Posted by The Sticker on December 24th, 2007
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee acts as if he is the voice of Jesus, preaching his religious beliefs for every body else. He preaches at us all, as if he’s the official spokesman of Jesus, as if Jesus had specific policy positions on things like climate change, public education, constitutional rights, and health care reform.
Of course, Mike Huckabee doesn’t have any more idea of what Jesus would do two thousand years after his death than anyone else does. After all, it’s not like Huckabee has a degree in theology, or anything, in spite of his false claims that he did.
Someone needs to remind Mike Huckabee that he isn’t Jesus. You can be part of the effort with this bumper sticker.
Posted by The Sticker on December 22nd, 2007
Americans are fond of complaining that they don’t have a choice, don’t have control over their lives, much less their government. That’s ironic, given that they live in a democracy and in fact have more control over their lives than most other people at most other time and places in human history.
The Democratic Party has been a disappointment in 2007. That’s an unavoidable conclusion. The promises of the 2006 election have not been met.
However, members of the Democratic Party have a choice. They can exert control. They can make the Democratic Party theirs once again, and take it away from the corrupt leadership that has led it astray.
They have that power, if they vote in their states’ primary elections. Sadly, most Democrats won’t bother to try. They won’t bother to vote, to elect their own political party’s presidential nominee.
Are you a Democrat in Florida? You could vote for Barack Obama:
Are you a Democrat in Kansas? You could vote for Dennis Kucinich:
Are you a Democrat in Nevada? You could vote for Chris Dodd:
Are you a Democrat in Tennessee? You could vote for Hillary Clinton:
Or, you could forfeit your choice, and just stay at home. You could just complain that you don’t have a choice, after you threw it away.
Posted by The Sticker on December 19th, 2007
Republicans fret and bother and spend trillions of dollars to do what they call “winning the war on terror”, and still they haven’t won it. In fact, there’s no victory in sight. They talk about fighting the “war on terror” for generations to come. That’s not not really winning the war, is it?
Well, progressives have a simpler way of solving the problem, something akin to the action that Alexander the Great took when he undid the Gordian Knot by cutting it in two with his sword.
You want to win the war on terror? Okay. Don’t be afraid.
That’s all that’s required, and the war on terror will be over. It could happen tomorrow. It could happen on Election Day, 2008, if we make the right choice.
Posted by The Sticker on December 18th, 2007
Yesterday, I asked the question, does Santa Claus endorse Chris Dodd for President?
As this cartoon clearly shows, the answer is yes: Chris Dodd is the choice of Santa Claus in 2008. Santa Claus sees you when you’re sleeping, and knows when you’re awake. He knows which senators have been bad or good and he says that Chris Dodd has been good, for goodness sake - especially when it comes to his filibuster of blanket retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that helped the Bush White House spy on the American people using giant electronic surveillance dragnets.
For a more serious approach to the Chris Dodd for President campaign, check out this Chris Dodd for President bumper sticker, with no Santa Claus on it at all:
Posted by The Sticker on December 17th, 2007
Has Santa Claus made an endorsement in the 2008 presidential election in the United States? According to this bumper sticker, he has. Santa Claus is shown saying that he supports Chris Dodd for President.
On one level, that’s hearsay. Santa Claus doesn’t have his own spokespeople, after all. Who is to say who Santa would support for President?
On another level, this bumper sticker brings some needed whimsy to the 2008 presidential election. People get very serious about important political issues, and that’s a good thing, but sometimes a bumper sticker like this.
Nobody really believes that Santa Claus has really gotten involved in American politics, after all… do they?
Posted by The Sticker on December 16th, 2007
Wake up, America! It’s less than a month now until the presidential primary elections of 2008 begin, and this is where it gets really important what particular people do to get involved in the process where they live. This is the time when even national politics is local. It’s up to you to play a part, of support the continuing national obsession with apathy.
It’s time to pick a candidate, and support that candidate in your state. Voting in the primary is important, but it’s even better if you help your chosen candidate by promoting that candidate to your friends and neighbors before the election.
A yard sign is a great way to do that. But for which candidate?
Let me suggest Barack Obama. I don’t mean to slam the other Democratic presidential candidates too hard, but the fact is that many of them supported George W. Bush in starting the Iraq War.
Bill Richardson did.
Hillary Clinton did.
Chris Dodd did.
John Edwards did.
Joseph Biden did.
Barack Obama didn’t. Barack Obama opposed invading Iraq from the start. He’s not had to offer any apologies on this issue. He got it right from the start. Obama never caved in to the pro-war pressure from the Republicans.
If that matters to you, then consider putting this Barack Obama campaign lawn sign out in your yard, to encourage people in your state to vote Obama for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008.
Barack Obama 2008 Yard Sign
Posted by The Sticker on December 8th, 2007
The cause of peace has finally reached the status of a top political issue now, as we approach the 2008 presidential election. However, the political party that many had hoped would champion peace in the 2008 election has turned out instead to be, taken as a whole, a party of wafflers, or worse, apologists for war.
Many propose the Green Party as an alternative, as this bumper sticker does: Vote Peace. Vote Green.
Is it a fair message? Given the overall failure of the Democratic Party to work effectively for peace, yes, I think that the message is fair.
However, this fair message must be considered alongside the objections. Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq back in 2002 and 2003, when it was politically risky to do so. Dennis Kucinich did the same, and actually voted as a member of Congress not to allow George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq.
There are many paths to peace. The Green Party is one of them. Selecting the better Democratic candidates is another.
Posted by The Sticker on December 6th, 2007
Homeland Security says it’s going to protect us from terrorist evildoers. The truth is, though, that Homeland Security could not even stop a man from taking hostages and threatening to blow up a campaign office of Hillary Clinton. That terrorist attack took place in New Hampshire, right here in the United States of America, and Homeland Security knew nothing about it until it was too late.
Posted by The Sticker on December 5th, 2007
You know that you’ve entered the heat of presidential campaign season when people start putting lawn signs in their yards. That’s just what’s happened starting this month, with lawn signs designed to support presidential candidates in particular states, like this Oregon for Edwards yard sign, promoting Democrat John Edwards in the presidential election in Oregon.
Nationwide, online measures such as search engine statistics show a lackluster interest in the 2008 presidential campaign. On a national level, many people seem not to care much who the next President is, so long as it isn’t a Republican.
Let’s cross our fingers and hope that personal displays of political interest, through objects like this lawn sign, encourages greater citizen participation at the state level.
Posted by The Sticker on December 4th, 2007
The new Progressive Buttons Blog writes of the precarious position of our post-agricultural civilization, “At about the same time that the Space Program took off and rocketed to the Moon, we forgot how to tend the earth. We lived in our new homes as if they were spaceships, drinking Tang as if we were cut off from all ability to make our own food any more.”
As America teeters on the verge of recession, it worries me that most Americans wouldn’t even know how or when to plant a bean to feed themselves, much less how to harvest, store and prepare it.
We couldn’t grow victory gardens now if we tried. With global warming escalating, the difficulty is only increasing.
Mohandas K. Gandhi had a warning about this development, which he saw beginning in his own lifetime:
“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”
