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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Peeled the Obama Bumper Sticker Off My Car Today
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/12/1064151/-I-Peeled-the-Obama-Bumper-Sticker-Off-My-Car-TodayThat's right. I've driven around with an Obama 2008 bumper sticker on the back of my vehicle for the better part of four years. After all that time, weathering four Alaska winters, it was starting to crack and peel. You could see the Kerry 2004 sticker in a few spots, a different shade of blue was barely noticeable underneath. Both of them are gone now, carefully scraped away with a razor blade.
I got a "Vote Obama/Biden 2008" sticker from MoveOn.org. back then, too. It was oval-shaped, and had been on the front bumper for years. Buh-bye.
The Obama 2008 bumper sticker was right next to another sticker that read "Somewhere in Texas a Village is Missing its Idiot." That one had been there for about eight years, too. Bush may be long gone, but the disastrous results of his two stolen terms in office will remain with us for decades. And now that bumper sticker is gone, too. It was time to accept the fact that the 2008 election is history, and it was time to get rid of those reminders.
Because it was time to put on my Obama 2012 sticker, instead. And there's an Obama-Alaska one on the front bumper, too. Whether I'm coming or going, my fellow Alaskans will know that the driver of this vehicle supports the current President of the United States. Our former Governor and current grifter extrordinaire can go jump in a lake. Few Alaskans give a rat's ass what she thinks, anyway. It's terrifying to even consider what our country would be like if McCain had won the last election, so let's not.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)TlalocW
(15,391 posts)To go to a sign company and have them slice up their magnetic sign material into bumper sticker sizes. You put the stickers on the material, and then slap that on your car. Then when you park, you can take them off and throw them in the trunk to prevent a sitting target. Because let's face it, as long as your car is not made out of fur, there aren't any groups of liberals who are going to damage your car based on your politics, but plenty of conservatives don't have a problem with it. Plus, you can change out the message periodically, and it doesn't affect resale value of your car, which I don't normally care about because I drive cars until they fall apart.
TlalocW
Mopar151
(9,999 posts)Are the same material - racers have been using them for quick change numbers
MADem
(135,425 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)my brother bought me one nigh on 20 years ago.
http://www.bumperstickermagnet.com/bumper-sticker-magnet.html
kentauros
(29,414 posts)That works best on plastic and rubber bumpers, where magnetic material won't work
(I used magnetic-sheet material on the backside of old 3.5" floppies and stuck them to the roof of my car.)
Back then, the bumper sticker was from negativland and read (in black on yellow) simply: CAR BOMB
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)It sports south carolina plates, and the sticker has a map of the state and says, "Yes, we ARE that stupid here."
AllyCat
(16,226 posts)I used to ride my horse in DuPage Co (and visited their fine ER once
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)there be a hell of a lot more Democrats there today, than even 6 years ago.
AllyCat
(16,226 posts)Anyway, I know many FINE Democrats from that area. Nice to meet another!
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Mostly I go to the house of court.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)There are enough idiots driving out there, I don't need to encourage any asshole into being a bigger asshole.
LibinMo
(533 posts)my Obama sticker is on my front storm door window. Hopefully, it will discourage Republican canvassers from knocking.
veganlush
(2,049 posts)but it still needs to be done. We have to be resolved to plant that seed in people's minds and stand up to the assholes. We have to show each other, out there on the road, that we're not alone. there will be assholes. Just the other day, a young, red-neck looking couple pulled up next to me and stared, then pulled ahead slightly so that she could make a theatrical spit toward my car. Onward and upward.
Papagoose
(428 posts)I live in Georgia - in a seriously red county of Georgia on the Alabama state line. There are not many Obama voters here.
I put a sticker on my car not to convince these conservative-thinking people to vote for Obama, but rather to reassure others like me that they are not alone. I know from looking at 2008 election results that there are Obama supporters in this town, but you would never know it from the sea of anti-Obama stickers (NOBama seems to be the most popular). Now doing this has cost me...as I have posted here on DU before, my car has been vandalized and the local police told me I was asking for it because of my stickers. I also had a neighbor call me a "n-lover" and accuse me of being a Communist (guess he's re-living the Cold War) simply because of the fact that I have an Obama bumper sticker. I felt vindicated though when I saw just the other day that another neighbor has an Obama 2012 sticker!
WingDinger
(3,690 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)my car is almost 18, 300thou miles, shamefully it's a HONDA!
MADem
(135,425 posts)It's on its third paint job, so it looks new.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Unfortunately the car I had them on died in early 2010, and I didn't have time to peel them off before I was forced to abandon the thing to the scrap yard. One of those stickers had been with me since October of 2007.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)but that's because I don't have a car, lol.
No place to stick it on the bicycle, either, sadly.
veganlush
(2,049 posts)and it has started some conversations on the bike trails. Just stick the sticker to a large, empty gallon water bottle. With a razor blade, cut around the sticker leaving a little extra space at the top. Put two holes in the extra strip at the top and put key rings through them. You now have a placard that can hang from your bike seat.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Great directions, too--I can picture just how to do it!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)marshall gaines
(347 posts)ten four on that, yard sign out also
AllyCat
(16,226 posts)An Obama sign will look lovely next to my Recall Walker yard sign
marshall gaines
(347 posts)back atcha
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I personally think it's a good idea to remove bumper stickers after they expire.
Up until about 2000, I never recall seeing old campaign bumper stickers. People seemed to take them off almost as soon as an election was over. For reasons I've never understood, that changed around the time of the 2000 election.
I never ever used to have bumper stickers on my car, but after the 2000 election I had various ones made up at makestickers.com. Can't recall all of them, but my personal favorite was: He wasn't elected on 9/11 either.
My current car only acquired its first small bumper sticker, one from the Very Large Array of radio telescopes here in New Mexico because it's an anonymous gray Honda Civic, and since all cars tend to look alike to me, and there are far too many small gray sedans of various makes and models, I needed something to identify it.
A couple of months ago some friends gave me a magnetic Obama 2012 bumper sticker, and then I recently, for the first time in years, ordered from makestickers.com. My car now proudly hosts If You Take Away My Reproductive Rights, Can I Take Away Yours? and Women Vote More Than Men. Women Can Vote Men Out.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)So keeping them around isn't a new phenomenon.
Brooklyn Dame
(169 posts)After seeing so much in the way of POTUS bashing, I thought this was going to be one of those articles too!
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/02/r-or-d/
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/03/this-is-america-on-wingnuttery/
http://borderlessnewsandviews.com/2012/02/5-annoying-things-that-liberals-do/
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)for removing bumper stickers.
Rhiannon12866
(206,072 posts)Mine has faded to completely white and I don't think I could peel it off if I tried. However, my "New Yorkers for Kerry-Edwards" sticker is still as bright and pristine as the day I stuck it there, shortly after I got my car. The Obama team needs to ask the Kerry team where they got them.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I think I'm going to brave the threat of broken glass and put it on this week. I just can't afford to replace a window, tire or get run off the road by some wannabe cowboy. That already almost happened when I had my Rodney Glassman sticker on my car.
Tax Man
(104 posts)uh, well, good.
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)Given what he has and has not done as president, I can't see advertising his candidacy. I wasn't expecting much from him and that is what we got.
I will vote for him. But support him beyond that? No.
great white snark
(2,646 posts)I personally think that every General Motors automobile should have an Obama sticker. Nice way to say thank you.
marshall gaines
(347 posts)I kinda understand that line of reasoning. Let's hope that when he gets four more years, he and the Democratic Party will finally say, "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
Mosaic
(1,451 posts)Have to live with the fact, the fact, our President is half black, half white. I love it. Four more years, then a lady Progressive in 2016!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)I just inaugurated a birthday present that arrived yesterday by FedEx from Mr. Frazzled (don't wish me a happy birthday, it was over a month ago: the gift was on back order and didn't arrive in time). It's better than a bumper sticker:
It's a hoodie designed by Alexander Wang (I'm never going to own something by a designer like that), and the contribution goes to the campaign. I'd been searching around the house for a really old (at least 15 years) old Gap hoodie I throw on to garden in the cooler weather, but it seemed to be lost forever. Now I have a swanky new, slightly cryptic sartorial bumper-sticker hoodie to wear for the campaign season. (Added benefit: Trayvon solidarity).
libodem
(19,288 posts)There for a minute. You got me.