name sign for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

[Thiessen Stuart]

I haven't seen any specific namesigns for the three either. Or even  
for McCain or Huckabee. In my area, political activism ranges from  
apathy to full promotion of a particular candidates. Also, events for  
many years have not been interpreted which cause some to not be  
involved or even try. Lately, I have noticed the Democratic party  
being more sensitive to that. For that reason, many politically active  
Deaf that I know are mostly Democrats. A few I know are Republican.

Back to namesigns for ASL, I think, in general, few hearing people  
have namesigns. My observations have been that namesigns are given  
only to those hearing people with whom we come into frequent contact.  
Some US presidents have namesigns, but not all. Some namesigns are  
invented only for the purpose of school but are never brought into  
regular use. Most of the time, the names are fingerspelled. I would  
suppose that if a name became used often enough, a namesign would  
develop. But again, like Adam says, it would be small pockets of  
people whose namesign choices may reflect their bias. :)

Thanks,

Stuart


On 28 Feb 2008, at 13:41 , Adam Frost wrote:

> I haven't really seen anything in way of name signs for any of these  
> three. If there are name signs going around, they are probably small  
> pockets of people who are for (so they have glowing name signs) or  
> against (with not so nice name signs). However, the sad fact is that  
> most Americans know less about what is going on in politics then  
> those in other contries know about what is going on here. And to  
> make it worst, Deafies are less concerned. :-( Sorry, but maybe some  
> others have seen some.
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> is anybody able to write the name signs in SW for president George  
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