Portland pre-teens want to name school after Barack Obama

One of the highly effective but largely ignored ways that Obama could have been opposed before the election would be to point out his cult-like followers as well as his plan to get pre-teens to join his movement. Now, ripping a page from a 2005 Berkeley story, comes this less-than-detailed report about doings at a K-8 school in
Portland:

A couple of people have e-mailed the school, suggesting it be named after the new American leader and Willamette Week was even reporting that students at the school were heard chanting Obama's name one day, and filling out forms to get his name of the voting list.

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Politics · Wed, 11/12/2008 - 11:42 · Importance: 1


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