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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is the pic on the front page of The Washington Post tonight. This is our President.
This is why he must win next week.

Panasonic
(2,921 posts)That is not Rmoney doing this - I swear to you!
Hamlette
(15,556 posts)66 dmhlt
(1,941 posts)The Raleigh NC News Observer:
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=NC_NO&ref_pge=lst
The Dayton OH Daily News
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=OH_DDN&ref_pge=lst
The Hamilton OH Journal News
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=OH_JN&ref_pge=lst
The Middletown OH Journal
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=OH_MJ&ref_pge=lst
The Lynchburg VA News & Advance
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=VA_NA&ref_pge=lst
And a similar one on USA Today
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=USAT&ref_pge=lst
rivegauche
(601 posts)GentryDixon
(3,149 posts)My comment: What a compassionate man. Nothing like the soulless empty suit that is Mitt Romney.
Faygo Kid
(21,492 posts)Romney is an empty suit.
tridim
(45,358 posts)You don't have to vote for him, but don't tell me he doesn't care about the people he serves.
Don't you wonder how people cannot love this man?
progressoid
(53,179 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Thanks I needed that.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)schmice
(248 posts)sickwidit
(19 posts)Cha
(319,067 posts)AllyCat
(18,842 posts)JanT
(229 posts)He must and WILL win.
Blue Idaho
(5,500 posts)I'm thinking - Thank You Mr. President!
Get Out the Vote!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Always a beautiful thing. Thanks for posting that Faygo Kid.
Julie
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)He recoils from common folk as if they carry Leprosy.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)
Faygo Kid
(21,492 posts)Take your untold millions to the Cayman Islands, and let the rest of us work together, Ann.
japple
(10,459 posts)of peas and disposable baby diapers, not to mention the bottles of water, countless trips to Walmart is more than Mitt can handle. I fear for his mental health!
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)I can actually hear her saying that.
mckara
(1,708 posts)and we MUST!!!
BlueNoteSpecial
(141 posts)nolabear
(43,850 posts)outsideworld
(601 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)POTUS - experience required: Community Organizing
renate
(13,776 posts)
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Poor woman, poor community... they must be just devastated.
Faygo Kid
(21,492 posts)Words are not enough.
KatyaR
(3,639 posts)Not one arm, but both arms and hands in a true embrace of comfort. Puts a big ol' lump in my throat.
If this man is not re-elected, I don't know what I'll do....
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)I could no longer call America my home.
I'm all teary looking at that photo. If tyhe unthinkable happens, I absolutely will fall apart.
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)Truly.
forestpath
(3,102 posts)So_Blue
(43 posts)Calypso0956
(88 posts)Very compassionate man.
You can see the despair in this woman's face and even tho she is a stranger to him, he's opened himself up to her- threatening his own safety, and gave her a shoulder to cry on.
No, I could never imagine Romney nor Ryan doing this for one of our citizens. Ryan can go stick his brillo pad up his ass.
I have much respect for THIS man.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)On TV, through the crowd, the President appeared to be rocking a lady. I could just make out the back of her head.
Very touching!
JB126
(165 posts)I love my Prez.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)louslobbs
(3,416 posts)Lou
classof56
(5,376 posts)He is amazing. Haven't been praying a lot lately, but I do send supplications skyward on a regular basis these days, that our President is re-elected and we are worthy of his governance.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Faygo Kid
(21,492 posts)klook
(13,600 posts)I guess we will all be fighting this battle for the rest of our lives.
It's amazing how many Americans have been suckered into believing the Republican crock of "rugged individualist / pioneer stock / self-reliant / bootstraps" Mumbai-jumbo.
whathehell
(30,468 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)That is all I can say.
Bake
Actionman
(115 posts)you can't get a job (city job) unless you're a republican... That kind of republican town. But you see those people coming out to meet and greet both Obama and Christy.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Faygo Kid
How great man he really is. If he doesn't get elected next week, i really fear for US...
This is something Romney would never do in a million years - maybe not even two million years.. President Obama have shown a gracefulness that I doubt anyone else could have shown in the current climate...
He is a REAL man, not a empty shell of a man like some others out there...
Diclotican
catbyte
(39,152 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)wisteria
(19,581 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)there's no way Obama could have planned this--nor would he even if it were possible--but this event SHOWS people why we need government. Some things are too big. Too important. Too fundamental.
You can tell people a million facts a millions times, but with the right example, you only have to show them once.
llmart
(17,617 posts)He makes me proud to be an American and to say I voted for this wonderful man, TWICE!
He must win. The future of our country depends on it.
elbloggoZY27
(283 posts)I am very convinced that Mr Obama is the President of the United States and traveled to New Jersey to be with the Governor at a time of a real tragedy called Sandy.
The GOP candidates could not fill his shoes under any circumstance.
This is what real Presidents do for the Country in times like this.
Come November I will vote for the President who deserves another four years.
Thanks Mr President.
Marie Marie
(11,309 posts)No one could have handled this any better than he.
Historic NY
(40,037 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)came up to that same woman and said, "And here are some canned goods."
redStateBlueHeart
(265 posts)I might be wrong, but I don't recall Bush ever embracing the people who survived Katrina like that. Gotta give props to Chris Christie too for showing respect.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)NY, NJ and CT really need his help and hard work. And Craig Fugate too. As a Nutmegger, I appreciate it.
I saw pics from my brother tonight about the damage near his house. He lives in Lyme, CT. Old Lyme is on the shore and Lyme is the town after it. Huge trees fell near them and could have hit their house. It was really frightening. He has no power and is using his generator sparingly. Could be 7 to 10 days. A huge tree fell on their power lines.
My cousin on Long Island will be without power for 10 to 15 days. We understand it will take tons of hard work to bring these states back to normal again. But I want this man to stay in office to make it smoother and run well.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I'm far more interested in voting for Democrats for policy. If you want to vote for them for hugs, be my guest, but you're not really helping for the long term.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)And that includes a lot of compassion for 100% of the people, rather than being a class apart that can't touch 47% of the people.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Is Obama a decent human being? I think he probably is, but I have no interest in the cult of personality. I'm a pragmatist about it. When there's a candidate calling for serious electoral reform, and bringing the US into the first world policy-wise (universal single-payer healthcare, abolition of the death penalty, modern infrastructure, etc.) I'll start to think they really have my best interests at heart. Until that happens, I'm going to vote for the guy who at least has some policies that I think are good. I'm not looking for 100%, because I doubt I'll ever get it, and I think promising it is a set-up for bitter disappointment.
spicegal
(758 posts)president. There's nothing democratic or compassionate in the way high level CEO's run big business. It's the nature of the beast. Profit of shareholders is their #1 priority. Do we want a president who's already proven himself, who clearly care about regular folks, and who has worked his butt off already to bring this economy back and implement a sensible foreign policy, or do we want the Party of Any Rand, the Party that mismanaged the country and wrecked the economy after 8 years of recklessness.
peacebo
(9 posts)Very inspiring.