I don't care if this one's a photo-op. This is what photo-ops SHOULD do... set a positive example.
Director Ernest Dickerson sent me the following pictures and text of the Obamas on American Thanksgiving . Could these be cons idering shameless photo-opping? Yeah, I guess. But then, so could any good deed if photographed. I'd argue that wealthy, powerful people have a duty to be photographed doing good deeds, in order to s et an example (with great power there must...). Yes, of course, food banks are not revolutionary (although the Black Panther Party had "Survival Programmes Pending the Revolution" including Free Breakfast for Children) , and we must end the cause of hunger, rather than dealing e xclusively with hunger as a effect. But hungry people can't survive on political theory. Hungry people need food today. Of course we need to monitor in detail how the Obama White House will address the cause of pov erty--namely, economic exploitation by the rich of everyone else, especially the poor. I'd expect his White House, backed as it was by the super-wealthy, ...