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Most agree with the concept of fairness, until you give specifics, then it’s a matter of perspective.

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5 days remaining.

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Warning the song of the day scene from Reservoir Dogs contains graphic violence.

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The two sides seem content to spend the remaining 7 days crafting their own doomed plans rather than working together for the greater good.

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Boehner and Obama are deadlocked over debt. 

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The mid-term election was a bitter pill for the President.

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Obama’s new Chief of Staff did his undergraduate work at Colby College, received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He has worked on Capitol Hill for nearly 40 years where he came to be known as the 101st Senator. His soft spoken manor represents a stark contrast from his predecessor Rahm Emanuel.

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A relative term that’s tricky to define.

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Petraeus’ confirmation expected to be streamlined after McChrysal was brought down by a freelance writer working on an article for Rolling Stone.

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Yesterday Obama got passionate about health care, but do Americans share his passion?

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I’ll drink if I wanna,
And play a little poker too
Don’t you say nothing to me,
As long as I’m taking care of you
As long as I’m working baby,
And payin’ all the bills
I don’t want no mouth from you,
About the way I’m supposed to live
You must be crazy, woman,
You just gotta be out of your mind
As long as I’m footin’ the bills,
I’m paying the cost to be the boss

B.B. King

Human rights, Iran, China’s Currency,… Mums the word until we get our financial house in order.

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Do we need less Obama? That’s the question put forth this week by a number of Obama supporters. That inspired me to attempt a dots and dash portrait, devoting a lot less ink to the president.

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89 year old Pete Seeger rocked it out at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday.

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The 2008 Democratic National Convention starts today. Obama has already proven that he and his campaign have great stage craft and there should be a big bounce from the four day show…. but then again, this is the democratic party… factor in the protesters, demonstrators and team Clinton, and all bets are off.

Piggybacking off of Stephen Gardner’s Sketch of the Day postings of multiple versions of the same drawing I’m posting these doodles this morning. These are done very quickly (about a minute or two) so I … Continue Reading

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The simplest solution is the best.

Sometimes I callenge myself to draw a likeness with the the greatest economy of strokes. If the strokes are in the right place, nothing more is needed.

In politics, nothing ever seems as simple as, we need oil, we have oil within our borders, lets get the oil.

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Yesterday the two major candidates gave speeches on the war. Obama wants to move the emphasis back to Afghanistan. McCain thinks we $hould do both.

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Senator Obama might decide to sure up the mid-west, the moderates, the women and those inclined to vote for someone with gray hair by picking Kathleen Sebelius as a running mate. A two term Governor of Kansas, she also brings executive experience.

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Speeking before the Isreali Parliment on the 60th anniversary of Isreal, President Bush takes the opportunity to swipe Obama.

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Edwards backs Obama.

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Sport has often been used as a metaphor to describe battlefields, strategy and competition. It was in this light that the Clinton campaign first started to draw the parallels between the horse, Eight Belles and Senator Clinton. Leading up to the race the campaign started to talk about the only woman in the race, an underdog, a tough filly that had the stamina to go the distance. The story line was almost too perfect to ignore. If Eight Belles had won, it would have been the campaign’s battle cry going into … Continue Reading