Most states -- and I presume the federal government -- have laws on the books that prevent this sort of thing.
To name bridges, streets, other places after people or make national or state holidays usually require the person to be dead...and dead for a specified period of time. These rules have evolved precisely to prevent the type of thing being contemplated here. And the rules/laws are there to prevent an overextending and an initial excitement about someone or an event. These sorts of things usually, at the very least, require an executive order...by the president on the federal level and the governor on the state level. I suspect that this will become clear to the organisers once this thing gets out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is apparently NOT a hoax. > > From the Topeka Capital-Journal: > > Planning under way for Obama holiday > > Published Sunday, November 09, 2008 > > Plans are being made to promote a national holiday > for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's > 44th president when he takes the oath of office > Jan. 20. > > "Yes We Can" planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. > and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown > McDonald's restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until > Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national > holiday in Obama's honor, to organize celebrations > around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th > birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was > born on Feb. 12 1809. > > At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will > be served at the downtown McDonald's, and a > celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight > Jan. 20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, > 420 S.E. 6th. > > For more information, contact Sonny Scroggins, > (785) 232-3761, 845-6148 or at > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lamont Lassiter, > McDonald's general manager, 608-2739; Ava Chander > -Beard, (785) 234-9138, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > or Rhoda Carr, (785) 220-5883. > > http://cjonline.com/stories/110908/loc_353922770.shtml >
