Analysis: Doing His Job, Obama A Subtle Campaigner

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=164007602

WASHINGTON (AP) — It may look to America like President Barack Obama is off the campaign trail. He's really not.

By commanding the response to a ferocious October storm a week before the election, Obama is employing a political advantage in the race to be president.

He is the president.

Clearly, Obama's imperative to act transcends the election. Superstorm Sandy's wrath is real. At a time of death and danger, any president is expected to lead for the people of every state, battleground or otherwise.

Yet in a political sense — and politics are absolutely part of this — Obama has a remarkable last-minute chance to campaign for his job just by doing his job.

Republican nominee Mitt Romney can load canned food onto donation trucks; Obama can order aid and assets to the entire Northeastern corridor.

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Let's see...collect canned goods or assess the Northeastern corridor....which seems more important???

[central scrutinizer]

1. completely ass-backwards - God, I hate NPR

Last edited Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:41 AM - Edit history (1)

So, Obama's doing his job during a crisis is part of his campaign? Maybe he is just doing his job because people are desperate. What about the job he has done for the past four years fighting Republican intransigence and sabotage? His campaign page routed people to the Red Cross, unlike Rmoney's lame photo-ops. Another false equivalency - Obama is trying to use Sandy for political advantage so it is OK for Rmoney to stage counter-productive pseudo relief events.