The audacity! Obama changes the name of Mt. Mckinley to Mt. Denali! Past is the past people!

[TechnoHobbit]

binary solo said:

TechnoHobbit said:
I personally don't see the problem as long as the name change has local support, which it apparently does going by the fact the official name in Alaska has been Denali for the past 40 years.

Interestingly the governor of Alaska at the time the name in Alaska was changed back to Denali was a Republican. The president who signed the law making it Mount McKinley was Wodrow Wilson, a Democrat. 

According to Wikipedia the person who first named it Mount McKinley was a gold propector who was doing it in support of McKinley's presidential campaign. Does anyone know if that's true, or is it a Wiki-ism?

Republicans, who say they favour state's rights i.e. the autonomy of states to make decisions about things internal to the state, are opposed to the federal recognition of a decision the state of Alaska made back in 1975. Hypocrisy, how does it work?

Wikipedia sure got onto the official name change fast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali

To be fair both parties are quick to go down a path of hypocrisy whenever it suits their needs. Though yeah, this is especially ridiculous.

Anyway. I looked into it a little and the story behind the name appears to be legit lol.  

As someone else mentioned eariler, it apparently wasn't even President Obama who issued the order, it was the Interior Secretary with Obama's approval.