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The recently renovated community park at 14th and Girard Streets NW now has a potential name: Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham introduced a resolution today to rename the park "Barack Hussein Obama Park," D.C. Wire reports. If the resolution is passed, the park, which features a basketball court, year-round chess tables and an interactive water jet play fountain in the summer, would be the very first official anything to be named after President Obama in the District of Columbia.
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I don't know...isn't it just a smidge too soon for this? Maybe Martin and Mark Plotkin can negotiate a trade. Slap on the taxation license plate and then you get your name bestowed upon a park.
You read my mind.
And for real, they're going to name this park after Obama? It's not so much a park as it is a street-corner with chess tables.
Martin, exactly how would you define an urban pocket park? Fountains? Trees? A mix of uses?
A pocket park? Sounds perverse. A certain crack deal caught on camera comes to mind.
Transient Pit Stop?
Unlicensed pharmacy?
Yes, it is too soon. Unless your goal is political grandstanding. It's never too soon for that. I'm sure in the back of Graham's mind, he's thinking ahead to a photo op of Obama in his ward for the ribbon cutting.
Oh my. Grahamstander must be stopped!!!
I vote for calling it Molly!(c) 2009 NewHCE, all rights reserved Park.
Ruff!
Deliciously snarktastic
Tivoli South Park.
The parks slogan shall read: If you lived at _______________ you'd be home now.
Take that, George W. Bush Memorial Glory Hole.
Is "Rock Thrower's Refuge" taken?
"Shut Your Piehole Unless You Can Say Something Nice About This" Park
Too long. How about something more alliterative like "Hookers, Handguns and Heroin Hollow"?
And the winner is..... Cartoon Cemetery!
Looks like that name may not happen. From Wash Post:
According to the D.C. Code, "No public space in the District shall be named in honor of any living person, or in honor of any person who has been deceased less than 2 years, unless the deceased person was a President or Vice President of the United States, a United States Senator or Representative, a Mayor of the District of Columbia, or a member of the Council of the District of Columbia."
Ah yes, DC gets the Matlock Expressway it deserves.
Isn't this type of thing normally done at the end of a Presidential term? Either Graham is angling for a White House invite or he expects to be petitioning for federal pardon in the next few years. I suspect the latter.
Um, maybe we should wait to put President Obama's name on a park here until he actually does something for the District besides eating a half smoke at Ben's.
It should be christened George Spencer Park.
Regarding "Tivoli South Park" -- given that the Tivoli Theater was whites-only for most of its history, I'm not sure if that sends the right message.