I took my McCain sign down the day after the election, but it’s still behind the shed where I tossed it and the OP has given me an almost overwhelming desire to go put it back in the yard.
I find political signage annoying at best, and boring at worst.
RE: the OP, a significant portion of the country did NOT vote for Obama.
If they would like to leave their signs/bumper stickers/pins in place, I have no problem with that. I would have no problem with that regardless of which candidate won.
It’s the same reason that fans of losing sports teams do not remove their fan emblems…whether it’s T-shirts, stickers, signs, etc…
Just because your team lost doesn’t mean that you stopped supporting them. If anything, you may consider yourself a “true fan” only AFTER they’ve lost. Because then you’re acknowledging that even though they didn’t go the distance, you’re not merely a fair-weather fan.
The same goes for political candidates. Supportive signage turns into stubborn protest signage. I still see Kerry stickers. Gore stickers. Original Non-W Bush stickers.
Some of them are merely present because people are too lazy/forgetful to remove them, but some of them are the equivalant of protest signs. Signs of support for the team you believed in, whether or not they won. I am a San Antonio Spurs fan even though they didn’t win the Championship last year; I won’t remove the sticker from my vehicle.
FTR, I didn’t like either Obama or McCain, and I voted for neither, but I have no problems with anyone displaying their support for either of them. I think it’s a sign of smug poor-sportsmanship to get all riled up if someone doesn’t remove their McCain sign/sticker/whatever.
Obama won. That should be enough for his supporters. Be gracious in victory as you should be gracious in defeat.
Or, alternatively, since this is the Pit…
Shut the fuck up and find something else to bitch about.
Another “take 'em all down” vote here. I’m sick of them.
Congrats on being in charge of of all the signs. I voted for Obama, not you…sorry! Why do you even care? If McCain had won, I would still leave my Obama window sign up for ages and ages. So what?
Seriously…do it…and I voted for Obama!
He did. That does not change the fact that the OP is an infantile load of crap. And you, apparently, are a presumptious jerk.
My apartment is on a street which is sort of a main thoroughfare in my city, with four lanes, and a big wide median, about 50 feet wide, in between. It is THE spot for political signs every two years. I’m talking, if you didn’t know better you’d swear it was the city dump and the only thing anyone threw away that day was paper and wire racks.
And it’s not just Obama and McCain signs, it’s “Vote Schmalarkowitz for Second Assistant Dog Catcher At Large” and “Please Elect My Gerbil, Bob, For Sherriff”.
So, yeah, count me in with the I’m sick of all of these frickin’ signs camp.
My sign is in the window of my apartment. I have other 8.5 x 11 signs in the rear window of my car. I wear an Obama/Biden pin on my coat. I don’t intend to change anything for quite some time.
I don’t care for the signs so much, but whats pissing me off now is my town thinking they should be passing a law requiring people to remove them. As though it’s not a violation of my freedom of speech to tell me I can’t have a lawn sign that says “Obama” but I can have a lawn sign that says “Joe’s Speedy Painting” or “Buy My House”
Somebody wants to put up a supportive sign or a protest sign, or whatever, on their own property, it’s their business. Give me a set of rules regarding the size, restrict obscenity, and let me say whatever the fuck I want with a sign on my property.
Wherever the Democratic Party was before it left you, it was never within a light-year of McCain’s 2008 platform.
This puts paid to your bullshit meme that if the Democratic Party hadn’t somehow turned into something different since you were younger, you’d still be one.
Seriously, I have no idea what this means…
It sounds like RTFirefly is saying that Weirddave is a former Democrat who left the party when he felt it was moving away from his interests. However, RTFirefly says, it is foolish for one of such a background to endorse McCain, as McCain is even further from old-style Democrat interests.
(I haven’t really followed the political threads that much, so I have no idea what Weirddave’s actual history or positions are, or, for that matter, RTFirefly’s history or positions, the history of their interaction, etc.)
Rather, let me reword that to get more of the insinuation in:
It sounds like RTFirefly is saying that Weirddave claims to have been a former Democrat who only left the party because the party’s positions changed significantly while Weirddave’s remained the same. However, RTFirefly says, this must be a lie, as it it would be foolish for one of such a background to endorse McCain, as McCain is far further from old-style Democrat interests than current Democrats are.
Cool!
Now do me. What am I thinking right now?
Back when I used to be involved in local politics, that issue came up at a town council meeting. A particular pompous scumbag, who had been on the board forever, was sniping at a newly elected member for still having a couple of election signs up around town – after all, this was a good two months after the election.
I was pleased as punch to bring photos to the next meeting of two of pompous scumbag’s campaign signs that we’re still up. Signs from the previous election, four years earlier.
You are recalling the smell of your birth mother’s hair, dimly remembered from your sixth birthday party, which, while not strictly speaking the last time you saw her, shall always be the moment which fills you with the strongest sensation of equal parts mixed warm nostalgia and bitter regret.
That or the number 37.
Bravo.
What comes to mind first, is what sort of response were you expecting from this obviously idiotic post?
We’re all created equal - but some are more equal than others.
You sound like a horrid human being.
My guess is they were looking for validation of their position from Obama supporters, and more condemnation for the “idiots” who backed McCain.