Mitt Romney To Flood Victim: 'Go Home And Call 211'

[nmbluesky]

Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.

"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/mitt-romney-211_n_1848432.html

[Kennah]

1. Probably more useful to dial 1-800-FUCK-MITT

[Cha]

20. LOL!

Brilliant! SNAP! SNAP!

[mattclearing]

2. Go back to your underwater home, get your scuba gear on, and see if your phone still works.

What an asshole.

[Scuba]

22. He meant one of her other homes.

[Fridays Child]

3. Heckuva job, Mittens.

Aside from the obvious irony of directing the woman to seek government assistance, he tells her to go home? What home? If that doesn't qualify as a "let them eat cake" moment, I don't know what does.

[Initech]

4. What a bunch of heartless assholes.

[Strega Ribiera]

5. Thanks!

I know I'm new, but is it the norm to post duplicate threads here?

[Angry Dragon]

8. Welcome

Yes, it does happen a lot
It would be nicer if they could be combined

[Strega Ribiera]

9. Ty for responding.

[Angry Dragon]

13. You are welcome

[nmbluesky]

10. Welcome to newest DU family

[Strega Ribiera]

12. Thank you :)

I applied some of my homemade salve for my butthurt. I'm over it now :p

[Angry Dragon]

6. We need to be fair to Willard

He is not aware that not everyone has 3-4 homes and they can not just jet to one of the others

[B Calm]

7. He walks out into the convention shaking

hands then flies to Louisiana to offer assistance to hurricane survivors and he still doesn't look presidential no matter how damn hard he tries, the man is a phony!

[SIDURI]

11. The Mittwit is more clueless than Dubya, and that's saying something

Unbelievable.

Siduri

[Angry Dragon]

14. At least Willard got out of the plane

[SIDURI]

15. There is that

at least

[Angry Dragon]

16. Welcome to DU

I hope you enjoy it here

[SIDURI]

33. Well thank you

Just wandering around.

Siduri

[WCGreen]

17. Compassionless Conservatism...

Call 211, you want me to dail it for you....

[Kalidurga]

18. Well what else was he supposed to do...

give her money? LOL I am still trying to figure out what Mitt thinks he is doing down there. Looking at the damage, isn't really all that helpful. And he seems to have a bad back so it's not like he is going to be putting up sand bags. So, really what is he doing?

[WCGreen]

19. Using people as a prop, a backdrop for the story of his life....

[Kalidurga]

21. Yeah, but he isn't very good at it...

most those "off the cuff" family moments just look awkward.

[WCGreen]

25. Well he is awkward.

He seems immature as well...

[deutsey]

30. Trying hard NOT to be like Bush during Katrina, I guess n/t

[Raine]

34. "what is he doing?" TRYING to look like he cares but he's not even good at faking it. He

could've at least had his advance team try to connect her with a help organization or recommended the Red Cross or something. More and more I wonder if he really is a robot with no human feelings programmed into him at all.

[Optical.Catalyst]

23. Mitt's idea of a joke - like sending someone to get the keys to the flagpole

[Aerows]

24. Does he not know

That some people's homes are completely under water? And that most of them are without power and phone lines? Hell we have issues with cell phone service, too. Our area isn't too bad because we were east of Isaac, but things were hardly great here - we didn't have power for two days.

[theinquisitivechad]

26. This just shows the guy has zero perspective when it comes to other people's lives.

That response is equivalent to, "Shoo-fly, don't bother me."

[MADem]

27. What an idiot--kinda difficult when the house and phone are under water!!!

Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town's lack of flood protection.

"We live outside the levee protection that's why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they're doing is flooding us out down here," she said. "It's very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we're going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac."

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. The man is tone deaf.

I expect that when President Obama visits on Monday, the scene will be entirely different.

Meanwhile,

[gollygee]

29. A public service, paid by TAXES

we built that!

And he'd probably axe it!

[jsr]

32. Correction - Mitt Romney To Flood Victim: 'Go Home And Have Your People Call The 211 People'