Contributed By: Mike McDaniel This summer my wife and I are traveling to Europe. As we were planning the trip a few months ago, we became concerned about what kind of treatment to expect from Europeans because of their dislike of our current leadership. We heard that they were thinking Americans had lost their minds for re-electing Bush. So we started looking for ways to offset any negative treatment from the Europeans and discovered that some US citizens had pretended to be Canadians by wearing buttons or clothing with Canadian flags and/or insignias. This tactic may have worked well, but it seemed to us that it was very unpatriotic to denounce our U.S. citizenship just to make our vacation experience more enjoyable.
We decided a better way would be to have buttons made in various languages that said, "I did NOT vote for Bush". We didn't think it was unpatriotic to tell people how we voted. I found a place to make the buttons, but the set up fee was most of the cost, so I had about 50 buttons made in seven different languages. They cost me about $2 each. If you or anyone you know is traveling in the near future, I will sell these buttons for the $2 they cost me.
I have French, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian, Danish, and English versions of the buttons. They are large (3 inch), very professional campaign style buttons with white lettering on a dark blue background. I can be contacted at (303)XXX-XXXX or -------@comcast.net. I live in Boulder so we can meet here or I can mail the buttons to you.
We are leaving on our vacation on June 28 and return on July 28. I will write a followup story here in Yourhub.com when I return to let you all know how the buttons worked for us.