I want a tire guage with Obama's name on it

[ericgtr]

and I'll gladly take one from the RNC if they want to give it to me, how cool would that be? I don't see how that's a bad thing, I bet people would really dig having one.

[Epiphany4z]

1. me too

I just don't want to pay for one..sure don't want to contribute to McCain.

[islandmkl]

2. i think Barack and crew should be handing out their own gauges...

turn the shit clear around...

[patrice]

18. That's EXACTLY where things are sitting right now. EVERYTHING can be turned-around on them.

[Jackpine Radical]

34. My thought too. Exactly.

The best kinda campaign material--it hits 'em where it hurts, and nobody is gonna throw away something inherently useful.

[ellie]

3. Me too!

I need a tire gauge and I like Obama so it's a win-win for me.

[patrice]

4. And the words "Change we CAN make!"

[nerddem]

27. "gauge we can believe in"?

[Zynx]

31. I like it!

[patrice]

33. Good one! Afterall, it's all about gauge!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. I'd like one, too

I'd like to use it to measure the deflation of the RW McCain express.

[Bad Thoughts]

6. It would be too funny if the "Obama Energy Plan"

... pressure gauges were actually used to check tires. Somehow, it would be the perfect act of resistance.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. I agree. Someone should encourage people to do just that.

[patrice]

30. That's the WHOLE point. What you do either enslaves you or sets you Free.

Paulo Freire http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm referred to this as Praxis (i.e. constant application of principles in everyday behavior).

And if Freire is too foreign for some, this concept, praxis, was also the basis of the work of the great American educator John Dewey. http://dewey.pragmatism.org/

[NatBurner]

7. me too

i don't wanna donate to grandpa munster to get one tho

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. I'll take one too. If they want to waste their money on stupid crap like that, fine with me.

I could use a spare and seeing it will just strengthen my resolve to work for the defeat of such a stupid party.

[TexasObserver]

10. Obama should send one to every donor who sends another $50.

They would become collectors items! Everyone would need an Obama gauge to be cool.

He'd raise another $50 Mil.

[Demi_Babe]

11. BINGO BINGO I'd buy 5 right now

[TexasObserver]

15. Honestly, I think he could give away 5 million of them and raise $250 Mil from it.

And they would have to be Made In America.

I wonder if the ones the GOP gave out were made in China? Probably.

[Coexist]

12. I'd buy one! Its my duty as a good American to keep my tires inflated

so we don't have to start wars in oil rich countries and get our sons and daughters killed.

[patrice]

21. Me too and then we could go around the internet discussing tire inflation. What FUN!!!

[NatBurner]

14. i'd go for that

[zbdent]

13. I wouldn't pay $25 for it ... which apparently is what GOP donors have to do ...

besides, like Republican books in the bargain bin, you'll be able to find them in bags in a local thrift shop come December ...

[patrice]

16. Actually this would perfectly CO-OPT the supposed Republican message: Do it yourself.

Crash is in the position of ridiculing the very thing that their whole empire is built around. He's saying DON'T DO IT YOURSELF. LET THE GOVERNMENT DO IT - by means of CORPORATE WELFARE.

Obama should point how how McCain is in exactlly the opposite position that a "good" Re :puke: is supposed to be in.

[ellacott]

17. I agree

I want one too. The Obama campaign could market it as: "Doing my Part"

Ask not what your country can do for you, but...................

[patrice]

19. and co-opting, when it comes on fast and heavy, full of facts, is an absolutely devastating weapon.

[ellacott]

22. Very true

[Bad Thoughts]

20. FYI: It costs about $360 to buy 100 personalized gauges

You could order them, sell them, and donate the money, no?

[ellacott]

23. That's a very good idea

[Bad Thoughts]

26. I wish I had the money to do it n/t

[ellacott]

28. Yes

It's such a great idea.

This might be a fun project for DU.

[patrice]

24. You could put it in your shirt-pocket, to remind you to be petro-CONSERVATIVE for our Troops! andfor

the FUTURE of the United States.

[saltpoint]

25. It would be great to have one. Maybe the Obama camp can make

them available as a lapel pin.

[ellacott]

29. A lapel pin would be cool too n/t

[TheZug]

32. Great idea.