Presidential Doodles, Kennedy 'Conspiracy', and What is this Nixon doodle?

Presidential Doodles is a collection hundreds of doodles & drawings made by Presidents of the United States. The images were collected by the creators of "Cabinet" magazine and writer/ history professor at Rutgers, David Greenberg. The book was published in 2006.

Unfortunately, the book doesn't feature Barack Obama's famous doodles featuring senators, that was sold at a charity auction circa 2007 or Sarah Palin's vote-for-me type doodles on the back of a sheet of paper for Wasilla's city budget.

The book does feature drawings of weapons and self-portraits by Dwight Eisenhower, horses drawn by Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald Reagan's cowboys and football players and a diagram of the Pythagorean theorem done by John Adams. Oddly enough, a doodle by Richard Nixon is eerily similar to something in my phone book...

One of the most talked about doodles in the book was drawn by John F. Kennedy. Kennedy often enclosed words inside circles and boxes. One of his doodles is of a small circle with the number 9-11 and on the same page he wrote the word "conspiracy" and underlined it. It is said to be the tally of a committee vote, but it still strange to see.

Palin: This one time...in Debate Camp...

Sarah Palin is at "debate camp". Please tell me this is a joke. Could this get any sadder? Apparently Cruella DePalin left the campaign in what aides are calling "debate camp" in order to prepare for the vice presidential debate. So where is she? In grandpa's McCain's ranch in Arizona. She spent last week being programmed by advisors in a hotel in Philedelphia...that was not enough. There is alot of ummm...stuff...to...like memorize ya know?

According to CNN:

"The adviser said preparing her for the debate was "really hard" because the Alaska governor was learning about issues she had never dealt with before -- including those regarding North Korea and other hot spots around the globe."

Really hard?

I am still bewildered that Palin "stuck to her guns" so-to-speak in the interview with Katie Couric and defended the whole "Alaska is right next to Russia" crap.

Let us not forget that is was only earlier this year that Palin was confused about "what exactly a VP does."

Humane Society Loves Obama, Palin the Wants Animals Dead

The Humane Society has endorsed Barack Obama. They have NEVER endorsed a presidential candidate.
Is it any wonder?

Obama has supported at least a dozen animal protection laws including stronger penalties for animal cruelty, helping to promote spaying an neutering (no abstinence only animals) and banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Obama cosponsored several bills to combat brutal animal fighting and supports efforts to increase funding for the enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, and federal laws to combat puppy mills.

In Contrast:

• Cruella de Palin offered $150 for every left leg of a dead wolf as an economic incentive for pilots and aerial gunners

• Cruella de Palin opposes listing polar bears as endangered species

• Cruella de Palin opposed listing the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale as an endangered species

• Loves the feeling she gets when shooting her rifle into the heart of a moose, then eating its flesh

• Says she doesn't wear fur...but there is proof otherwise

• Childhood home is filled with dead animals kept as trophies

For someone so "filled with the spirit" and promoting the "culture of life" she sure does come across as kind of barbaric don't you think?
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Hypocrisy of the McCain campaign

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're an American story.






If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.









If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.










If your resume is: ex-local sports reporter-intern, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.










If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.







If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.



If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.



If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're responsible.





If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, you don't represent America's family values.








If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the
quintessential American family.



And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.
OK, much clearer now.

McCain Latin America, Spain, Whatever

Today was apparently a big day for McCain. Which was probably due since Cruella De Palin has been hogging the headlines for while. So far today-he's confused the European ally of Spain with various South American countries and then proceeded to say that he would "fire the chairman of the SEC if he were president. (Yeah it doesn't work that way--but the good 'ol' boy must have been watching O'Reilly last night---fire em' fire em'!)

So back to Spain--
The morning started with McCain giving an interview with a Spanish radio show in Miami. Click play below and listen along- It's hilarious.

Picture him, he sound 1/2 asleep, mumbling into a phone, can you see his comb over all fluffy as he rubs his eyes trying to stay awake as he reads off his handy-dandy notebook.

The reporter asked about what he would do about Latin America if he were to become president, he starts off with "...to pay more attention..."
HELLO?! This sets the tone for the rest of the call...
She clearly says...Lets talk about Spain....and asks if he would be willing to meet with Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

"I will meet with any leader who has the same principles and philosophy that we do: human rights, democracy, and liberty. And I will confront those that don't."

He babbles on about Latin America, Mexico, whatever. The poor reporter sounded shocked...she must have been thinking what good deed did I do to get this gem of a soundbite!? She actually began to stutter. Yeah I have heard the spin that McCain was 'antagonistic' towards Zapatero and 'knew exactly' what he was saying. I don't buy it. He was confused. period.
This is the same campaign that touts foreign policy expertise because the VP is from Alaska and that is pretty close to Russia.





Read more on McCain's Spain flub
Read more on McCain's statement on firing SEC Chairman Christopher Cox