Incredible that some would stoop to insulting the President for doing his job.  Who is that going to a "relief rally" in Ohio?  Oh yeah, Mitt Romney.  Some folks can't miss an opportunity to express their bias and lack of objectivity and of course their hypocrisy.

Frankly, I'm surprised there was the slightest pause in the vitriol on the national stage. The trolls inhabiting online message boards are another matter, of course. Fifty homes were destroyed in Queens. I wish them and all who are now faced with some sort of rebuilding the best of luck and I am thankful to have been spared.

It will start at home and the press will be complicit. The one person who has a gripe will be featured time after time, making political ads seem sparse in comparison. It's a given: everything was done "right" for this hurricane, but even the best-laid plans go awry. It won't take long for the political boo-birds to pick the low-hanging fruit, so Gov Patrick, and later President Obama, should count on spending some time explaining that live wires, broken poles, downed trees, blocked roads flooded access, heavy trucks, high winds, pitch-black night, rain and spectators complicate things. And we all know what happens when you or the equipment touches the wrong wire!

 A clear case of 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'; it seems to make no difference for President Obama in the eyes of the haters, because whether the President does his job isn't the point, it's how it's interpreted for purposes of Romney's campaign.   For a sane person, what's happened with hurricane Sandy is an illustration of what the job of the President is about: the unexpected, the unplanned, the unpredictable.  Romney has already displayed his inability to handle anything of the kind, as his bravado has been reduced time and time again to nothing more than cheap  and ill-timed pot shots, many of which he has revised or reversed during the course of his campaign.   The latest?  He doesn't really want to abolish FEMA (cough) ... well, of course not.   The weather might not be predictable, but you can count on Romney to be predictable when it comes to recanting his own words.  He's got one week more to flip-flop, and he's so adept at it, want to be he'll fit in another flip or two before next Tuesday?

The radical right lament, "We hate government.  Stop the spending."  "Hello Mr. President this is governor Christie there's this huge storm I need help.  I need money."  The reality is the feds will give up the dough.  But I'd love to hear a President one time say.  "No, you don't like the federal government, remember.  You said the state could do it better.  So do it."  The nonsense of the radical right is they fail to recognize that "conservatives" recognize the proper role of government.  This being one of them.

Probably the most pressing issue facing Massachusetts and the rest of the US is the stagnant state of the US economy, and what either candidate can offer to help all of us in Massachusetts is of the most importance right now. One of Massachusetts biggest economic sectors - the Financial Services Industry is being decimated by firms like State Street Corp (STT) that under the direction of its current CEO Jay Hooley, is engaged in a Joint Venture or JV with a firm owned by INDIAN nationals called SYNTEL corp (SYNT) of TROY MI that has already sent over 3,200 good paying middle class US Job, most from Massachusetts, to INDIA, this only three years after State Street Corp received a $2 Billion US TARP bailout from the very people that this firm and its current BOARD of DIRECTORS are hurting the most. This is a NATIONAL DISGRACE and if either PRESIDENT Obama or Mitt Romney can help put an end to this "Betting Against America" I will vote for that person....

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Greater-Boston-11/episodes/July-19-2012State-Street-outsourcing-40276