What's wrong with this picture?

CE2949BB | 11/7/2008 | CE2949BB

[CE2949BB]

Oakland, CA, USA

[CE2949BB]

I posted this picture in another thread, but felt it deserved a home of its own.

[Califreak]

Red star?

Different languages?

[CE2949BB]

Red star?

Different languages?

Well, yeah, but it was more of a rhetorical question. ;)

[5thGenTexan]

Missing the hammer and sickle?

[rintense]

The star should be yellow.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

There are a lot of Chinese in the bay area.

[justkate]

It does deserves a home of it’s own.

Cuba would be appropriate.

[The_Republican]

Oakland has lots of signs in Chinese. They are showing Chinese American pride, that’s all!

[Star Traveler]

What’s wrong?

Ummmm..., it’s a vanity?

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know Chinese, but from the Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary: Chinese-English, English-Chinese the Chinese characters seem to mean "I," "already" and "vote"--a straightforward translation of the Spanish. Too bad they don't say "Ask me about Bill Ayers."

The story is that in the 1960 election campaign, Nixon visited Chinatown in San Francisco, and Democratic trickster Dick Tuck arranged to have signs in Chinese that read "What about the Hughes loan?" (which Nixon of course couldn't read).

It does seem outrageous to have a button with those three languages, dissing speakers of Vietnamese or Tagalog, just to name a couple of examples.

[CE2949BB]

Ummmm..., it’s a vanity?

I posted to Bloggers & Personal, so I don't feel too guilty.

But, yes, it is a vanity... in at least three ways.

[pabianice]

Missing the National Education Association's endorsement:

I Votted!

[fanfan]

LOL!

[smokingfrog]

Mine had an American flag. ENGLISH ONLY.

[OB1kNOb]

Missing this to go with the star?