We know one thing … someone’s gonna be attached to a high. Yes, we’re talking about the proposed high school to replace Harding. Let us know your opinion on this. You don’t have to be high, or registered with OIB, to express your view.
Mayor Bill Finch wants to rename a new Harding High School, slated for construction off Boston Avenue, after Barack Obama. Do you agree?
- No, keep the Harding name. (63%, 150 Votes)
- Yes, name it after Obama. (25%, 61 Votes)
- Change it to another name. (12%, 29 Votes)
Total Voters: 240
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Agnes Gianinni High School, look her up and remind the readers of what she endured due to her support for education of minorities. How, when, where, and why she died. Obama could not walk a step in her shoes. The Bridgeport Democratic Party has had her blood on their hands for too long.
Why would anyone want to rename Harding High to Obama High? He will be rated as one of the worst presidents in history. Jimmy Carter is one happy man as he now won’t be remembered as the worst president.
I like Toxic High!
Or Get …
Obama High speed specializing in hydroponics. To be perfectly Blunt, the slogan can be; We Can Take You Higher! The football team can run a zig-zag offense!!!
Go to this website address and read about Warren G. Harding. History has been good to his legacy of equality and fiscal responsibility, something about which the Bridgeport leadership knows little. Obama falls way short of such a legacy as his presidency is defined by divisiveness and failure of leadership on many levels.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding
Fleeta Hudson High.
So if it does become Obama High, what should the sports team’s mascot be? Some ideas:
The Fighting Kenyans
The Flyin’ Hawaiians
The Nowecan’ts
The Socialist wave
The Olbermanns
What the hell are you people talking about when it comes to President Obama? When it comes to lowering the US unemployment rate, President Barack Obama has done just as well as the revered conservative icon Ronald Reagan. During September, Obama’s 69th month in the White House, the US unemployment rate fell to 5.9%, the lowest of his administration. The country’s unemployment is down 4.1 percentage points from October 2009, when the jobless rate hit a peak of 10%.
Under President Obama, the country has fully pulled itself out of the despair of the Great Recession. The unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 10.0% in 2009 to today’s 5.9%. Under Obama’s watch, the unemployment rate has nearly been cut in half. Not since 1933 had an American president taken the oath of office in an economic climate as grim as it was when Barack Obama put his left hand on the Bible in January 2009. The banking system was near collapse, two big car manufacturers were sliding towards bankruptcy; and employment and the housing market were spiraling down. The Dow opened at 8,279.63 on the morning Obama took the oath of office and closed at 17,817 December 31, 2014. In his term, the S&P 500 is up 80%. The Dow has gained nearly 70%–“the fifth best for an equivalent period among all American presidents since 1900,” according to the New York Times. Obama’s inauguration interrupted a financial meltdown that had already destroyed a third of the Dow’s value in 2008. The president parachuted into the worst financial conflagration in 80 years, saw a million jobs disappear in his first two months, passed a stimulus, expanded TARP, instituted stress tests, and got the economy back to growing after only months. What more could he or should he have done? It seems as if he had walked on water you people would say it was ice-covered! Gimme a break.
Harding High school couldn’t be named after a better President than Barack Obama. This a president who gave hope to a nation, who will inspire those young black and Latino students who will attend this new school, anything is possible, hard work and a willingness to learn will serve you the rest of your life, even if it isn’t your desire to be President of the United States. Isn’t that what our youth need today?
Donald, maybe you’d better check your numbers. Bureau of labor statistics disagree with you, below are the unemployment numbers for the years 2009 through 2014:
2009, 14.2, 15.1, 15.7, 15.9, 16.4, 16.5, 16.5, 16.7, 16.7, 17.1, 17.1, 17.1.
2010, 16.7, 17.0, 17.0, 17.1, 16.6, 16.5, 16.5, 16.5, 16.8, 16.7, 16.9, 16.6.
2011, 9.1, 9.0, 9.0, 9.1, 9.0, 9.1, 9.0, 9.0, 9.0, 8.8, 8.6, 8.5.
2012, 8.2, 8.3, 8.2, 8.2, 8.2, 8.2, 8.2, 8.1, 7.8, 7.8, 7.8, 7.9.
2013, 7.9, 7.7, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 7.3, 7.2, 7.2, 7.2, 7.0, 6.7.
2014, 6.6, 6.7, 6.7, 6.3, 6.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.1, 5.9, 5.8, 5.8, …
You forgot years 2010 through 2013. How has his foreign policy been going and what else has he done? Zip. BTW it did not take long for the hope to disappear.
Donald Day, I agree 100 percent. He will ultimately go down in history as one of the most progressive, inclusive presidents and by the next election everyone will be begging Obama to stump for them.
Pure and utter BS.
Donald Day, although I agree with you on all your specific points on Obama’s specific accomplishments, his education policies have been absolutely horrific. As a graduate of Warren Harding High School, the school should remain as it is.
Hahaha, “Obama High School,” is Finch for real? The school needs to remain “Harding.”