I'm happy to report the University of Maryland made it through Sandy in remarkably good condition. I will be resuming my studies in the morning as life in central Maryland begins to return to "normal". However, I certainly can't say the same for people further North and East and I continue to pray for their safety. I hope the lights come back on soon and hopefully everyone comes out of this thing okay. Best of luck to the power crews and all the emergency responders who will be leading our states out of this thing over the next several days.
Yesterday and today...oh hell, let's be honest, this entire campaign season, we've known the two men running for the presidency are VERY different. With Sandy came even more proof of that. We've now been shown who is a clear leader and who leans on others to get things done, to make him look good.
Brains and Class: Mitt Romney has completely suspended his campaign in order to help with storm relief efforts. As a former governor, he knows both how important this is and how to get it done. We have seen this in several ways so far. Before Sandy even hit, the Romney campaign was collecting donations from campaign offices all over the East Coast, piling them on a campaign bus donated to the cause, and getting them ready to ship to areas which would be in most need. Today Romney turned a scheduled campaign stop in Ohio into a massive donation collection center for the storm relief efforts. He was personally involved in collecting and loading donations down on the floor on the building they were in. Two televisions were also put on display reminding those who stopped by to send donations via text message to the Red Cross.
Stupid and Classless: So what is team Obama doing during all this? Although they've "suspended" their campaign, all that means is that Obama isn't out on the campaign trail anymore. But that hasn't stopped the campaign from sending Bill Clinton to replace Obama at every rally he was supposed to be at! Clinton appeared for Obama on Monday in Florida, on Tuesday in Colorado and will be making an appearance in the former Democrat stronghold of Minnesota tomorrow! That's no "suspension of campaign"! Romney's team is not out there having some surrogate replace him!
So that takes care of classless, I think. At least the simple part of it. Now onto brainless. Prior to the storm, Obama flew to Florida, delivered pizza to a campaign office and then flew home the next day after cancelling his rally appearance. As I saw one pundit put it, that has to be one of the most expensive pizza deliveries in history. Obama also made an appearance before the storm and reminded people to stay tuned Internet updates on ready.gov, Facebook and Twitter as well as to their televisions for storm updates. He didn't mention any phone numbers to call nor did he list any radio stations or frequencies to turn to. Last I checked, no power means NO Internet and even smart phones have a limited battery life. What a fool.
The choice has always been clear, folks. But it became a lot clearer today.
Jimmy Williams
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