Saturday, January 19, 2008
Anti-Americans for Obama!
College town liberals really are embarrassed to be American (or, if they are not American, to be living in the United States). In Princeton, you can walk down any row of the parking lot of McCaffrey's at virtually any time and see no end of lefty bumper stickers. Some of the stickers, you have to think, do more harm for their cause then good, at least when transported beyond the Principality into the vastness of middle-America. This person, for instance, thinks it helps Barack Obama to be paired with "U.S. out of North America"
The question, of course, is why such a person would be attracted to the likes of Barack Obama. Any thoughts?
16 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat Jan 19, 04:23:00 PM:
An even better question: Why is this person in north America still?
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Sat Jan 19, 05:29:00 PM:
It could be a joke--ever think about that? I say one reading "U.S. out of Bald Head Island" a few years ago, down in NC. Or it's just some lefty ditziness.
By the way, do you think it's time for Obama to have a sit-down with John Edwards? It's definitely time for Rudy to have a sit-down with Huckabee, McCain or Mitt, too. The most that bastard can do is play king-maker, and given his ego, that might provide him with more pleasure than being presidnet.
By , at
Sat Jan 19, 05:40:00 PM:
Is it just me, or do others think that bumper stickers are for assholes who want to deface their car? I also live in a college town, actually just down the road from the Edwards place, and the fence that says Go Rudy Guiliani 2008.
Chapel Hill has no end of moronic leftist bumper stickers. I must say everytime I see a Kerry-Edwards sticker I laugh, though.
Obama and Hillary are great entertainment right now. I'm waiting for her to slip and call him a bad word. I'm counting on both being too narcissistic to stand down, and Obama splitting the vote.
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Jan 19, 06:06:00 PM:
Chris - Actually, I wrote a few days ago that I thought Edwards was killing Obama, and that the only reason he would have for staying in the race would be to play to be Hillary's VEEP; she would be grateful, after all, and it would shore her up with the left.
Anonymous -- I like bumper stickers, such as my own well-published "Peace had a chance" sticker, which attracts many an admiring glance here in Princeton...
By , at
Sat Jan 19, 08:10:00 PM:
How come every time a liberal is called on saying something stupid or offensive, they always claim that it was somehow 'just a joke?'
Speaking in favor of Ahmedenijad? Just a joke. Encouraging a coup to overthrow the sitting president? Just a joke, too.
Hint: Jokes are funny.
By davod, at
Sat Jan 19, 10:01:00 PM:
Did the guy with the NJ tags vote fro Spitzer.
By Nomenklatura, at
Sat Jan 19, 10:50:00 PM:
As they say in California, 'your car is your most expensive piece of clothing'. It says a lot about you and your social status.
The problem for a lot of academics in places like Berkeley is that they cannot afford a car commensurate with their social status, or the stratospheric level of their self-esteem. Wailing bumper stickers provide the solution they need, at an affordable price.
This is why, even in areas like Berkeley and Princeton, the cars covered in strident stickers are almost always clunkers; they don't appear nearly so frequently on the expensive hybrids.
By Shawn, at
Sat Jan 19, 10:54:00 PM:
Unless it's a very lonely conservative taking a shot at Liberals.
As someone who, when employed in the public service, was publicly referred to as 'The CIA Plant' - I think they were kidding - I understand the temptation to play with these buggers heads by japing their slogans.
Or of course he really might mean it.
By GreenmanTim, at
Sat Jan 19, 11:13:00 PM:
A Native American could place such a bumper sticker on his or her car and mean it.
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Jan 19, 11:17:00 PM:
Good point, GT. I admit I had not thought of that angle.
By , at
Sun Jan 20, 01:03:00 AM:
So whos the jerk who sticks that stupid bumper sticker on their car? NOTHING LESS THEN ILLEGAL ALEINS
By , at
Sun Jan 20, 05:56:00 AM:
I once saw a bumper sticker that said "Be nice to America, or we'll bring democracy to your country too".
By , at
Sun Jan 20, 06:08:00 AM:
"The question, of course, is why such a person would be attracted to the likes of Barack Obama."
Hallmark for brains.
By Chris, at
Sun Jan 20, 08:34:00 AM:
Probably because Obama has been on the scene for a very short time, and in that time has been reflexively progressive. He is, after all, the junior senator to the execrable Dick Durbin, whose votes he mostly emulates. He simply hasn't had enough time to become saddled with the type of pragmatism that wards off true believers.
Looking at the netroots, it seems that leaving the ideological purity of the reservation for the real world is the only unforgivable sin. President Obama would be a source of much disappointment to progressives, as well as a source of ulcers to conservatives.
By , at
Mon Jan 21, 12:47:00 AM:
Picture this jerk dring ina moster truck contest in that car and see what happens when he meets with that truck BIGFOOT and see it flatter then a mattress.SQOOSH,SQUISH,SQUARCH,SMASH SMARSH
By jj mollo, at
Mon Jan 21, 10:56:00 PM:
Obama is a blank slate upon which you can see whatever you wish. Hillary is a palimpsest, the writing on which, however clear, can be obscured by what appeared before.
If you expect perfection in all things, you might become a professor and you might support Obama.
