I got a second reaction to my Impeach bumpersticker today

It's been on my car for months and has attracked no attention whatsoever that I am aware of, except that about four months ago a car pulled up beside me and tooted repeatedly until I rolled down my window to hear the other driver yell "Love your bumpersticker!" and flash a big thumbs up.

Today I was recycling and a guy about my age walked by and snorted. I glanced up at him but didn't get any reaction so went back to shuffling newspapers. When he walked by the second time he said "He's no worse than that little prick JFK." The fellow didn't slow down or look back to see my reaction, and it took me a minute to realize he must have been looking straight at the bumpersticker when he said it.

I didn't see much reason to pursue that conversation -- but I thought the not-very-loud but very-intensely-certain way he felt obligated to tell a complete stranger he considered a President assassinated forty years ago a "little prick" was sort of creepy, even if the closeness of the 1960 election did produce at lot of Republican anger ... Of course, I generally view wingnuts as angry deranged folk anyway, so unfortunately I don't think I really learned anything from the interaction.

It is weird how much the right-wingers touch themselves over the Kennedys. Sick, actually.

:D

And thanks for the ones you gave me at the meet-up at Satisfaction on Election Night. They were much appreciated.

:hi:

saying, "He's no worse than that little prick Cap Anson."

If they need comparative objects of hate, why don't they go back to Ivan the Terrible or somebody? :shrug:

But it is still creepy to hear any human being compared to the Chimperor.

he was referred to as JFK constantly in the press and on TV. Calling Kerry JFK seems relatively rare.