New York mag: Mitt Romney Took a Very Unfortunate Photo Today

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45. In fairness, here is another photo taken at about the same time--right after he

finally got down into the crouch for the photo.

The little girl from the original pic is shown in this one, too, but here we can see she was just very excited about being in a picture with a famous person/presidential candidate.



Duty to fairness completed. Carry on.

On edit: The actual story makes me feel a bit guilty. He turned his motorcade around for an impromptu visit with some little schoolkids who were waving at his motorcade as it drove by, and that is why they were so excited.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/associated-press-publishes-odd-photo-of-romney/

The article quotes from an ABC story:

FAIRFIELD, Va. – Mitt Romney ordered his motorcade to make an abrupt U-turn in rural Virginia today, after zipping by a group of elementary school students waving in the front yard of the school, so he could go back and meet them.

It was the candidate’s decision to make the impromptu stop, an aide said, Romney standing beside Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell as a group of roughly 100 squealing students, who had since retreated inside Fairfield Elementary School, were promptly marched back outside of the school house by an advance staffer.

“Thanks for waving at me as I came by, I decided to come by and say ‘hi’ to you guys,” Romney told the kids, many of whom were fourth- and fifth-graders.

(Sigh. I hate having scruples. I need a scruple driver so I can take them out and enjoy such moments without guilt.)