There Can Be Only One: Artistic Newspaper Hawker Gives McCain the Boot

Back in election season (remember that?), we wrote about "Fred, just Fred," the artistic newspaper seller at Church and Market, who'd drawn impressive portraits of the presidential candidates.

While Fred only grinned when asked whom he supported, his allegience is now a little easier to spot. Only President-Elect Barack Obama's portrait remains hanging in Fred's kiosk. When asked where his drawing of Sen. John McCain was, he laughed and lifted a stack of old newspapers which had been obscuring the onetime maverick.

Poor McCain. It appears Fred has rendered him yesterday's news.