Progressive Buttons Blog

There has been a good deal of attention given to the birders for Obama bumper sticker in the birding community. It’s spread by word of mouth from center to center. I’ve seen some myself at cars parked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, for example.

However, a lot of avid birders are not avid drivers. They understand the havoc that fossil fuels have brought to the ecosystems within which America’s birds must survive. Also, birders know from experience that the best observation is not done from the driver’s seat. Kayaking, biking, walking are more to a birder’s rhythm.

These birders want to support Barack Obama too, because Barack Obama and Joe Biden make the best team for the White House on environmental issues. Any goodwill that John McCain had built up in the environmental community was destroyed when he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Sarah Palin denies that humans have anything to do with global warming. She has sued to kick the polar bear off the list of species entitled to Endangered Species Act protection. Palin has promoted the aerial hunting of wolves. She’s in the pocket of Big Oil. In short, Sarah Palin is most certainly not for the birds, and not for birders.

For birders, then, there is also a political button that can be seen when walking: Another Birders for Obama design.