TPM: Obama Co-Opts Tea Party Slogan For Obamacare Bumper Sticker

[flpoljunkie]

Obama Co-Opts Tea Party Slogan For Obamacare Bumper Sticker

SAHIL KAPUR – MARCH 24, 2014

President Barack Obama's new Obamacare bumper sticker sure looks familiar.

Below is the pro-Obamacare bumper sticker unveiled and promoted at BarackObama.com, which is now run by the president's advocacy group, Organizing For Action.



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-tea-party-slogan-obamacare

[giftedgirl77]

1. I need to get one of those, the idiots in my bright red

state will appreciate it so.

[Gothmog]

2. I love this sticker

I wish that it was rounded so that I could make it into a button

[sheshe2]

3. Love it!

It will go with my~

[House of Roberts]

4. Did the tea party invent that?

I thought they stole it from Christopher Gadsden.

[flpoljunkie]

5. No, but they co-opted it as their slogan.

[House of Roberts]

8. Well,

I try not to tread near them, much less on them. Usually the bumper stickers, the stupid hats, and the confederate flags in the rear window of the pickup tip me off in plenty of time.

[PatrynXX]

12. or Metallica

Don't Tread On Me

[Cha]

6. We co-opted "Obamacare" too.. We own it.

[flpoljunkie]

7. Good one, Cha!

[AZ Mike]

9. Brilliant!

I love to see the fight. This is better than the mealy mouthed "I'm running to fix Obamacare" nonsense. Stop with the timidity and smack the teabaggers in the mouth every once in awhile.

[Paladin]

10. Outstanding. (nt)

[frylock]

11. good. it pisses me off that the teabaggers use this flag..

this should really stick in their craw.

[jenmito]

13. I LOVE it! The teabaggers will HATE it! K&R&T! n/t

[Jamaal510]

14. As much as

I'm against the idea of letting random passerby on the street know my politics, I am seriously considering having a custom-made shirt with this pic on it.

[a kennedy]

15. don't want to join facebook, anyway I can get it someplace else??

Will definitely put one on my car....

[flpoljunkie]

16. Apparently, not for now.

They ought to add twitter, at least.

[a kennedy]

17. Or I'd buy it outright, I don't belong to ANY twitter or facebook.....

d*mn, I want that sticker.

[lame54]

18. LOOOOOOVE IT!!!

[TrollBuster9090]

19. Beautiful, but what sane person would put that on their bumper, only to be either

A) Mistaken for an insane teabagger at a distance, or
B) Shot at by a bunch of NRA hillbillies waving REAL Gadsden flags?

[NotHardly]

20. It was never their slogan in the first place ... first used 1771 by their betters

Give me a break... "Don't tread on me" was not a Tea Bagger slogan first, they co-opted it from history (1775) flags and have since besmirched and misused it. And, before that it was Ben Franklin (1771)... a guy not known for his "tea bag" like philosophy.

[flpoljunkie]

24. Obviously, the Tea Party appropriated the slogan.

Last edited Wed Mar 26, 2014, 07:43 AM - Edit history (1)

Nothing was otherwise implied.

More from the TPM link in the OP:

If the art work looks unoriginal, it should. It's a play on the tea party-embraced "don't tread on me" slogan, which dates back to the country's founding but has been a fixture at anti-Obamacare conservative rallies in recent years.

[hue]

21. Great 1!! We need to do more of this!!

[liberal N proud]

22. LOL

[MBS]

23. Brilliant.

May it spread far and wide!

[rumdude]

25. I like it n/t