Moonlit_Angel
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I also saw a story about some politician who just recently got arrested in...Minnesota, I believe, for being caught in a situation with a 17 year old boy. I'll have to try and see if I can hunt down that article.
I also saw a story about some politician who just recently got arrested in...Minnesota, I believe, for being caught in a situation with a 17 year old boy. I'll have to try and see if I can hunt down that article.
the reason this is not all over the media? he must not be a Republican.
Does anyone know how they decide where it's going to be? Why would you have it in FL in August? Not to mention how freaking hot and humid it is.
Irvine511 said:some of them have their hands full and probably won't be saying much:
raise your free hand if you're surprised.
Isaac headed towards NO for Katrina anniversary. Hope all those people can help themselves, no help will be coming from Mitt if he's elected. He doesn't believe in that.
The Rev. Jeffrey Brown, who heads a faith-based gang intervention group in Roxbury, Mass., and spoke frequently to Romney during his governorship, saw two facets of the man — the executive and the spiritual counselor — come together after Hurricane Katrina when the Massachusetts Legislature provided shelter on Cape Cod for evacuees. Romney wanted members of the black clergy to attend to the arrivals — because he said some would rather talk to pastors than mental health professionals — and asked Brown to lead the effort.
Romney arrived a few days later, telling Brown he wanted to hear the stories directly from the victims, many of whom were from New Orleans' hard-hit Lower 9th Ward.
"He wanted to make sure that their needs were being met," Brown said. "He brought 50 state agencies down there, and everybody's needs were attended to. I'm talking about people who left their houses in such a rush that they forgot their teeth. He had dentists down there to get them their dentures.… He was on it."
But Brown was most surprised watching Romney interact with victims — praying with them, sitting with them on park benches asking about their families, scooping up children and asking for hugs.
"He was pastoral," Brown said. "He was that person with those people."
that was the mitt of 2005 though. he seems to have severely changed his tune. maybe it's to pander to the far right, maybe he really did change his mind, who knows. but if he were president now, he wouldn't be doing stuff like that.
Unfortunately the storm won't pass by, might be a cat 2 in New Orleans with more rain and storm surge than Katrina.
Just look up what Romney would do to the FEMA budget , and what he has said about federal disaster aid. Not that FEMA has a good track record, but sympathy and compassion won't put a roof over your head when you don't have one. Church and private aid alone won't cut it either.
I don't disagree.
I'm just not a fan of "the other guy is evil" arguments--I hate it when the Right pulls that shit about Obama, and I think it's lazy when we employ the same arguments about Romney. Is he misguided about what would really help those in need? Perhaps. Is he cynically promoting policies that he hopes will cause people to vote him into office--I don't doubt it. But that doesn't add up in my mind to "this is a guy that won't show any personal compassion to suffering people when he encounters them."
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I don't disagree.
I'm just not a fan of "the other guy is evil" arguments--I hate it when the Right pulls that shit about Obama, and I think it's lazy when we employ the same arguments about Romney. Is he misguided about what would really help those in need? Perhaps. Is he cynically promoting policies that he hopes will cause people to vote him into office--I don't doubt it. But that doesn't add up in my mind to "this is a guy that won't show any personal compassion to suffering people when he encounters them."