Posted on 10/31/2012 8:35:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yesterday Mitt Romney turned a previously scheduled campaign event in Ohio into a hurricane relief event. Romney asked supporters to bring canned goods and other supplies to help storm victims recover on the East Coast. He only spoke for ten minutes at the event and quickly jumped in to help load supplies. His campaign bus has been accepting hurricane relief donations since Monday in Northern Virginia. Sounds like a great idea right? Not according to MSNBC.
Reporters and anchors at the far-left TV outlet were appalled at Romney's efforts to give back to the community, after all, his charity and generosity doesn't fit with their "Romney is an evil rich guy who doesn't care about regular people" narrative.
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Are these people sick? And yes you heard them correctly, they are actually criticizing Romney for trying to help people.
With all due respect to the Red Cross, they do amazing work, but they are also a large bureaucracy set up like the federal government. Andrea Mitchell made the point in the first video that Romney was collecting things "the Red Cross doesn't need" and that the Red Cross wants blood and money (which by the way, people like Mitt Romney are capable of donating large sums of money to organizations like the Red Cross because they are personally wealthy, something MSNBC has continually demonized).
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That was not an insult. It was a fact. He is a politician, si? A politician is a pander bear every time. Sorry.
Thank god you're here.
It looks like the LDS organization works with several charities and has specific action plans for natural disaster assistance. They have sent people to help the Red Cross and are working with other charities.
http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/
“We need to spin spin spin this against the MSM by saying that the MSM hates the hurricane victims.
Say that the MSM does not want hurricane victims helped by telling people to stop giving donations.”
BRILLIANT, American Constitutionalist! LOL!
DS, I’ve tried to give you the benefit of the doubt, and yes politicians are generally a-holes yadda yadda yadda, but enough is enough. Just give your money to the Red Cross, but don’t criticize people who choose other organizations and other means.
You’re wrong. I can’t find any news source that says the items collected by Romney were specifically going to the Red Cross.
In fact, at the event Romney asked supporters to text a donation to the Red Cross.... just as the Red Cross asked.
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Romney’s event in Kettering, Ohio was billed as a ‘storm relief’ event and attendees were asked to bring non-perishable foods and other items for left in need by the storm.
People left blankets, deodorants, tinned food, torches, batteries, toothbrushes and nappies on long tables and messages on two large television screens asked people to text the American Red Cross to make donations.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2225766/Superstorm-Sandy-Chris-Redfern-slams-Mitt-Romney-taking-advantage-tragedy.html#ixzz2AtS2ir6i
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So....that proves you are ‘right’? LOL!
You need to go to “Mother Jones’ to do your commentary. Everyone there would bestow you with love and kisses. Cheers, gal!
I bet if you told Romney he'd listen and stop all that pandering you say he's doing. Thanks for your support. /s
They were also collecting money, to go to the Red Cross.
And Who said that the canned goods, water, clothes and food
were going to just the Red Cross. There are other charitable
organizations that help out with this type of incident.
Matthew 25 ministries come to mind. They gladly accept all
donations.
Mike
“They have no one to sort them..no place to store them and no way to transport them to the flooded areas.”
Right. The Red Cross is asking for $$ donations so they can purchase food, water, and other supplies and then sort, store, and transport to the victims.
Got it.
I do not blabber. I made a statement. It is your comprehension that is in question. A “real” conservative? LMAO. Now That is funny!!! Your statement is just silly..nonsense.
Sweetie, I wouldn’t go near Mother Jones with a ten foot pole and I didn’t do “commentary” now, did I? I posted an article.
Romney is getting the expected leftist criticism for staging an event. Of course Obama never stages anything. It is all just spontaneous and the crowds adore him. Well, not so much any more.
Why must you be so critical? I thought we were all in this together. Just a few more days...stop seeing boogey-men everywhere.
I shared my experience with vets I knew from WWII and Korea, they had similar experiences to your uncles.
The crass, snarky attitudes from the leftards toward those who actually move goods and people to help others are mind-boggling. Those turds at MSNBC wouldn’t know a good deed if it landed on their pointy little heads.
defending Axelrod on another thread and calling him funny and attacking Romney for trying to collect supplies for storm victims saying he’s pandering is blabber to me. Liberal blabber.
Now kick rocks.
Yes, the obvious reason that Red Cross has a hard tim taking a skim off the top of canned goods.
Red Cross is NOT a worthy charity. Salvation Army does more with less.
For the record....my comments about Romney were not digs. I have made NO secret of the fact I am not voting for Romney under any circumstances. I have always been upfront about that though I owe you no explanation. Honesty does not a troll make.
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