02.16.2009 8:15 am
Celebrating — or not — on Presidents’ Day
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
So here we are on the 3rd Monday of February ‘celebrating’ another Presidents’ Day. Right.
The current president, Barack Obama, came to Illinois last week for the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s actual birthday. He and George Washington share the honors today, with both of them having February birthdays. And of course, our own newspaper and all the TV stations have run plenty of ads for all those great Presidents’ Day sales. What better way to honor the leaders of our country than by springing for a new set of sheets, or a nice spring jacket?
I’m as guilty as anyone. To…
