Paul Ryan Pretends to Pitch in at Soup Kitchen

     Is there a better metaphor for the entire Romney-Ryan ticket than this? Ryan is photographed with a dish that he's not cleaning-very Mitt like.

     "Between Mitt Romney’s claim that 47 percent of the country “believe they are entitled to” government assistance to afford food and Paul Ryan’s assertion that people on food stamps are “takers, the entire Romney campaign has cemented the impression that they are “not concerned about the very poor.”

      "Ryan might have topped any previous callousness though, when he and his staff apparently “ramrodded their way” into a soup kitchen last week for a photo opportunity without even actually volunteering."

       "President of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, Brian J. Antal, told the Washington Post that he had no interest in making his organization a political talking point: “we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations… 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… 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.”

        http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/15/1017651/ryan-soup-kitchen/

        This calls to mind thinks Mitt has done in the past, like when he made a big show of "beating the President" down to Louisiana and then a woman who lost her home came by and asked him for help and he told her to "Go home, and call 211."

         After all, what did this woman think: that he was actually there for her? She was just a prop in his photo-op.

         Same thing with Mitt's recent clumsily using of the tragic murder of the young navy seal, Brian Doherty in the Libya attacks, continually invoking his "meeting" with Doherty 3 years ago. It turns out that while Romney claimed they had some real connection, he had exaggerated the intimacy of this "meeting" quite drastically. In fact, he reintroduced himself to Doherty 4 times as he kept forgetting their previous meetings.

          As usual the ostensive reason for the photo-op is besides the point, it's just the photo-op they're after. Ryan reaches a new low by using a soup kitchen made up of those not part of the 53%