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sabine01 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:28:55 -0000

I don't disagree that such a notion would be just....nuts...There are some details about this article which are a bit iffy from my vantage point as a "local"...

~ Kansas Ave, NW (which eventually becomes Kansas Ave. NE) starts in the Petworth neighborhood of DC and runs to the DC-MD border (it then becomes Kansas Ln.). Most people living around here would call that nowhere near Downtown DC.
~ There's no 1100 Kansas Ave. The building numberings on Kansas Ave. start somewhere in the 3600's-3700's and go upward going toward the state line, not downward.
~ There's no McDonald's location on Kansas Ave (NW or NE).

Reading this, I lean more towards "hoax" than fact (though I wouldn't put it past a handful of people to try to do it).

~S~

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StockBoySF — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:37:52 -0000

Yeah, we also have Washington's b'day as a holiday of some sort. Jazz, when you first said that we already had a holiday to celebrate this I thought you were going to say, "Martin Luther King's Day".

This sounds like a McDonald's promotion....

I'm all for honoring our nation's heros, but this is too early. While I don't mean to minimize the importance of his historic win but Obama should actually be a sterling president for a couple terms before we start naming a new holiday after him. Come to think about it, maybe the national holiday we already have to honor Obama's triumph isn't President's Day or MLK Day, but Fourth of July, since we are returning our country to a leader who will (I assume) uphold the US Constitution, since that is something Bush was serially unable to do, at least when it came to his own interests and the interest of his cronies.

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rudi — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:38:34 -0000

Jazz, what makes you think this is an Obama fan, it could also be a wingnut wackjob plant, just like Obama is a Mooslim.

I wonder if this supposed story is a plant by a REAL wacked out wingnut. A Google search shows little results for Obama and Reagan being added to Mt. Rushmore. If the story is a Jim Cates plant, the Dutch lad and other at Memo will fall victim to this viral BS. Cates has an add at the Topeka paper, I doubt if he's part of AirAmerika. I wonder how many liberal newspaper exist in Topeka?

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kritt11 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:37:51 -0000

Well this is so silly.

I think the leadership void in this country was so deep that a gifted leader like Obama is being deified-- which places a really unfairly high burden of expectations on his shoulders.

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Ricorun — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:26:19 -0000

unclejoe40: rallies at a downtown mcdonalds for breakfast and dinner?

Exactly. You'd think they'd at least find a Starbuck's or an Applebees or something. Also, I'm guessing that if you have more than 100 or so people in Topeka inclined to hug a tree, a line is almost certain to form. I'm just sayin'.

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Jim_Satterfield — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:59:58 -0000

I doubt the guy behind this is kidding. I also think he's nuts. The idea is just so ludicrous that it just shouldn't be taken seriously by anyone but some fools will.

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unclejoe40 — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:29:48 -0000

rallies at a downtown mcdonalds for breakfast and dinner?

sounds like either a bad promotion, or a very bad racist joke