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Something Light: Political bumper stickers
Here’s a website with a mixed bag of political bumper stickers, some Right and some Left…
“Keep your religion off my civil rights”
“NoBama ‘08″
“I [heart] Water Boarding”
…you know: boring.
It occurs to me that in this presidential election, with our first black candidate candidate, our first female GOP candidate (and possibly first ever “babe” on any ticket), and, potentially, our oldest-ever president, we can do better than those.
So, I hereby open the floor: Hit us with the best-ever, definitive Campaign 2008 bumper sticker you can come up with. :)
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“McCain Not Hussein”
“Don’t Tax Me Bro”
“Obama bin Lyin”
“B.O.: Smell the Change”
“Stop Whining & Drill”
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http://patriotshop.us/product_info.php?cPath=70&products_id=735
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My all time favorite, no matter what is “Don’t Steal The Government Hates Competition”.
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Quit Palin Around (yeah I know that’s bad)
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I don’t like the NoBama “08. Roll Tide!
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McCain; Pacifying Anti-Liberals In November.
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Sarah Palin: The Best Reason to Keep John McCain Alive
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Au contraire, Screwtape:
Sarah Palin: Suddenly, his age seems unimportant!
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#7 gets my vote
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I don’t know which side of the aisle came up with this one, or if it’s even political. But, its one of the best I’ve heard for a long time: “Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?” I love it!
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My wife told me that one yesterday, TL. Hilarious!
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This one’s perfect for Random Name.
Agnostics Against McCain: There are some things we know for sure
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My favorite bumpersticker is the one on the back of my car:
God Is My Designated Driver
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There is a good one using the official McCain logo, but it says “Insane” where McCain should be.
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John McCain: He Isn’t Obama
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I realize this would be rather long for a bumper sticker, and may cause accidents, but here is my entry:
Vote for Change and that’s all you’ll have left on April 15.
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No Country for Old Men
Even My Llama is for Obama
Barack the Vote
Hope not Fear Obama 08
McCain 100% Recycled Bush
Flush the John
No More Old White Guys For President
and many more at http://shop.cafepress.com/elections08
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Keep the Change
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That’s clever Stubob. You should market that one.
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#17 “No More Old White Guys for President”
Are you talking about Joseph Biden?
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Not about the election, but this should be a bumper sticker.
Preserve Wildlife!
Then you can eat it later!
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Screwtape:
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oops, sorry.
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Obama Wants Your Change
What Does Obama Believe? Ask His Pastor!
I’m Not Bitter or Rich
Fight Terror – Inflate Your Tires
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How about “Leave the BO in the Out-house”
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Pretty funny at #21, Opinionated Teen.
I also like these:
* I like Obama, but is America ready for a president with brains?
* Warning! I’m a bitter gun owner clinging to my religion.
“The only difference between Obama and Osama is BS” is offensive and degrading to American politics. I note again the left’s more reasonable and humane tone in most political spats. They can get nasty, but you don’t see bumper stickers comparing someone they don’t like to one of the most loathed mass murderers in American history. You don’t see bumper stickers with witty wordplay associating John McCain with Hitler or Mussolini.
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LOL, JJF, nice joke. Surely you don’t believe that though?
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Wow. Still browsing those and it just really strikes me.
Democratic bumper stickers tend to be pro-Obama. The few that are anti-McCain attack stickers go after him on his age and his similarity to Bush. Pretty mild stuff.
Now look at the Republican bumper stickers. More than 75% are attacks on Obama. I have no problem with many of them — that’s bumper sticker politics for you. Attack him for his “socialist” policies, for his soaring “change” rhetoric, his lack of experience, fine. But a good many of those right-wing stickers associate him and the Democratic party with terrorists. That’s messed up. That is shameless, slanderous, and deeply injurious to our national unity.
Then look at the commenters on this blog. Many on right and left go on attack, sometimes relentlessly, sometimes cruelly. But find a post threaded with strings of slurs and insults. Find a line like “jackals and dogs in human disguise who eat the vomit of their own putrid America-hating mindless godless nation-destroying irredeemable evil, etc.” and 9 times out of 10, it’s a poster on the “Christian” right.
My conclusion: the Right is far more to blame for the crudeness of American political discourse than the Left.
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Look at the stickers, Outkast. Do a count.
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But you do hear leftys saying Palin is a Nazi.
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NJL, who said she was a Nazi? That’s just not right. I want to make a mental note of it for future reference.
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HRW, I liked this one from your recommended site.
Annoy a liberal, take personal responsibility.
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NJL- are these the same people calling Obama a muslim terrorist?
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I’ll do that count for you, because I suspect you won’t.
In the first three pages are 90 bumper stickers:
Democratic, Pro-Obama : 38
Democratic, Attack Rep. : 7
Democratic, Unconscionable : 0
Republican, Pro-McCain : 6
Republican, Attack Dem. : 35
Republican, Unconscionable : 4
To give you insight into my criteria, some examples:
Obama ‘08: He had me at common sense
Marked as “Democratic, Attack Rep.” because it implies lack of common sense in status quo.
Obama/Marx ‘08
Comrade Obama (w/ hammer & sickle)
I’d Rather Vote for a Boring Old War Hero Than an Anti-American Socialist
Chavez, Carter, and Hamas Support Obama. Do You?
Marked as “Republican, Attack Dem.” I do not consider implying communism unconscionable because the cold war is over. “Anti-American” and “Chavez and Hamas support him” were borderline for me because they seemed to be trying to identify him with America’s enemies, but I let them slide as attacks rather than unconscionable just to err on the side of caution.
Give al Qaeda a chance: Vote Obama 2008
Change You Will Submit To (w/ image of Obama in “muslim” garb)
10/10 Terrorists Vote Democrat
Marked as “Republican, Unconscionable.” Identify an American candidate or political party with the enemy we are currently facing is shameless appeal-to-fear politics and transfer propaganda.
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So file my statement under “Democratic, Attack Rep.”
Judging by your campaign bumper stickers and by the commenters on this site, you guys are the party of hate, viciousness, and fear.
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#28 These are supposed to be funny JJF. What’s funny about McCain?
You should wander over to DailyKos where they are having a Palin book burning and get back to us on the mild uplifting stuff the beautiful people are discussing. If you asked them to come up with some lighthearted bumper stickers, I am sure it would be all cotton candy and pink ponies.
The left wing media is gearing up for what they are now calling Troopergate and Babygate. Apparently the left is now in love with this Trooper who used a Taser on his ten-year-old stepson, shot a moose without a license, drank beer in his squad car and made a death threat against a retired school teacher. Maybe the left loves him because he sounds like a Kennedy!
Now, let me see … something funny about McCain … hmmmm …. nope, there is nothing funny about him.
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JJF – Where are you getting that stuff from. I can’t find any of the bumper stickers you are so outraged about mentioned here.
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I just followed Lynn’s link.
And as I reread #35, it sounds broader than I intended. I do not mean to imply that all or even most right-wing commenters here on WMB use “hate, viciousness, and fear.” I meant that those who use such tactics in their posts are, far more often than not, representing the Republican party.
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So, JJF, what IS Obama’s plan to fight the Terrorists — besides sitting down and chewing the fat with them?
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OTPW,
I have no problem with you disagreeing with his plan or thinking it a bad one.
I only point out that while the Democrats think your plan for terrorism a bad one (they note government reports showing that Iraq has become a recruiting slogan for them, allowing them to increase their numbers; they argue that bombing a village to kill 5 terrorists creates 10 more; they argue that our efforts should have been focused all along on the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and not on Iraq), they do not use that disagreement to accuse you of being in league with or supported by terrorists.
And your guys do.
There seems to be a basic disagreement on the acceptable bounds of political discourse. I’ve noted it here too. I can’t count how many times I’ve read right-wingers call left-wingers “traitors.” I don’t think I’ve once read a left-winger say that to a right-winger.
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#38 – Ah, now I see. So your commentary was really about the CafePress selections. Since they are a business trying to sell these things, I suppose they are playing to their market. Does this mean that right wingers purchase more bumper stickers? Hmmm. That would be surprising!
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I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this.
My favorite campaign sign of the season.
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Hope We Can Change
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That is pretty funny GL. OK, I concede that McCain’s age can be funny.
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JJF: I wasn’t merely counting the bumper stickers on one website, but all the websites hawking bumper stickers. Most of them I have visited have many more pro-Obama stickers, and most of them make fun of more than just McCain’s age.
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I have always liked:
I love my country
I fear my government
The stickers noting Obama’s socialist/communist policeis are merely accurate. It is perfectly acceptable to be against the evils of socialism/communism.
And the outright hatred of GWB on the nations bumper stickers keeps the left/right split on hate orders of magnitude over the the left’s side.
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“Babies Are People Too!”
“Babies Are Always Innocent…
Abortion Is Always Murder”
“Have You Read Your Bible Today?”
These are not original, but I always smile when I see them…
“I Love My Wife” and “I Love My Husband”
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“Guns kill people – like spoons make Rosie O’Donnell fat”
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JaneDoe: LOLOLOLOL!
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Peter L #16
I’ve been saying something like that for months, if fact was going to post something like that. And I thought it was original with me…
Leave it to JJF to make a fun topic into an anti-republican screed. I hope someday I can enjoy life as much as you do, buddy. (Just before I go kill myself.)
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One I saw that makes sense somewhat although I wouldn’t put it on my car is this: “Buy a gun; piss off a liberal.” (I don’t use language like that)
A lot of the ones on here are excellent, especially those abut “change.” I can’t think of a good one just yet.
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“McCain: A President our allies will trust and our enemies will fear”
Thanks to Lieberman’s comments during the RNC convention tonight.
Whoo-hoo!
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Instead of the old “Question Authority” bumbper sticker, I submit, “Question Rebellion” as an appropriate bumper sticker for this years election.
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JJF, come to my neighborhood, very affluent, very homosexual, very liberal, and very anti Bush. You want to see a plethora of hate filled attack bumper stickers against Republicans, come here. I see them everyday at home and at work. It is disheartening to say the least. They are pagans to the core and proud of their hatred.
Pro Republican bumper stickers get ripped off in the middle of the night around here, really!
Your tallying of comments on right vs. left here is swayed because this website is part of a magazine that reports from a Christian Worldview. So you can expect the majority of the posters here are right leaning.
Go to your cities newspaper website where a left leaning worldview is presented and then do your same tally. You will find attacking comments from both sides, but the most viscious will come from the pagan left and the fiscal right. But just as it has been for the history of mankind, Christians will be blamed for all our worlds troubles because the Antichrist is at work deceiving the hearts of the wicked.
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Peter V- I just thought of that slogan tonight. Great minds think alike, no? It must be in the name.
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“Republicans in the White House: 8 is enough!”
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Sure, Anlir, we don’t need more than eight Republicans in the White House, unless you’re counting support staff and not just presidential family members.
A few years ago, on the expressway in Chicago, I saw a bumper sticker saying, “When women vote, Democrats win.” If we’d been on regular street and not the expressway, I’d have been sorely tempted to see if I could get the driver to roll down her window, and say, “Your bumper sticker is true, but don’t you think it’s too late to repeal women’s suffrage, in spite of that bad record?”
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My favorite is: Annoy a Liberal – Work Hard and Be Happy
#54 I would have to agree. Here in Anchortown the only bumperstickers that have me wishing my children weren’t in the car are liberal ones. Especially one that refers to being sc____ed by an elephant.
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Chalzz,
I’ve thought exactly the same about the “Question Authority” bumper sticker. I’d like one that has “Question Authority,” and then underneath it “including the people who tell you to question authority.”
I read reddit, too, so I hear a lot of the atheist left’s hateful rhetoric. That said, the most cartoonishly vicious things I’ve read have been here on this blog. I will admit the possibility that I hold fellow Christians to a higher standard, so I judge them more harshly. But my tally of Cafe Press political bumper stickers supports my growing suspicion that the Right is more to blame for the nasty political climate than the Left.
Seems to me the free market has weighed and found wanting. In the first 3 pages, the company Cafe Press lists 90 bumper stickers: 45 Republican, 45 Democratic. Only 7 of 45 Democratic bumper stickers are attacks, while 39 of 45 Republican bumper stickers are attacks, and 4 of those are attacks that peg your opponent as a traitor and a terrorist.
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JJF: Support Sarah Palin and you can help change that kind of business-as-usual attack-dog politics!
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Matty-
Sarah Palin is one of the founders of Ted Stevens PAC that was incorporated to funnel corporate contributions to so Stevens could remain in power. He is currently attending court in DC defending himself on multiple corruption charges.
Sarah also took donations from VECO in the same scheme that landed Uncle Ted in court. She hired a lobbyist who was in with Abramoff and that gang to work for her securing federal funds when Mayor, and it’s only Tuesday. I won’t tell it all in one shot. Tune in tomorrow.
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The worst bumper stickers I’ve seen have been from the Left too.
I don’t think one site makes for a very good representation.
I’ve always felt that the Left is more shrill and vicious.
Of course, my sister is part of that group, and she is one shrill, Bush-hating, elitist, socialist Democrat. So, maybe my perceptions are colored a bit.
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Didn’t take long for the mean-spirited to take all the “light-hearted” fun out of this thread. sigh.
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Vote Obama: The Sears tower is an eyesore anyway.
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Gun Control Means Using Both Hands
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PG Language Alert
Forget Bristol’s Baby. What’s One More Bastard in Washington?
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JJF, apparently you didn’t go very deep into that site to see the bumpers stickers that compared McCain to Satan and made fun of Bristol Palin.
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#26 JJF
“I note again the left’s more reasonable and humane tone in most political spats.”
Which car is most likely to be keyed, one with a Democratic or Republican bumper sticker?
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#63 TRS
I don’t intend to be mean-spirited at all and hope that wasn’t conveyed, but there’s nothing light-hearted about a bumper sticker that says “Of course it hurts. You’re being sc___ed by an elephant.”
I wanted to point out that there’s nothing light-hearted about some stickers I see from the left. That I pray my kids won’t notice when we’re in the car together. I’ve seen nothing to compare from the right.
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KBells:
I only went through the first five pages and saw no such stickers. And my count only took the first three.
Comparing McCain to Satan and making fun of Bristol Palin would both be unconscionable, in my book. If you want to extend my count into whatever page that is, go right ahead. I have little doubt that the Republican attacks would continue to skyrocket. I suspect the percentages would hold. 85% (39/45) of Republican stickers would continue to be attacks (10% unconscionable), and only 15% (7/45) of Democratic stickers would continue to be attacks.
AKmom:
I will grant that the atheist left (I mentioned reddit earlier) is far cruder than the Christian right, in my experience. Profanity abounds, and is often directed against a disliked public official or administration. But I don’t see the same tendency to blast half the country (”the right” or “the left”) with sustained diatribes of hatred and vitriol.
I’m not claiming the Left is nice and the Right is mean. But I have noticed that, as a whole and in my experience, the Right is far nastier than the Left. And in my experience, the most inexcusable vileness I’ve read has been written by right-wing posters on this blog (the only right-wing blog I read), and often praised by others as “funny.”
And sorry to kill your buzz, TRS and Peter V. I did mention a few bumper stickers I found funny, but I couldn’t help but notice the stark difference in tone between stickers on the Right and Left.
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JJF
People make fun of Obama because he gives them ammo.
How about this one:
Stop Hate Crime
Rip off the nearest sticker disagreeing with Democrats
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People make fun of Obama because he gives them ammo.
I thought Obama was for gun control…
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My housemates boyfriend is a Republican (her taste in men is questionable at best). I’m thinking seriously of taping an Obama sticker to his bumper. I wonder how long he’d drive around before noticing it? Heh.
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Welcome Rich White Oligarchs
Billboard in St. Paul
http://www.east-lake.net/2008/08/welcome-rich-white-oligarchs/
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JJF, go to the site and do a search for Bristol Palin and one for Satan MaCain.
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While you’re at it do a search on “fascism”. It all anti-republican.
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Nice one, OpTeen.
It seems some of the people on here have taken a break from posting bumper sticker ideas to…plaster their bumper stickers on each other. Some of the ideas I like on here are the “change” ones, because they’re funny and are true and the same time, while others that attack a candidate might be funny, but might not be that accurate. I thought a good bumper sticker would be “If you can read this, you’re too close,” in fairly small print, and it might help to have a license plate that reads “BACK UP,” “MOVEBACK,” “BACK OFF,” or something similar at the same time. As that’s not political, here’s one:
“Vote for change and you’ll get it. Too bad you need more ‘cents.’.” That could use some revision; I just thought of it.
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To match Outkast’s Bumper Sticker in #52;
“Obama: A President Our Enemies Will Trust And Our Allies Will Fear”
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Lol, JBH!
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I’ve yet to receive any McCain/Palin bumper stickers, though I did apply McCain stickers to both vehicles today. They’ll do for now.
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“NoBama ‘08″
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