One house, One Spouse, Obama, 08

[kurtyboy]

Try that one out as a bumper sticker. Or as a chant at the convention, or in conversations with your republican friends.

Nice gettin' to know ya', Johnny Mac.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. LOL!

:rofl:

[Snotcicles]

75. delete nt

[City Lights]

2. Perfect!

:thumbsup:

[peekaloo]

3. Sweet!

:thumbsup:

[grannie4peace]

4. that is super sweet!!!!

[Jim__]

5. That should win over the family values crowd - n/t

[no limit]

8. Nah, the family values crowd are a bunch of hypocrites. It has nothing to do with family values

that's perfectly clear in this election. It had to do with their political affiliations, "family values" was just an excuse.

[ClassWarrior]

17. The so-called "family values" leaders are hypocrites, but their voters are sincere...

How do you think they get all that mileage from their "family values" hypocrisy?

NGU.

[no limit]

26. Their voters are not sincere based on my experiance

I do some IT troubleshooting for an older guy (over 80), been working with him for close to 10 years. This guy is the definition of a religious nut case. In church every Sunday and of course a republican. In 2004 I could remember him going on and on and on about how important family values are. Well come this election season he of course supports John McCain. I asked him why that is if McCain cheated on his first wife for a hot blonde. I won't post the answer here since what he said was down right offensive (yes, it involved race) but I have came to the conclusion based on this experiance that these people are not sincere, they are hypocrites that use the family values bs to support their own political agenda. Of course this is just one experiance but I have a hard time believing others are different, especially since the religious nut cases support McCain over Obama by a very large margin according to the polls.

[sourmilk]

6. Nice One.

:rofl:

[PolyD]

7. Good one

I would actually buy that bumper sticker, as long as it was a 'magnet' bumper sticker and not a stick on one.

[hisownpetard]

9. Like it!

[Divernan]

10. Most excellent ! ! !

[helderheid]

11. One House. One Spouse, Ears of a Mouse!

:yourock:

[Windy]

12. send that idea to Cafepress or evolve fish... I bet it would be a sell out! n/t

[helderheid]

13. I could throw it together

:hi:

[helderheid]

16. Done

https://www.cafepress.com/helderheid

[Dystopian]

67. Awesome!

:yourock:

Thank you!

peace~

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. Nice chant! And don't forget to shake your keys while doing so! ;)

[malaise]

15. Excellent

Take that McCentury Real Estate!!

[TexasObserver]

18. Obama: One house, One Spouse. Old fashioned American values.

[MadrasT]

19. Mad props

That's great! :toast:

[ljm2002]

20. Perfect-o!!! n/t

[simmonsj811]

21. triple kick time!!

:kick: :kick: :kick: i'll shout it far and wide!

[Owl]

22. I like it!

[endthewar]

23. This idea is too good not to keep under wraps

[Old and In the Way]

24. That's what I'm talking about! KISS

Easy soundbites is what the low information voter understands.

[chill_wind]

25. Excellent!! K & R n/t

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

27. So pithy, so funny,

SO TRUE!!

That is great!

[malaise]

28. Kick

Can't recommend twice :D

[helderheid]

29. Wish I could too - made the sticker though!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3837518

:hi:

[Faryn Balyncd]

30. He's "The One" all right!

One house.

One spouse.

One country.

[ailsagirl]

31. Wish there were such a bumper sticker-- or tee shirt

[helderheid]

32. There is

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3837518 :)

[ailsagirl]

38. THANK YOU!!! :=D

[helderheid]

41. You bet! I've improved it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3838271&mesg_id=3838271

[alfredo]

33. I've made a 10X3 sticker with One Spouse One House Obama '08

I'm just waiting for my server to come back online. It's suffering an outage. It's working now!!

[alfredo]

34. I used art from the web, Gimp to place the logo on the background, and

Inkscape for the text. Both pieces of software are free and open source.

[helderheid]

36. Shoot I should have used the Obama logo!

[alfredo]

37. google Obama Logo, and you will find plenty to use.

[helderheid]

40. Done! Thanks!

[alfredo]

43. that is very nice

[helderheid]

52. thanks!

[hootinholler]

48. Flip the message: One House - One Spouse

The House needs to lead to grab attention.

-Hoot

[alfredo]

55. I was thinking family values.

[OmahaBlueDog]

62. Do it both ways

I like "1 House - 1 Spouse" better, but that's me

[alfredo]

63. If it tweaks McCain's nose, it good no matter what.

[AZBlue]

35. I love it!!

K&R

[applegrove]

39. I love it!

[wvbygod]

42. Yes, and anyone that wants a divorce or a second home can lump it

Good plan.

[kurtyboy]

44. Dude, it's a bumper sticker, not a policy proposal.

The intent is to point to the hypocrisy of the McCain campaign (and the party he belongs to) in a crisp, easily remembered manner.

That's all.

[helderheid]

53. WELL SAID

http://www.cafepress.com/helderheid

[Pryderi]

45. Great! K&R Paris Hilton and Britney Spears Know how many houses they have. n/t

[MadHound]

46. Sounds a bit preachy and moralistic to me

Besides, nine out of ten people aren't going to know what you're talking about and will simply go "Huh?"

[Patiod]

49. Oh, but the people who will love it or loathe it will get it

It's for the political junkies

[MadHound]

50. So ten percent of the electorate gets it

While leaving the other ninety percent going "Huh?" Not a real winner in terms of election sloganeering.

[Patiod]

51. But a total winner in terms of making my junkie friends smile

as they check their cell phones for text messages

[Nikolaus]

78. yeah, but that is fine ...

Why not give moralistic people second thoughts about Mr. McSame ...

[Kurovski]

47. K&R

:-)

[Joanne98]

54. Perfect

[yellerpup]

56. Clever, relevant!

One house. One spouse. Obama '08! K&R! :kick:

[Hosnon]

57. Who will this win over?

I get the impression that this slogan is a "gotcha" that will not win anyone over to our side while at the same time dragging us down to the creepy moralistic level of the Republicans.

[OmahaBlueDog]

60. I've seen us take the high road and lose too many times

I'm ready to get down in the mud and sling

[NewJeffCT]

58. Only one spouse, one house and no affairs - obviously, it shows that Obama is too inexperienced

to be president! If he really had what it takes, he'd be on his second or third wife by now, plus have a girl on the side, and he'd have used his political connections to have at least 3 homes.

[OmahaBlueDog]

59. k&r & a question

I see 2 designs here. Did the designers put this on Cafe Press, or is there a way to get this NOW?

[Christa]

61. K & Highly Rec :)

:)

[jeff30997]

64. One house, One Spouse.

That's a great slogan! K&R

[SHRED]

65. Sticker

[greyghost]

66. Will make a great bumper sticker and 527!

[ncteechur]

68. That is THE greatest!!!!

[Waiting For Everyman]

69. Just right!!

JM, "The Pretender". O, "The Real".

A perfect transforming of "The One" (as in the ad), too.

[kurtyboy]

70. My response to a legitimate critique of the slogan--post Biden-pick

I received a PM from a person who rarely posts, and I think the person brings up an important consideration:

it would be a great, brilliant!, slogan, but consider that biden is a widower, re-married now.

i think it matters, before it catches on.

maybe a tiny re-write??
faithful spouse, or somethin??

anyway, just had to say.....



I responded in this way:

Thank you for the input, xxxxxxx, and I think you bring up a legitimate concern.

I wrote the slogan at 6:30 AM on Friday to try and catch the wave of coverage of the McCain gaffe, well before the VP pick was leaked. I released the slogan into the wild at a couple of web sites, and waited to see if it would catch (my 2004 slogan "I'm voting for the smart one" never did!), and it has.

Adjustments at this point are impractical, in my opinion, and perhaps impossible, since people are already marketing the slogan and finding some success. And the way slogans work is their catchiness--in this case I play on the ONE theme that has been repeated by the campaign throughout the primaries--I don't know how to keep it catchy and drop that word. And finally, no serious critic would point to a widower and compare his experience to that of a philanderer--it would be the death knell of the McCain campaign to bring that up. In short, if they respond they're screwed, if they let it run wild, they're screwed--I like the odds.

But as I pointed out to one other person in the thread, it's just a sticker, and it was generated by a person completely unassociated with the official campaign (I was hoping for Gore--but well, you know...). So if there is some critique of the message, the campaign can certainly disavow it.

[Nikolaus]

71. "One House One Spouse" gear

With the smart selection of Joe Biden as VP candidate by Barack Obama, there is a clear choice now for America on economics, empathy and ethics:

One House, One Spouse, Obama/Biden 08.

http://www.cafepress.com/politics2go

[helderheid]

72. Awesome! Mine doesn't have Biden (yet):

http://www.cafepress.com/helderheid

[Nikolaus]

73. I like yours, too

You did it with logo (and color), mine is just plain black text ...

Actually, should you choose to redo yours to include Biden (which I would recommend, as his person affirms the message), I would suggest you try it with one logo only ... I am a lawyer not a designer, but it might look more "focused" ...

[helderheid]

76. Thanks and welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Nikolaus]

77. talkingpointsmemo

Put the link to your design at http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/one-house-one-spouse-obama-bid.php? There is a discussion evolving comparing different "One House One Spouse" designs, too. :-)

[WindRiverMan]

74. I just ordered ten of them

Going to put one on my vehicles, send two to my parents, give a few away to friends. This house deal has lots of legs, and it's only gonna get better if Rommney gets the VP nod.

[jowalen]

79. The slogan keeps growing

Now there's "One House. One Spouse. Can Use a Mouse"
It's on a t-shirt at www.cafepress.com/neimandesign

Are there more rhymes?

[Nikolaus]

80. Re:

louse?