Photos: Obama and Volunteers Pitch in with Flood Relief and Prevention

[Hope And Change]

Today, Barack travelled to Quincy, Illinois to inspect the flood-damaged area and join grassroots volunteers in loading sandbags to help prevent further flooding.

Click here:

http://my.slideflickr.com/ajFNUXqt

[babylonsister]

1. Great pix! THIS is what our next president should be doing! nt

[PretzelWarrior]

2. perfect. also, where's the current president? Ignoring another flood?

cuz he's got way too many important things on his plate?

Uhhhh....BUSH?????

GO FUCK YOURSELF, ASSHOLE!!!

Obama's showing how a real president behaves.

[merh]

17. Oh don't be silly - the "now" prezzie is touring Europe, rubbing elbows

with the Pope, he can't be bothered with the likes of any floods. The peasants will just have to make due, the King is busy.

:grr:

[PretzelWarrior]

20. exactly. this is just one of MANY examples of failed leadership

the guy is so arrogantly asinine, he thinks one shout through a bullhorn should be enough for 8 years of a presidency.

He's the worst kind of person. intellectually incurious, partisan to the bone, vindictive, incompetent, and in position of power.

I'm laughing about his "history will judge" comments as they are merely stalling tactics. From the perspective of 20 or 50 years out I'm sure they will even judge him far more harshly than we do now.

[merh]

24. the scarey thing is, he is so out of it, his reality so skewed, he truly

believes that history will be kind to him.

[OwnedByFerrets]

35. He's too busy stirring up another war

for his chickenhawk friends.

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[Cha]

3. Thanks Obama and all those

who are helping the ravaged flood victims in Illinois, Iowa and wherever else these floods have hit.

[az chela]

4. Nice very nice

The people's president

[anonymous171]

5. What is McCain/Bush doing?

Last I heard McCain was hanging around Wall Street.

[Youphemism]

14. McCain: "I have to tolerate enough dirtbags at my town hall meetings" /nt

[krkaufman]

30. McCain's absence from the area and not commenting on it (from what I've seen/heard) ...

... is especially ironic given his recent "not on my watch" speeches given from down in Louisiana. Apparently he was just talking about cat-5 hurricanes hitting the LA/MS coast.

[K Gardner]

6. I haven't had the TV on today.. has this gotten any air time at all? I know Obama didn't

do it for that reason.. but I'm just wondering if any of the MSM picked up on it, or if they're still doing Russert 24/7.

[rox63]

26. I wouldn't have known about this if I hadn't checked here on DU

And I've been watching the teevee news. Plenty of flood coverage, but no mention of Obama showing up and helping out. The networks don't want people seeing him acting like a president should. They've all got their heads up McBush's ass.

[RazBerryBeret]

7. Awesome Pix!!!!

What a great President he is going to make!!!

[Ysabel]

8. thanks hope and change...

we've got floods in wisconsin also (a bit to the west of madison) some people who work in madison who live in surrounding areas are unable to get home...

- thanks too obama... :)

[zulchzulu]

9. Makes me proud

K&R!

[FloridaJudy]

10. I'm starting to like this guy

More and more every day. This is how a real leader acts!

He's also calling for citizens to help with flood relief on his home page. What the &%#* are McCain, Cheney and Bu$h doing?

[sagetea]

25. One of the things I noticed

about Obama, early on I noticed in a pic. that he had dirt under his finger nails. That is how he impressed me. I can't really explain my reasons why, but that was for me a turning point that I was very proud to make.

[slinkerwink]

11. and now that's a leader we need in times of crisis!

[otohara]

12. Our Fabulous Candidate

thanks for posting the fotos

[hedgehog]

13. Wow!

and thanks for some great pictures!

[Narkos]

15. Imagine if Bush had done this during Katrina

instead of playing guitar and eating cake with McSame

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. Imagine if Bush had done a damn thing during Katrina

What was really annoying was that Hurricane Andrew happened on his dad's watch...you'd think he'd have taken notes on what worked and what didn't.

[uponit7771]

18. Looks like he's really trying to help vs. moving brush from one pile to the other

[40ozDonkey]

19. Has McCain done a flyover yet?

Oh, wait, of course he hasn't - it's the weekend. I forgot.

Maybe Monday he'll give a wave of solidarity from Cindy's private jet.

[Eurobabe]

21. Great photos

Did you take those??

[Hope And Change]

22. Nope.Found them on the Obama blog..

here`s the direct link:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gG5MQm

[watercolors]

23. Photo was in our Fl. Today newspaper

Hope it it gets more coverage, our do-nothing president is hiding as usual, just more talk from him!

[Colobo]

27. President Obama at work.

[davsand]

28. He's an Illinois Senator and soon the US President.

Not only is he running for the WH, but you have to figure he knows folks that live in Quincy from his Senate campaign.

I am so very proud of him. Finally the rest of the country is getting to see the man we know here in Illinois.



Laura

[krkaufman]

29. Thanks for the pics.... from my old hometown.

My nephew tried getting over to that sandbagging effort to see Obama, but he wasn't allowed in. (for being too young without an accompanying adult? Odd)

I hope Obama headed down to Hannibal, too. It would've been a short trip to help out a town on the Missouri side of the river.

[globalvillage]

31. Here's some video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdXKR25BtYM

edit link

[globalvillage]

32. more video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7455335.stm

[Born_A_Truman]

33. Obama will not be a fly-over president

or a photo op president. I believe he really loves this country and its people and it shows in these pictures.

[OwnedByFerrets]

34. Youre looking at the Next

POTUS!!!! Isnt it a great feeling? I will be so proud that I had a hand in changing the course of America.

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