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Although I understand Annette's point, this is a different circumstance filed under "know your history" ; per CNN-native Alaskans have sought for decades to change the name, the 20,320-foot peak has long been known locally as Denali, its name in the indigenous Athabascan language. The national park that surrounds the mountain was named Denali in 1980, but the peak itself is still listed in official federal documents as McKinley. What did it have to do with our past president over the the region's native population anyway? I'm for it under the circumstances; now let's sell some homes
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While Rome burns.....
I guess nothing better to do than to rename McKinley ahead of a visit....certainly shows where his priorities lie....
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The renaming is appropriate for the history of this mountain and removes an unneeded political element.
I like the answer by Thomas J. Nelson, Realtor.
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Laura Trundle
Belleair Bluffs, FL
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San Antonio, TX
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Phoenix, AZ
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La Jolla, CA
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First we lose Pluto, now McKinley is about to go. The Red Skins are under assault. What's next? The White House?
In the MLS I use the word "White' can not be used in the description of the building on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, the color of the appliances or the great 'white sand beaches' of Florida.
I say 'NO' simply because this is an element of the Obama agenda. If he had just remained true to the environment issue, instead of a personal agenda, his words would have greater meaning.
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Brentwood, CA
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Frank Rubi
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Why does it matter? Hey, we live in a world of name changing. Bruce Jenner just changed his name. At least Denali is still a mountain!
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Gene Riemenschneider
Brentwood, CA
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Brian L. Sirota, Esq.
Orange, CA
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Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
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What pisses me off is what all this hoopla cost the taxpayers. Once O flew his entourage of 7+ planes to Alsaka to make this pointless announcement that could have been done from the OVal Office. This was just another excuse to take a vaction on our dime!
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Laura Trundle
Belleair Bluffs, FL
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As they say out with the old in with the new; shows overpaid gubment has nothing better to do!
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Provo, UT
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Jeanne Feenick
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I prefer the name Denali. However, I do not like the fact we live in a country where the President just does what ever the hell he pleases on a whim. We have laws and rules. For those poor folks in Ohio with their noses our of joint I understand it is a political issue for local guy; but just name something else after him.
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Mike Rock
Granite Bay, CA
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Gene Riemenschneider
Brentwood, CA
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While I can understand changing the name back to Denali and have no problem with it, what I would like to know is upon whose authority does the President say "I'm changing it!" Don't even think of changing Texas's name!!!
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Gene Riemenschneider
Brentwood, CA
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Conrad Allen - Well, it's not really a case of "renaming." Danali is the name that indigenous people of that region have called it forever (if you count thousands of years as a long time), and they still do call it Danali. It's controverisal only for governments and other "offical naming purposes." I'm usually in favor of returning names to their origin. History matters.
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Brian L. Sirota, Esq.
Orange, CA
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Conrad, I do support the use of Denail but I wonder why President Obama isn't insisting that Mount Rainier be renamed Mount Tacoma(another beautiful native name) as it was called long ago by Native Americans?
Perhaps a British navigator's name is preferable over a past Republican President?
While we are renaming mountain peaks how about ditching Mount Hood? Why should we honor a British admiral who made war upon the US during the Revolutionary War? Had Hood been successful in defeating the French Fleet blockading Yorktown we might be a British Commonwealth to this day.
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Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
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My only thought on this is to be very careful because once you begin, how do you end?
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Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
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Susan Emo
Kingston, ON
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Too bad someone doesn't use his time to improve the VA system in this country. Our service members can't get the benefits needed...while "someone" jets of to rename mountains. Not opposed to the name change but I doubt if he needed to step foot in Alaska to execute name change.
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Conrad - change for the sake of change is not smart but reading the reason behind this name change seems to be make sense to me.
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Brian L. Sirota, Esq.
Orange, CA
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Carla Muss-Jacobs, RET...
Portland, OR
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Why was it named Mount McKinley in the first place? It has an ancestral name born thousands of years prior to a white man seeing it and that name is Denali. Man, woman or President have no claim on nature's beauty, only the right to behold it. You have to go there to understand it. It has nothing to do with Barack Obama except in his mind.
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Gene Riemenschneider
Brentwood, CA
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Yes I do. Going back to tradition is a good thing. Aparently McKinley never even visited it. Possibly a referendum would have worked better than merely an announcement.
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Gene Riemenschneider
Brentwood, CA
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no. but, i get their point. my question is what was it called prior to that? im sure it was something prior to denali, 2) when the weak USA is taken over by another country, will we get to go back to a previous name? I guess we can after we have kicked out the invaders (aliens, russians etc)
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Katerina Gasset
Provo, UT
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Naples, FL
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I've never liked our practice of naming things after presidents so if I'd had a say when they chose to rename it Mt. McKinley I would have opposed it. As far as renaming it, it is returning to a previous name like so many places here in Hawaii. But I understand the point about renaming places. Check out a map of Africa pre-1940 and you'll see how many countries have changed names!
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Jeanne Feenick has it right. Great, short, simple answer.
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My thought is to keep it as it is today.
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I don't have a problem with the name change, since it is a local name issue they have wanted for years. It's just the way it was done. Another Executive order I presume!
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Whatever the Alaskans want - it's their mountain and it's always been known as Denali locally. President McKinley has never been to Alaska.
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When I was in Alaska, I heard it called both. I see both sides and it is a debate that has gone on for years.
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This is another distraction. Just like the Roman leaders used to do:
1. Entertain the masses to distract them from what was going on in the Sentate and
2. Distract them with gossipy types of non- issues, getting them all stirred up.
Hmmm, sound familiar? Whenever the media tells you to look at the right hand you had better be looking at the left hand. Slight of hand is the way they get things over on the people.
As far as fact, let's get some straight here- there are NO native Americans. There are NO indigenous people in America. Every single person who ever lived here migrated here from somewhere else. So the political correctness again, hides true history and pushes shame on certain people.
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