Obama Helps Flood Victims, McCain is AWOL
Yesterday, we learned that the Obama campaign was using their website to organize flood assistance in the Midwest:
And today we see that Obama is putting his money where his mouth is:
Sullivan:
John McCain and George W. Bush, of course, are nowhere to be seen.
Not only is the Obama campaign helping to raise money for the relief effort, the websites Community Blogs are providing information on where volunteers who live in or near the affected areas are needed to assist local residents in building sandbag levees to protect peoples' homes. They had specific information on what towns needed help and where volunteers should go to offer their help. This included an appeal for volunteers to bring cold bottled water for the folks working at sandbagging - it is grueling hard work and the floods have contaminated many of the local water supplies.
And today we see that Obama is putting his money where his mouth is:
Sullivan:
Very deft p.r. from the Obama camp. This is the kind of thing a president would do - and the contrast with Bush after Katrina is powerful.
John McCain and George W. Bush, of course, are nowhere to be seen.
posted by Existenz | 11:15 AM
2 Comments:
Kudos to Obama for at least showing up. It is his state that was affected after all.
McGeneral, on the other hand, couldn't be bothered to make an appearance.
After that Florida photo, maybe he realizes he's too old to be moving about in the sun. Maybe he's been vampired, or told by his doc to stay out of the sun.
For all of McCain's talk about how physically fit he is, I just can't see him shoveling dirt. You're right, the guy wouldn't be able to handle the sun for five minutes without getting more skin cancer. And partly because of his war injuries and disabilities, he's probably not supposed to lift anything bigger than a birthday cake with his arms (and yes, that was a reference to the Katrina b-day cake photo).
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