Political Cartoon #1:

In the cartoon, Barack Obama is asking whether the cars, the top three car companies, would like a bailout that would save them from crashing. The cars have huge eyes and an innocent look to them, sort of sucking up to Obama. The Obama daughters in the background seem a little annoyed, probably because that was not the idea that had of getting a pet. I sort picked up a negative tone to the cartoon. Obama seems to be portrayed as "unwise" or "unaware." The cartoonist apparently believes that Obama’s decision on simply giving away so much money is rash and that Obama is oblivious to its consequences. The cars (and chiefs of the companies), of course, would be begging for money to save their seats and wealth. Taxpayers may not be too happy to hear that billions of dollars they paid will be used to save companies whose chiefs had private jets fly them to the hearing in Washington D.C.

Source: www.cagle.com

Service Hours - Blog #3

Election Day at Herndon High School was interesting. I arrived with my parents at around 11 AM and the lines looked like they were dying down. My parents waited for about 15 minutes while I started helping out the other volunteers. I was surprised to see that there were no volunteers from Herndon High (at least for the time I was there). There were a couple older people and the Girl Scouts, but that was pretty much it. Voters were given the choice of using the machine or paper ballots, and most people chose the machines. I basically handed out flyers and stickers. It was sort of boring so I finished up my last couple of hours and left. But I’m glad I got the chance to campaign and volunteer for elections and to be a part of Barack Obama’s historic victory. :)

Service Hours - Blog #2

The day before the election, November 3rd, Danielle and I got together to go canvassing again. I’m not really sure if it would be called "canvassing," but we went door-to-door again only this time we simply had to hang a little sign on the doors to remind voters their local polling place (and to vote). I was a lot more relaxed because of the experience I got from canvassing on Saturday, we wouldn’t have to talk much to the people, and that Danielle was with me. We went over to Sydney Kudeviz’s house where her mom was volunteering as a site coordinator (and where it was a lot less crowed and hectic). She gave us a packet full of the hanger-things and a folder with more lists of people and addresses. Then we headed back behind the school to devise a canvassing route. We moved pretty fast because we were only hanging the things, and it was nice. I noticed that most of the households consisted of forty- or thirty-year-olds. And I also noticed how a couple of the doors had “No Soliciting” signs on them…but we still put the signs up…Oh well.

Service Hourse - Blog #1

Last Saturday, I decided to go canvassing for the Obama campaign. To be frank, I would have rather called people or sealed envelopes, but canvassing was okay. Our group was given a list of people that had voted Democratic in the past election, so the fear of encountering a hardcore Republican that would shoot me was eased a bit (I think their might have been a few Republicans on the list).On the paper, people’s addresses, household voters, ages, and gender were all listed in addition to their views on Barack Obama and a couple other things. I’ve never been canvassing before so I was kind of nervous, but I knew the people couldn’t be as bad as some really rude people I meet at Target. So I went door-to-door, but only one or two people on each street would even bother to answer the door or they just politely shut the door, so it wasn’t too bad.