Walt Handelsman

After 2 years of campaigning it's crunch time. If you're not nervous, you don't have a pulse.

Decisions...Decisions: Some people find it next to impossible to make one.

Email this one to your friends in the restaurant business. I'll bet they can relate to it.

Enjoy --- Walt

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I'm deep into my latest animation. Hopefully, it will be posted Monday or Tuesday, with just 2 weeks to go in the election season.
Below are some of the pieces of art I used for this one.

Stay tooned---Walt

Here's a look at what my artwork looks like before it is all individually imported into my animation program and put to work.

Joe the plumber.

I spent the day cruising around Hofstra University talking to students to get a feel for what it's like for them to be a part of the next biggest story in politics...Wednesday's Presidential Debate!!!

There's an energy on campus. You can see it...You can feel it...You can smell it...Okay, maybe you can't smell it but you can feel it. The students I spoke with talked about heightened security, school pride, heightened security, lack of parking, heightened security and how nobody knows anybody who knows anybody who actually has a ticket to the debate. They were great kids and it made me wish I was hanging out back in college again...But without all the books and tests and pressure and stuff.

I'll be drawing a full page of sketches about my day at Hofstra that I'll post here, it will also run in Wednesday's Newsday. In the meantime, here's a look at some of the stuff I saw today.

The campus is plastered with banners about the big event.

A shot from the media grandstands where the media grandstanders will be grandstanding outside the debate hall.

A makeshift sign in a dorm window across from the student center declares support for Obama. Speled lik a cartunist wrot itt!

Inside the hall, I'm struck by how small the stage is. There's hardly enough room for the candidate's egos.

Event planner prepare to install the please-stop-talking-now stop light that all the candidates ignore.

The idea of term limits seems counter Democratic to me. If voters like someone they should be able to re-elect him or her over and over again. With that said, the tone of Mayor Bloomberg's effort to change NY law so that he can seek a third term seems off-putting because of the way he has framed the issue.

I got mine today and it was uuuugggggly!

The instant debate tracking at the bottom of the screen on CNN didn't tell the whole story.

The McCain camp has come out slinging and the Obama camp has responded but is this really what most of us are thinking about these days?

David Haavik of Duluth, MN was our winner with the caption pictured above.

The 2 finalists were: Jim Lavery of Valley Stream, NY with the caption:
"Final 120 days? Am I still President?"

And Julie Waldman, from Oakland, CA with the entry:
"Just for kicks, let's pass universal health care before we leave..."

A job well done by all. Congratulations!

---Walt