I mean, I get the fakey staged photo-ops. Its politics, it happens in every campaign. And I don’t know if we can blame Ryan. But we can sure blame some staffers for some piss-poor work. They couldn’t have called ahead and cleared it with the admins? They couldn’t find out what time the the fucking food was served???
And then, they should have packed up once the opportunity for a realistic photo-op was over. No harm, no foul, we’ll try again tomorrow. The candidate was badly served by his staff, IMO.
The point, though, is that he cares so very much about these poor people with their dirty soup pots that he’s willing, at considerable personal sacrifice, to endorse even greater tax relief for the overburdened Job Creators.
Then maybe we can close these filthy soup kitchens once and for all, since they only serve to foster a spirit of dependency on Big Government among the Lazy Poor.
I am willing to concede that Ryan himself probably had little to do with planning and executing the stop, and likely had no idea they hadn’t obtained permission. He knew he was pretending to wash clean pans though. He knew it was phony and staged.
What I read is his staff did call and ask if it was okay, and a volunteer not authorized to say yes, said yes. That was good enough for his staff.
Pretending to wash already-clean pans is about as lame as it gets though. Just because his staffers screwed up is no excuse for Ryan to go along with it. It was obviously past closing time (you really think Ryan would willingly get near poor people?) and most of the volunteers had gone home.
But that he has created an environment where
a) his staff thought he would be ok with it
b) they didn’t think to tell him and he didn’t think to object
Won’t somebody please think of the children? Having a Dad with such total OCD that he comes across a pile of clean dishes, and has to wash them. And he makes you do it, too!
I find this more despicable than I probably should, but dammit, helping in a soup kitchen by washing clean pans is repellant.
There are enough poor people in the country, Mr. Ryan, that you could actual find real ones to help, and genuine dirty pots to scrub. Instead, you climb right over them in an attempt to be the Vice President.
I can’t get too upset about a politician faking a photo op (likewise, I sincerely doubt the President spent any significant amount of time actually working the phone banks). I can get pissed off that Ryan and his staff did their play-acting in a way that might hurt an organization that’s actually trying to do some good, though.
Did Ryan or his campaign at least make a donation, or did they just snap and run?
Don’t close them, privatize them and run them for profit. They’ll inevitably become leaner and more efficient, part of a great juggernaut of prosperity.
Maybe we could call it, and I’m just throwing out ideas here, a “restaurant”.
It sounds to me like they wanted to show just how generous and decent a man Paul Ryan is and they demonstrate this by having him wash clean pans. I think Joe Biden got this one right during the debate: “Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.” When George W Bush pulled such photo ops at least he was pushing a policy, specifically that of faith-based methods for treating addiction. As far as I can tell, this stunt was wholly empty.
Not the worst thing a politician can do frankly. But it is, nonetheless, pathetic. Why conservatives find this charlatan with his phony plans and phony numbers to be inspiring provides a sad commentary on their utter credulousness.
The GOP has been trying to sell him as some kind of fiscal whiz, and the media did not really challenge that before he was put on the ticket, but Biden made him look rather callow in the debate.
Paul Ryan takes a break from campaigning to spend some time helping out at a local charity. His staff made sure to schedule his visit at a time that wouldn’t interfere with normal activities. The director of the charity says he wouldn’t have let the Democrats do what Ryan did.
Holy cow, I almost quoted this post to berate it, It took me a second to figure out it was satire. Well done. Watch out Fox doesn’t steal these talking points and try to use them seriously.
