I don't get this bumper sticker.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I was behind a car today that had the following bumper sticker:

I love my country
But we need to see other people.

Pondering this sticker, I came up with a few possibilities:
[ul]
[li]pro-immigration[/li][li]anti-Bush/current Administration[/li][li]anti-politicians in general[/li][li]for the war in Iraq and other US actions in countries around the world[/li][li]pro-tourism[/li][li]pro-optometrists[/li][li]for the import of nudie mags from Asia, South America, and Africa[/li][/ul]

Frankly, that’s all I could come up with, and I don’t like any of them. Is it obvious to everyone else but me?

What’s with having an ambiguous bumper sticker, particularly an ambiguous political one?

2

I’m leaning towards #2.

3

Ditto. Seems fairly clear to me–“taking a break” so to speak (but I’m also in Oakland, so maybe that’s just us).

4

It strikes me as being pro-global, anti-isolationist.

5

Exactly what came to the bug brain…but then it is a bug brain so maybe it only counts as half an opinion

6

I interpret it a pro-U.N./Old Europe hegemony.

I too am in Oakland - and there is a tendency among the liberal elite in the Bay Area to associate Europe with advanced culture and the U.N. with the solution to all global problems.

7

I love my country, but we’re breaking up, but I don’t want to say breaking up, so let’s just see other people. If things don’t work out, or you change your ways, we can get back together and forget that we were ever apart, and still keep our original anniversary.

But that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker too well.

8

I take it as an anti-bumper-sticker bumper sticker. As in anti- the “I (heart) America” bumper stickers in particular.

9

Yeah, it’s obviously a gag bumper sticker.

10

That is how I would take it.

11

I take it as a gag anti-sticker (a la Visualize Whirled Peas) reacting to all the jingoism of late.

12

Huh. It didn’t even occur to me that it might be a parody of other stickers, but that seems reasonable.

I guess I’m used to parodies on the subtlety level of “How’s my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT”.

13

As others said, I think it just means, “I love America, but right now I’m displeased with the way she’s acting.”

I could see that ‘isolationist’ angle if I thought that there was one single person in America who actually thought we were too isolationist.

14

It’s not you, it’s me. I hope we can still be friends.