I saw a bumper sticker today,,,

[Va Lefty]

I loved America and I want it back!

Is this the "new" Charlton Heston is MY President crap?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. It's interesting, isn't it,

how these jackasses were all right with an all-white asshole putting our country down the drain for eight years, getting our soldiers murdered, wiping out our economy, corrupting our standing in the world, but when a half-black guy with the most amazing plans and skills and credentials and following takes over - in a very resounding public vote - they start whining about "wanting their country back"?

Have they noticed that no one has "taken" it away from them?

That some people are just working to fix it, perchance to make it even better?

Bigot pigs, that's all they are, dressed up as some sort of twisted "patriots."

Pigs. Whining, sore loser, asshole pigs.......................

[bluestateguy]

2. Then they can leave

To these people with their "he's not my president" proclamations, I say, fine, then this isn't your country. And you are kindly asked to leave.

[DKRC]

3. I would buy that sticker

and right under it I'd put stickers with:

Repeal Military Commissions Act

Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell

Civil Rights For Everyone

Paper Ballots Only

[HughMoran]

4. I just think of Bush when I read that

That's all...

[Brigid]

5. How about this for a bumper sticker in response:

30 years of elephant dung won't get cleaned up overnight. But we're working on it.

[woodsprite]

6. That needs a closing line of "and Obama/Biden can deliver". n/t

[Skittles]

7. we got it back the day that thieving bastard bush left office

trouble is, the GOP left America a steaming pile of shit to clean up

[seabeckind]

8. Why do you assume this is right wing?

I might have chosen the present tense but it matches my feelings.

When I first became actively conscious of my country and what it stood for there were no banks "too big to fail". Regulations required they follow honest business practices. In fact, the state I lived in didn't allow for cross county branches. There were usury laws that didn't permit interest in excess of 18%. When people got into money trouble everyone knew it was for their failings, not a theft by an unscrupulous banker. And they could do bankruptcy to get back on their feet.

Unions were very active and though they abused some freedoms they always stood for their workers. Engineering was the top profession and there was no MBA program. There was no Nobel prize for economics.

My president was JFK and he offered us hope. We knew he could lead because he had led -- and had the injury to prove it. He promised we would go to the moon and we did.

The corporations didn't run my government. Reagan was some half-assed B-actor standing in front of a mule train on my teevee.

And when the media mislead they did a retraction.

So tell me why I shouldn't want that america back?

[Va Lefty]

9. No, it was next to a No bama sticker

[DainBramaged]

10. Nice comeback. The purer than thou set doesn't like facts.

:fistbump:

[seabeckind]

12. Okeydoke...Sorry

Point taken. That guy wants to go back to a different reality -- one without a civil rights amendment.

[realisticphish]

11. What's funny

is that the Charlton Heston sticker-havers probably wouldn't like the fact that he marched with MLK jr...