"obamanation" Bumper Sticker Slanderous?

[johnnydigit]

someone suggested it would be public defamation and not the most prudent thing for a Catholic to display? mine reads "Abortion? STOP the Obamanation". should i remove it?

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[philothea]

[quote name='johnnydigit' post='1675101' date='Oct 11 2008, 03:52 PM']someone suggested it would be public defamation and not the most prudent thing for a Catholic to display? mine reads "Abortion? STOP the Obamanation". should i remove it?

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Unless there's something more to it than the quote, it looks like nothing but a kind of lame wordplay that Obama supports abortion -- which he himself has made very clear.

My biggest annoyance with elections is how many people become uncharitable and closed-minded when discussing candidates, parties, and groups they disagree with. I fully expected to tell you to remove your bumper sticker when I clicked on this topic, but that one doesn't seem inappropriate to me.

[Ash Wednesday]

I don't think there's anything wrong with your bumper sticker.

I'd also say that the poster is almost suggesting that the issues of war and the economy hold the same amount of weight as abortion when pointing out that "both are in error."

Sarah Palin supports the morning after pill and contraceptives? Someone show me a politician that doesn't.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='johnnydigit' post='1675101' date='Oct 11 2008, 04:52 PM']someone suggested it would be public defamation and not the most prudent thing for a Catholic to display? mine reads "Abortion? STOP the Obamanation". should i remove it?

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I think its an excellent sticker.

[eagle_eye222001]

[Fidei Defensor]

[quote name='philothea' post='1675107' date='Oct 11 2008, 02:11 PM']Unless there's something more to it than the quote, it looks like nothing but a kind of lame wordplay that Obama supports abortion -- which he himself has made very clear.

My biggest annoyance with elections is how many people become uncharitable and closed-minded when discussing candidates, parties, and groups they disagree with. I fully expected to tell you to remove your bumper sticker when I clicked on this topic, but that one doesn't seem inappropriate to me.[/quote]
Eh, I wish that idea went both ways. Usually when conservatives such as yourselves speak of others needing to be "open minded" and more charitable, you are referring to the liberals and their need to come to your side, and not vice versa.

[philothea]

[quote name='fidei defensor' post='1675934' date='Oct 12 2008, 10:22 PM']Eh, I wish that idea went both ways. Usually when conservatives such as yourselves speak of others needing to be "open minded" and more charitable, you are referring to the liberals and their need to come to your side, and not vice versa.[/quote]


If we're talking about me, I'm terrible at correcting or demanding better behavior from liberal/secular types. Too much of a coward.

Much easier to scold Catholics, since they ought to know better.

[Majella]

Whatever you do, DON'T remove the sticker!!!!
Good work!!

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='fidei defensor' post='1675934' date='Oct 12 2008, 10:22 PM']Eh, I wish that idea went both ways. Usually when conservatives such as yourselves speak of others needing to be "open minded" and more charitable, you are referring to the liberals and their need to come to your side, and not vice versa.[/quote]

Bravo! Way to read too much into a simple comment that people IN GENERAL can get to be just plain rude and touchy this time of year.

[Justin86]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1676089' date='Oct 13 2008, 05:38 PM']Bravo! Way to read too much into a simple comment that people IN GENERAL can get to be just plain rude and touchy this time of year.[/quote]
Yeah well, that's fiedi, and Hassan too.

Edited October 13, 2008 by Justin86

[Ziggamafu]

There are these pro-obama stickers all over the doors of liberal professors at my university:

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[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='Ziggamafu' post='1676097' date='Oct 13 2008, 06:28 AM']There are these pro-obama stickers all over the doors of liberal professors at my university:[/quote]

Why do I get this strange feeling that I'll be seeing that printed in black on red t-shirts and worn by kids that know next to nothing about him 40 years from now?

[SpareTime]

[quote name='Ash Wednesday' post='1676101' date='Oct 13 2008, 07:00 AM']Why do I get this strange feeling that I'll be seeing that printed in black on red t-shirts and worn by kids that know next to nothing about him 40 years from now?[/quote]

like the reagan ones? or the bob marley ones? lol

[MissyP89]

I don't think it's close enough to 'abomination' to be slanderous--it says to me that you want to stop abortion, and stop Obama.

[Ash Wednesday]

[quote name='SpareTime' post='1676259' date='Oct 13 2008, 03:34 PM']like the reagan ones? or the bob marley ones? lol[/quote]

Actually one of these days I'm going to get one of those Reagan ones for my husband. He wants it mostly just to be funny and thumb his nose at that sort of thing. He's European but he likes to stir the anthill and be an antagonist. He'll say he'll buy it and wear it in the name of blatant capitalism, and at least be honest about it.