Picture of the Day

I appreciate that to some degree that it's a stunt, that Obama's contribution to filling sandbags along the river is a relatively tiny thing, but it is something. It raises profile and probably brought out some more volunteers, (demographically young fit volunteers,) and it's a damn sight better than looking out the window of a plane.

George Bush was in Paris yesterday, and John McCain pretty much took the day off holding a "virtual town hall" from his headquarters.

(Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. fills sandbags with volunteers at a sandbag station in Quincy, Ill., Saturday, June 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman))