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**CT GAMER**

Just in case it was unclear what the true issue is that many have with Obama...

**alarmingrick**

Pretty sad.
I remember MGS mentioning that bumber sticker some time ago.

**Bromsy**

Well, they are also apparently wildlife conservationists, so I call it a wash.

**Ahtman**

Reneging means to go back on what one did before, so they are asking people to vote like they did last election. What a strange way to campaign for Obama.

**CT GAMER**

From NJ.com:

That racist bumper sticker attacking President Obama with the n-word has disappeared from the web, but its sulfurous odor lingers on.
Forbes magazine reported this week that Paula Smith of Georgia, the seller of the bumper sticker — “Don’t Re-Nig 2012/Stop Repeat Offenders. Don’t Re-elect Obama!” — defended the offending word, saying it didn’t mean black, but only signified “a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person.” “That’s what the N-word means,” Smith insisted.

Yeah, right. Smith is clearly delusional, and it says everything about what she understands the word to mean that the bumper sticker is no longer available on her website. But we shouldn’t be surprised. For more than 40 years, elements of the GOP have leveraged racial fears and hate as part of the party's Southern strategy to win voters. Just within the past year, you could hear it in Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn's reference to President Obama as a "tar baby," a racially charged term from which he later back-pedaled, and in the speeches of candidates who call Obama “the food stamp president.”

**hotsauceman1**

Its things like this that cause me to burst a blood vessal and start garbling like a murloc

**warpcrafter**

It reminds me of this moment. (!Language warning!)

Spoiler:

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

there was another bumper sticker she did which had "the original guys( Or gang) in the Hood" with it being placed above a picture of KKK members in the full robes

**SilverMK2**

Pretty pathetic really.

**Frazzled**

SilverMK2 wrote:Pretty pathetic really.

Why? I like the signs that help self identify carzy/loser/donkey caves I want to avoid.

I'd bet good money the driver is male and always always speeds and rides your bumper - especially in the rain.

**Medium of Death**

I'm assuming these people choose to drive their cars in very specific locations?

**Tibbsy**

Frazzled makes an interesting point actually... It's not a very nice thing to have on your car - but as soon as you see it, you can tell the driver is a douche and not someone you want to engage in conversation with...

Sort of like an early-warning system in a way

**Frazzled**

Medium of Death wrote:I'm assuming these people choose to drive their cars in very specific locations?

They usually limit them to roads.

**Medium of Death**

Frazzled wrote:
Medium of Death wrote:I'm assuming these people choose to drive their cars in very specific locations?

They usually limit them to roads.

*rim shot*

He's here all week!

Try the Buffet!

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:
SilverMK2 wrote:Pretty pathetic really.

Why? I like the signs that help self identify carzy/loser/donkey caves I want to avoid.

I'd bet good money the driver is male and always always speeds and rides your bumper - especially in the rain.

While I can see that would be useful, it is still sad and pathetic that in this day and age is all about the lowest common denominator; where ignorant entrenched mud slinging and bigotry are pretty much the only 'discourse'.

**Mr Hyena**

I'd bet good money the driver is male

Sounds sexist.

**Frazzled**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
SilverMK2 wrote:Pretty pathetic really.

Why? I like the signs that help self identify carzy/loser/donkey caves I want to avoid.

I'd bet good money the driver is male and always always speeds and rides your bumper - especially in the rain.

While I can see that would be useful, it is still sad and pathetic that in this day and age is all about the lowest common denominator; where ignorant entrenched mud slinging and bigotry are pretty much the only 'discourse'.

Don't let the4 media fool you. In reality we aren't constantly set upon by racists, black panthers, have shootouts in the drive way, and pass by by riots of evil republicans rumbling with evil democrats 50's zoot suit riot style to go get the milk.

However, the whole stay off my lawn thing, well thats real.

**Tibbsy**

Mr Hyena wrote:
I'd bet good money the driver is male

Sounds sexist.

Also sounds like a fairly safe bet IMO, though there are exceptions to everything...

**Frazzled**

Mr Hyena wrote:
I'd bet good money the driver is male

Sounds sexist.

its meant to be.

**Tibbsy**

Double post - Ignore please

**CptJake**

I would LOVE to see some actual evidence that this is really "One of the hottest selling election related items ".

I seriously doubt it really is. In fact, I suspect that the guys who do have one are a small minority of crap bags, and the guys who try to portray these as being mega-popular and then use that to paint a negative/racist picture of any/all folks who may not like Obama are also a minority of crap bags, just on the opposite side of the political spectrum.

**CT GAMER**

Notice I said "many" not "all".

That was intentional.

For instance I am not really a huge Supporter of Obama, but my reasons don't require a racist bumper sticker....

**CptJake**

Prove many.

Prove this is "One of the hottest selling election related items ".

Read YOUR topic title.

I bet you can't prove either, yet you are willing to paint folks as racist and between the words in your OP and your topic title you sure as gak imply anyone who does not want to re-elect Pres Obama must be racist.

**Amaya**

Damn it, Cpt Jake beat me to it.

Really, because a few dumb hicks have a racist bumper sticker suddenly many people who dislike Obama are racist?

Welcome to America, if you are a white male you can may never disagree with a minority. If you do you are racist.

smh

**Tibbsy**

Amaya wrote:
Welcome to America, if you are a white male you can may never disagree with a minority. If you do you are racist.

Not just America I'm afraid... Britain, probably amongst others, has been going that way for a while unfortunately...

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:Don't let the4 media fool you. In reality we aren't constantly set upon by racists, black panthers, have shootouts in the drive way, and pass by by riots of evil republicans rumbling with evil democrats 50's zoot suit riot style to go get the milk.

However, the whole stay off my lawn thing, well thats real.

Don't get me wrong, I know that the kinds of people who would have there kinds of displays are a subset of a small minnority; it just annoys me that so much of politics (especially in america from what I have seen) is at a similar kind of basement intelect level.

**DeadlySquirrel**

Freedom of speech I guess. Let them have it, all it does is show people what idiots they are.

**Polonius**

First, when I first read that, I laughed out loud. It's a dumb pun, and it's racially insensitive, but it's actually kind of funny (like a lot of racist jokes are.)

That said, isn't this just counterproductive? Is anybody going to see that and go, "holy cow, Obama's black? I should vote for Romney!"

Isn't it a lot more likely that this will just fuel the perception many people have that the GOP is still enmeshed with racism?

As Frazzled pointed out, seeing one of these will tell me pretty much all I'd care to know about a person.

**kronk**

Polonius wrote:
Isn't it a lot more likely that this will just fuel the perception many people have that the GOP is still enmeshed with racism?

Exactly. That driver is a democrat, using deception to trick people into thinking that a vote against Obama is a vote for the KKK! GENIOUS!!!

**Grakmar**

The radical right are all idiots. They're yelling and screaming about things that are crazy, because those are the things they care about.

They actually think that pointing out Obama is black will make people agree with them, because that's enough to convince them. But, all they're actually doing is forcing moderates and less-extreme conservatives to move further left to clearly differentiate them. They aren't helping their cause, they're hurting it.

And, yes, there are plenty of people on the radical left doing the same thing.