I was driving to work on Friday in bright West Coast sunshine, sitting in traffic behind one of a dozen cars still sporting their "HOPE" bumper stickers with the iconic red, white, and blue caricature of Obama gazing into a bright Hopeychangey future and something occurred to me.
It's been well over a year now since those stickers were first affixed to their cars... two years in some cases... and those bumper stickers have started to display an unfortunate symbolism.
See after two years in the bright California sun, the blue has faded to grey and the red has faded to orange... and much like all the promises of hope, change, post-partisanism, and post-racialism... the Obama mistqiue has begun to fade as well.
So if you're still clinging to your Obama bumper sticker here in the second year of his presidency, you might want to reconsider whether or not you want to keep reminding me every day of all the failed promise of this rapidly souring Presidency.
Just a thought.
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I like seeing those bumper stickers on the cars. I especially like seeing them on the gas guzzling SUVs. I don't think those folks get the irony.
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