# How long after I apply this "I Love Obamacare" sticker will it be removed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384 "2012-08-23T15:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/41 "2012-10-07T18:11:14Z")
I was the proud owner of one of the first Clinton/Gore stickers in Fort Worth. In addition to causing a very cute girl to wave at me in traffic (she then pulled past me, presumably so I could see her sticker), it engendered a piece of paper with “commie fascist” written on it under my door handle (to be fair this was at NorthPark mall, which is not in FW), and within a month it had been partially torn off. People are kinda crazy. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/42 "2012-10-07T22:08:59Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Thought of this thread recently, and I’m curious…has anything happened? Is the sticker still there?? Yep, going on about 2 months. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/43 "2012-10-07T23:26:58Z")
I’m more interested to find out if any ‘widow smashing’ has occurred? ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/44 "2012-10-07T23:43:15Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > I’m more interested to find out if any ‘widow smashing’ has occurred? Sorry; the two widows I know are usually sober. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/45 "2012-10-08T01:30:53Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I put “Not peeled off, but somehow defaced”, but it may stay forever. But on the other hand, I had a bumper sticker on my old car: > > Lost your cat? > Try looking under my tires > > I had five bumper stickers on this car (the bumper was smashed in, and it was ugly already), and none of them could be considered remotely offensive, except this one. Still, I got a very long, evil death threat note stuck under my wipers from a person who claimed to be Christian. > > So you never know. I never put anything remotely political or controversial on my car now. This post conflicts me. On the one hand, I’ve always liked you and respected you as a poster, **Anaamika** , but on the other hand whenever I’ve seen that bumper sticker in real life I’ve commented “And yet if you MADE them put an “I’m an asshole” sticker on their car so we’d know to avoid them, they’d be outraged”. I see your explanation that it was black humour and it amused you, but to a casual bystander it would make you indistinguishable from the assholes who do hate cats and would deliberately run them down, and who display that bumper sticker as a mark of pride. Maybe it’s different in the US (I’ve never seen anything to indicate that cat hating is as entrenched and commonplace as it is here), but it’s disturbing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/46 "2012-10-08T08:44:20Z")
It’s disturbing to me that anyone would take Anaamika’s sticker seriously. It’s obviously a joke. I know many cat lovers who would stick it on their cars actually. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/47 "2012-10-08T11:16:29Z")
Yes, you could be saying, “If you love your cat, DON’T let it go outdoors where it could be run over!” ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/48 "2012-10-08T11:43:58Z")
I would question the reasoning ability of anyone who took Anamika’s long ago bumper sticker as anything other than black humor. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/49 "2012-10-08T12:23:47Z")
Perhaps you need to live someplace with a strong and outspoken anti-cat culture… like I do. It’s not at all joke-like when you routinely hear people saying similar and worse in all seriousness. Granted, that doesn’t explain the person who took umbrage to Aanamika’s sticker (a visiting Aussie?). ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/50 "2012-10-08T13:55:04Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Perhaps you need to live someplace with a strong and outspoken anti-cat culture… like I do. It’s not at all joke-like when you routinely hear people saying similar and worse in all seriousness. > > Granted, that doesn’t explain the person who took umbrage to Aanamika’s sticker (a visiting Aussie?). Why is Australia so cat-hating? I’m not doubting you; I’m seriously curious. Is that a known thing, that Australians by and large don’t like cats? Or is this just your part of Australia? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/51 "2012-10-08T13:57:54Z")
Cats are blamed for endangering native species. [http://www.savingpets.com.au/2008/09/why-australia-is-anti-cat/](http://www.savingpets.com.au/2008/09/why-australia-is-anti-cat/) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/52 "2012-10-08T14:11:39Z")
I would have said the worst you could expect was some high-beam tailgating and some intentional cut-offs in traffic. I only have an Obama/Biden blue magnet and I get that. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/53 "2012-10-08T14:56:08Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > It’s disturbing to me that anyone would take Anaamika’s sticker seriously. It’s obviously a joke. I know many cat lovers who would stick it on their cars actually. :Raises hand: In fact, I **own** a cat. And I think that sticker would be freaking _hilarious!!_ Then again, I’m Israeli. **Nobody** does black humor like we do… ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/54 "2012-10-08T15:02:45Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Perhaps you need to live someplace with a strong and outspoken anti-cat culture… like I do. It’s not at all joke-like when you routinely hear people saying similar and worse in all seriousness. Back when I was in high school, I had a class where a bunch of assholes would compare notes on how many cats they had run over that weekend. I suspect cat hating is big everywhere, for whatever reason. Yeah, the bumper sticker is certainly black humor, but that doesn’t save it from being assholish, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/55 "2012-10-08T15:31:21Z")
For what it’s worth - I’m not the OP but I live in a conservative state (Alabama) and I’ve had an “I like Obamacare” sticker on my car for a month or so, next to a generic Obama sticker. The sticker is still there, no vandalism on the car either. But my wife reports getting rude gestures from other drivers. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/56 "2012-10-08T16:06:04Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > :Raises hand: > > In fact, I **own** a cat. And I think that sticker would be freaking _hilarious!!_ > > Then again, I’m Israeli. **Nobody** does black humor like we do… Tyler Perry? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/57 "2012-10-08T16:09:26Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Tyler Perry? Wouldn’t that be _African American_ humor…? 😕 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/58 "2012-10-08T18:08:05Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Cats are blamed for endangering native species. > > [http://www.savingpets.com.au/2008/09/why-australia-is-anti-cat/](http://www.savingpets.com.au/2008/09/why-australia-is-anti-cat/) Well in that case maybe they should be slaughtered? It doesn’t mean anyone has to like doing it but if there are tens of millions of cats doing serious damage to endangered wildlife then I can see why it would be wise to be anti cat (in the australian context). Out of interest, how do people feel about rabbits? Indeed, why aren’t the cats eating the rabits…? ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384/59 "2012-10-08T18:09:59Z")
> [@Patience\_Jones](#): > > Back when I was in high school, I had a class where a bunch of assholes would compare notes on how many cats they had run over that weekend. I suspect cat hating is big everywhere, for whatever reason. > > Yeah, the bumper sticker is certainly black humor, but that doesn’t save it from being assholish, in my opinion. What the bloody hell? Is Texas overflowing with cats or something? If I SET OUT to kill cats by running them over, like seriously drove around 12 hours a day looking for cats to drive over, I would be unlikely to actually get one in a decade I would think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-after-i-apply-this-i-love-obamacare-sticker-will-it-be-removed/632384.md?page=2)