Obama Declares May Day, the Communist Holiday, as Loyalty Day for America

[FrankRep]

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History of May Day (http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/15268-history-of-may-day)


May 1, or May Day, while traditionally a celebration of the coming of Spring, has for over a century been the most important holiday of the year for communists and socialists.



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http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/30/presidential-proclamation-loyalty-day-2013


For Immediate Release
April 30, 2013
Presidential Proclamation -- Loyalty Day, 2013

LOYALTY DAY, 2013

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

In the centuries since America broke from an empire and claimed independence, our people have come together again and again to meet the challenges of a changing world. We have reinvented our cities with advances in science and reformed our markets with new understanding of the forces that guide them. We have fought for freedom in the theater of war and expanded its reach during times of peace. We have revamped and recovered and remade ourselves anew, mindful that when times change, so must we. But with every step forward, we have reaffirmed our faith in the ideals that inspired our founding. We have held fast to the principles at our country's core: service and citizenship; courage and the common good; liberty, equality, and justice for all.

This is our Nation's heritage, and it is what we remember on Loyalty Day. It is an occasion that asks something of us as a people: to rediscover those ageless truths our Founders held to be self-evident, and to renew them in our own time. We look back to Americans who did the same, from generation to generation -- citizens who strengthened our democracy, organizers who made it broader, service members who gave everything to protect it. These patriots and pioneers remind us that while our path to a more perfect Union is unending, with hope and hard work, we can move forward together.

Today, we rededicate ourselves to that enduring task. We do so knowing our journey is not complete until the promises of our founding documents are made real for every American, regardless of their station in life or the circumstances of their birth. Progress may come slow; the road may be long. But as loyal citizens of these United States, we have the power to set our country's course. Let us mark this day by pressing on in the march toward lasting freedom and true equality, grateful for the precious rights and responsibilities entrusted to each of us by our forebears.

In order to recognize the American spirit of loyalty and the sacrifices that so many have made for our Nation, the Congress, by Public Law 85-529 as amended, has designated May 1 of each year as "Loyalty Day." On this day, let us reaffirm our allegiance to the United States of America, our Constitution, and our founding values.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2013, as Loyalty Day. This Loyalty Day, I call upon all the people of the United States to join in support of this national observance, whether by displaying the flag of the United States or pledging allegiance to the Republic for which it stands.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-seventh.

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Flashback:

2013 - Black Business Leader: Obama “Tyrannical,” “Borderline Communist” (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/14700-black-business-leader-obama-tyrannical-borderline-communist)

2012 - Communists Happy With Obama Reelection (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13616-communists-happy-with-obama-reelection)

2011 - Obama's Communist Connections Revisited (http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/10828-obamas-communist-connections-revisited)

2012 - Obama Belonged to Radical Socialist "New Party" in 1996 (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/11652-obama-belonged-to-radical-socialist-new-party-in-1996)

2011 - College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist” (http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/6079-college-mate-obama-was-an-ardent-marxist-leninist)

[torchbearer]

da guy iz bonkers.

[heavenlyboy34]

Another government holy-day decreed by the High Priest of the State Religion. :P

[Lucille]

We have revamped and recovered and remade ourselves anew, mindful that when times change, so must we. But with every step forward, we have reaffirmed our faith in the ideals that inspired our founding. We have held fast to the principles at our country's core: service and citizenship; courage and the common good; liberty, equality, and justice for all.

LOLOLOL

[Deborah K]

He is blatant about it now.

[NoOneButPaul]

It was buy silver day and nothing else!

[Zippyjuan]

Loyalty Day is actually a law passed by Congress in 1958. Obama didn't invent it. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-72/pdf/STATUTE-72-Pg369.pdf
See Public Law 85-529.

[FrankRep]

Flashback:

2013 - Black Business Leader: Obama “Tyrannical,” “Borderline Communist” (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/14700-black-business-leader-obama-tyrannical-borderline-communist)

2012 - Communists Happy With Obama Reelection (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/13616-communists-happy-with-obama-reelection)

2011 - Obama's Communist Connections Revisited (http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/10828-obamas-communist-connections-revisited)

2012 - Obama Belonged to Radical Socialist "New Party" in 1996 (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/11652-obama-belonged-to-radical-socialist-new-party-in-1996)

2011 - College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist” (http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/6079-college-mate-obama-was-an-ardent-marxist-leninist)

[YesI'mALiberal]

He is blatent about it now.

The only thing blatant is you folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

"During the second Red scare, it was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529). Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959, the first official observance of Loyalty Day. With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958."

Ironic that it's the result of a previous Red scare. LOL

[TheTexan]

Loyal slaves day

[anaconda]

...

[FrankRep]

The only thing blatant is you folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

"During the second Red scare, it was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529). Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959, the first official observance of Loyalty Day. With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958."

Ironic that it's the result of a previous Red scare. LOL


Freaking Eisenhower.



http://www.thenewamerican.com/images/stories/AP-1-2010/bensoneisenhower-t-ap.001.jpg
Photo: Ezra Taft Benson, left, with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Aug. 19, 1959



A confidential letter from Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson said John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/) founder Robert Welch was right about the tragic effect of Eisenhower's policies toward Communism.


Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson: Robert Welch was Right about Eisenhower (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/american/5207-benson-letter-backed-welch-against-ike)


Jack Kenny | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
16 November 2010


It should surprise no one that someone in the Eisenhower administration would call FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's attention to the charge made by John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/) founder Robert Welch that President Dwight Eisenhower was aiding and abetting the worldwide Communist conspiracy. But it might be surprising to learn that the cabinet official thought Welch was right, at least in the effect the Eisenhower policies were having in advancing rather than containing Communism and ultimately "rolling back the Iron Curtain" — as Republicans said they would do in winning the White House and gaining effective control of Congress in the 1952 elections.

Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, the only official to serve in the President's cabinet through all eight years of the Eisenhower administration, called Hoover's attention to Welch's statements about Eisenhower and strongly suggested Welch was right (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50349153-78/benson-hoover-fbi-society.html.csp) about the effect, if not the intent, of the Eisenhower response to Communist expansion.

"In my study of the conspiracy, which I am sure is weak compared with your own, the consequences of Mr. Eisenhower's actions in dealing with the communists have been tragic," Benson wrote in a "personal and confidential" letter to the FBI director. Eisenhower's motives were not the issue, he insisted.

"What difference does it make if your house is burned down by an ignorant man, a person who wants to get warm fast, or an arsonist?" Benson asked Hoover, the Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, reported (http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50349153-78/benson-hoover-fbi-society.html.csp) on Monday, November 15. The letter, obtained through a request under the Freedom of Information Act, sheds new light on an old controversy about the Communist conspiracy and, in particular, the claims made by The John Birch Society founder (initially, in private correspondence only) and others that if Eisenhower were truly trying to fight Communism, he was the political equivalent of the famous lost aviator Douglas "Wrong-way" Corrigan.

The pledge to "roll back the Iron Curtain" fell by the wayside early in the Eisenhower administration and by the time "Ike" left office, the Iron Curtain had been extended into Latin America, with the communist Castro installed as the dictator of Cuba, just 90 miles from Key West, Florida. The Kremlin had also been given free rein to crush rebellions in Poland and Hungary, to foment insurrection and revolution in the Third World, capture part of Indochina and threaten to annex West Berlin. Meanwhile, the Eisenhower administration was increasing trade and aid with countries in the Soviet bloc, ostensibly to encourage their independence from Moscow.

The growing communist power and influence in the world and the subsequent damage to American prestige was a theme Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts made the centerpiece of his campaign against Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon, when Kennedy won the 1960 presidential campaign. It also further aggravated those on the Right and helped fuel the campaign of Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964, in what might be called the high-water mark of conservative anti-communism in America.

In his letter to Hoover, Benson said he was considering going public with his concerns "even at the risk of destroying the influence of men who are widely respected and loved" — including Eisenhower, the Salt Lake City paper reported. The Tribune story credits Benson, who might otherwise be largely forgotten as an Agriculture Secretary in an administration that ended 50 years ago, with being an inspiration to today's Tea Party movement, since he was concerned about presidential power and constitutional government as well as security from external threats. Benson was also, the paper noted, the only cabinet member to lead a worldwide church. After his government service, Benson became head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, members of which are commonly known as Mormons. He and fellow Utah author and anti-communist activist Cleon Skousen are among the controversial figures of the 1950s and 60s extolled by current TV and radio commentator and author Glenn Beck, who is also a Mormon and is a favorite with today's Tea Party movement.

The letter adds fuel to a controversy, never quite ended, over who was right in the era known as the Cold War. Those who favored a more hard-line policy toward the Soviet Union and its allies and a more vigorous investigation into communist activities at home can turn to the Venona papers and other documents unearthed since the fall of the Soviet Union and make the case that the late Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) has been vindicated by the corroboration from the Soviet files of many of the claims McCarthy made about Soviet spies in the U.S. government. Similarly, Benson's letter may help rehabilitate the reputation of The John Birch Society and its late founder.

Goldwater won the Republican presidential nomination in 1964 with the heavy backing of many JBS members. The Senate's leading spokesman for conservatism, Goldwater had captured national attention with his 1960 bestseller, The Conscience of a Conservative, and followed that with a book specifically about the Cold War, entitled Why Not Victory? Supporters of the plain-spoken Arizonan believed he would lead a renaissance of anti-Communism in Washington policy and in the nation at large, reverse the fortunes of the free world and bring about an end to Communism. Critics charged that Goldwater's policy of "brinkmanship" was reckless and dangerous and could easily lead to a nuclear world war.

The John Birch Society was then a young and rapidly growing organization, having been founded by Welch in December of 1958. The Birchers became the subject of a sustained media and public relations attack, however, when it was learned the founder and president had previously circulated a yet-unpublished manuscript describing Eisenhower as a politically ambitious general who had become a "conscious and articulate" ally of the Communist conspiracy. The manuscript, self-published as The Politician in 1963, portrayed the former President as a willing tool of the enemies of American freedom. The charge, though rigorously argued and heavily documented, shocked the nation and most of the journalistic establishment of the day and has haunted The John Birch Society ever since. At the convention that nominated Goldwater in 1964, liberal and "moderate" Republicans offered a plank to the party platform condemning the extremism of the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan — and The John Birch Society. It was rejected by the delegates, who cheered mightily when Goldwater in his acceptance speech declared: "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice...."

Yet Eisenhower was also applauded at the same convention when he deplored "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators" attempting to sow discord within the Republican ranks — something the Republicans were doing rather thoroughly on their own. Goldwater sought and received Eisenhower's endorsement, but the Arizonan went down to defeat anyway, winning only his home state and five Southern states in a Lyndon Johnson 44-state landslide. John Birch Society President John F. McManus recalls the turmoil of the Goldwater campaign, the attack on the Society and the loyalty of Benson, who had remained a friend of the Birchers and a personal friend of McManus long after leaving government. Benson would write long letters to Welch, who asked McManus to answer in his stead, since the correspondence had become time consuming.

"I became the pen pal," McManus recalls. "I could go into Salt Lake City, tell him I'm coming into town and he would say, 'You come right over.' " Benson's influence might have had the effect of keeping Hoover and the FBI from investigating The John Birch Society, as some liberal organizations had urged, the Tribune reported. McManus also recalls the Society published a book of quotations from the FBI director, called The Wisdom of J. Edgar Hoover. That also might have helped dissuade the legendary G-man from "saying anything mean and nasty about The John Birch Society," McManus said.

The long and warm friendship with Benson also helped McManus and the Society establish contacts in Utah and other part of the West, a distant stretch from Belmont, Massachusetts, the JBS headquarters at the time. McManus recalls speaking to a gathering of about 300 people one evening in Utah, where the population is heavily Mormon. The John Birch Society is not affiliated with any church and is open to persons of all races and faiths, but one member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints asked the speaker afterward, "Are you LDS?"

"No, I'm RC," answered McManus, who is Roman Catholic.

"What's that?" was the gentleman's response, McManus recalls with a laugh.

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The Politician: A look at the political forces that propelled Dwight David Eisenhower into the Presidency (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892647036/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1892647036&linkCode=as2&tag=libert0f-20)


Originally intended to be an unpublished letter to friends, "The Politician" became one of the most provocative books in American history. A timely foreword explains the continuing significance of Welch's expose' of the forces that propelled Dwight D. Eisenhower into the presidency.

[Deborah K]

The only thing blatant is you folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

"During the second Red scare, it was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529). Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959, the first official observance of Loyalty Day. With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958."

Ironic that it's the result of a previous Red scare. LOL

I can do that too:


International Workers' Day [May 1st] is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago. The police were trying to disperse a public assembly during a general strike for the eight-hour workday, when an unidentified person threw a bomb at them. The police reacted by firing on the workers, killing four demonstrators. "Reliable witnesses testified that all the pistol flashes came from the center of the street, where the police were standing, and none from the crowd. Moreover, initial newspaper reports made no mention of firing by civilians. A telegraph pole at the scene was filled with bullet holes, all coming from the direction of the police."[1][2][3][4]

In 1889, the first congress of the Second International, meeting in Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition Universelle, following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago protests.[5] May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891.[citation needed]

Subsequently, the May Day Riots of 1894 occurred. In 1904, the International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace." The congress made it "mandatory upon the proletarian organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is possible without injury to the workers."[6]

In many countries, the working classes sought to make May Day an official holiday, and their efforts largely succeeded. May Day has long been a focal point for demonstrations by various socialist, communist and anarchist groups. In Germany, May Day coincides with Walpurgisnacht.[7] May Day has been an important official holiday in countries such as the People's Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba and the former Soviet Union.

In the United States and Canada, however, the official holiday for workers is Labor Day in September. This day was promoted by the Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor, who organized the first parade in New York City. After the Haymarket Massacre, US President Grover Cleveland feared that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the affair. Thus he moved in 1887 to support the Labor Day that the Knights supported.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day

[anaconda]

Loyalty day apparently includes loyalty to the constitution. Obama still has 364 days to trash the constitution.

[Deborah K]

Although he did remember to specify the constitution as an object of our "loyalty." I find that bizarre.

It is bizarre, when you consider how often he criticizes and subverts it.

[anaconda]

Freaking Eisenhower.



The Council On Foreign Relations absorbed Ike as their willing puppet while forming a massive attack campaign against Robert Taft.

[anaconda]

It is bizarre, when you consider how often he criticizes and subverts it.

That was the point I was trying to make. :D

[Deborah K]

That was the point I was trying to make.

I was agreeing with you.

[purplechoe]

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[cindy25]

May 1 is labor day throughout the world except for the USA and Canada, and if not for Haymarket would probably be in the USA also.

[sailingaway]

I didn't know the President had that power. well, any more than I do. I hereby declare it 'loyalty to the Constitution Day', because I like that idea.

[Zippyjuan]

The Council On Foreign Relations absorbed Ike as their willing puppet while forming a massive attack campaign against Robert Taft.

That darned commie athiset Eisenhower who dared add "In God We Trust" to our money too. And he had the gall to add "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegience as well.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=eisenhower+god+&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGHP_enUS447US448&q=eisenhower+in+god+we+trust+&gs_l=hp..3.0l4.0.0.2.748301...........0.t5Z_W6H2y2 w&pbx=1


On this day in 1956, two years after pushing to have the phrase "under God" inserted into the pledge of allegiance, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a law officially declaring "In God We Trust" to be the nation's official motto. The law, P.L. 84-140, also mandated that the phrase be printed on all American paper currency. The phrase had been placed on U.S. coins since the Civil War when, according to the historical association of the United States Treasury, religious sentiment reached a peak. Eisenhower's treasury secretary, George Humphrey, had suggested adding the phrase to paper currency as well.

He was also the one who signed the "Loyalty Day" law (not Obama). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day


Loyalty Day is observed on May 1 in the United States. It is a day set aside for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.


The holiday was first observed in 1921, during the First Red Scare.[2] It was originally called "Americanization Day,"[3] and it was intended to replace the May 1 ("May Day") celebration of the International Workers' Day,[citation needed] which commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.

Loyalty Day is celebrated with parades and ceremonies in several U.S. communities, like Batavia, Illinois, although many people in the United States remain unaware of it.[citation needed] Although a legal holiday, it is not a federal holiday, and is not commonly observed.[citation needed]

During the second Red scare, it was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529).[4][5] Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959, the first official observance of Loyalty Day. [6] With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958

[FrankRep]

That darned commie athiset Eisenhower who dared add "In God We Trust" to our money too. And he had the gall to add "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegience as well.

Eisenhower has plenty against him.

Eisenhower's War Crimes
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?409428-1990-Eisenhower-s-War-Crimes

[Zippyjuan]

A scholarly examination of Bacque's claims:
http://hnn.us/articles/1266.html




Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 18:16

HNN Debate: Was Ike Responsible for the Deaths of Hundreds of Thousands of German POW's? Pro and Con


In 1989 James Bacque published Other Losses, a shocking account of the treatment of German POW's at the end of World War II. Bacque claimed that Dwight Eisenhower, burning with hatred for Germans, allowed nearly a million POW's to die in camps of starvation and illness. Bacque's book sparked new research into World War II archives and attracted the attention of the media in Germany.
In 1990 Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose convened a conference of scholars in New Orleans to assess Bacque's claims. The scholars concluded that Bacque had misread the evidence and vastly overstated the number of POW's who died of neglect. Bacque subsequently revised his book after gaining access to secret Soviet-era archives. He stands by his account.



The mountain of evidence has been building that Bacque's charge of the "missing million" supposedly perishing in the American (and French) POW camps in Germany and France is based on completely faulty interpretation of statistical data. There was never any serious disagreement that the German POWs were treated badly by the U.S. Army and suffered egregiously in these camps in the first weeks after the end of the war. That the chaos of the war's end would also produce potentially mismatches and errors in record keeping should surprise no one either. But there was NO AMERICAN POLICY to starve them to death as Bacque asserts and NO COVER UP either after the war. No question about it, there were individual American camp guards who took revenge on German POWs based on their hatred of the Nazis.


I generally don't use Wiki as a source for anything besides general info but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_and_German_POWs

[sailingaway]

Eisenhower has plenty against him.

Eisenhower's War Crimes
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?409428-1990-Eisenhower-s-War-Crimes

seriously, Zippyjuan, you want to up your game if you think we are just knee jerk GOP v DEM team cheerleaders.

but I'm not commenting on Eisenhower's war crimes of which I know little. But saying Obama is doing something unconstitutional doesn't mean Eisenhower didn't. He used far off theoretical need for 'troop movements' to get federal control of highway systems, for example. It is just that as Ron put it in one of his interviews: "No one wants a R3VOLution for the highway systems." Things have gotten much worse with the Dictatorial Executive since then.

[Zippyjuan]

seriously, Zippyjuan, you want to up your game if you think we are just knee jerk GOP v DEM team cheerleaders.

but I'm not commenting on Eisenhower's war crimes of which I know little. But saying Obama is doing something unconstitutional doesn't mean Eisenhower didn't. He used far off theoretical need for 'troop movements' to get federal control of highway systems, for example. It is just that as Ron put it in one of his interviews: "No one wants a R3VOLution for the highway systems." Things have gotten much worse with the Dictatorial Executive since then.

The proclamation of Loyalty Day was one made by every president since 1958 when it became a law- passed by Congress and signed by the President (Eisenwhower). [The "Eisenhower sucked" is a distraction from the topic.] It is hardly unconstitutional and not really anything of any significance. Do your own poll and ask your friends who have even heard of Loyalty Day.

[KingRobbStark]

Be loyal citizen. We have cheap gas station glasses, we know what were doing.


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[sailingaway]

The proclamation of Loyalty Day was one made by every president since 1958 when it became a law- passed by Congress and signed by the President (Eisenwhower). [The "Eisenhower sucked" is a distraction from the topic.] It is hardly unconstitutional and not really anything of any significance.

Well, if it is a law passed by congress THAT is the response to my point. I wasn't aware of that. I knew it hadn't been passed this year. Mind you I don't see it in article 1 section 8 of the Constitution so I disagree about it not being Constitutional.

But if it was passed in the cold war era of McCarthyism and the Pledge of Allegiance, I can speculate on that, as well. It does make it not an 'Obama' thing, so much, though.

[torchbearer]

The only thing blatant is you folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

"During the second Red scare, it was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529). Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959, the first official observance of Loyalty Day. With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, Loyalty Day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958."

Ironic that it's the result of a previous Red scare. LOL

there aren't many nationalist hanging around here. individualist usually shun collectives- like nationalism.