… and EVERY other Obama sign in her neighborhood in Strongsville. Yeah, that Strongsville.
I live in South Euclid, which is a much bluer Cleveland suburb. To the south of me is a neighborhood where several blocks are filled with McCain/Palin yard signs, with hardly an Obama sign in sight. Actually, if you look around carefully, you’ll see a lot of Obama signs, but they’re all indoors, displayed in windows where sign-stealers can’t grab them. This is a suburb that is stably racially integrated and proud of it, and people still can’t display their Obama signs outdoors.
I’m sure there’s the odd McCain sign that’s getting stolen. Still, most of the thefts I hear about are of Obama signs.
If a piece of cardboard is that important to you, then maybe you shouldn’t own a gun, or maybe one should disavow themselves and divest from possessions and politics. Get away from valuing possessions with blood as per the capitalist, consumerist, corporate fascist model and value life instead of ego.
Heck, I’d buy a few. For some reason, the very thought of George McGovern, to this day, makes a lot of Minnesota Republicans shit their pants in fear (or so you would think, when you hear their voices get whispery-quiet when they compare a DFL candidate to ‘him’).
Oh, OK then. You just disagree with the law that says you can’t kill someone for writing on your cardboard. So you’re sort of similar to Thoreau or Ghandi.
Perhaps you could commit some civil disobedience, and get this unjust law struck down. Maybe shoot some kids that are on your lawn or something.
Thanks to my new second job I have been driving around different parts of the city and I see lots of areas with either only McCain (affluent neighborhoods) or Obama signs. I see very little mixtures, my theory is that someone steals the signs that don’t fit in with the rest of the neighborhood.
In my own neighborhood, which is definitely not affluent, the only signs I have seen were the houses across from me. The one house had an Obama sign near the sidewalk that kept disappearing and reappearing (usually in a sadder state). The house next door to them kept acquiring more and more McCain signs which they keep near the front of the house not near the sidewalk. The Obama sign has been gone for a while now, I guess they gave up.
