Convention Busting Bumpers

Finding unconventional bumper sticker pairings is becoming a slight obsession on my part. The daily sojourn to C-town gives me a decent size pool of bumpers to sample from.

I saw this combination on the way up north, a good sized Ron Paul sticker and right below it a "Abortion: One Killed, One Wounded". Now I'm always interested in the followers of Dr. Paul. I can never tell exactly what the essence of Paulism is.

On one hand an abhorrence to central government and strict observance of the constitution is required to be in this camp. On the other hand there never seems to be a strong outcry from Paulites on torture, warrantless surveillance and other government intrusion into reproductive rights. Is Dr. Paul an opponent of birth control? Don't they consider the choice a woman may make about her body and pregnancy her own? I really don't know.

In unrelated news I'm still looking for the bumper sticker that reads, " I drive like an a-hole".

Convention Busting Bumpers

I've had a chance to catch some of the media coverage of Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame. The piece in the NYT was decent. It did seem to reference the common use of graphic imagery on the part of the anti-abortion protesters. The rampant hyperbole used to describe the president's supposed hatred for the unborn was a close second.

Opposition to abortion on religious grounds is not hard to understand. What I have always been troubled with is the primacy placed on this one issue above all other moral questions. Wars built on lies and unbridled greed don't rile the lifers as much these days.

Making the daily drive up to Cleveland today I noticed a car with two bumper stickers. The sticker on the left side read, "Former Fetus Opposed to Abortion". Prominently displayed on the upper right bumper was an Obama 08 sticker.

There it was, a glaring contradiction to the conventional wisdom purveyed by the insurrectionists at Notre Dame. Pro-life is more than a stance on abortion. Supporting a Democrat for president and opposing abortion do not have to be mutually exclusive beliefs. Obama didn't manage to win an election and not grab a portion of the devout Christian vote.

Now, I don't wear my bumper stickers on my sleeve but that driver was a voter I can respect.