The long weekend is almost over, which means it's time to announce the winners of our anti-war slogan contest.
Once again, there was a flood of excellent entries, making it extremely difficult to pick winners out of the field.
As always, winners receive absolutely nothing, other than bragging rights. A big thanks to everyone who entered, and without further ado, here are the top three winners in each of the following categories: Best Chant, Best Anti-Bush Slogan, Best Slogan To Influence Middle America, Best Slogan To Influence Congress, Funniest Slogan, Most Subtle Slogan, and Best Obscure Reference.
At the end, five awards for Most Profane / Tasteless (because of overwhelming interest in the category), and my five picks for Best Overall Slogan.
BEST CHANT
Third place: mutex
One, two, three
what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn.
Next stop is Iran.
And its five, six, seven
they're building a caliphate
let's listen to Bush orate
Ain't no time
to wonder why
More Iraqis just need to die!
Second place: phiddle
What do we want?
PEACE NOW!
How do we do it?
GET OUT NOW!
First place: Dap
One year, Two years, Three years, Four...
Five years, Six years...
No more war!
BEST ANTI-BUSH SLOGAN
Third place: MoNut
IMPEACH
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Second place: MoNut
Tell George the Party's over.
First place: Dap
And what did ya expect...
When a Cheerleader was elected President?
BEST SLOGAN TO INFLUENCE MIDDLE AMERICA
Third place: provgrays
Escalate Peace!
Second place: phoenixer
How many additional dead Americans is Cheney's war worth?
First place: Michale
IF YOU ARE SO CONCERNED FOR THE TROOPS,
VOLUNTEER TO TAKE THEIR PLACE.
BEST SLOGAN TO INFLUENCE CONGRESS
Third place: Ben Dixon
Democracy in Iraq at the cost of a broken Army is no victory.
Second place: loslobo
When have so few been so wrong?
First place: Rethymniotis
IRAQI FREEDOM:
$20,000/IRAQI
AND COUNTING
FUNNIEST SLOGAN
Third place: magen
I'd like to see a BIG photoshopped picture of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rove, Snow, Lott, McConnell, etc. dressed in cheerleader outfits. On top of the sign in big letters --
CHICKENHAWKS FOR WAR
Second place: MoNut
We fight 'em over there...
To adopt their policies over here?
First place: negogato
Time to scrape the gop off the constitution.
MOST SUBTLE SLOGAN
Third place: Qbear
Surge after surge after surge
Is it 2009....YET?
Second place: Rethymniotis
As a first thought, I'd like to see lots of signs shaped like baseball's home plate. Maybe with one of those stupid "Support the Troops" ribbons right in the middle. If that's too subtle, add the words "Bring Them Home."
First place: progresemulo
Small government, low taxes, unrestricted firearms -- the surge is working!
BEST OBSCURE REFERENCE
Third place: phiddle
No Soldier Left Behind!
Second place: Dap
Look to your future...
I have one word for you...
Prosthetics.
First place: dissolvethecorporation
Read my lips: No new wars!
MOST PROFANE / TASTELESS
Fifth place: Qbear
Michael Vick is voting Republican
Fourth place: MoNut
A real God would've sent him a plan by now.
Third place: loslobo
Saddam doesn't seem so #@$%*& bad now
Second place: loslobo
Killed enough kids for Exxon/Halliburton?
First place: Ben Dixon
Better 10,000 Iraqi deaths than one American death
BEST OVERALL SLOGAN
Fifth place: MoNut
OUT NOW.
NO MORE.
Fourth place: nypoet22
Draft Congress
Third place: jim_mullen
Rebuild America, Not Iraq
Second place: loslobo
Anybody figure out who we are fighting or why?
And (drumroll...) the Best Overall Slogan of the entire contest goes to...
Grand Prize: grendl
Thank you Mr. Bush for eight years of gore.
Chris Weigant blogs at: ChrisWeigant.com