Anyone else but me find the "W" bumper stickers kind of chilling?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

In a "cult of the personality" kind of way?

[Citizen Daryl]

1. I see them as "I support him kinda, but not ready to commit...

... to a full blown bumper sticker."

[GainesT1958]

5. It's almost like they're afraid...

To put the full "Bush/ go Cheney yourself '04" one on their big-a$$ed SUVs...

My lovely wife helped me find the solution last week. She suggested that I go buy one of those red magic markers that wash off. That way I could go around to any "W" sticker I happened to see in a parking lot, and put the international slash symbol on it. A series of rains would wash it off, making it impossible for the Repubs owning it to suggest that I subverted their freedom of speech with my addition to their sticker. Later, I could just "slash" it again, and so on throughout the fall.

I'm looking foward to making my first "Slash Hit" on the next "W" sticker I come across!:D

B-)

[fortyfeetunder]

26. Cut the pretense, use a red Sharpie instead!

Just make sure there are no video cameras in the vicinity to record you performing your deed!!!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. I saw one "W: The President"

kind of like "Star Wars: The Movie"

Very frightening...

[onehandle]

30. Thin white text on a solid black background.

Those creep me out to no end.

[merh]

3. Instead of W - the War president, ...

I see them as W - the president that was!

[candy]

4. The Nixon bumper stickers in 1972 scared me more---

He was a truly evil man,but I'm from Massachusetts so don't blame me!!!

[tritsofme]

18. 1972 was a very scary year

I'll never forget the "Nixon Youth" dancing and singing up on the stage at the Convention.

It was just downright creepy.

[DemBones DemBones]

24. "Massachusetts: The Lone Star State"

I loved those bumper stickers!

[Maple]

6. Wacko?

Wingnut?

[benfranklin1776]

7. Yes quite a cult of personality thing. But it is quite revealing as well.

It is an outgrowth of the same mania that gave birth to the creepy W signs at rallies. What it shows though is that they are ashamed to be seen in public with their ticket. We proudly display Kerry Edwards whereas they hide their pathetic Dick. I think they are ashamed of him, and rightfully so!

http://www.alternet.org/election04/19685/

[hang a left]

8. They are just screaming out for a sharpe attack.

You all know what I am talking about. Don't leave home without one.

[donkeyotay]

31. Was the president? n/t

[MnFats]

9. Sort of like the North Koreans and their 'dear leader'

or ... and I know this is very obvious to anyone paying attention ... but this whole mess invokes Orwell, 1984 and Big Brother.

Flash to crowds shrieking "Long Live Big Brother!"
it's becoming easier and easier to picture crowds shrieking "Long Live Dubya!"
Do you find it hard to imagine giant posters of Bush in heroic poses on the sides of a jillion big buildings like the Chinese used to do with Mao?

Sorry. I am drenched in this dark fantasy tonight.

[KharmaTrain]

10. Both Parties Live Orwellian

I laugh everytime I hear when someone says "when are we gonna get back to the issues". The assumption was there were issues being discussed in the first place. It's a time where nuance and what you meant as opposed to what you say as meaning more. It's where image trumps context and lies circle the globe before the truth gets its pants on.

Repugnicans know that surface makes people feel good. Tell 'em their taxes are gonna be cut, just don't tell them it's a lie or it's only for the richest and the rest either have to pay more taxes or go without services. They like to pretend they're "defending the country" by wrapping up in a flag, but few ever served and now gleeful exploit the damage of Vietnam and tearing apart the military.

Shameful, but there's a segment in all society that can't nuance, aren't interested in thinking for themselves and need the certainty of a draconian religion or government to "protect them".

[greblc]

11. it 's all Chilling.

So many people unwittingly mislead?

[Eloriel]

12. I haven't seen the W bumper stickers, but I was chilled

tonight when I heard Craig Crawford mention that the whole strategy of the election (from Rove) was, in essence (tho not Crawford's words) a cult of personality campaign -- that is, emphasize his personality not issues or anything else.

[Beam Me Up]

13. Here's one Eloriel

It's not like the one I saw today here in Oakland, California; although similar. I don't know what it is. . .way back before he was appointed pResident, just seeing * face on TV was enough to make me start throwing things at it. I stopped watching TV altogether after 2000 in part because it was making my blood pressure go through the roof.

Now I'm having a similar reaction every time I see a * /Cheney bumper sticker. Haven't seen THAT many, but a few, and each time I do, I find myself quite irritated.

I really do wish some little green men would BEAM HIM UP!

EDIT TO ADD:

I know what it is: The "W" has that "super man" "S" quality about it AND, as if that weren't bad enough, there is a hint, vague for sure but a HINT, nonetheless, of SWASTICA! :scared:

[oasis]

21. W, the swastika or the symbol for Christian Identity skinheads.

You may have something there. :think:

[Beam Me Up]

29. W = SWASTIKA

[LearnedHand]

17. I'm beginning to see some of them here

...and yes, they remind me of those stickers from foreign countries that folks put on their cars. Or some peace sign with broken wings. :scared:

Edit: Fixed the scared thingy.

[LibDemAlways]

14. I see more Kerry/Edwards stickers in my

corner of So. Calif. on the LA/Ventura County Line. Personally I think you'd have to be "off your nut," as my dad would say, to publically proclaim support for the most hated person on the planet. A "W" sticker is a sure sign of an ignorant, deluded fool.

[devilgrrl]

15. I made one today. "W (circled and slashed) is for WORST!"

As opposed to "W is for NOT women."

What do you think? :shrug:

[neomonkey]

16. Ha ha

That's the only explanation for this train wreck of a president that I can think of.

[chicagojoe]

19. It's the new BushCheneyCorp. logo.

[AngryOldDem]

20. What's Creepier....

....usually when I see B/C crap on cars, there's always another sticker nearby with the subliminal message of, "You're either for us or against us." Case in point: Saw a car last night with a W sticker above another that said, "God Bless America -- AMERICANS UNITE!"

What...and the rest of you get the hell out?

[ContinentalOp]

22. Yes! I've seen a few of those around LA and I do find them creepy.

But I saw the best one the other day which I haven't seen mentioned here. It said VOTE NOW. It took me a minute before it sank in. The stickers with just the "W" though are creepy because it makes it look like a little secret inside club.

[BlueStateGirl]

23. Yeah. I was thinking that . I was stuck behind a mini van with a W 04

sticker. Thought it was creepy. It's like they are cheeering for a sports team.

[Ravy]

25. That's a W? I thought it was two V's for double vacation time...(n/t)

[fortyfeetunder]

27. The creepiest part is the "W is for Women campaign"

And these ditto heads lining up to it, conveniently forgetting the Pug platform is securely anti-women...

[Jack_DeLeon]

28. To me it seems like...

they are trying to conceal the Cheney part of the ticket.

[donkeyotay]

32. Yeah, and ain't that scary?

Are they downplaying the big dick, branding the fearless leader as a stand-alone consonant so they can dump dick at the last moment if all the crime and scandal oozing out of W-ashington actually makes news?

[skippysmom]

33. Not so much chilling,

but annoying in a yuppie sort of way. They are usually on expensive cars, so the effect is, "Here's my political bumpersticker, but a full on bumper sticker is far too gauche."

But then again, this is Massachusetts, where lots of people have "ACK" and "MV" or even "OBX" in those circle stickers.

[spinbaby]

34. The red-white-and-blue numbers?

I've seen them around. They're huge and there are a lot of them, almost as if someone is distributing them. I think they're magnetic because I always see them on the body of cars rather than on the bumper. Perhaps we could come up with our own magnetic stickers to place next to them. I suggest one that says "armonger".