DRAWING on OBSERVATIONS

I’m on sabbatical for a week. I will resume my posting duties on Monday, May 3rd. I’ll fill you in then on what I was up to while I was away and have an all new drawing. Until then, enjoy this series from the 08 election.

PS. Due to the spam issue, all comments will be held for monitoring until I return.

Ball point pen doodle reruns from the campaign of 08

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John Arthur Johnson became the first black Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World in 1908. The controversial figure spawned the search for the “Great White Hope” to take the title away from Johnson in the ring, but it was the law that dealt the “Galveston Giant” his biggest blow. Johnson was convicted of violating the Mann Act for having a consensual relationship with a white woman across state lines. Now Senator John McCain and Representative Peter King are championing the champ by asking the first African American President to posthumously pardon the first African American Heavyweight Champion.

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Some remain skeptical on how we as a nation can borrow and spend record amounts and cut the deficit simaltaniously.

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Dow Jones down a very unlucky 777 points as McCain failed to lead his party to pass a bailout bill.

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Looking back on 08, will the big story be: the election of the first African American President, the first woman Vice President, or the economic meltdown of our financial system? I’m betting on the latter.  Politics be damned, foreign policy debates be damned, James Carvel had it right, it’s the economy stupid!

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I’m for a womans right to choose, and the evangelical base of the republican party is a little off putting, but I’ve always liked the maverick, John McCain. I think that our country would have been infinitely better served had the Republicans embraced him eight years ago, but the party loyalists hated him. It all seems so insincere now that they’re accepting him out of desperation, and unfair that he now be their standard bearer and suffer the slings and arrows from those rightfully upset with the incompetence of the … Continue Reading

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Day One..umm, Two of the Republican National Convention…Democrat, uhh, Independent,..Republican?? Senator from Connecticut and one time vice presidential candidate for the Democratic party, supported John McCain for president.

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John McCain picks Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, but Hurricane Gustav rains on the GOP parade truncating the planned events and speeches for the first day of the Republican National Convention.

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Could McCain break with the religious right by choosing Tom Ridge?

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I have a photo shoot in New York for a book cover illustration I’m working on, so today is another quicky.

Right or wrong, I think that tapping our domestic oil reserves is a good place for McCain to go drilling for votes, but his gas tax holiday for the summer months crusade is loosing it’s window of effectiveness. It’s almost August and congress will soon be headed home to their districts until after Labor Day. It’s beating a dead horse.

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Any resemblance that this doodle has to Don Rickles was totally unintentional. But it seems that lately, McCain, like Rickles has to rip his friends to succeed, so maybe I allowed that to subliminally enter into my morning ritual…who knows…Anyway…The latest hockey puck that McCains has to denounce, his top economic adviser, former Texas Senator Phil Gramm. Gramm said the economy would be doing fine if it weren”t for our nation of whiners talking it down. I’ll try to smile the next time I pull up to the … Continue Reading

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This mornings doodle may set the record for the quickest I’ve done on this blog. I’m headed out the door to the Illustration Conference in NY today.

This year of the un-republican has seen the nomination of a republican candidate that party insiders love to hate. McCain may distance himself further from republicans and an unpopular administration by choosing a running mate from another party. Joe Lieberman, conservative Democrat turned Independent, is looking like McCain’s shadow.

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Young, Ethnic, Southern, Conservative, McCain might choose Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Personally, I think McCain might do better running to the center and courting the independents, but it could make for an interesting campaign.

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This week lets take a look at John McCain. Today, McCain on waste. He claims never to have asked for an earmark and wants to do away with them. I’m on board with that. Lets bring the pork above board. The US Dollar has tanked in recent years, in large part due to out of control spending and budget deficits by a republican administration. (BTW, Crude oil is traded in US Dollars) Can he successfully distance himself from that?

Tomorrow, running mates…I take requests.

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I can see myself going out for a beer with John McCain, and it’s been said that many americans want that in a president. If you think it doesn’t matter, you’re either underestimating americans love of beer or overestimating their thought process in choosing a leader. Americans regularly choose a candidate based on race, gender, heritage, or even sex appeal… campaigns know it, and they’re not above courting any demographic. The most forced example was Hilary’s campaign having a photo-op kegger on the plane with the press and Senator Clinton drinking … Continue Reading