I Peeled the Obama Bumper Sticker Off My Car Today

[Playinghardball]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/12/1064151/-I-Peeled-the-Obama-Bumper-Sticker-Off-My-Car-Today

That'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]

1. I always thought bumper stickers just attract assholes

[TlalocW]

3. I've offered the suggestion many times

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]

7. Magnetic hot air register covers from the hardware store

Are the same material - racers have been using them for quick change numbers

[MADem]

8. What a CLEVER idea! That's the answer--stick your bumper sticker to one of those things! nt

[LadyHawkAZ]

18. They've been around for years

my brother bought me one nigh on 20 years ago.

http://www.bumperstickermagnet.com/bumper-sticker-magnet.html

[kentauros]

28. Years ago, I used Velcro instead

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]

5. My favorite one is seen in DuPage County (ILL) at the courthouse.

It sports south carolina plates, and the sticker has a map of the state and says, "Yes, we ARE that stupid here."

[AllyCat]

13. +1!

I used to ride my horse in DuPage Co (and visited their fine ER once

[ChairmanAgnostic]

38. the good news is there are still many places to ride, AND

there be a hell of a lot more Democrats there today, than even 6 years ago.

[AllyCat]

39. Hmmm....do we know each other? I am/was an eventer :)

Anyway, I know many FINE Democrats from that area. Nice to meet another!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

40. I may have seen you when I dated a horsey girl.

Mostly I go to the house of court.

[MicaelS]

9. Me too, that's why I never have any on my cars

There are enough idiots driving out there, I don't need to encourage any asshole into being a bigger asshole.

[LibinMo]

23. I don't put ANY kind of sticker on my car for the same reason but

my Obama sticker is on my front storm door window. Hopefully, it will discourage Republican canvassers from knocking.

[veganlush]

16. it's true to a point

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]

19. They do, but they serve a truly good purpose also

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]

2. You are anti-american keeping a car so long. As Bush said, go out and spend.

[MADem]

10. I must be a card-carrying commie, my car is 25+ years old! nt

[marshall gaines]

12. 17

my car is almost 18, 300thou miles, shamefully it's a HONDA!

[MADem]

26. Mine is a Pontiac and it hasn't even cracked a hundred thousand miles yet.

It's on its third paint job, so it looks new.

[TheWraith]

4. I miss my Obama 2008 bumper stickers.

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]

6. I'm NOT putting an Obama 2012 bumper sticker on my car......

but that's because I don't have a car, lol.

No place to stick it on the bicycle, either, sadly.

[veganlush]

15. I have one on my bike

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]

27. VERY creative, indeed! Full marks for YOU!

Great directions, too--I can picture just how to do it!

[kentauros]

29. Put it on the back of your reflective vest, then!

[marshall gaines]

11. yard sign

ten four on that, yard sign out also

[AllyCat]

14. Great plan...mine is in the garage somewhere. Time to start cleaning

An Obama sign will look lovely next to my Recall Walker yard sign

[marshall gaines]

25. yuk. yuk.

back atcha

[SheilaT]

17. Just as a general comment,

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]

24. I remember seeing a Mondale sticker in 1986

So keeping them around isn't a new phenomenon.

[Brooklyn Dame]

20. *Whew!!*

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]

21. Hairdryer ...

for removing bumper stickers.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. Yours is in better shape than mine.

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]

30. My 2012 sticker is sitting on my desk.

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]

31. so, you changed the old bumper stickers for new ones

uh, well, good.

[jerseyjack]

32. I turned down an offer for a free Obama bumper sticker.

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]

33. Well you sure showed him.

I personally think that every General Motors automobile should have an Obama sticker. Nice way to say thank you.

[marshall gaines]

36. i kinda...

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]

34. It's awesome that the haters

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]

35. I don't do bumper stickers, but ...

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]

37. I'll admit you had me going

There for a minute. You got me.