I hate most all bumper stickers and car magnents. Your kid is an honor student. Good. I don’t care. The things that look like a ribbon that says such trite things as “support our troops” or “freedom isn’t free”; I hate those. (duh we support our troops. Duh… freedom costs something) I’m not a big fan of people telling me all about their love of Wiccan life or Veganism or even the Christian who wants to tell me that his call will be un-attended to when the rapture happens. I don’t care. I feel that the back end of a car needs to be left alone. Even when we bought our Subaru at Carmax, the first thing I did was get out a utility knife and take off the CarMax sticker on the back gate. For me, the back of your car is a window into your life and I didnt want to tell people that I’m “crazy in love with CarMax.”
That is until the past 8 years of the Bush administration, screwing up America and what it means to be a civil country with diplomatic clout. Leah and I have been so dis-heartened with the past few years of politics that it almost seemed hopless. That was until we watched this young dude from Illinois speak at the ‘04 Democratic convention. There seemed to be this positive hope.
All that said… I don’t want any stickers on the back of my car. I went through my punk-rock phase of sticking any band’s sticker on my 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlas Sierra. That was when I was 16. But I have recently made an exception when it came to supporting what I feel is the one presidential candidate that can make me be excited about being an American again. So a few weeks ago I ordered a pack of Shepherd Fairey designed, Barack Obama stickers and slapped one on my car. It takes a lot for me to “represent” anyone or anything on the back end of my car. This I believe to be true, that with Barack Obama, there is HOPE that our country can once again be respected in the eyes of the world, take care of it’s poor and treat people with the respect that they deserve as members of the human race.
Tonight Barack Obama will probably clinch the nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate, and as I watch CNN, I’m so happy to see an election and the democratic process go the way I hoped it would. The way my heart WISHES it would. It finally feels that I, as well as lots of other young people, are being heard and that their votes are not being stolen by a bunch of out of touch white dudes who want create a legacy, and not a better country. We shall see.
Guess we’ll agree to disagree on that one dude. I hope you’re right, that what is coming out of Barack’s mouth isn’t a bunch of bullshit. And if in a couple years from now I found out I was wrong about him, I will admit it and be happy to do so. But until then…he has told me little, and what he has told me I take with more than one grain of salt. And no, you know me well enough to know that I won’t vote for McCain and that I will indeed vote. But like I said, I hope you are right and that there is more substance behind the fluff I’m hearing. That being said, from what I see I take it that the new Shail Halud and Stove Bredsky are more than decent?
You might change your mind one day if/when you have a kid and he gets on the honor role. just sayin’
also, i never knew you felt so strongly about stickers. guess you hate my car.
also, also… thought for at least a split second about picking up one of those shepard fairey shirts at the UO but ultimately passed.
I am not completely happy with any of the top picks for president, but I have to say that Obama leads by a long shot for me.
Brian,
To address your first concern, I happen to find bumper stickers hours of entertainment. Like you aluded too they are the window of a person’s sole. Do they love there kid or are they ashamed? Are they a conservative or a democrat? Do they have a soldier that is deployed and appreciate what our service members are doing? Are they an evolutionist and an atheist or do they believe in a devine creator? The only reason I don’t use bumper stickers on my car is I don’t want the hasel of taking it off when I turn it in or try to sell it. So don’t hate too much.
To address what the window of the sole has told about you…you believe in hope. Hope is a very powerful thing to believe in but what exactly is this hope. The hope of government? As the Katrina incendent has shown us government is not that great. And to answer your reply about a Republican being in charge instead of a Democrat…there were Democrates at both the local and state levels that did nothing and had more knowledge of the catastrophe. Government has bankrupt Social Security which means you’ll have to work longer or save more in order to retire. Government is the reason we don’t have alternative energy sources and aren’t useing domestic ones and why we pay >$3.50 at the pump. I would not Hope in what Obama has to offer because all it is…is more Government.
This is not a response to vote for John McCain…on the contrary I’m very disappointed with the Republican selection. It is just a warning. At church today our pastor said don’t look to people…you’ll just be disappointed. If you’re looking to Obama for HOPE then you’re just going to be disappointed. As the Ecclesiastan said “there is nothing new under the sun” and Obama has offered nothing new.
Your sister-in-law’s husband