Give Your Geeks This: Yes We Did
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A blogumn by CH
Hi Everyone,
I know that I normally give you all ideas of things to buy for your favorite geek. Today for something different and because I’m in the holiday spirit I want to give something to you.
We have 30 of Shepard Fairey’s Yes We Did stickers.
If you want one please join Intense Debate below “I need you to be a Intense Debate member so I can send you a private message if you win.“ and leave a comment telling us your predictions for Obama’s first year in office. Both positive and negative comments invited.
I will pick 30 people at random to send the sticker.
Also for one lucky commenter I have a copy of the New York Times from the day after the election.
Please leave your comments by December 31st. I will send the stickers and paper out on the second of January.
Happy Holidays!
CH
I think they’ll get a puppy.
I think the economy will start a slow turn upwards beginning in April, though we’ll see more trouble in June before we’re out of the woods. I think the puppy will be brown with spots, Obama will have to turn in his Blackberry, and Apple will name their eleventh operating system “Barack.”
I think they’ll get a puppy.
I think the economy will start a slow turn upwards beginning in April, though we’ll see more trouble in June before we’re out of the woods. I think the puppy will be brown with spots, Obama will have to turn in his Blackberry, and Apple will name their eleventh operating system “Barack.”
Positive: Everything.
Negative: Nothing.
Gimme mah sticker.
In all seriousness, I am most looking forward to Michelle's inaugural gown & ending the war.
Wow, tough Q. I think the country will go through a Honeymoon phase right after Obama takes office. We'll get a spike in the economy and the markets…But, the man has inherited a tough situation. Our country is hurting, badly.
I think immediately, he'll focus on helping the auto-makers and unemployed folks. Quick changes can come via environmental fixes and closing Gitmo. I also think we'll see an increase in troop levels and more tactical manuevers in Afghanistan between now and 2010.
As a middle-class home-owner my prediction (and hope) is that he will institute some safe-guards for middle-class home-owners who are getting foreclosed on left and right. Maybe he and that pit-bull Rahm Emanuel can sick the head of Treasury and Finance on the banks to loosen the credit markets like the bail-out was supposed to.
Also, I would like a sticker.
I think most of the best 18 months to a year will be spent bridge building, getting his own party onboard with the notion of bipartisan leadership and laying the groundwork for undoing some of the policies of the last eight years. I think we will get another economic stimulus package in the first 100 days of the presidency, separate and apart from what gets done for the auto industry, (although I do not believe everyday people will really feel any economic improvements in the nest year or two and the housing market will continue to decline) and I think we will have a concrete schedule for withdrawing from Iraq within the first 100 days as well. I think our reputation around the world is already improving and will continue to do so.
However, I think the other items on Obama's agenda (e.g., healthcare, etc.) will not get accomplished in the next 100 days, 18 months or 4 years. The real issue is that Obama will work his hardest, but it would take more than the next four years to fix all of our problems and I am not sure that the American people will be that patient. I mean what happens when the "honeymoon" period is over and people are pissed because he cannot save the world in the first 100 days of his presidency.
Yes, Obama will be a great president, but not a miracle worker. So we need to manage our expectations.
I boy I hope I win the paper… I was so upset that I didn't get one on the day! But the sticker is pretty rad too.
I'm so excited about our new president. I know his job will be tough for a long time, and we may not see the benefits of it for a while, but we need him right now for so many other reasons too. A little moral boost would be just fine with me for now… :-)
I think they'll get a puppy.
I think the economy will start a slow turn upwards beginning in April, though we'll see more trouble in June before we're out of the woods. I think the puppy will be brown with spots, Obama will have to turn in his Blackberry, and Apple will name their eleventh operating system "Barack."
Positive: Everything.
Negative: Nothing.
Gimme mah sticker.
In all seriousness, I am most looking forward to Michelle's inaugural gown & ending the war.
Wow, tough Q. I think the country will go through a Honeymoon phase right after Obama takes office. We'll get a spike in the economy and the markets…But, the man has inherited a tough situation. Our country is hurting, badly.
I think immediately, he'll focus on helping the auto-makers and unemployed folks. Quick changes can come via environmental fixes and closing Gitmo. I also think we'll see an increase in troop levels and more tactical manuevers in Afghanistan between now and 2010.
As a middle-class home-owner my prediction (and hope) is that he will institute some safe-guards for middle-class home-owners who are getting foreclosed on left and right. Maybe he and that pit-bull Rahm Emanuel can sick the head of Treasury and Finance on the banks to loosen the credit markets like the bail-out was supposed to.
Also, I would like a sticker.
I think most of the best 18 months to a year will be spent bridge building, getting his own party onboard with the notion of bipartisan leadership and laying the groundwork for undoing some of the policies of the last eight years. I think we will get another economic stimulus package in the first 100 days of the presidency, separate and apart from what gets done for the auto industry, (although I do not believe everyday people will really feel any economic improvements in the nest year or two and the housing market will continue to decline) and I think we will have a concrete schedule for withdrawing from Iraq within the first 100 days as well. I think our reputation around the world is already improving and will continue to do so.
However, I think the other items on Obama's agenda (e.g., healthcare, etc.) will not get accomplished in the next 100 days, 18 months or 4 years. The real issue is that Obama will work his hardest, but it would take more than the next four years to fix all of our problems and I am not sure that the American people will be that patient. I mean what happens when the "honeymoon" period is over and people are pissed because he cannot save the world in the first 100 days of his presidency.
Yes, Obama will be a great president, but not a miracle worker. So we need to manage our expectations.
I boy I hope I win the paper… I was so upset that I didn't get one on the day! But the sticker is pretty rad too.
I'm so excited about our new president. I know his job will be tough for a long time, and we may not see the benefits of it for a while, but we need him right now for so many other reasons too. A little moral boost would be just fine with me for now… :-)
I think they'll get a puppy.
I think the economy will start a slow turn upwards beginning in April, though we'll see more trouble in June before we're out of the woods. I think the puppy will be brown with spots, Obama will have to turn in his Blackberry, and Apple will name their eleventh operating system "Barack."