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Magnetic Bumper Stickers? Do you Still Put Bumper Stickers on Your Car? What's the Best You've Seen?

In this age of change, bumper stickers are going out and are being replaced by something less permanent.

I got this email from President Obama, who seems to like dropping me notes about 10 times a day. I thought he might be too busy creating world peace or raising money, but he's a great chatterbug on the Internet.

He was asking me to send him some money and he'd send me a magnet for my car. A magnet!

What happened to bumper stickers?

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Is he afraid I'll damage the paint on my plastic bumper? Does he think I'm afraid I'll have my tires slashed by rabid Romneyphiles? Is there a tracking device on it that will tell him how I voted or if I'm a tea partier?

And what happened to Biden? Was the prez planning to put Hillary's name on there so he left it blank?

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Seriously, though, Santa Cruz was once the Bumper Sticker Capital of the World and now I just don't see as many. We're in danger of losing our title to Providence, R.I. or Jakarta, Indo.

Do you have one, and if so, what does it say?

What's the best one you've seen?

Drop a picture of your favorite on this column and show the world.

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