Anonymous wrote:After he had one of his staff members call to tell the volunteers to save some dishes for him to wash, that is. They had cleaned the kitchen and, if not for Ryan, would have gone home.

OMG that is pathetic. It was bad enough when his workout photos were staged in a photo studio instead of a real gym. I wouldn't be surprised if one of his staffers changed the number on the dumbell.

After he had one of his staff members call to tell the volunteers to save some dishes for him to wash, that is. They had cleaned the kitchen and, if not for Ryan, would have gone home.

I hope by now you all realize that OP was wrong and that you have wasted hours of your time typing about an event that did not take place. Yes, he did the pots and pans but they were dirty. NBC news says
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/16/14485409-ryan-did-wash-dirty-dishes-during-soup-kitchen-visit?lite

Staged photo-op:

Audience given lab coats to put on before Obama talks about health care:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/politics/item_KOV0zdZCzeTSczGWcTVsyK

And do you really think the bear hug with the pizza owner was spontaneous? Of course not. His security team would have been standing back looking at their phones as a man grabbed the President.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7421142n

The reality is the President can't really go many places unannounced or really do spontaneous photo ops due to security. Everything is scoped out ahead of time, planned and orchestrated. It is all scripted and staged.

Michelle Obama has done them too - the shopping target trip etc.. Media were told ahead of time she would be there for 30 minutes.

Part of politics. That being said - Ryan did a terrible job of staging his photo op at the soup kitchen. The goal is to make them look real - his didn't look real in the least. Definite fail.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah and Obama hosts dinner parties for Beyonce and Jay-Z.

They are all idiots and this whole election is gross.

Source please for when you claim that Obama hosted dinner parties for Beyonce and Jay-Z

It's the other way around - they hosted a fundraiser for the President. Just like Romney's had rich people host fundraisers for him. Another non-issues, non-story.

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the campaign has decided he is most useful as a dishwasher.

It would appear that have decided he is most useful as Romney's chief apologist:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/10/17/paul-ryan-defends-binders-of-women/

Spin all you want the 18000+comments section on Yahoo, the trending topic from the debate last night are all very clear. The Romney campaign is out of touch with the poor, the middle-class and after last night's gaffe, clearly women.

Photo op in elementary school - look at me care about children.

Photo-op in hospital - look at me care about sick people

Photo op in LTC - look at me care about the elderly

Photo-op in diner - look at me care about the working class

Photo-op in soup kitchen - look at me care about the poor

Isn't this pretty standard for every campaign?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think they realize how insulting this is. This election comes down to who do you trust more to help the middle class? If you have to fake a photo op in a soup kitchen, you've pretty much answered the question.

He isn't faking the photo op. A photo op is pretty much a set up picture and that is what he was doing. He was at the shelter, he was washing dishes (and apparently they were dirty). All politicians set up photo ops...all day long. Google photo ops Obama or any other politician. If you had just seen a clip of Ryan washing dishes, a clip of him shaking hands - it would have looked like every other photo op.

Do I think the shot / set-up was ridiculous - yes. But faked - no.

If you cannot see the fallacy in your argument, you are as out of touch with the plight of the poor and middle class as the Romney campaign.

Actually I am part of the poor so am pretty in touch with it.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah and Obama hosts dinner parties for Beyonce and Jay-Z.

They are all idiots and this whole election is gross.

Source please for when you claim that Obama hosted dinner parties for Beyonce and Jay-Z

Why is he washing or pretending to wash the dishes of some of those disgusting takers? Doesn't he know they had the gall to eat donated food in them?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think they realize how insulting this is. This election comes down to who do you trust more to help the middle class? If you have to fake a photo op in a soup kitchen, you've pretty much answered the question.

He isn't faking the photo op. A photo op is pretty much a set up picture and that is what he was doing. He was at the shelter, he was washing dishes (and apparently they were dirty). All politicians set up photo ops...all day long. Google photo ops Obama or any other politician. If you had just seen a clip of Ryan washing dishes, a clip of him shaking hands - it would have looked like every other photo op.

Do I think the shot / set-up was ridiculous - yes. But faked - no.

If you cannot see the fallacy in your argument, you are as out of touch with the plight of the poor and middle class as the Romney campaign.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they realize how insulting this is. This election comes down to who do you trust more to help the middle class? If you have to fake a photo op in a soup kitchen, you've pretty much answered the question.

He isn't faking the photo op. A photo op is pretty much a set up picture and that is what he was doing. He was at the shelter, he was washing dishes (and apparently they were dirty). All politicians set up photo ops...all day long. Google photo ops Obama or any other politician. If you had just seen a clip of Ryan washing dishes, a clip of him shaking hands - it would have looked like every other photo op.

Do I think the shot / set-up was ridiculous - yes. But faked - no.