Sandbagging

Obama filled some sandbags in Southern Illinois yesterday, a moment his campaign was careful to avoid over-hyping as a photo-op, which it inevitably was.
Comments from Andrew Sullivan:

Very deft p.r. from the Obama camp. This is the kind of thing a president would do - and the contrast with Bush after Katrina is powerful:

So was this an obvious photo-op? Yes, but where was President Bush after Katrina, the largest natural disaster in US History...in the White House. Perhaps President Bush is just a cut above all the canned photo-ops or he just prefers the military photo-ops, remember, May 1, 2003 USS Lincoln