Cool Dem Billboards!!! Check it out (from kos)

[ailsagirl]

It's about time we started fighting fire with fire!! (Water didn't work...)



http://www.grassrootdems.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=7

http://www.grassrootdems.org/

http://www.dailykos.com/

[merh]

1. I want that bumper sticker!

That is a great billboard.

If I could, I'd put those up all over. Thanks :hi:

[ailsagirl]

2. Maybe there is such a bumper sticker... I'll find out. I love it n/t

[merh]

4. If not, maybe a creative DU will design us one and post it

so we can print our own! :bounce:

[etherealtruth]

3. Very cool...

You are right about fighting fire with fire.

[ailsagirl]

5. Here's another from the same very cool organization

http://www.grassrootdems.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=23

[kliljedahl]

6. South Dakota?

Who woulda thunk it?

GO, Go, Go Grass roots Dems

On Edit: just added their site to my favorites, never heard of them. Thanks for the link.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[ailsagirl]

10. I hadn't heard of them either-- we have kos to thank

Always happy to add a new website to my dem links!!

We should be PLASTERING this country with similar billboards-- wonder why we aren't???

Anyway, kudos to South Dakota!!!

:toast:

[Just Me]

7. It's TRUE,...we DO!!!

We should exploit our intentions more often!!!!

[HeeBGBz]

8. Perfect

I'd buy that if it were a sticker.

[kittenpants]

14. ditto that n/t

[Cha]

9. Wow! That's getting to the

heart of the matter! In South Dakota, huh?

[kliljedahl]

11. Liked this quote on the site

Jim Wallis in an exchange with Jerry Falwell on Hannity & colmes on Feb 11


Wallis: The good news is the monologue of the religious right is over, and a dialogue has finally begun.
Falwell: I think . . .
Wallis: Jerry--you know--Jerry--I didn't interrupt you, Jerry. Millions and millions of Christians, including evangelicals like me, want the nation to know that you don't speak for us. That your Jesus is pro-rich, pro-war, and only pro-American, and your monologue is over.



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[ailsagirl]

16. How did we miss that exchange?? Thanks for posting it!! n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

22. Yay!

I love it! Wallis kicked some ass!

[Turn CO Blue]

30. I love that exchange...

Right to the heart of it. You are so over, Falwell!

[flygal]

33. hoo hoo

Slam-dunk Wallis.

[kansasblue]

12. I want a group like that in Kansas !

[ailsagirl]

15. Hell, I want one like that in California!!

There are many Dem groups in California, but just ONCE I'd like to see a billboard with something RELEVANT on it, you know??

"sigh"

[Sapphire Blue]

13. Wonderful billboard!

A quote from grassrootdems.org's homepage...

Ike predicts future for GOP

David Sirota digs up the quote of the year.

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54

http://www.grassrootdems.org/

[ailsagirl]

18. What I wouldn't give for Ike to be alive and well...

He really was a helluva good president, wasn't he?

Here's to you, Ike

:patriot:

How I'd love to see a portion of that on a billboard!!!

[MadisonProgressive]

34. How about a campaign that uses only quotes by Republicans

That would show the sheeple how far the neo-cons have taken them away from the old conservative principals.

[ailsagirl]

37. Sounds good to me, MP!! I believe, in one way or another,

the rethugs will come down. The repug neocon machine simply can't sustain itself much longer. They've been sowing the seeds to their downfall from Day One. I envision a bunch of plates stacked to the ceiling and the higher the pile, of course, the less stable.

:kick:

[Pam-Moby]

17. Thanks for the post-it is very fitting. :) n/t

[snowbear]

19. Wow.. Awesome! Recommended to front page!

Thanks for sharing that ailsagirl ~~~~ :bounce: (They should see this @ GD/Politics too!)

~~~~ :kick:

[ailsagirl]

20. I really can't take the credit... it was posted on kos... but

thank you, larissa. :)

I'm glad I caught it-- because it brightened up my day and, I hope, your day, too!!

Plus I discovered the cool new Dem website (grassrootdems.org) with lots of good stuff on it.

Here's what they say about the Billboard Project:

The first billboards will go up May 2005, in downtown Sioux Falls and near the Convention Center. Additional boards will launch each month thru out the summer. This is a good start! This is a cost effective start! In a red state, to effectively deliver this message, it’s critical to repeat, “Democrats make America stronger” over a long period of time, and in a variety of ways. And in South Dakota we can deliver and fine-tune that message for a fraction of what it would cost in other states.

With your help, this is only the beginning.

:toast:

[ginnyinWI]

21. sigh. Too bad they put in a comma splice.

That's a grammatical error. You have to connect the two parts of the sentence with a semi-colon, not a comma.

[ailsagirl]

24. True-- grammatically incorrect but politically correct!!!

Simple but powerful message-- few words-- right on target.

See how it's caught so many people's eye here on DU? Billboards are very effective means of communication!! I want to see more

:kick:

[immoderate]

38. Grammar Don't Count!

Billboards, posters, buttons, stickers, etc., are graphic media, not narrative. As such, they claim exemption as artistic license. Think of how much advertising copy is not strictly grammatical.

Standardization of language is a recent innovation in human history. Should we make a religion of it? BTW, I'm not totally liberal on this. For instance, I'll do what I can to stamp out "alot."

--IMM

[ailsagirl]

40. How about, "He gave the ticket to Larry and I" ???

Drives me crazy!!!

:evilgrin:

[immoderate]

44. No excuse for that one.

We were taught to ask, would you say, "He gave the ticket to I?"

Hard to miss that one if you know what you're doing. Modern advertising speak favors sentence fragments. Like this one.

--IMM

[ailsagirl]

45. English has gone to hell in a hand basket

I can't believe how many people misspell "its" as "it's." I see that constantly!!

:crazy:

[erichzann]

39. hyphen would work ok too.

[girl gone mad]

42. I noticed that, too.

I think it would be better both grammatically and poetically with a period instead of a comma, and with each sentence on a separate line.

Other than that, I think it's great.

[Nothing Without Hope]

23. These are WONDERFUL! Please see this other thread - we need to do

more than just fight the neocon horrors, we must alter a positive alternative of hope. Otherwise, there is only despair.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1777043
Thread title: “This Jen Sorenson CARTOON challenges us to do MORE than fight off GOP”

We must be MORE than merely "The Party of NO" as the Repubs are trying to paint us:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1776818
Thread title: GOP's new Framing: Democrats = Party of "No"

If we are not a real, fleshed-out alternative, people will not turn to progressivism, they will despair.

Recommended (if it isn't too late).

[prodigal_green]

28. Well, we could be

the party of KNOW. As in, we base policy on facts, not wishes. We deal with reality and what we know, not fanatical imperatives.

[Nothing Without Hope]

31. What a GREAT IDEA!!! Please post it in the thread on the Repubs saying

we are the "party of NO":
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1776818
Thread title: GOP's new Framing: Democrats = Party of "No"

I think it would also be good in the Framing Forum - if you don't want to do this, may I? This idea needs to be saved and spread IMO.

[prodigal_green]

35. feel free to take it and run with it.

I'm pretty busy today, but I'd love to get that out there...

[knitter4democracy]

36. I think of us as the Party of No Way in Hell.

As in, "No way in hell are we going to let you destroy Social Security. No way in hell are we going to let you destroy this great nation with your crap." Stuff like that.

We can take that and change it for the better.

[ailsagirl]

41. "Party of Know"-- that's marvelous!! Sometimes I don't think

that the Dems in charge are very...um...imaginative.
:shrug:

I can think of a thousand ways to fight back by getting the word out.
:bounce:

I can't help thinking that some of the Dems are sitting on their hands.
:dunce:

Maybe we should all be in politics-- or be political advisers.
:evilgrin:

Frankly, I believe that the politicians could learn a lot from us.
:patriot:

(Though, for myself, I doubt very much I'd have the stomach for it.)
:puke:

[Liberalgirl788]

25. Great Billboard!!!

That should make Republicans weak in the knees. I love it!

[snowbear]

26. There are no billboards in Alaska, but if there were..

..I'd want one like that! :) Super stringent sign laws too :o .. You can only have signs directly in front of your own business. No signs allowed on the sides of the roads or highways except for road directional signs.

That South Dakota website is great tho! I'm going to forward that picture to Big Eddie Schultz.. He'll love it ~~ :bounce:

[snowbear]

27. btw....

I shared these great photos you found on the GD/Politics section.. They can always use the smile too! :headbang:

~~~~~~~ :grouphug:

[Liberty Belle]

29. I'm going to suggest that our AD committee raise money to

put some of these up in our "red" area. Way to go, South Dakota Dems!

[Ang_TX_LIB]

32. Cool billboard!!

I love it..:applause:

[Liberty Belle]

43. Smile, guys. We're on Buzzflash!

http://www.buzzflash.com/

Scroll down to "Jesus Loves the Poor. So do we" to find the link to this thread.

[ailsagirl]

46. Terrific!! I hope that the grassrootdems.org know about this

Thanks for the heads-up!

:)

[Liberty Belle]

47. You're welcome!

I sent Buzzflash the link, actually, hoping to give these great billboards some more exposure.