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I realize a lot of people dislike her and think she is a moron, but why should she be spending her time and $$ to visit these people?
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>>She had absolutely nothing to do with what happend to them. >>
>>She has money to burn. Money isn't an issue with her.
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>>So that she can demonstrate some true compassion, even when she had absolutely nothing to do with what happened.
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>I think people would jump all over her for "taking advantage" of the situation - publicity, photo-ops etc. even if that was not her intent.
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>That's assuming the families would even let her visit. And why should they? She doesn't know them, she's in no official capacity and the presence of her security/entourage would just cause needless stress.
I think you're right on all counts. Sometimes the best things public figures can do in a response to an event is STFU.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
