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| Mitt Romney accepts donations of food as he participates in an Ohio campaign event collecting supplies for victims of Hurricane Sandy. (Credit: AP/Charles Dharapak) |
He likens hurricane relief to cleaning up "rubbish and paper products" from a football field. Is he joking? -BY JOAN WALSH
It’s become a platitude to say that no one should be playing politics with Hurricane Sandy, but that’s silly. When the performance of government suddenly becomes a literal matter of life and death to many Americans, we ought to be thinking about what kind of government we want to have, and that involves politics.
