Rob's Right

August 27, 2010 - Restoring Honor

Rob Smith, Jr. — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:02:51 +0000

Decided to bookend Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor event with two cartoons. One today and the next on Tuesday.

This one was entirely drawn within the Photoshop program.

August 24, 2010 - Home Invasion

Rob Smith, Jr. — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:19:42 +0000

We have been pummeled in Florida by political phone calls. Specifically what are known as “robo-calls”, which are automated phone calls where you pick up the phone and no one is there except some digitally enhanced voice hawking some candidate. I’ve been fuming about it. It wasn’t until I saw Facebook posts about the issue from three friends (G.K. Sharman, Jennifer Huber & I can’t remember who the other is) that I realized I wasn’t alone and made this cartoon.

August 20, 2010 - Obama and the Wave

Rob Smith, Jr. — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:35:02 +0000

There goes Obama! Isn’t he havin’ FUN!!??!! And not one press person around!

I have been recently slammed with work and divorce legal issues and was going to pass on both cartoons this week. I quickly knocked this out Thursday night. Entirely done with Photoshop.

August 15, 2010 - War in Afghaniatsn

Rob Smith, Jr. — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:34:56 +0000

Bob Schieffer on ‘Face the Nation’ spoke today of his friend Melvin Laird, former Defense Secretary of Nixon’s from 1969 to 1973, who speaks concern of America’s war in Afghanistan. His concern if that we are looking to Nationalize a country that lives as autonomous tribes.

I agree and it is why we will eventually fail in Afghanistan. Our country continues to view the rest of the planet as something to Americanize. It’s a nice idea, but as Paul Harvey always said: We are not one world. To pretend that people can be just like us is to make the fatal errors we made with the American indians.

I’ve been studying the fate of the Florida Seminoles in the past few months and it is astounding how stupid our country was to marginalize a group and throw money to solve a perceived problem. All we ended up doing is move around a “problem” for real estate investors with the American people holding the purse. Too many taxpayer dollars disappeared into various Government projects claiming to be for the American indians but really went to buy and sell land and large drainage projects.

The similarity is that the Seminoles wanted nothing to do with the American government, it’s money or it’s land. After a few decades of pushing, the Seminoles took it and found themselves addicted to government money. I’m concerned we’re doing it again in Iraq and Afghanistan. Democracies are good, but that is not the culture these folks live. Though it may happen to some extent initially, in the end these countries are sure to be as they have for centuries.

I would love to see more freedom and democracy, but let’s clean up our own area within our own borders first… one being by firmly establishing our own borders…. before dictating others… that is, IF even we can.

August 13, 2010 - Obama’s Slingshot

Rob Smith, Jr. — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:26:25 +0000

This was a tough one to get out. I had an extremely full day where I was on the road. I ended up drawing this at a Denny’s while waiting for my father’s delayed flight near the airport. So this one was drawn a bit more in a rush than others.

August 10, 2010 - Judges Voting

Rob Smith, Jr. — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:29:41 +0000

This is a collaborative effort between Ken Culotta and I. Ken had a great initial concept but I was struggling with it. I met with my friend Dick Daniels as I was drawing it and realized where we were going was a little hard to understand. So I quickly tinkered with the concept and came up with the cartoon above. It’s still Ken’s general message with a more direct portrayal.

August 8, 2010 - Carol Browner

Rob Smith, Jr. — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:32:42 +0000

The following is something I started writing in response to Carol Browner being on Meet the Press this Sunday morning.

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Carol Browner, lead environmental adviser to the White House & supreme disappointment involving environmental issues is talking about cleaning up the oil issue on Meet the Press. If she is to be active on the issue, we’re all in trouble, based on her past performance. While environmental secretary to Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles & then President Clinton, she did next to nothing for the U.S. or Florida, where she is from.

It’s been perplexing to me how someone so effective in environmental issues prior to the political posts suddenly, and continues, to do little. She was a powerhouse prior to bureaucratic service in Florida. I remember back in the ’80s so many things she was involved in. There was talk back when Gov Chiles brought her into, what became, the Department of Environmental Protection, that the Everglades would finally be dealt with, Growth Management strengthened and other issues. Yet, nearly the direct opposite happened.

She goes to Clinton White House with EPA and, again, environmental action from Washington slows to crawl. In fact, the graft of Everglades restoration reaches it’s height. Most of the government bucks went into “Consultants” pockets and the Everglades has, even now, seen little progress in restoration, which has to happen someway or there will be no potable water for South Florida in the future.

Someday I would love to know what the heck happened. AND how the heck she keeps being given political power? Is it that those who now bring her in know full well that they’re wanting and getting a dud? Obama has a history of not being an environmentalist and he sure chose someone for a post who acts like he seems to feel.

August 6, 2010 - Basil Marceaux

Rob Smith, Jr. — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:40:27 +0000

This is an inside cartoon for those listening to Glenn Beck on the radio. Glenn’s aid de camp and best friend, Pat Gray, and Glenn’s head writer and other best friend, Stu Briguiere, were doing their own part of the Glenn Beck Program last Wednesday. During the hour they became enamored of one candidate running for Tennessee Governor, Basil Marceaux. They went so far as to say they think he should really be running for President. this lead to Thursday and Glenn interviewing the eastern Pennsylvania native, Marceaux, on the air and more Pat & Stu talk of the political heights to be won by Marceaux.

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I had to draw something about all this. So I did.

Bill McCollum for Florida Governor!

Rob Smith, Jr. — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:58:40 +0000

I was writing a response to a post on the Red State website and realized I haven’t written anything here about our Florida Governor’s race! I hope the response get’s across my strong opposition to this carpetbagger Scott:

Rick Scott is a mess. Scott moves to Florida a few years ago and has never been involved in politics, except as a lobbyist, he botched his own business and was thrown out by his own board, and apparently has yet to visit much of our great state to even know where he is. Considering he has only gotten to where he is by buying his way into everything, I have to question how he can be a successful politician. Business and public service are entirely different and can not be handled the same. I’d like to see this guy start smaller with a county commission seat first and see how he performs before putting him in charge of a state he doesn’t even understand.

Everytime I hear this guy talk, I realize that his talk could be for any state in the country. He never addresses specific Florida issues. From everything I can find out about the guy, he, much like Obama, is only JUST NOW visiting the state during campaign tours. Look at what a great understanding Obama has of the U.S. Out state is very, very different from Pensacola to Fort Jefferson. The people are different and the politics are different. If you don’t know how to navigate those narrow shoals, your boat is doomed. Ask any state-wide politician, real estate folks, tourism people or just travelers that traverse the state. It ain’t the same. You have to know it. Rick Scott does not.

I was supporting McCollum before all this Scott mess. I’ve been a fan of McCollum since he got in office. Anytime I’ve heard someone say there is not an honest politician anywhere, I point to McCollum. He has had a squeaky clean career… and he sure knows Florida. He’s been here all his life and traveled it extensively. He’s been a solid conservative with a slew of accomplishments.

Let’s let Scott take a smaller political position, if he truly wants to be a public servant, and see if he can handle it. In the meantime, let’s get a knowledgeable, successful public servant as Bill McCollum to be our next great Governor.

August 3, 2010 - Pelosi Swamped

Rob Smith, Jr. — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:33:51 +0000

As this bubbles up, Pelosi and friends are in trouble.