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RYAN Tries To Hang With The 47%, Fails Miserably.
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FSogol
(45,488 posts)brewens
(13,588 posts)owner of a cafe. It was my girlfriends business. I'd just be hanging out drinking coffee and jump into help when things got busy. The crew really appreciated that. Doing dishes was their least favorite thing and the only thing I was qualified to do to help them.
On a good night, I'd be both sweaty and a little wet by the time I was done. I'd like to see more pics. Not a chance that little puke actually did very much. Anyone involved probably resented him faking it.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)My first job was as a dish washer and there is no way that immaculate shirt was anywhere near an actual dirty dish.
BrainMann1
(460 posts)back in the day. If a pot came to me that clean we would fry the cook.
OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)When you cook and slop dirty water around, you get your apron dirty. Obviously a con job we're not buying.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)nolabear
(41,980 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...but it's not.
It speaks to a broader truth about Romney and Ryan. They are liars and posers who could care less about anyone in this country. They care about their own political careers, and they'll lie to the American people to get what they want.
These clean pots represent the Romney/Ryan tax plan that doesn't add up and will not work.
These clean pots represent the Romney/Ryan voucherization of Medicare that they try to lie about and hide.
These clean pots represent the politicized drama that Romney/Ryan have turned Benghazi into.
These clean pots represent Romney's tax returns that he refuses to release.
These clean pots represent Romney lying about his healthcare plan.
These clean posts represent Romney presenting himself as deficit hawk when he would start expensive wars and give millionaires tax cuts that would explode the deficit.
These clean pots represent all of the lies, distortions, propaganda and games that these clowns play on a daily basis.
phatkatt
(1,376 posts)...looking like he is digging a hole and the shovel in his hands was clean and still had the sticker on it.
I googled it but couldn't find it.
cognoscere
(461 posts)normally show some kind of wear if he actually did that kind of thing regularly. The same thing can be seen in catalogs, where pictures of work clothes and gear show guys at job sites in new coveralls, boots, etc. Republicans - whose only litmus test is that you be willing to lie, cheat, steal, kill, and do whatever else it takes to get your way.
libguard
(40 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)of a photo setting. He contributed nothing in work that was at all useful, so I hope he left some cash.
nuxvomica
(12,426 posts)I mean, if he really, really wanted to help out that much.
kardonb
(777 posts)Donation ? From Lyin' Ryan , who despises all us moochers and freeloaders ? The guy is a total jerk !!!
crim son
(27,464 posts)but that's a weakness on my part.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)This was a photo op and staged - pure and simple. Now if it was revealed that once a month for the last 10 years and every thanksgiving that Mr. Ryan volunteers as "Paul" (not congressman) at the localsoup kitchen/foodbank and there were no photographers taking official photos, I would say that it says he is sincere....
This man is a phony and insincere....
Remember the lying blue eyes.....
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Yep!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Yep!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Pathetic. "Now watch this golf shot...."
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)Can't be a real 'Murican - no flag pin
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)I've served with dishwashers. Dishwashers are friends of mine. You, Congressman, are no dishwasher. Because nobody washes dishes with sleeves rolled up just one fold. Or wearing a wristwatch. Or a tie.
spooky3
(34,456 posts)ncsoapmaker
(25 posts)is there no depth to which these two will stoop?
dotymed
(5,610 posts)I have volunteered at "soup kitchens" and when the work was done, I have seen the pols come in and act like they helped; to create a photo op. It is a sickening site especially after you have worked your butt off helping others. Too bad that they"ll never know the great feeling you get by actually helping others. I always felt kind of hypocritical, I felt that I actually got more satisfaction by helping than the people we helped. When you no longer get that satisfaction, it may be time to let someone else have that glow. I have also known people who worked to help others but acted like they were better than the needy. I always felt that those people, while helpful, were "stroking their own ego" or trying to be martyrs...
brewens
(13,588 posts)They are also the most likely to get pissy about the process when they realize it takes a little time with answering the questionnaire and other things. You can easily tell the ones you won't be seeing again.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Not with pols so much as with people from the wealthier side of town who think they're doing the poor a great favor by showing up and acting concerned.
I was once on kitchen duty at the homeless shelter where I worked one night, when a guest volunteer (we called our clients "guests" came up to me really, really upset. Apparently he overheard some of these "good people" making insulting remarks about those they were serving and a lot of these comments were heard by a lot of people.
I went straight to the volunteer coordinator of the shelter and told her point-blank that I did not want these people back. I had no time for their bullshit. They lost their weekly volunteering spot.
It didn't happen often, thank God. But when it did, I was sure to be quick to shut it down.
HurricaneWarning
(220 posts)I was a food coordinator for our area PADS. The people with the most money donated the cheapest and crummiest food. Those that were barely getting by treated our 'guests" as if they were their personal guests...the best they could afford. It made a lasting impression on me. I also learned quickly that many were volunteering just so they could have bragging rights.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)They are not exposed to the homeless and such, and have systematically shown disdain for them. Ryan was intentionally late.
Reminds me of Bush clearing brush for the cameras.
StarryNite
(9,446 posts)too little, too late.
begin_within
(21,551 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)Miserable phony lying POS should be sleeping under a bridge scrounging for a few plastic garbage sacks to keep the weather out. I would not piss on him if he was on fire.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)I think the troops hated Bush with a passion by the time he left Washington. Ryan and Mitt are two more Bush clones just waiting to grab some power. They have not one iota of shame or remorse for the evil they have caused the poor so far.
LaPera
(6,486 posts)Ryan didn't really want to get his hands dirty dealing with peasants so he decided to get there late so he could just go in the back and wash a couple of already cleaned pots for the cameras.
Another out of touch greedy money hungry republican just looking somewhere, anywhere for a photo-op that's complete bullshit to pretend he's compassionate (doesn't understand what the word means, it's just not him nor in any republican) they just don't get it, nor could they truly care less about anyone else, especially people with no money.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)...none of the MSM are reporting this, per my google search a few moments ago. I think this photo is very very telling, and it really does need to get out there.
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)Thanks for the thread, EarlG.
RushIsRot
(4,016 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)within the last two weeks or so they are suddenly the moderate, caring compassionate CONservatives.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)to actually rub elbows with those people?
just in case
amb123
(1,581 posts)to wash the "poor" off of him.
pinto
(106,886 posts)Not pretty low, but shameless.
(on edit) And I've eaten at some public food programs in my time.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,006 posts)About as bad as Bush's photo-op with a turkey in Iraq.
Cha
(297,261 posts)said.. "Show me one policy that you care?" Paraphrasing.
Thanks EarlG for highlighting that Hypocrisy.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)The charity itself isn't have with Congressman Sippycup's rude intrusion.
[link:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/15/1144925/-Charity-president-says-Ryan-ramrodded-way-into-fake-dish-washing-photo-op|
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Report: Charity President Objects To Paul Ryans Soup Kitchen Photo Op
Brian J. Antal, the president of an Ohio charity for the homeless, is objecting to a photo op staged by the Romney campaign on Saturday that featured vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan washing pots and pans that had already appeared to be clean, Felicia Sonmez of the Washington Post reports:
Were a faith-based organization; we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations, Antal said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. Its 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.
He added: The photo-op they did wasnt even accurate. He did nothing. He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.
-snip-
Had they asked for permission, it wouldnt have been granted. But I certainly wouldnt have let him wash clean pans and then take a picture, Antal told the Post.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/report-charity-president-objects-to-paul-ryans-soup
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)These people are as sleasy as it freakin' gets. Just plain gangsters.
struggle4progress
(118,288 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)Munster boy done screwed up his debate so bad, that Commander Mitt done put his young maggot ass on KP. Back sink man too, damn that's some cold ass shit Mitt!
Sky Masterson
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Lasher
(27,597 posts)markbark
(1,560 posts)complain jane
(4,302 posts)I can only imagine how pissed he must have been when he was told to go and do this. He doesn't strike me as the type to get his hands dirty.
Skittles
(153,164 posts)he cannot even PRETEND to be normal
LiberalFighter
(50,941 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He's a sickening specimen of sub-human scum.
Taradacktyl
(3 posts)Republicans can't even properly MIMIC giving a shite about their fellow Americans!
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)And the rolled up sleeve, oh that is classic, just like every other dishwasher and the Rolex
Blue Owl
(50,386 posts)Heathen57
(573 posts)and only time the GOP Golden Child has ever seen the inside of a large kitchen much less actually done a dish.
"Dishpan Hands" is a foreign term to both candidates on the GOP ticket.
David Zephyr
(22,785 posts)Says it all.
lexw
(804 posts)Maybe Ryan's working on his resume in this photo.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)After a six hour stint washing pots and pans in the soup kitchen my son and I look like crap. The bastard never broke a sweat. They could have at least photo shopped some sweat on his sorry ass.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I hate them more with each passing day.