Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Le Monde Giddy That Hurricane Sandy Is a Catastrophe That Can Be Used by Obama Against Romney


Claiming with hidden glee that Mitt Romney has a skeleton in his closet, Le Monde's Pierre Bouvier retraces the governor's stance against FEMA and centralized emergency planning, as Le Monde conveniently places the story at the very top of its website.

Echoing Rahm Emanuel's "never let a crisis go to waste", meanwhile, Corine Lesnes effectively writes that the "catastrophe" is an occasion for Barack Obama to look presidential and thus "to rise above the mêlée."