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Home Front: Politix
Champ renames Mississippi River Mount McKinley as Denali on eve of Alaska trip
2015-08-31
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will change the name of North America's tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday, a major symbolic gesture to Alaska Natives on the eve of the president's historic visit to Alaska.

By renaming the peak Denali, an Athabascan word meaning "the high one," Obama waded into a sensitive and decades-old conflict between residents of Alaska and Ohio. Alaskans have informally called the mountain Denali for years, but the federal government recognizes its name invoking the 25th president, William McKinley, who was born in Ohio and assassinated early in his second term.
Little wonder Champ wishes to banish the name and legacy of President McKinley.
Posted by:RJ45ACP

#11  Actually, junkiron, he's in Alaska for a Bear Grylls reality program.

The Climate Change fluff was secondary.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2015-08-31 22:45  

#10  Maybe he thought he was renaming the mountain after some famous Muslim Arab named Den ALI.
Posted by: junkiron   2015-08-31 21:45  

#9  Mt. Travon didn't make the cut?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2015-08-31 21:11  

#8  I think Obama, while in Alaska for a climate change summit, mistakenly thought he was renaming the highest mountain in North America to Mt. Denial.
Posted by: junkiron   2015-08-31 19:48  

#7  I woulda gone with Mt. Choom, but that's just me.


Uhhhhhhhhh....yeahhhhhhhhhh.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-08-31 17:41  

#6  Stolen from Howie Carr's 'Chump Line' portion of his radio program (AM 680, WRKO in Boston), 'Let's rename the mountain after a Native American - Mt. Warren.'
Posted by: Raj   2015-08-31 17:38  

#5  Actually, Denali was Champ's second choice.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-31 16:08  

#4   an Athabascan word meaning "the high one,

I woulda gone with Mt. Choom, but that's just me.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-08-31 15:48  

#3  Feeding hand bitten. The cause means nothing when you're fighting Democrats. His memory shall be banished. He shall never be forgiven.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-31 15:39  

#2  Yep, the last President (R) that had served in the Civil War. Did more to really help blacks than the present occupant and his party of slavery. Down the memory whole in the name of (anti-majority rule) diversity.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-08-31 15:34  

#1  A breeze through a tall quaking aspen;
The scratch of his pen -- Athabaskan!
His nibs dubs Denali
Deniably "Ali"
And now Al-Murtaza's Alaskan.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-08-31 14:57  

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