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.
Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
Irregular Bumper Stickers- Popular Bumper Stickers August 2010: Welcome Back Barack, Shoo RepublicansIn the month of August 2008, the following were our five best-selling bumper stickers: 1. Librarians Against Palin bumper sticker 2. People With One House Against McCain bumper sticker 3. Republicans for Barack Obama bumper sticker 4. I Like Obama, But is America Ready for a President with Brains? bumper sticker 5. Hope, Not Fear: […]
- Obama and the Birth of GodIs the maker of this bumper sticker claiming that God was born in Kenya and is a Muslim? God and Obama have one thing in common: No birth certificate? […]
- Deadliest Month Ever For Americans in AfghanistanThe Taliban are nasty, to be sure, but much of what makes the Taliban nasty are policies shared by the American-supported regime of Hamid Karzai. […]
- The Barton-BP 2012 Presidential Ticket Needs Your SlogansJoe Barton for President and BP for Vice President: it’s the perfect ticket for 2012. Joe Barton’s already bought by the oil companies, after all, so you know they’re close to begin with. Sticky and oily, greasy and filthy, the Barton-BP 2012 ticket would be a combination just like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, except carcinogenic. […]
- Joe Barton is a Tragedy of the First ProportionWhat do you say to a politician who rakes in more than 15% of his campaign cash from the energy industry? What do you say to that same politician after he identifies the “tragedy of the first proportion” of the BP oil spill as a government requirement that BP pay the costs of cleanup? You […]
- Popular Bumper Stickers August 2010: Welcome Back Barack, Shoo Republicans