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Monday, February 18, 2008
Presidents' Daze

Last week, our Funkin' Wagnall's said the proper spelling for today's invented holiday is "Presidents' Day," not "President's Day" or "Presidents Day."
Since then, we've only seen it spelled wrong about a million times, especially in advertisements by companies that should know better.
But now the Blower's presidential historian Dorian Grady says in a way, "President's Day" could also be correct.
According to the federal government, the holiday being observed today is officially Washington's Birthday.
But many dumbed-down Americans believe this holiday is now called "Presidents' Day," in honor of both Washington and Lincoln, who were born on February 22 and 12 respectively.

But which president is being honored may actually depend on where you live, because states don't have to adopt federal holidays, which only shut down federal offices and agencies, and some states that celebrate Washington's Birthday also recognize Lincoln's Birthday as a separate legal holiday.
In 1968, Congress passed the Monday Holidays Act, which moved the official observance of Washington's Birthday from February 22 (the actual date of Washington’s birth in 1732) to the third Monday in February (to give bureaucRATS and slackers another paid holiday along with a three-day weekend).
Some reformers also wanted to change the official name of the holiday to "Presidents' Day," to honor both Washington and Lincoln, but that sensible proposal was rejected by Congress, and the holiday remained officially Washington's Birthday.
But in 1971, when the Act went into effect, President Nixon proclaimed the "Presidents' Day" holiday would commemorate all past presidents, not just Washington and Lincoln.
This idea of honoring all the presidents was never actually intended or authorized by Congress, but people being as stupid as they are, that's what most Americans think.
That's probably because every child in the American public education system is now being taught the third Monday in February has been designated as Washington- Adams- Jefferson- Madison- Monroe- Adams- Jackson- Van Buren- Harrison- Tyler- Polk- Taylor- Fillmore- Pierce- Buchanan- Lincoln- Johnson- Grant- Hayes- Garfield- Arthur- Cleveland- Harrison- McKinley- Roosevelt- Taft-Wilson- Harding- Coolidge- Hoover- Roosevelt- Truman- Eisenhower- Kennedy- Johnson- Nixon- Ford- Carter- Reagan- Bush 41- Clinton- Bush 43 Day.
By including all the presidents, we can now show equal honor and respect to the authors of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Gettsyburg Address, and the infamous "I did not have sex with that woman" speech. But only one person was the first President of the United States . That man was General George Washington, who led American troops in the decisive battles of our Revolution, a fact unknown to a majority of our Dumbed-down, Self-absorbed, Media-influenced, Celebrity-obsessed, Politically-correct Uninformed Voters who get all of their information from our Kneepad Liberals in the Press.
Presidential Press Coverage

Some things never change, from Lincoln to Bush, as with this Chicago Times quote concerning Lincoln 's Gettysburg Address.
Evidentially Lincoln was not a great orator (like the fabled Stephen Douglas), which offended the Times so much that they didn't even bother to examine the actual content of the speech, which most people today regard as “the best speech ever written.”
Here's what the Chicago Times wrote: "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as President of the United States."
Come to think of it, these days our Kneepad Liberals in the Press pan Dubya's speeches much in the same way.
Obviously Dubya isn't Lincoln , but the liberal media bias is still the same.
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Now from award-winning illustrator Artis Conception’s archives we see
how Disingenuous DemocRATS are celebrating Presidents' Day.
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