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EmilyAnne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:20 PM
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"I'm a 'bitter' gun owner and I vote" sign in my Clinton supporter neighbors' yard!!
WTF!!??
All through the primaries, they had a Hillary sign.
I just walked my dog and passed this new sign about gun ownership:
"I'm a 'bitter' gun owner and I vote!"

I wanted to puke.

This is in a middle class neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh!
How the hell these people think that they are a part of the decimated, embittered, rural areas of America that Obama was talking about is beyond me.
Sorry, but when there is a Whole Foods, a Trader Joe's, four post offices, two Starbucks and a three sushi restaurants within a fifteen minute walk from your house....guess what???
You are not small town America!
You are not living in a depressed, rural setting!

Damn it, its weird how angry this makes me. Its not a McCain sign. Its an anti-Obama sign.

Just needed to vent.

Maybe I'll stop picking up my dog's turds when she wanders into that particular yard. Then again, I may get shot.
Grrr...

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Epiphany4z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:22 PM
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1. That sign is not
going to fit well with tonights peace theme...tsk tsk...he has to keep up a lil better with grampa McCain
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:22 PM
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2. It's an Operation Chaos pawn, not Clinton supporter.
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EmilyAnne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:33 PM
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8. But they had Kerry/ Edwards stickers on their cars since I moved here two years ago!
I know it sounds funny, but having moved from a super red state, I really notice these things when I walk.
I should add that it has an NRA emblem on it, so its an organized effort from that monster lobbyist.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:23 PM
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3. Cross out "bitter gun owner" and write "racist"...
That's that sign is really trying to say.
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EmilyAnne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:30 PM
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5. I think you are right.
I just hate to see it on our street, a street that has been so optimistically pro-Obama. I was a neighborhood captain for Obama during the primary and this ward had so many eager volunteers, there were house parties for undecided voters and just a general buzz on the streets.
Like I said, it would be one thing to simply advertise support of McCain. This sign is blatantly disingenuous and just a big ole downer.
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1Hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:31 PM
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7. And my 36 y.o. son whom I have not seen in months until a little while ago, got into a political
Edited on Thu Sep-04-08 07:33 PM by 1Hippiechick
debate w/me. He's a REPUKE (must have dropped him on his head when he was a baby)and said that I am one of the "white voters with white guilt who is voting for Obama because he is black."

Ya know, as much as I love my son, I almost slugged him! (And almost told him to go back to northern Virginia!)

He has DEFINITELY not only drunk the Kool-Aid, he got an IV.

His response about 4 more years of Bush? "I don't like either candidate this year, and I probably won't even vote." Suits me - one less vote for McInsane.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:27 PM
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4. I guess your neighbor must be happy with the last 8 years of bush
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eshfemme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:31 PM
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6. Um... it's also possible that it's mean as a tongue in cheek sign....
Much like my signature banner...
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EmilyAnne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:38 PM
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10. Maybe so.
Good point. I should calm down and ask them about it when they're working on their yard.
The NRA emblem, though, means its a part of a bigger, anti-Obama movement.
If they're being sarcastic, then they're clueless about what it might mean to other people.
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:34 PM
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9. Racism ...
there is just nothing else it could be. :-(
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EmilyAnne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:42 PM
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12. Exactly. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have the same positions on gun ownership.
This is a very diverse neighborhood, too, so they need to keep that shit in check.
Jeez, they're next door neighbors are a black family. Which, I'm sure, means that they would deny being racist all day long. Probably aren't even conscious of it.
Oh well. Don't need them. They'll be lucky to get a great president in Obama whether they take a part in getting him elected or not.

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Egnever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-04-08 07:39 PM
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11. operation chaos lives on
I would bet you money one of his radio buttons is programmed to rush.
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