So we won't.
They'll both have heroic covers, hands on hips, eyes cast on the distant horizon. And the stories of their lives inside -- and in case all of this political stuff seems too complex for anyone out there, it'll all be in drawings. IDW Publishing plans to release the comics in October.
Obama on the value of taking time off
One thing decidedly absent from Barack Obama's packed agenda overseas was a good night's sleep. As he wrapped up his travels Saturday, a fellow politician on the other side of the pond advised Obama to kick back sometime soon.
"You should be on the beach," David Cameron, the head of the British Conservative Party, told Obama in London a few hours before the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee headed home to Chicago. "You need a break. Well, you need to be able to keep your head together."
Obama told Cameron he would take a week off in August.
The pair also compared notes on the need for political leaders to make sure they keep themselves focused on the forest, not the trees -- efforts by aides notwithstanding.
Obama shared advice he said he got from an official in the Clinton White House: "The most important thing you need to do is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking."
Secret Service asks for more money
As has virtually every White House contender since the Republic began, this year's major-party presidential candidates vow to cut "wasteful" government spending and in general impose fiscal discipline in Washington.
Yet here comes news that their very pursuit of the office is adding to taxpayers' burden.
The Associated Press reported that the Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into a historic year for the agency's campaign security job.
According to the AP story, the service already had anticipated a strain on its pocketbook, budgeting $106.65 million for the 2008 campaign cycle, up from $73.3 million in 2004 (at the time, a record).
What the service didn't expect was an unusual amount of campaign-related travel by Barack Obama and John McCain outside U.S. boundaries.
Obama, of course, is wrapping up an extensive overseas trek, much of which he deemed campaign-related (his initial stops -- Afghanistan and Iraq -- were as part of an official congressional delegation). And McCain made political trips to Canada, Colombia and Mexico.
