While Romney stages a “relief event” where he receiving canned goods he bought at Wal-Mart for the photo op. He is collecting food (not needed) and clothes ( have to be cleaned, make work) the Red Cross has told his campaign are not needed or wanted. Maybe this genius should have given blood like the Red Cross asked. He's just a lying liar as the scared workers at Jeep know!!

Romney doesn't have to worry about red tape, He will just get rid of FEMA......brilliant

Agreed. I actually think the President learned a valuable less from the BP mess.

Namely, when the BP oil leak happened, why all the delays in (a) stopping leak, (b) preventing spreading, (c) cleaning and (d) helping those effected. Boats were sitting idle waiting for permission for several days while some seemed to like watching BP squirm.

Our current gov't has a tremendous amount of bloat and inefficiencies. Trust me. I worked in fed gov't for five years and still shocked. No accountability, metrics, etc.

Many work really work, but there's often no requirement to many others are unproductive or worse. We need to reform government and gov't spending (and our tax code). We are not only broke (if consider unfunded off-balance sheet obligations), but broken.

Either candidate can provide the leadership to fix the deep seated problems. The only question is who will.

Actually if you have been watching the news they have been repeatedly showing the major of Hoboken, N.J. pleading with people for food and water. Also, the Red Cross has been requesting that people do NOT donate blood but money instead.

Jody is upset that Romney is creating work for people by donating clothes... Hmmm. He is donating - not a good thing you say? Someone gets a job to clean the clothes prior to being distributed - not a good thing you say? You would rather he give blood? I am laughing my coffee right out my nose. :-) Thank you for the morning chuckle

thats what you got out of that huh....Obama is telling HIS administration that HIS red tape must be suspended to get things done .........If HIS administraton was so efficient WHY THE NEED TO "cut through the bureaucracy"

I don't know if Obama is, but Dodd-Frank, for example, is a mess. A true mess. Sure, Wall Street might have the resources to comply, but many smaller banks do not.

They have no understand of the impact of poorly drafted or implement regulations. Just because sounds good, doesn't mean it is.

Just consider Sarbanes-Ox. Implemented afte Enron, etc., yet those involved in Enron convicted under old laws. Now SarbOx a huge added cost on businesses.

We need regulations, but need to be much much smarter when it comes to regulations and spending.

Regarding Katrina, FEMA has improved a lot since Katrina, but few understand the gravity of Katrina and how it impacted an entire region knocking out police and basic services. Consider how Obama handled the BP oil spill to understand mistakes continue to be made. Finally, speeches don't matter much. Let's wait a week until we decide how well the response is to Sandy. If bad, I won't blame Obama. It was a massive storm and we're still not prepared for things like this.

Hat's off to those in uniform helping everyone.

Wow thanks for that link to The New York Times ....It was right below this story ........Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Citing Climate Change

You are most welcome. GFY

Brilliant Joseph! That must somehow also then by the property of transitivity prove Obama is correct about his entire health care overhaul with respect to his estimates of cost. NOT. Point being, stop being so anti-Romney... Instead, you tell me why Obama deserves another term and make your response about his deserving to be re-hired for a job at which he already failed. You may not like Romney, but that does not mean Obama is automatically the correct choice. Maybe you should sit this election out if you have no good reasons to vote for Obama, other than "hope for change", and do not want to vote for anyone else either?

Food not wanted by the Red Cross, by the way. Salvation Army and Goodwill takes food, blankets, old shoes. The Red Cross takes donations, blood, volunteers. Had Mittens ever donated to them in his life, he would have known that. Or even looked at their website?

Red Cross responds: You are NOT helping. "Items such as collected food and used clothing must be sorted, cleaned, repackaged and transported... which impedes the valuable resources of money, time, and personnel."

awwwww very race card of you
so Ann Romney speaking here is in bad taste because of the damage on the east coast BUT its ok for Obama to speak in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Tom Brennan I was there and Mrs Romney gave a very nice uplifting talk, but to answer your race baiting question, Yes there were many people there that would not fall into the Caucasian category

2000 rich racests in the same room afraid that they are going to have give some of there millions and give it to us

Let me get this straight. The same folks allegedly Romney was against the auto bailout are now saying there's an ethic complaint if Romney profited from the bailout he was allegedly against.

I say "allegedly" because I've heard from many (including our President during the last debate) that Romney "would have liquidated the auto industry".

Let's start with the allegedly Romney NY Times Op Ed entitled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt". HE DIDN'T WRITE THAT. His title was something like "The Way Forward for the Auto Industry". The horribly pathetically biased NY Times wrote that title.

This is the first time I've heard this. Amazing.

Romney merely proposed an orderly bankruptcy. Guess what, that's what ended up happening after taxpayor funding. A bankruptcy.

I was floored by want I learned this. Here's the CNN link:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/10/26/exp-erin-romney-2008-detroit-bankruptcy-oped-john-podest-andy-card.cnn?iref=videosearch

Vote this video before wasting your vote.

Kind of funny Dan, but I was there and do not meet your criteria - I am not #1, #2, #6 or #7. I could easily write a "funny" list for Obama's appearances in Akron. However that would look to be sooooo wrong and un-PC and outrageously discriminatory that it can not be done. I will say that Obama lets anyone in the country and anyone vote regardless of whether they are even who they are suppossed to be... Maybe thats because it mirrors his life.

The fact that you believe the speaking engagement was only for the above list shows that you do not understand why she was here. It was for anyone with an open mind to have a live experience and be part of the process. To hear a message delivered in person so one could objectively form an opinion unbiased by anything other than one's prior experiences. Everyone was welcome and there were many union members there btw, called TEACHERS.

Untrue Nancy,
Members of the Energy Producing Unions and the United Mineworkers were very welcome.

Looking at even the liberal news outlets just this morning, it seems many new yorkers are feeling they have been forgotten about since the storm is over and Obama's tour of duty and photo ops have been completed. Read it yourself, do not take my word for it. And its nice you all of a sudden like C.C. just because he shook Obama's hand and called him a savior! That must be music to your ears...

Very inappropriate Scott S.. In the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster you can find a lot of grief and anxiety. Those people's lives have changed. You will see nothing approaching the incompetence of the Katrina effort. To judge a situation like this on such a short time frame might make for good political fodder but is uncalled for as a fellow American.

I am currently hosting a family of 4 that was displaced by SANDY, and have sent money and a package directly to 3 other families. What have you done, my fellow American Murphy, to directly help all those with grief and anxiety that you are so concerned about? (besides criticize Romney's actions)

Murphy-Solon, I don't find any part of Scott's message "inappropriate". A week from now when people are killing each other for food and water and gas, Obama will be flying the blue skies. His appearance the past couple of days have been nothing more than a slight change of plans while campaigning. I get tired of hearing the snark about Bush and Katrina when the mayor had every chance to do his own job in advance and chose to do NOTHING.

You people act like Obama is a God for doing his job. Does your boss take to the blogs and praise you when you show up for work? This disgrace of a "leader" is ruining this nation and all you can do is kiss his ass? Horrific!

Private prisons ??? and you are worried who gets to use the best jails

and one of the reasons "we" dont have any savings is because Obama has restricted the drilling of oil offshore and on cheaper to drill public land, which then causes increased transportation costs on all our foods and goods not to mention my healthcare rising 25% because of my "cadillac plan" which still will not stop when the new healthcare taxes begin .... and as for vouchers GREAT I would prefer vouchers and the additional costs coming out of my pocket VS giving MY portion to the government to doll out

Those were some astute observations Nancy. Our turnpike is profitable and a future revenue stream. If they lease it out for an expedited payday, they'd just spend the money now and the citizens will pay higher tolls. The private prison system now has a large lobbying arm going to state governments to fight non-prison sentences for marijuana possession. The more Americans in prison, the better the bottom line for private prisons...brilliant. Paul Ryan's Medicare voucher proposal is based on the premise that the Federal government can't afford the health care cost curve. So he want to give 72 year olds a fixed voucher and send them off to deal with the very same cost curve the Feds couldn't handle....brilliant. Privatizing schools would bring about the same problems that privatizing prisons and turnpikes would bring.

I wish you would think a bit here as well with respect to "everything being privatized"... Is it better that everything be government run? List for me the amazing and successfully wonderful efficient government run programs? Name them. ALL of them (I hear crickets). Your comment about "Lets hold on to the systems we were counting on" is typical of someone who does NOT want change, so it makes sense you would vote for Obama (the one who falsely spews hope and change and forward). I will take people running my life over government doing it every day. BTW, Obama has millions and a savings just like Romney so do not try speaking on behalf of Americans and say "we are not like Romney" because we are not like Obama for those exact reasons - Helllllo! Anyway, would you rather work for the government or a rich person? Before answering that I suggest you talk to any formerly employed federal worker.

turnpkes?

Well Nancy is certainly a Nancy. More Government. HEY NANCY... since when does the government make money to pay for ANYTHING? You know... um like MONEY?

GOOD GOD! Where do you people come from? Government school specimen here folks.

Scott, I will be more than happy to....

Thank you, President Obama for your many achievements, despite strong Republican obstructions:

+ Led the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

+ Improved US relationships with most allies.

+ Directed killing of several leaders of Al Qaida.

+ Implemented harsh sanctions on Iran.

+ Brought together coalition to remove dictator Gaddhafi from power in Libya.

+ Implemented Obamacare to provide healthcare for millions of people who
previously did not have health coverage, and to mandate several health cost-cutting measures.

+ Ended the discriminatory Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in the military.

+ Supports same-sex marriage.

+ Supports the equal pay act to provide equal pay for women and men.

+ Led the nation out of worst recession (gotten into by Bush) in many decades.

+ Implemented stimulus act to revive economy.

+ Ended war in Iraq, an unnecessary and unbudgeted war started by George W Bush.

+ Began drawdown of war in Afghanistan.

+ Passed necessary Wall Street reform to prevent future financial collapse.

+ Helped turn around auto industry.

+ And, much, much more!

Go Obama-Biden! Vote early!

Scott-
Although I would like to believe you, I know that no matter what I say about Obama's accomplishments you would have some excuse as to why it isn't true. The hatred towards Obama on the right is so strong that Obama could come out with the cure for cancer, and your side would still hate him. What matters is that I know what Obama's accomplishments are, and I also am well aware of what Obama had to start with in January of 2008.

Geeeee when you put it that way

Perhaps, Murphy-Solon, but Bush isn't in this race, and the reason it's as tight as it is, beyond the Benghazi lies, of course, is that fact that Obama has based his entire campaign on blaming Bush for everything... It's like the last four years under his "leadership" don't mean anything... Now, I don't blame him for not trying to run on his own pitiful record, but the voters are no longer buying that blame Bush BS, nor are they willing to accept his stonewalling and silence on Benghazi...

Murphy-Solon, you don't know me, and I don't get paid to post or have anyone click on any links... And while I live in VA now, my family is originally from Ohio... First Cleveland, and then Cincinnati... I have family and friends all over the state, so what happens there concerns me greatly... Hence, I post in what I believe... Like you, I guess, but unlike you, I don't call you names or make assertions for your reasons for posting here... Typical Obama supporter, I suppose... Always more wrong than right, regardless of subject...