This morning I stepped out onto my front lawn to find my McCain/Palin sign torn from the ground, crumpled and tossed. I went over, picked it up, straightened out the sticks, and put it back up.
While driving the kids to school I noticed the same had happened to a few of my neighbors. Oddly, the few Obama signs I saw were left standing. What an odd trajectory for a storm, right?
So after I dropped the kids off I stopped at my neighbors’ house and picked up their McCain signs.
This seems to be happening all over. I guess it happens every election but I’ve seen it more this cycle.
Recently, I was volunteering at the local McCain office and was speaking to this little old lady who was also volunteering. She told me the signs in front of her house had been savaged or stolen three times. And then she started laughing quietly. “But I’ve got the answer,” she said.
She now puts the signs in the poison ivy bush in front of her house. “If they try it again I’ll know ’em by their scratching,” she laughed.
October 30, 2008 at 4:53 am
Well, when one side thinks the other is not wrong or mistake, but evil and stupid….
DCS-
trespassing and vandalism. We don’t know the rest of the story, so describing it as “shooting someone over a political sign” is a bit…early.
(Also, really really stupid if the did it IN FRONT OF THE ARMED OWNER. Note: when breaking the law, try not to get caught…. Not really relevant to any morality, but says something of their mindset.)
October 30, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Sorry, but trespassing and vandalism are not proportionate reasons to shoot someone, unless the vandalism might result in the loss of very valuable personal property (like a car one needs to get to work to support one’s family). No, we don’t know the rest of the story but I think that the statement “ridiculous to shoot at someone over a political sign” is unobjectionable, especially when replacement signs are easily obtained.
October 30, 2008 at 4:20 pm
“Sorry, but trespassing and vandalism are not proportionate reasons to shoot someone, unless…”
…you’re in Texas.
I was there with a road crew hanging samples of soap proucts door to door one summer in college. We were warned what would happen if we went to a house that had a “No Trespassing” sign on the fence.
October 30, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I dunno, winging the vandal and shooting to kill are two different things.
Clearly it wouldn’t be appropriate to kill over a yard sign.
October 30, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I dunno, winging the vandal and shooting to kill are two different things.
Clearly it wouldn’t be appropriate to kill over a yard sign.
October 30, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I try to be careful about story lines like “he shot them for taking his sign” because I’ve been accused with selective but technically true statements, myself.
Got accused of physically attacking a gal for her yelling at me– technically true, since when I slapped away the hand she had headed to smash my face in, she hadn’t touched me yet. ^.^
October 30, 2008 at 6:58 pm
“I dunno, winging the vandal and shooting to kill are two different things.”
…but not the point. This isn’t your cute little picket-fence suburb in Connecticut or Illinois. The point is what is legal in the state of Texas.
October 30, 2008 at 9:28 pm
There’s a big issue with that in our area too. Aren’t Obama supporters supposed to be “open-minded” and in favor of things like, oh, “free speech”?
October 31, 2008 at 2:19 am
To quote Mark Steyn:
‘This is an amazing race. The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus. The economy is supposedly on the brink of global Armageddon. McCain has only $80 million to spend, while Obama’s burning through $600 mil as fast as he can, and he doesn’t really need to spend a dime given the wall-to-wall media adoration. And tonight Chris Matthews’ doctors announced that his leg tingle has metastasized leaving his entire body like a vibrating cellphone whose ringtone is locked on “I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy.”
And yet an old cranky broke loser is within two or three points of the King of the World. Strange.
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