Progressive Bumper Sticker

The Time Has Come For Peace

Some people say that the time for peace is later, after we get what we want. After we defeat the enemy, there will be peace. After we protect our interests, there will be peace. After we build stability, there will be peace.

The problem with that philosophy of peace is that there’s always one thing more, just another thing that needs fixing. For those who always grasp for that one more thing, the blunt instrument of war becomes an addictive and deceptive tool.

What if what we want is peace itself? If that’s so, then the time for peace is not later. The time for peace must be now, and the only way that we will achieve peace is by pursuing peace in itself. Now, not later. No excuses. No more wars for peace.

The time has come for peace. Say it with this beautiful bumper sticker, which features a flowing trail of melting snowflakes, symbolizing the end of the icy winter of war.

Generate Your Own Political Bumper Sticker For 2008 Election

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that a presidential election is all about the presidential candidates. It’s not. A presidential campaign is about the voters. An election is the process by which citizens get representation in the government.

Which presidential candidate gets elected determines who will get represented. The promise that presidential candidates make, that they will represent all the American people, is a sham. That’s just not how it works in practice. George W. Bush has represented corporate America, not American workers. He’s represented polluters, not environmentalists. He’s represented Creationists, not science teachers.

Supporting a progressive presidential candidate means supporting progressive constituencies as well. That’s why it’s so important to identify, on a candidate bumper sticker, exactly which constituency of support you represent. Are you with environmentalists for John Edwards? Then say so, and you’ll be supporting both John Edwards and environmentalism.

Because it’s impossible for anyone to identify all the progressive constituencies (we’re a diverse bunch), Irregular Times has developed a special method through which you can create your own 2008 election bumper sticker, using their templates to support Hillary Clinton, John Edwards or Barack Obama. You add the text to show who it is that is giving support to your candidate of choice.

You might show, for example, that your small village supports a certain presidential candidate, as in the case of this Trumansburg for Obama bumper sticker, even though Trumansburg is a town of under two thousand inhabitants. No one else is going to do that for you, guaranteed.

Locality is the luxury. Particularity is the new power. Express your individual political location even as you support your national campaign of preference.

Out Of Many One Obama Bumper Sticker Found

Saturday night, after the inspiring victory speech by Barack Obama, we were granted with a quest. It wasn’t quite on the scale of the search for the Holy Grail, but a reader asked us, “Can we get a bumper sticker with a profile of Obama and text ‘Out of many we are one’?”.

And so we searched, and so we found. A bumper sticker with a profile of Obama and text that reads, “Out of many we are one”.

There too, we found another Barack Obama bumper sticker featuring the national motto, which actually has this same meaning: E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, One.

It’s about time that Americans remember that the foundation of our democracy is diversity, not conformity.

Barack Obama. Yes We Can.

The theme of tonight’s victory speech by Barack Obama was simple: Yes we can. It’s an effective short response to all the cynicism of political operatives from both the Republican and Democratic parties who are busy trying to proclaim what can and cannot be done, and who can and cannot be elected. It’s also a positive reaction to the negative slurs that have been hurled at the Obama for President campaign over the last couple of weeks.

Here’s the last part of Barack Obama’s South Carolina primary victory speech, the part where this theme becomes most clear:

“Don’t tell me we can’t change. Yes, we can change.

Yes, we can heal this nation.

Yes, we can seize our future, and as we leave this state with a new wind at our backs, and take this journey across the country we love with the message we’ve carried from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire; from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast; the same message we had when we were up and when we were down - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people in three simple words:

Yes. We. Can.

Barack Obama. Yes we can.

Mike Huckabee’s Plan For Christian Theocracy Is Yuckabee

I was looking for a way to express my outrage at Mike Huckabee’s stated plan to amend the Constitution so that American law becomes subject to his personal vision of Christian religious law. Here’s what Mike Huckabee said, at a political rally in Warren, Michigan:

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the Living God, and that’s what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.”

The very first amendment to the Constitution forbids the government establishment of religion, but it seems that Mike Huckabee wants to do away with that cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. He wants to build a theocracy, a United States of America of Christians, by Christians and for Christians.

Yuck. That’s the word that struck me, and then I searched for it, and found: Yuckabee.