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Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney talks to supporters calling for donations during a storm relief campaign event to help people who suffered from hurricane Sandy, in Kettering, Ohio, on Oct. 30, 2012.
KETTERING, OH — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney collected donated supplies for hurricane victims on the East Coast on Tuesday, while urging supporters to give money to the Red Cross at a hastily arranged "relief event" in Ohio.
"Thank you for your help and your generosity," Romney told supporters, as he stood on a table surrounded by donated goods, at the location of a planned campaign rally this morning. "If you have a little extra, if you have more canned goods, bring them along to our victory centers that are open. But also if you can write a check to American Red Cross that's welcome as well. We're looking for all the help we can get for all the families in need."
Romney had been scheduled to hold a full-fledged campaign rally in this same building until late yesterday, when the campaign said it was scrapping Romney's political calendar as Hurricane Sandy approached the East Coast. Monday night, the campaign announced this morning's event was back on, but the focus would be storm relief — with Romney making no formal remarks, and no political agenda attached.
Attendees were asked by the campaign to bring donations of non-perishable goods, which are to be trucked to a Red Cross office in Sewell, NJ — or to give to the red cross directly.
Gov. Mitt Romney attended a storm relief event in Ohio, urging supporters to "make the difference in the life of one or two people" by donating goods to benefit the victims of Superstorm Sandy.
Romney's remarks were indeed without a political focus, with no direct mention of the election now just one week away, or of President Barack Obama or any specific campaign issue. After speaking and packing boxes, Romney and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman helped load the donated supplies into a truck for shipment, ignoring questions about whether he planned to tour storm damaged areas, and on his views of the future of FEMA.
Despite effort to the contrary, no political event can be entirely apolitical in late October of an election year, and some trappings of a rally remained here. Romney's long biographical video played once, well before Romney arrived at the venue, and outside the arena vendors sold buttons and hats to attendees as they left.
Mandy Hess, an administrative assistant at a medical office in Kettering who attended the event with her teenage son, said she wasn't bothered by the hint of politics mixed in with the relief effort.
"It's letting you know who he is as a person and what his roots are, and that people and family are what's important to him so I think that ties into the relief effort," Hess said.
The GOP nominee himself kept his focus on the storm victims, and tried to strike an uplifting tone, telling supporters that their effort, however small in the grand scheme of things, would matter.
"I know that one of the things I've learned in life is you make the difference you can," Romney said. "And you can't always solve all the problems yourself, but you can make the difference in the life of one or two people as a result of one or two people making an effort."
The campaign resumes in full force Wednesday, with Romney planning three rallies in Florida, while his vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan hits the trail in Wisconsin.
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If Romney was helping hurricane victims today by tomorrow it will have been a tornado and next week a tsunami.
Romney lied??? Can't be.
Bloomberg.com has an article about Obama, Chrysler and Jeep....JEEP IS INDEED MOVING TO CHINA.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html
OBAMA IS A LIAR.
You can't possibly be this stupid...LOL!!!
Clown down halfwit brown !!!
"Chrysler currently builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."
Have somebody read this to you, and then explain it...
OMG.. what a halfwit rube....
DownTownJulieBrown, what Bloomberg wrote is what Romney said. These halfwit rube twit libtards have no idea and only get there news from msnbc and huff po and media matters, ALL socialist propaganda machines
Julie
Why do you feel the need to continue to embarrass yourself? Isn't your candidate doing that well enough so far?
This is how bad Romney's record on emergency management really is........the money quote from the following article is: "His understanding of why you have government, I don't think he ever had it."
No wonder the people of Massachusetts hate Romney.
You site huff po and call it news worthy? What a twit!
I'm not sure why you're shooting the messenger, but if you follow the link you'll notice that the report is actually by the Boston Globe.
What a moron!
Romney asked that all his supporters to "donate"......to the Mormon Church...he still has some tax credits he needs to use up
For all these REAL AMERICANS devastated by this storm... It's a good thing Obama is president and not Romney. Using the federal government for disaster relief sure works a lot better than praying for relief because you have no other choice because you have eliminated FEMA.
BTW... How long until we have to listen to the usual republican BS about how gay marriage caused this storm?
OICY, now that was STUPID and shows you have no idea what your talking about.
The Oama / Biden ticket is taking on lots of water... and their sinking ship is going under to the bottom, never to be seen again... Its clear they're clueless to what real leadership is and what makes America great... These mis-handlers of American values, and American Exceptionalism have squandered a great opportunity to turn this country around but because their narcissistic liberal ways prevent them from using commen sense, they consistently pervert the process in an attempt to right he ship...
How incompetent can you possibly be???
No doubt because they are losing BIG in the polls and with the American people by the millions including Blue states -- they have to resort to nasty policital attacks to gain an advantage but the American people see through this failed administration and will abandon it in every state... Romney is a much better man all the way around and is the only presidential looking candidate in this race ...
I smell d-e-s-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n- coming from you "djames"...keep those meds close at hand for the 6th...you are going to need them!
I know the truth hurts b-dune.. but the pain will be over in a few more days... but I'm sure your pain will continue on for many years to come.... so get cured of your liberal disease ... like many others who have seen the light...
The truth?....good grief - you do realize of course that you failed to show links to "the polls" that show Obama is losing "BIG"!
I'll stick to my original thought......you smell desperate....and the satisfying part to me is knowing you know exactly what I'm saying!
Enjoy the next week....then cherish the memories of the last time you had a smirk on your face...because after next Tues - it will be impossible for you to turn that frown of yours upside down!
I wonder how much of his millions or goods he has donated to these victims? Oh Wait it's not his responsibility to try and help the 47% who "think " are victims..... What a loser I sincerely hope we do not have to deal or hear from him for the next 4 years.
He is a creep
KJ....These are your words, not Romneys. Tell your bro Obama to get off the golf course and help Romney help the hurricane victims
Obama-Blame America
Romney's words are... Using the federal government to help disaster victims is 'Immoral'.
And you OICY have no idea of the rest of President Romneys quote, do you?
Context:
sonmanvb,
And what is so hard to understand? He said he supports putting the relief responsibilities onto the states, and maybe even private companies, and not the feds, therefore, no FEMA. Spending money on FEMA is immoral (in his opinion and statement)- at least this statement, who knows what he'll say now!
Romney 2011 taxes: Mitt gives more to charity than President Obama, Joe Biden
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81529.html
The Mormon Church is NOT a charity! And Romney only gives what is required by the Church!
The Mormon church..donates to tons of different charities...UNLIKE OBAMA...he just keeps his money...how disgraceful.
nice spin Julie.....did you also notice he gave more then Paul Ryan did?
What the Mormon Church does with the money Romney gives them (because he is required to) is not under Romney's control. If it was... the Mormon Church would be giving it right back to Romney + whatever any other Mormons were forced to give the Church!
A hurricane relief rally...that just happens to be in Ohio, the state he needs most. the headline should read, "Romney Takes Advantage of a Tragedy in a Disgusting Display of Political Opportunism". this guy has no shame, no empathy, no moral compass. he wants to get elected. that's the only thing he values.
bp------I guess if you look for dirt long and hard enough youll eventually find it. Even if it isnt there!
10 MILLION+ people without power now after the Hurricane....
WHAT IS OBAMA'S SUGGESTION???
FEMA, W.H. send storm victims to Internet
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83024.html?hp=l10
EVERYTHING OBAMA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TOUCHES..GOES STRAIGHT TO THE SH$TTER.
opposed to Romney who says the hell with FEMA and that he can get some power into the areas at whatever the "free market" would dictate!
btw Julie - I'm sure Romney could get some cleanup workers in from China to help out at a reasonable price!
b dune----Seems like your guy Obama could at least give a little to his brother who lives in a grass hut in Africa. Where are his family values?
that's it "usunder"....really, that's all you got?
Why Chuckles - isn't this contrary to your campaign talking points about ending entittlements, FEMA, redistribution of wealth and personal responsability?
Once again, another photo op at the expense of the American people huh?
My oh my how you FLIP-FLOP, FLIP-FLOP, FLIP-FLOP, FLIP-FLOP.......................
How what Mitt is doing a "flip-flop"?
Do you understand "personal responsibility", "redistribution of wealth" and "entittlements".
Giving to help each other in times of need is a part of "personal responsibility". BUT when the government does it, they have to take it from some one else first. YOU had to earn what you give to help others.
"A lot of people are hurting this morning, " says Romney. Well, Governor, in retrospect, do you think your plans to slash FEMA's budget make any sense?
Unless you're independently wealthy, Romney's plans to gut safety net programs should scare the daylights out of every American. Why? Because any one of us could be struck by disaster. It could be a natural calamity like this storm. It could be cancer or another terrible disease. It could be an awful car accident.
We could lose our job and discover that there's little demand for our skills, that we need to return to school to retrain. Problem is, Romney will raise the cost of student loan borrowing by bringing bank middlemen back. Romney will slash Pell Grants. Romney says if you want to go to college, borrow the money from your parents
What happens when the company lays us off, we can't afford Cobra, we lose our insurance, we have a pre-existing condition the insurers refuse to cover, we go over our lifetime cap, our elderly parent needs Medicaid to cover nursing home care, we're 54 years old or under and were counting on Medicare's promise, etc., etc,. etc.
This scary world will become scarier with Romney in office repealing the Affordable Care Act, Vouchering Medicare, slashing Medicaid, cutting back on student aid, and a raft of other safety net programs.
Funny that he is in OHIO where the votes might make a difference, and not in New York or New Jersey, where the real storm is wreaking havoc. This is about like Ryan washing the clean pots and pans in the soup kitchen. Go where you are needed, or better yet, just GO!!
You don't expect Romney to really help those who need help... They are part of the 47% who feel they are victims in need of help this morning. The heck with them. Millionaires need a tax break!
Boxer and OICY....Is there ANY time when you libs stop acting like a bunch of haters????????
I thought you were the "tolerant" ones, the ones that "care".
Instead all we see is FILTH from you, even in the middle of this disaster.
He's in Ohio you "genius" because that is where there is NO DISASTER and people can help. How many donations could he get in New Jersey or New York where the disaster is?????
Some people are born STUPID and you can't teach it out of them, no matter how "progressive" the instruction.
OICY..........Nonsense. Watch some news other than MSNBC and learn what Romney is doing. BTW, wheres Obama?
Romney is doing a photo Op. Show me some pictures of Romney helping disaster victims when an election is not a week away.
Oh. And Obama is doing what a president needs to be doing right now... Being in charge of the Federal Emergency Disaster Relief Effort.
And what's Obama doing OICY? He was just on TELEVISION at the Red Cross National Headquarters doing a PHOTO OP. And he wasn't collecting a SINGLE THING for the people in New York or New Jersey.
I don't see you saying a SINGLE thing about that though.
And by the way, the President is NOT in charge of the Federal Emergency Disaster Relief Effort.
Craig Fugate is the FEMA director and it is HIS responsibility, and the people that work for HIM to be in charge of disaster relief efforts.
If Obama takes charge, we can expect him to do the same thing that he did to the Americans in Libya, TURN HIS BACK ON THEM AND LET THEM DIE.
No... Obama has nothing to do with all the Federal Disaster Relief Efforts this morning. You really are a nit-wit Cheryl. Now wonder you worship Romney!
Ryan wouldn't have looked good at this event after he was caught pretending to wash pots and pans at a Youngstown, Ohio soup kitchen.
Actually OICY I worship NO MAN. However you are obviously just another Obama shoe licker. Got those knee pad comfortable OICY?
You attack Romney for actually going out and COLLECTING donations from the people to help those in trouble and call it a "photo op". Meanwhile the President collects NOTHING and makes a speech at the Red Cross Headquarters and you apparently think that's some kind of "leadership". Too bad he didn't show the same "leadership" while Americans were BEGGING for help in Libya. Too bad that he didn't provide some relief to Americans being MURDERED in Libya as the White House watched them die in REAL TIME from a drone flying overhead.
Why's Obama at the Red Cross if he so "in charge" of Federal disaster relief? That's a FEMA responsibility, NOT a Red Cross responsibility.
If Obama was so "in charge" he'd be at the FEMA Headquarters genius.
BACK IN 2008 PRESIDENT OBAMA promised he would hold back the oceans. HE FAILED......i'm voting for MITT.
Obama may not be able to hold back the oceans... But Mitt can't even keep his foot out of his mouth!
Guess what? Neither candidate can do anything about the world economy. The Eurozone Credit Crisis is a drag on the entire world economy. Neither candidate can do anything about the worst drought in U.S. history. Neither candidate can do anything in the near term about high gas prices. The price at the pump is a function of international supply and demand.
Nonetheless, Romney promises BIG CHANGE. What many voters don't seem to realize is that Romney's tax plan won't rev up growth or hiring. The non-partisan Congressional Research Service has studied the effect of tax cuts for the wealthy. They don't boost the economy. The only thing they do is widen income inequality.
Google "tax cuts for the rich don't spur growth" and you'll see what I'm saying. [url] [/url]
Trickle Down Economics doesn't work. It makes the rich richer (because they're paying less taxes) and it makes the middle class and the poor poorer.
The only BIG CHANGE will get from Romney is the shredding of the Federal Safety Net.
Governor Romney comforts the masses......." this reminds me of a story. As a young man our high school sport team faced a problem as someone had discarded refuse and other paper products on our playing area. Well I thought we should organize a club to supervise the cleaning of our sport area. We began ordering the poorer students and the gay students and the minority students to gather some receptacles so that we could begin revamping our playing area. Some, about 47% of them, just wanted a free handout. So we took many of them, and me in my State patrol outfit, and a few of the stronger boys in my club, held the socialist students down while I applied a good grooming of their hair. It was a marvelous thing..."
Moronic idiocy.
How "helpful" you "progressives" are in the middle of this disaster.
Is there a time that you EVER stop your filth?
Mitt is a Twit cheri....deal with it. p.s. Filth is more like saying when a woman gets raped she can't get pregnant because the female body has a way of "shutting that whole thing down" !!! NOW THAT IS FILTHY !!!! p.s.p.s. I sent my fifty bucks off to the RED CROSS yesterday...and you ?? oh wait...that would be a hand out now wouldn't it ....
But Cowboy... Cheryl knows better than anyone that the republicans are right when they say women get raped because they deserve it!
No cowboy, FILTH is throwing out name calling because you can't actually think of ANYTHING ELSE to attack a man for.
And by the way, my entire SAVINGS went to the Red Cross, not counting what was given in clothes and canned goods to the people collecting in my town. While I don't have a lot of savings, I can guarantee you it's a lot more than your little PITTANCE of a "contribution".
Hand outs are when people think they are "owed" something for doing nothing. The people in New York, New Jersey, and the other areas in trouble DESERVE help because they did something, they SURVIVED a disaster and actually ARE entitled to all the help we can give them.
And as for your STUPID rape comment, Romney did NOT say it, so why do you try to tie him to it? You libs do this all the time. One man makes a stupid remark and you say it's the WHOLE party that thinks this way. Based on that, and on the actions of one Bill Clinton, that means that EVERY Democrat is an adulterer, Felony purgerer, accused sexual assaulter, and womanizer. While one man SAYS something and you say it's the whole party that thinks that way, for Democrats one man DID something, several times and therefore the entire party is the exact SAME thing.
And OICY, I HAVE BEEN RAPED, so take your garbage and stick it!! I'm sure to someone like you it's just "wonderful" that someone that you disagree with politically has been raped by some pig of a man, but I'll tell you now I received more empathy, sympathy, and HELP from the conservatives that live in my area than I EVER did from any liberals. And I'm sure that your reply, if you have the GUTS to actually reply, will have absolutely NOTHING in it but more trash from you.
OICY.....Now pay attention, Ill say this only once. Mitt Romney wasnt the one that said it!
Cowboy, I just can't imagine your scenario....it sounded like the poor actually had to contribute something to the overall effort.
Sounds so implausible.
Cheryl, but Romney didn't personally refute it, his campaign was lukewarm in distancing themselves and that gives tacit approval by omission and silent on Mourdock, won't answer questions, should tell you something. Equal Work for Equal Pay, Lily Ledbedder Act? Romney could care less about the home cooks whether they get dinner on the table at 6pm or they get cheated out of their equal pay.
Obama 2012
Obama's inFamous Quotes:
"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go."
"We've got Israels back" LOL
"you didn't build that, someone else made that happen"
"I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community."
"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..."
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
"It was a youtube video"
"Stand Down"
“If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.”
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“I think that they played the race card on me. We now know, from memos from the campaign, that they planned to do it all along.”-- Bill Clinton..
djames....I can't stop laughing to actually post.........you are one funny guy!
you have to track down all those statements, write them down...
dems have it alot easier........it is simple enough to just state "Romney has lied everytime he has opened his mouth"!
you keep up the hard work though....I'm sure the "57 states" quote will swing alot of dems/ind back to the GOP!
Ops, I forgot one...
"you are the son of a motherless goat"
Romney is a liar and a hater and totally unfit for .... well, for anything!
Planned parenthood...I'll defund that...FEMA....I'll defund that....Capitol gains tax break....OH YEAH BABY !!! MITTY LIKEE !!!
b dune, you give him way too much credit for thinking he looked up all those on his own. I'm positive he went to some right-wing Obama-hate blog and just cut-and-pasted the lot all at once.
Not only was this a nakedly political attempt to make Romney look like he gives a cr*p about anyone other than himself:
But it is also a preview of how Romney intends to handle all natural disasters after he eliminates FEMA: Collect canned goods, maybe even hold a bake sale. "Your entire neighborhood was wiped out in a fire that resulted from the worst storm since 1938? Here's a jar of pickles and a can of cat food! Have a nice day."
This is the worst excuse for a candidate or even a human being that has come along in a very long time.
What else would you expect from a republican administration? Disaster Relief? That money is for the military and subsidies for oil companies.
Yeah, neighbors helping other neighbors is so pointless. Let the government take them pickles and cat food.
Jan don't have a clue what the role of the FEMA is in these disasters. That's why she is voting for Romney.
No, of course, I don't know anything about the role of FEMA. Certainly, that wouldn't have been apparent to me as a front-line volunteer after Katrina. Neither would FEMA's shortcomings have been apparent to me.
Are they still using O's campaign buses to get people to the polls for early voting? Funny that no one has asked that. BTW Where are his busses? I am positive the O campaign cannot use those busses as the campaign is already in dept up to their eyeballs. Way to control your own spending DNC losers
Romney politicizing the suffering of others. What a cad.
Real people with real needs will be served by this. Good for him.
really jan ???....really ???.....pathetic......thats what it is....PATHETIC !!!
Romney's probably going to ship those canned goods to the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City! Like any good Mormon would do.
Yes, really. That food and other items will go to REAL people who have REAL needs. THere is NOTHING pathetic about collecting urgently-needed items to assist others who have lost EVERYTHING.
But Jan and Romney believe that using the Federal Government to assist disaster relief victims is 'Immoral'.
This a simply photo op for romney like ryan cleaning clean pans. Shame on the dweebs
Jan, don't waste your time talking with these hard case liberals who cannot be changed into something that is good... its like talking to a brick wall... these are the ones who have lost all feeling to what is good and right...
Seared in their minds... devils.. loving what is wrong and hating what is good..
OICY, let me know if you'd like to know what I actually believe about that or whether you'd just as soon carry on with your assumptions. :)
War is good, right James? FEMA is bad, right James? Oil Subsidies are good, right James? Disaster victims are bad, right James?
So, Romney is collecting donations for those in desperate need? He must intend to be a "Bake Sale President"
What have you done so far today to help someone who is suffering?
Dems / libtards are in deep doodoo.. with the election lost, now they will have to go get REAL jobs when Romney takes the oath of office... LOL... the O train wreck of free handouts and free lunches will be over.. Time to get off your brains and get a real job instead of mooching off the government...HAHAHA
Yes, its going to be painful but you like it that way.....lol
Mooching off the Government... Like all those Disaster Relief Victims that Obama is using the Federal Government to assist this Morning? You can bet Romney views these as people who think they are 'Victims' and he isn't going to help them.
Since when does O care about anyone but himself... the only reason he is trying to assist people is because Romney is taking the lead on doing that very thing... O is always behind...
Ask the black community if O has helped them.. the answer is NO!... same can be said for any other ethnicity..
Everyone who lives in tornado alley, near coast cities and low lying areas near rivers/streams need to consider if Romney is their man. Does your state have the where-with-all to handle such large crisis? Better hope so because Romney wants to cut FEMA.
Btw we all ready know the red states don't
Red Cross tells us grateful for Romney donation but prefer people send money or donate blood don't collect goods NOT best way to help
Is anyone surprised that Romney (who never helped anyone before in his life) don't know the best way to help people?
When I volunteered in a local shelter for Hurricane Katrina refugees, the Red Cross said the same thing. But somehow, the hundreds of DONATED blankets, the thousands of DONATED bottles of water, the untold amounts of DONATED food, and the enormous quantities of DONATED hygiene products were somehow used. The entire time I was there, I never saw a single person eating money or using it to clean themselves.
jan that is a LIE...Haven't you seen the picture of Mitt eating money while the rest of the BAIN gang wash with it !!! Know your facts !!!
The Red Cross STOCKPILES these DONATED goods in local and regional shelters. It prefers DONATED money to replenish the DONATED goods as logistically it is far better for the Red Cross to replenish them locally afterward than to store and then ship DONATED goods from all over the country.
They can prefer whatever they want to prefer. I'm just telling you what my experience has been as a volunteer. After Katrina, goods were donated DIRECTLY to shelters -- and those items were used right then and there BEFORE the Red Cross was even dispatched. Collected, brought over and donated by local individuals and local businesses.
Right now there is no practical way to get goods from Ohio to the affected areas on the East coast as the transportation network there is in shambles. The Red Cross would have to collect and then store the goods for future use. This is why the Red Cross is urging monetary donations at this time instead of packaged goods.
Did he collect them at the same place Ryan washed those pots?
Mitt Romney - the 45th President of the United States -- In a landslide victory!!!
How is that? Is he going to run Unopposed in 2016? I bet Hillary might have something to say about that.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1932745633001/media-coverage-of-attack-in-libya-called-into-question
Obama is having a hard time holding on to so-called blue states... he will lose a few of those too.... ;)
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2012/10/was-sandy-planned-back-in-1997-1997-drill-was-based-upon-1938-killer-hurricane-2445656.html