President Obama Renames North America's Tallest Mountain

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali.

He's giving the mountain its traditional Alaska Native name on the eve of a historic presidential visit to Alaska.

Denali is an Athabascan word meaning "the high one." The name has long been a sore spot for Alaskans, who have informally called the 20,320-foot mountain Denali for years.

The mountain was named after former President William McKinley. There have been several efforts by Alaska politicians change it to Denali. But politicians from McKinley's home state of Ohio have opposed changing the name.

Obama is citing the Interior Department's authority to change the name.



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denali-president-obama-mountain-rename

[AuntPatsy]

1. Good

[Historic NY]

2. About time people buy GMC Denali's not Mckinley's....

[ileus]

3. That'll get those stupid republicans....LOL

[xenoturkey]

4. Wow!

Never expected that. Thanks Mr. President!

[oldandhappy]

5. Excellent!

[DavidDvorkin]

6. I thought a lot of heads would be exploding over this by now

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure it's coming.

[freshwest]

7. It's what Michelle Bachmann was talking about. The 1,000 years of Darkness begins! Muahaha! n/t

[sheshe2]

8. Should we expect locusts as well freshwest?

[freshwest]

9. They're already here. Took over the Congress in 2010... Continuing to devour us... n/t

[uppityperson]

10. About time to make it official.

[betsuni]

11. IMPEACH!!!!111111!!!!!!!!

Denali, eh? Rearrange the letters, use the "b" and the "n" twice and what do you get -- bin Laden, that's what. Somebody tell Donald Trump. He'll save us from this Muslin dictator roaming around our great nation renaming mountains after terrorists. This is an outrage!