Drawings & Sketches » Politics http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog Illustration Sketchblog of Brad Fitzpatrick Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sarah Palin Caricature http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1429/sarah-palin-caricature/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1429/sarah-palin-caricature/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:01:34 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/?p=1429 Here's a pretty sweet caricature of Sarah Palin drawn by Richard Thompson of the syndicated comic strip Cul de Sac. (click image to enlarge) It's actually for a Sarah Palin Finger Puppet cut-out project he did. Oh the comments I could make about that one, consider yourselves lucky that I'm refraining. :)

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1429/sarah-palin-caricature/feed/ 15 Ron Paul and Ralph Nader Video on CNN http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1254/ron-paul-and-ralph-nader-video-on-cnn/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1254/ron-paul-and-ralph-nader-video-on-cnn/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:10:51 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1254/ron-paul-and-ralph-nader-video-on-cnn/

That was awesome.

YouTube - Ron Paul and Ralph Nader on CNN 9/10/08.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1254/ron-paul-and-ralph-nader-video-on-cnn/feed/ 8 Video of Tom Woods Speaking at the Ron Paul March on Washington DC http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/506/tom-woods-speech-ron-paul-march-washington/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/506/tom-woods-speech-ron-paul-march-washington/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:36:13 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/?p=506 Video of the great speech Tom Woods gave at the Ron Paul March on Washington DC. Get Ron Paul's new book NOW, it is awesome.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/506/tom-woods-speech-ron-paul-march-washington/feed/ 0 Brad Fitzpatrick For President… http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/502/brad-fitzpatrick-for-president/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/502/brad-fitzpatrick-for-president/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:20:56 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/?p=502 Now that Ron Paul is out of the race... I've decided to throw my hat into the political arena.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/502/brad-fitzpatrick-for-president/feed/ 2 Roger Clemens Cartoon by Steve Kelley http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/468/roger-clemens-baseball-cartoons/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/468/roger-clemens-baseball-cartoons/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:30:37 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/468/roger-clemens-basball-cartoons/ I've really been enjoying the political cartoons of Steve Kelley the past few months. I thought he really hit the nail on the head with this cartoon about the...]]> Roger Clemens Cartoon - Steroids and Baseball by Steve Kelly I've really been enjoying the political cartoons of Steve Kelley the past few months. I thought he really hit the nail on the head with this cartoon about the ridiculous dog and pony show that congress is conducting over the Roger Clemens perjury situation.

Can you imagine if they took Cheney's and Bush's lies this seriously? It's obviously just a diversion so you don't pay attention to what's really going on behind the curtain. Find more Roger Clemens Cartoons right here.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/464/election-political-cartoon/feed/ 7 The Most Passionate Voter Ever. http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/460/election-cartoon-lawn-sign/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/460/election-cartoon-lawn-sign/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:01:43 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/460/election-cartoon-lawn-sign/ Election Cartoons - Political Cartoon about Passionate Voters
I've seen some pretty passionate fans of presidential candidates out there, but this guy takes the cake.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/460/election-cartoon-lawn-sign/feed/ 2 Obama Would Give You The Shirt Off His Back http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/458/obama-cartoons/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/458/obama-cartoons/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:13:32 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/458/obama-cartoons/ Barack Obama Cartoon | Ron Paul Political Cartoon
Barack Obama is the type of guy that would give you the shirt right off your neighbor's back. No doubt about it.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/458/obama-cartoons/feed/ 33 Why Romney Was Wrong to Sneer at Ron Paul’s Idea to Dismantle the FBI and CIA http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/455/romney-laughs-at-ron-paul-cia-fbi-irs/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/455/romney-laughs-at-ron-paul-cia-fbi-irs/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:31:07 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/455/romney-laughs-at-ron-paul-cia-fbi-irs/ On Tuesday I posted an audio track of a conversation between Mark Larsen and Mitt Romney on the morning of the Florida primary. Today a reader replied to that post with the following comment:

Intrigued, I listened. I don’t get it.

1.) Romney and Larsen discuss tax policy. Larsen mentions Ron Paul.

2.) Romney dismissively says Ron Paul wants to do away with the CIA and FBI.

3.) Larsen is pissed because Romney quotes Ron Paul “out of school.” Lets say this is correct and that Romney is completely out of line. Larsen should then correctly quote Ron Paul and explain why Romney’s dismissive comments is both incorrect and unbecoming of a presidential candidate. That would have been powerful.

Instead, Larsen comes unglued, “I’ve got 4,000 dead soldiers Iraq… trillion dollars… lies… debacle… and Romney is laughing about it.” Say what? Romney laughs at Ron Paul’s purported desire to dismantle the CIA, and suddenly that’s laughing at 4,000 dead soldiers?

Jeez, you’re using Larsen misquoting Roney misquoting Ron Paul to prove the election is a sham? The only sham I see here is listening skills.

You just can't separate the economy from the war. Why did we go to war? Because of bad intelligence from these agencies.

Romney is trying to use the increasing Social Security and military expenses to justify his argument against the "one tax" or the "no income tax" Ron Paul proposes.

It's a simple concept that if we stop financing our needless 2-trillion-dollar-war with Iraq and scale back our police-the-world foreign policy, we could easily afford to lower taxes.

When Romney laughs at Ron Paul about his views on dismantling the CIA and FBI, he is wrong because he's not making the connection between the war, 4000 troop deaths, and the failing economy.

Our intelligence agencies have failed us miserably despite their $40 billion annual budget. They failed to prevent 9/11. They provided Bush with false WMD information which led to the Iraq war. This in turn has accounted for almost a MILLION Iraqi deaths and over 4000 deaths of our troops along with hundreds of thousands injured and disabled.

If this isn't glaring evidence that these departments are broken, I don't know what is. For Romney to laugh off the idea of revamping and improving the agencies that caused this mess is ludicrous and shameful. ESPECIALLY when so much human life has been needlessly lost as a result. This angered Larsen and it should anger you.

Romney is "out of school" by his sneers because Ron Paul does NOT want to eliminate the concept of intelligence gathering, he wants to improve accountability so they do their job CORRECTLY having only the best interest of the American people at heart. And Romney knows it.

If the FBI & CIA did their jobs, we would not be at war and our economy would not be on the brink of recession. We would be able to have lower taxes, have a strong economy, and we would be safer by having our military HERE protecting OUR borders, not Iraq's.

It is our duty as American citizens to be educated and make these connections and judging by the results of the primaries so far, most of us are failing to do so.

Not only is Ron Paul the only candidate making these connections, he's the only one who has a real plan to fix it.

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/455/romney-laughs-at-ron-paul-cia-fbi-irs/feed/ 6 Know Before You Vote – Compare Candidate Records at a Glance http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/453/presidential-candidates-voting-records/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/453/presidential-candidates-voting-records/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:28:00 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/453/presidential-candidates-voting-records/ Here's an excellent and very useful resource where you can compare the records of the remaining candidates running for president. KnowBeforeYouVote.com is a nice tool where you can size up candidates at a glance, it also provides links to helpful sources to back up the facts. Hopefully this will be eye-opening to voters who may have their opinions skewed my the mainstream media.

Presidential Candidate Voting Records Chart

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