In anticipation of the impending tragedy of massive hurricane Sandy, Barack Obama suspended his campaign and  hastened back to the Situation Room in the White House where he could make sure that the resources of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other national resources would be mustered to respond to the storm.

The Situation Room is the place where he can be in contact with anyone, anywhere immediately.

His sense of urgency and immediacy has garnered praise from the most unlikely of places

Mitt Romney has also been busy.  He suspended his scheduled campaign rally in Ohio and then decided that he should change it into a disaster relief photo opportunity with all of the previously scheduled big names.  I mean why waste a perfectly good photo opportunity, eh?

At this rally, he asked for donations of canned goods and used clothing for the poor disaster victims to be gathered and distributed by the American Red Cross.  Good idea, but:

The American Red Cross can’t use canned goods or used clothing as they state on their website.  In fact such donations actually hinder their work and divert critically needed manpower and monetary resources from critical task:

“Items such as collected food, used clothing and shoes must be sorted, cleaned, repackaged and transported which impedes the valuable resources of money, time, and personnel.”

It’s sort of like washing previously cleaned pots and pans.  Actually it is worse than washing previously cleanded pots and pans.  It is like taking the clean pots and pans and throwing them in the mud so that the soup kitchen would have to wash them again.

VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6 AND TELL MITT THAT CRASS PHOTO OPS ARE NOT WHAT WE WANT IN A PRESIDENT.  PLEASE HELP GET OUT THE VOTE.