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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]do republicans refuse to call the airport in new york "jfk"? how about when the redskins played at "rfk" stadium, im sure republican skins fans just called it "where the redskins play" just cause of the politics of it all.

and im so partisan and dedicated to my party, i wont even call the lincoln memorial by its name. i simply call it "the memorial with that guy sitting on a chair in dc". i dont care if abe freed the slaves[/quote]

[b]Yes, we see your point.  But those other buildings are not quite comparable, because they were not re-named as part of a crass political strategy.  Washington National Airport had a perfectly sensible and serviceable name for decades ... but then the name was changed at great taxpayer expense, and over the wishes of the local people most affected by the change, to satisfy the political agendas of certain Republicans who had an explicitly stated agenda of maximizing the number of memorials named after the modern leader of the Republican party.  [u]That's[/u] why you're hearing some people refuse to call it "Reagan Airport."  It's not a refusal to utter the name of any Republican memorial, but rather a reaction to the history behind [u]how this particular memorial was re-named[/u].

Perhaps those people are being too spiteful and stubborn (and political) in their refusal to use the new name.  But if you're going to level criticism at them, then you should be aiming greater criticism at the Republicans who changed the name in the first place.

If there were a similar wave to re-name existing memorials after Bill Clinton, many conservatives would be apoplectic.  Ask yourself how people will react if there is a push to rename IAD the "William Jefferson Clinton Airport."

BTW, before you accuse me of bias, I'm a person who posted earlier about how I alternate between calling it "Reagan" and "National" without much consideration -- whichever happens to come out first.[/quote][/b]

UGH. This is what I am talking about. Let it go.[/quote]

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