If you’re like most Americans, you’ve had it with the ugly attacks against Barack Obama. They’re racist. They’re religiously bigoted. They’re ignorant. They’re ugly and just plain mean.
It’s become clear that the agenda of the Republican Party, George W. Bush and John McCain has failed America. It’s going to take a generation to dig the USA out of the hole that McCain’s dangerous agenda has plunged us into.
There are some people who are so afraid of letting American move on out of the fearful politics of the Bush era that they’re willing to throw anything against Barack Obama in the hopes that something will stick. They don’t care how hateful it is. They’ll say whatever comes to mind.
One of the tragic consequences of the regime of Homeland Security has been the shrinking of human consciousness. The idea of the Homeland, reset the ideal of e pluribus unum to the instinct of nationalism. Under the Homeland, we have abandoned the values of democracy for the security of turf.
When people repeated the motto United We Stand, the we didn’t refer to anyone but Americans. The rest of the world wasn’t included in we any more. We were not part of humanity any more. We became exclusively Americans, and set ourselves apart from everybody else.
It’s time to step away from the Homeland, and return to the United States of America that we used to know. This bumper sticker helps us do that. It takes the Homeland Security motto United We Stand, but brings our focus back out to see the whole Earth, not just the USA.
United we stand only works if we stand with all humanity. Otherwise, we’re not really united.
As of last night, Barack Obama has the majority of pledged delegates for the Democratic presidential convention. Barack Obama also has the support of most of the committed superdelegates. There are a few small state primaries still to be held - Puerto Rico, South Dakota and Montana are next - but for all intents and purposes, the Democratic primary competition is over. Barack Obama has won.
Now is the time for Democrats who have supported Hillary Clinton for President to reconcile themselves to the fact that their favorite candidate will not be the Democratic presidential nominee. Barack Obama will be.
Clinton supporters of good will can now help in the effort to ensure that John McCain does not become the next President of the United States. It’s time for a show of support for Barack Obama by people who have supported Hillary Clinton. Putting this Clinton Supporters for Obama in 2008 bumper sticker on your car can help.
Last week, after John Edwards brought announced his unexpected endorsement of Barack Obama for President, the Obama-Edwards presidential ticket was the hot new idea in the 2008 campaign. Everybody was talking about what a great Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards would make. But, at the end of the week, John Edwards made another announcement: He does not want to be Barack Obama’s Vice President (although he didn’t rule out being Attorney General).
Now, another Vice Presidential candidate has risen to the top, becoming the consensus frontrunner to join Barack Obama on the 2008 White House ticket: Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Governor Sebelius has gained attention for her strong defiance of right wing activists in Kansas who have tried to shove through legislation to build new dirty coal-fired power plants. Sebelius has vetoed every coal bill they have sent her way.
Barack Obama and Sebelius share Kansas roots, and the Midwestern votes that Sebelius would bring in could wrap up the Electoral College for the Democratic campaign. If Al Gore of John Kerry had just been a bit stronger in the Midwest, after all, George W. Bush would have spent years ruining businesses instead of ruining America.
Last night, John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for President. This endorsement had long been delayed, for the obvious reason that John Edwards was the most sought-after endorsement of the long 2008 Democratic primary season. The endorsement wrests the news cycle out of the hands of Hillary Clinton’. Even more important, however, are the 19 pledged delegates that John Edwards brings along with him. Edwards is practically his own state, politically speaking, and his endorsement wraps up the nomination for Obama.
Will it end there? Will John Edwards fade off into the background now? Don’t bet on it.
After seeing the crowd’s enthusiasm for John Edwards last night, combined with the tidal surge of support for Obama, I’d say that an Obama-Edwards ticket is more likely than ever.
John Edwards fits with Barack Obama, politically and biographically. Both come from modest economic backgrounds, and understand political issues from the perspective of working Americans. Both have rejected negative campaigning and lobbyist influence as well, and that will be a strong point in opposition to John McCain, who has filled his Senate office and his campaign staff with corporate lobbyists. Edwards and Obama also both represent an idealistic vision of a better American future, not a desperate clinging to the past.
If you’ve caught me being enthusiastic about the idea, well, I’ll admit it. Isn’t it time that Americans begin to feel a sense of optimism again? That’s what the Barack Obama campaign is about, really - overcoming fear with hope. With John Edwards on Obama’s team, that hope is all the more believable.
That’s the idea that’s behind this Obama-Edwards bumper sticker - and I’ll add on a note about the Obama Edwards campaign tshirt as well: It’s made in the USA, not in some overseas sweatshop factory that uses outsourced labor to make big profits for some corporate executives on the backs of child labor. This t-shirt fits the moral vision of the Obama Edwards campaign.
Maybe this one in particular is not for you - but please, make sure that when you do buy Obama or Obama-Edwards campaign shirts, they’re made in the USA. Don’t mix hope with despair.
Hillary Clinton won the primary in West Virginia last night, relying on racist sentiment to do so. This primary showed how ugly the Clinton campaign is willing to get in order to win - even though it’s almost impossible for Clinton to actually get the Democratic nomination at this point.
One of the points of denial Hillary Clinton supporters are clinging to is the desperate hope that somehow, in spite of the rules, the Michigan election in which Barack Obama did not even run as a candidate, would be counted, and Michigan’s delegates would be seated at the Democratic presidential convention.
The truth is that, even if that did happen, Hillary Clinton would lose the nomination. This is getting pathetic.
Michigan Democrats can take action to help end the nightmare. They can show their strong support for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, making it clear that the Clinton campaign cannot use Michigan as a tool in its power games.
Putting a bumper sticker on your car is one way to make your opinion clear. Here’s one option - simple, direct, elegant. Michigan for Obama.
The simpleton element of Republican ideology shows itself whenever Republicans start talking about the flag. They have little competitions with each other about who loves the flag the most, and they work up into a fury whenever they see someone who doesn’t have little flags plastered all over their clothes, their cars, and their homes.
What these Republicans forget is that anybody can wave the flag. It’s really not a big deal. Anyone can buy a flag lapel pin. Anyone can stick a big American flag outside their homes. It doesn’t mean anything.
Real patriotism is harder than just displaying a flag. Real patriotism means knowing who your representatives in Congress are, and how they’ve voted on issues that matter to you. Real patriotism means calling up elected officials and telling them what you think about what’s they’re doing in your name. Real patriotism means talking back to power, instead of just worshipping it.
But, Republicans understand patriotism on the level of the symbol, and not the meaning that lies beneath the symbol. Fine. If what it’s going to take for us liberals to get Republicans to pay attention to something more than glitzy superficial patriotism is to wave the flag, then we can wave the flag. That’s easy…
The concept behind this pro-Obama bumper sticker is really quite clever, if you take it past its literal level.
We all know that America is in a lot of pain right now, and that a lot of that pain comes right from the Bush White House. 71 percent of Americans now disapprove of the job that George W. Bush is doing as President of the United States. That’s a record-breaking level. No other President, not even Richard Nixon, was disapproved of so much.
George W. Bush has been the worst President in American history, and it’s caused Americans pain.
From that perspective, the goal of the 2008 presidential election is to stop the pain. Who understands pain better than anyone else? Anesthesiologists.
So we see this bumper sticker, then: Anesthesiologists for Obama. Barack Obama is the presidential candidate who can most credibly break with the broken policies and failed ideas that have caused America pain. It’s Obama who can end the pain, and that’s why anesthesiologists support Barack Obama for President of the United States.
Barack Obama, as the frontrunner in the presidential election of 2008, has attracted more than his share of nasty attacks. Republicans are becoming desperate. Unable to attack Barack Obama’s politics or qualifications, which are both strong, they’re going after superficial nonsense…
…like Barack Obama’s middle name. They’re actually attacking Barack Obama for the middle name that his parents chose to give him, as if that has anything to do with Obama himself.
It’s become a mantra for the radical right: Barack Hussein Obama. The movie you see below deals with this ridiculous name bashing rather well, I think. The idea is this: If people are going to engage in the religiously bigoted and racist attack that Barack Obama can’t be President because his middle name is Hussein, well then, my middle name is Hussein too.
Think of it as the “I am Spartacus” of the 2008 election. They’ve put it on a bumper sticker too, which you’ll see in this video.
When you see some worked up right wing political hack start try to promote a video or an online report with a name like Barack Obama Exposed, keep calm and think for a moment: What’s so wrong about someone being exposed?
There’s nothing wrong with exposure, so long as the expose is honest. A misleading, distorting, untruthful exposure is not an exposure at all - it’s an obscurement. That’s what category we need to place the right wing Human Events article entitled Barack Obama Exposed. It’s little more than innuendo, half-truth, guilt-by-association and outright falsehood.
So, let’s expose Barack Obama, but let’s do it our way, unafraid of the silly right wing tactics that have failed to bring Senator Obama down.
That’s the approach taken in the video you see below, which is also entitled Barack Obama Exposed, but with a twist. The video calls upon people to get a Barack Obama bumper sticker to help Obama get the positive exposure he needs to win the White House in 2008.
It just so happens that we have the very link to the Barack Obama bumper sticker shown in the video - offered at a bulk rate too. In packs of 100, they’re just a dollar each, to encourage you to hand them out so that the word of Obama for President can spread far and wide.
It’s become clear that the agenda of the Republican Party, George W. Bush and John McCain has failed America. It’s going to take a generation to dig the USA out of the hole that McCain’s dangerous agenda has plunged us into.
