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Charity president unhappy about Paul Ryan soup kitchen photo op

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Charity president unhappy about Paul Ryan soup kitchen 'photo op'

Brian J. Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, said that he was not contacted by the Romney campaign ahead of the Saturday morning visit by Ryan, who stopped by the soup kitchen after a town hall at Youngstown State University.

“We’re a faith-based organization; we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations,” Antal said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “It’s strictly in our bylaws not to do it. They showed up there, and they did not have permission. They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors.”

He added: “The photo-op they did wasn’t even accurate. He did nothing. He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.”
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Doesn't matter. Ryan had his one and only debate and is a footnote between now and the election, as is Biden. It is the Main Event time now.
 
This event is fodder for the Democrats! They should have a field day with this one. This Ryan fellow is so...fakey and dishonest. Let the real Americans put him and the other R person to the trash heap of history.
 
Soup Kitchens and Big Bird, can no-one be satisfied this election season?
 
Dr. Chuckles said:
i figure the above is the case with most photo ops. Manufactured spectacle
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Precisely - nobody should read more into them than that.

And those who want to use this to slam Ryan should think about the photos of Obama with a shovel or pick-ax in his hand. (Each of those have too many moving parts for Obama to know how to operate them safely.)
 
It's not like this photo op is going to sway a single voter's decision

Pointless is all this was.
 
This was a bad move, Ryan shouldn't have done it. Probably his handlers thought it would be good publicity.
 
I have no reason whatsoever to disbelieve this article. However, having said that, I have also seen photos of President Obama doing charity "work" in clean crisp clothing that suggested he did about two seconds of work before the cameras shutters flew, and stopped two seconds after they stopped.

That's the key... check the clothing in the photo. I once saw a photo of Tyra Banks painting for some ghetto rehab project, yet she was all done up, dressed fashionably, and didn't have a speck of paint on her. On the flip side, I once saw a photo of Paris Hilton (imagine that!) doing something similar, and from all the paint all over her it was clear she had been actually painting.
 
What an utterly dishonest and phony political ploy. Not only was it phony, but the poor charity workers were left cooling their heels long after they would have otherwise been allowed to go home, since their shift was completed, the dining room was empty and the kitchen was clean except for a couple of pots they had been told to leave so Ryan's family could be photographing "washing them."

Sherba expressed regret that she had allowed the visit to take place. "It was the phoniest piece of baloney I've ever been associated with," she said. "In hindsight, I would have never let him in the door."
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Poor woman. She sounds both disgusted and embarrassed, as should the Ryans. Shame on them for this exploitive hunk of crap.
 
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