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What they dont show you tells you everything you need to know.

"With shovel in hand, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited a flood zone in Quincy, Illinois on Saturday. Obama helped locals fill sandbags to place on the banks of the Mississippi river.
Obama has vowed to push for state and federal aid to help victims of the floods."

Kinda brings a tear to your eye, doesnt it? Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, taking time away from his busy schedule to fill sandbags. Message: He cares, he really really cares...

Ok, Let's try looking it this way. We will just adjust the camera angle ever so slightly and look at what is revealed:

"...With shovel in hand, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited a flood zone in Quincy, Illinois on Saturday. Obama helped locals fill sandbags to place on the banks of the Mississippi river. Obama has vowed to push for state and federal aid to help victims of the floods."

Gee, that camera angle doesnt quite tell the same story as the text, now does it? If they want to use that picture, it would have to go with text like this:

...Like all posturing politicians who have always proven all too ready to exploit a scene of natural disaster and personal tragedy for the benefit of their politics, Senator Obama with over 100 members of the media his secret service staff as well as his own campaign staff, and visited a flood zone in Quincy, Illinois on Saturday. Senator Obama distracted the effort by pretending to help locals fill sandbags to place on the banks of the Mississippi river while the massive press and politcal staff stood by passing out campaign buttons and bumper stickers to those who had recently lost all of their belongings in the flood. Senator Obama has vowed to push for state and federal aid to help victims of the floods, which is almost entirely guaranteed and unopposed by all elements of both the state and federal government. Locals who were on the scene during the "campaign circus" were heard to ask the candidate if he would allow the Army Corps of Engineer to dredge the river or repair the levees, so that this sort of disaster wouldnt happen in the future. In response, the candidate and his staff was heard to laugh to themselves as he retreated into their SUV convoy and drove to the next fundraiser.

It should be noted that while Senator Obama has raised over 100 million dollars in campaign funding in the last few months and breaking all records for fundrasing in the process, he has yet to offer to donate any of these "windfall" funds to the towns in his home state who have been effected by this disaster.

Hero or Opportunist? It all depends on how you look at it I guess.

(Hat tip to The Great Hugh Hewitt)

Posted @ June 15, 2008 02:51 PM | Current Affairs

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