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The 2004 presidential election in the United States seemed
to really polarize the American people. There were those who were unhappy with the
way President Bush was handling things and wanted John Kerry to take charge. There
were others who felt Kerry was unsuitable and that we should stick with Bush. Others
wanted to vote for someone other than Bush or Kerry. But that was over 16 months ago.
The election is long since over, folks. Whether your candidate of choice won or lost
the election no longer matters. Dubya's in the White House, for good or ill.
What gets my goat isn't the fellow occupying the Oval Office. There have been better
and worse men in that role in the past. What bugs me is that many of you out there
are still driving around in cars with 2004 election stickers on them. I haven't
taken a trip around town of any length without seeing at least two bumper stickers for
the 2004 election, and sometimes for elections prior to THAT. Good grief! It takes
all of about a minute to remove most modern bumper stickers from cars. You couldn't
find ONE MINUTE in your schedule to get the thing off your bumper in the last 16 months?
Why does this bug me? It's not the sticker, but the message it sends...
If you're still driving around with a Pro-Kerry sticker on your car, the image you're
projecting to your fellow motorists is that of a whining loser, that you think you're
rubbing in the faces of your fellow motorists that whatever problems you perceive to
exist in our current administration are not YOUR fault because you didn't vote for
the guy. It's a smug, self-righteous, holier-than-thou sort of remark to those on
the road around you.
If you've got a Pro-Bush sticker on your car, you're no better. You're the gloating,
party-marching jerk who wants everyone to know that YOUR candidate won, theirs lost,
and you're better than they are. You're letting everyone around you know that it's
your party and your candidate in charge. You look like a "sore winner".
And if you've got some other kind of sticker on your car from the 2004 election, the
2000 election, or something even earlier, puh-leaze... Have you no compassion for
your fellow motorists who have to look at faded reminders of presidents and elections past? Can't you give me something more interesting to read while I'm stuck behind you at a light?
America's a great country. It's a free country. And you have a right to continue to
display your outdated political party stickers on your car if you really want to. I
respect that. I really do. But I have the right to look at you with an expression
of complete and utter contempt and disgust if I so choose. That's MY right. If you
don't like it, pull those outdated stickers off your car before the next election.
Please? :-)
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