Bumper Stickers I Saw in Berkeley (Part II)
It’s bad form to have a Part I and not follow through with a Part II, dontcha think? Hell, one more and I might just have me an ongoing series.
The star of tonight’s episode is an anti-Bush sticker, as so many are in Berkeley. But this one seemed in need of a little message clarity:
“STOP BUSH: VOTE IF YOU STILL CAN”
Many hours later, I’m still having trouble parsing this one. It certainly starts out strong with a simple, bold imperative. But then things start to get a little hazy. Was this a special sticker just for election day, say, two hours before the polls closed? Are there places where you can still vote in a way that might actually succeed in stopping an inaugurated president with a majority in both houses of congress? The sticker is not quite paranoid enough to suggest that we should vote while we still can, but it still seems inordinately concerned that a portion of its audience is no longer able to vote. Perhaps the driver of this car works at a prison? If so, doesn’t that seem unnecessarily mean spirited?
Anyhow, um, godspeed, fair bumper sticker. Let us know how that whole “voting” thing works out, won’t you?