix, LA, San Diego, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, DC were all different and immune from the laws of supply and demand.
angryed on February 14, 2009 at 7:52 AM
The Obama High Bus Drivers.
That oughtta put the fear of
GodThe LightworkerThe One into their rivals.soundingboard on February 14, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Speaking of change, I propose changing the term Ponzi Scheme to Pelosi Scheme. It should become part of our daily vocabulary. And it would encompass more than just one type of scheme, it would represent every disgusting form of fraud and desception that one can think of.
JonRoss on February 14, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Every time I see that picture of B.O., I can’t help but wonder how nice it would look on a dartboard.
pilamaye on February 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Or in the bottom of a urinal.
JonRoss on February 14, 2009 at 8:31 AM
“O” is just that Marxy!
DannoJyd on February 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM
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