Posted on 09/11/2009 7:58:30 AM PDT by BigKahuna
There was at least one hard truth about the Barack Obama presidency that should have become painfully evident the day after his hoped-for "game changing" address to a joint session of Congress. For sure, it's now a certainty that we're going to be looking at years of government by bumper sticker sloganeering.
As if we didn't get enough of such stuff during last year's "historic" campaign (actually, the history of the country has been marked by a ton of dishonest, empty and vapid political campaigns almost exactly like Mr. Obama's), we're now being forced to sit through it all over again with alarming prime time regularity. I mean, I think the last man to expose himself to the public so thoroughly is still doing hard time in Joliet or Attica or some other equally scary penal institution.
As to what's been going on since the night of the speech and onward, it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to the orgy of adulation issuing forth from the Left over a speech that was actually fairly lightweight in substance but very long on rhetorical flourish and possible new slogans for a bumper sticker or two.
Let me take that back. Not the rhetorical flourish thing, because there was a ton of that stuff. I mean the wheat versus chaff thing. It's been excruciatingly difficult to pick out the real wheat because I don't think there was any of that worthy grain in the half-baked loaf Mr. Snake Oil was trying to sell us. Instead, we were left to pick through a mountain of slogans, half-truths, convenient throwaway lines and some outright whoppers and stinkers.
I think it was at about the 50th whopper-and-stinker that Joe Wilson blew a gasket and proceeded to call out the President…
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Bumper stickers are so 20th century. All slogans now have to fit in a 140 character tweet.
This needs to start turning up everywhere.
No joke! ;-) The guy’s better than any used car salesman I’ve ever met. But I think I’m slandering used car salesmen in comparing them to the guy in the Oval Office these days (hahaha!)
I used to see Obama bumper stickers on nearly every car here in RI....but lately I have noticed that they all seem to be disappearing.
Buyer's remorse?
I work at a University... if I had a anti-”O” bumper sticker on my car, I’d be buying new tires every other day!
“Speaking of bumper stickers...I have noticed something interesting living here in one of the bluest states in the country.
I used to see Obama bumper stickers on nearly every car here in RI....but lately I have noticed that they all seem to be disappearing.
Buyer’s remorse?”
I think folks there are mad at him because they feel he’s not doing ENOUGH to cram through all of his leftist policies and are drifting a bit away in disillusionment. That’s likely to explain it more than them being surprised at his socialism ;-)
BTW, I used to live in Newport a long time ago. Great state and a great place to live. Carcieri did a fine thing in getting a handle on the budget, too.
I like them both!
You are right they are disappearing in the NE. I drive up to CT every day. I have noticed another phenomenon, I’ve noticed an increase of single finger salutes to those vehicles still sporting those stickers. Freedom is a wonderful thing. :-)
Newport is a great town...I live in Jamestown across the bridge.
Taking a page out of the Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter playbook, I made up and ordered this Bumper Sticker.
ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE
4 TRILLION DOLLARS AGO?
Taking a page out of the Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter playbook, I made up and ordered this Bumper Sticker.
ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE
4 TRILLION DOLLARS AGO?
Same here in Washington - Obama stickers disappearing off cars ... used to see lots of them, now, hardly any. Still see Kerry/Edwards signs ....
That’s a great sticker!
Obama presidency = man-child in office
More like just a child. Does he understand anything about anything?
Yesterday I saw a bumpersticker (not for the first time) that said: "Got Hope?"
I could interpret that as an anti-Bush sticker from the 2008 campaign (vote Obama and get some Hope)
OR
I could interpret that as an anti-Obama sticker from right now (How's the Hope and Change working out?)
But for the life of me I can't decide if the driver of the car was likely to be pro-Obama or anti-Obama.
Thoughts?
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