Progressive Buttons Blog

Here are two new sturdy metal pinback buttons against the pick today of Sarah Palin for Vice President by Arizona Republican John McCain. Look for more of these in the days to come from the Anti-McCain button shop over at Irregular Times.

Red Slash Through McCain-Palin 08 button

No Way, No How, No to McCain-Palin button

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Unless you’ve been shoveling out the latrine all day long, you’re probably aware that Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Senator Joseph Biden to be his vice presidential pick. The Obama-Biden Democratic ticket will be officially nominated during the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week.
If you’re looking for an Obama-Biden Button to affix to [...]

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The Democratic Party has hoisted a great spoof website called Exxon-McCain 2008 that uses the guise of an Exxon/McCain presidential ticket as a way of talking about John McCain’s connections not just to that one oil company but to the oil industry in general. Did you know, for instance, that right after John McCain [...]

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Soo far, Obama has spent his summer making his progressive base so angry that they’ve begin to rise up in rebellion against his candidacy. Obama needs to do some Democratic Party damage control, and he needs to do it fast. Russ Feingold could be just the running mate to make that happen.

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John McCain, for example, has started calling up foreign leaders and declaring that he speaks for “all Americans”, and stating that the USA is completely on the side of the Georgians against the Russians. The Georgians are seeking to defend their nationalist pride, and the Russians are seeking to prove their own greater nationhood again too.

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People got involved in the 2004 presidential election because they saw that George W. Bush was a profound threat to America… but then they lost, and lost interest. The lesson they took away from the 2004 presidential election is that it doesn’t matter what they do.

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The map shows where they have recently sent their buttons. Where they send those progressive buttons turns out to be mostly into blue states. Georgia and Colorado are a couple of exceptions, but for the most part, their business seems to be on the West Coast and Northeast.

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If you’re an artist who depends upon freedom to do your work, you need to make a stand against the right wing agenda that seeks to squelch that freedom and reduce artists to mere mimeographs of the party line.

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