Comments on: A moving target

by: Ed T.

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:37:36 +0000

Trackback from Campaign ‘08: Tacky & Tasteless vs. Terroristic & Threatening:

Last month, local blogger Polimom wrote about her experience as a moving target, the result of her decision to support Sen. Barack Obama for President. Her account of the episode seemed a bit surreal at the time: The other day, I pulled into a parkin…

by: Polimom Says » Tasteless ain’t racist

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:38:36 +0000

[…] I’m still wandering the roads of Cinco Ranch, wondering when my truck’s going to be back-ended by a raving anti-Obama madman (or woman). So far, there have been nothing but odd looks… but down the road a few miles in Sugarland, things are a bit less refined. SUGAR LAND — In case their Plantation Bend neighbors had any questions about how Doug and Wendy McKain feel about Barack Obama, the bumper sticker on their pickup could be a clue. […]

by: Ed T.

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:28:34 +0000

I hope you do - I am working up a post on it myself, though I may take a little bit different tack than you (my opinion being that the McKains, while their bumper sticker may have been tacky and tasteless, were acting within their rights of political self-expression, while Ms. Gragg was simply acting outside the law.)

~EdT.

by: Polimom

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:17:55 +0000

I saw that earlier today, and even drafted a post about it — but didn’t hit publish. Maybe I should. Though I really haven’t got anything nice to say about either party in the argument…

by: Ed T.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:14:22 +0000

It looks like we had an actual “incident” down near my part of the world, however it has a slight twist to it: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5904413.html.

~EdT.

by: Dyre42

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:58:47 +0000

There are enough visible Obama supporters in San Antonio that the worst you have to worry about is having your car keyed.

by: Patrick

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:32:35 +0000

I ordered an Obama sticker and put it on my car a few weeks ago. I definitely considered not, though, considering that I’m in Republican country for the rest of the summer. I’m hoping nothing happens.

by: Ed T.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:45:36 +0000

My reaction, as I recall, had something to do with 4-wheel-drives,

A really, really big 4-wheel drive vehicle, I be thinking. Something on the line of “Bigfoot” or “Grave Digger”, perhaps?

Me, I would be thinking of a tank. Of the M1A2 Abrams variety. With a fully operational main gun. Pointed right in the windshield of the husband’s car.

That car would leave two black streaks down the road (and a brown one in between) as it tried to escape.

~EdT.

by: Polimom

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:03:22 +0000

Y’all are sooooooo much more level-headed than I am. My reaction, as I recall, had something to do with 4-wheel-drives, and backing right up over the hood of a certain husband’s car…

LOL!

by: Ed T.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:37:53 +0000

She then went on to tell me how lucky I was that her husband hadn’t been in the car behind me, because he would have wanted to ram the back end of my vehicle.

She’s the lucky one - after all, she isn’t having to live with a wrecked car, a husband in jail on felony assault charges, and a cancelled auto insurance policy.

I like the bumper sticker on my son’s car (it was left over from a previous owner), which says “Back off, before I shed my human form and kill you.”

~EdT.