A friend wrote to me about the difference of college between these two. The educational list ignores the uses of the education. Though McCain did poorly in the Naval Academy, he’s spent the decades since as a distinguished bi-partisan member of Congress. Obama, nearly a career student, jumped from finishing college in his 30s to being a paid community volunteer.  Then basically job hopping in politics for a few years before somehow getting in his head that he was qualified to run for President. Shows what a good talker can do in ten years from college to Senator. Makes me also concerned what Billy Mays is planning. At least Billy Mays has a track record you can follow!

After dropping Sandra at the Orlando Airport I made my way north and stopped in Tavares and worked at McCain HQ making calls to help get volunteers in to help out. Above is one of the other volunteer phone callers at work.

For those who know the  story, Jacob turns 14 today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACOB!!!!!

Here’s my celebratory banana split from Ms. Steve’s in Belleview.

Earlier in the day I attended the Marion County Republican Women Federated Group meeting. To the right is a sketch of part of the table centerpiece.

In St. Augustine, while Sandra was at a day long tourism meeting I ran around getting photos of St. Augustine. I then made my way to the McCain HQ and made calls for three hours rounding up volunteers to go door to door and spread the good word about McCain. Above are doodles I made of folks who milled in and out of the office as I made phone calls.

Later I joined Sandra and fellow meeting attendees Jennifer Huber and Virgina (Durn! Fergot her last name) at the Cracker Cafe off St. George Street in St. Augustine. We talked tourism and travels. Below is a sketch I made of the TV in the corner of the restaurant.

A whole mess of us were waving signs, hootin’ and hollerin’ roadside in Dunellon on State Road 41 before and after a candidate roundup. Speakers included Mike Amsden, Stan McClain (Both running for Marion County Commission ), Jim Yancey (Running for Supertendent of Schools),etc.

Above is a fellow, whose name I didn’t get, who valiantly stood with his sign in the midday heat.

Above is Jane Potter, 1958 graduate of Stetson University (How much I’d love to have seen DeLand at that time) with a mess of campaign work she and I did today. We assembled, taped, filled, taped more all of these boxes….But that’s not all! We actually did quite a bit more. I took this photo just before I left the warehouse where we were gathering McCain materials for the entire state.

Here is the button art for two buttons I got int the mail today.

I spent most of the day working on the McCain campaign. Above is a sketch of a few brochures I was handling. Some pictures were being taken in the office and I thought I’d take a photo of a bit of the work I did and place it here. Below are a few hundred doorhangers I assembled.

Aa I feel. It may crush me, but it’s for the betterment of our country. Everytime we’ve played with socialism, it grows only larger and wipes us out in other ways. It bothers me to see such foolishness going on. Such as an arrogant untrained Obama and the fools who, with pure greed, hurt us as Americans.

I learned of Paul Newman’s death this morning. My favorite Newman films are ‘The Hustler’, ‘A New Kind of Love’, ‘Harper’ and, the Florida based, ‘Absence of Malice’. As I worked on other projects, I starting playing Newman films in the player. Above is a quick sketch I drew of him from ‘The Young Philadelphians’.

I was up and out after about three hours sleep as I finished the Tuesday’s Glenn Beck cartoon. We had a veterans rally with someone who had been with McCain as a P.O.W. Former Governor Buddy Roemer also was part of the travelling bus tour. It went great with lots of flag waving.

Because of our location, we made another early morning starter, a coffee shop named ‘Primary Oven’, rather upset. Attendees took their parking spots at the prime hour folks going to work stop an purchase coffee. I ran over and nabbed some of their business cards to have at our table. After the event I bought one of their wonderful double cinnamon rolls, which was huge, and a glass of milk and settled on their second floor and worked on McCain button ideas. I sketched the above of a corner of the second floor, which includes art.

A brilliant gag by my buddy, Ken Culotta. I wanted more color in this, but the situation is so dour and New York is such a dark, grey, colorless mess unable to move it’s thought pattern from the 1950s, how else can the nightmare be portrayed.

The actions President Bush, Brenanke, Paulson and company are taking are the worse I would expect by Obama. I have been trying to point out that it’s Obama that’s a continuation of the Bush Administration, noy McCain. These insane anti-American free market moves are concrete proof of that.

I can’t deny Big Brother Business’ strangled hold on the White House. I’ve kept hoping the President would stop socializing our country, but he’s endorsing the worse that can be done. This stuff has had me very unhappy and probably has contributed to generally not feeling well the past week. I expect better of a President, especially one that claims to be a Republican.