They're in the middle of a field with no heavy equipment or scaffolding or anything above them. Why anyone is wearing a hard hat at all, I do not understand. If anything, I give Bolling credit for not giving in to the stupidity.

Of course, I'd give him more credit if he wasn't standing there with a shiny new shovel and tossing carefully prepared gravel onto the grass. The whole thing is lame. Men in expensive suits with soft, un-calloused hands pretending to do work for the camera.  If you must attend a ground-breaking ceremony, stand there and clap while actual laborers break the ground, since those are the people who will be doing the real work and they are the ones entitled to honor for it.    

The same old same old republican-style politics from the past: stage a photo-op to prove... well, how good old boy you are, or how you're helping the plain Joe on Main Street in small towns everywhere, or how... well, anything your publicist tells you is necessary to garner votes. Sort of "Mission Accomplished" in reverse, and still as phony as a three dollar bill.

have to toss gravel for?  Seems like a few of them are making a nice pile, while others have fallen behind.  Do they have to move that whole line of gravel a few feet forward before the ground is "broken"?

All politicians do this sort of thing, keep on the issues, that is what makes a difference.

that only issues matter, I just have one word for you:

Macaca

if it were john edwards...wanting to protect that three hundred dollar haircut...but bill bolling?

p.s. notice how the three on the left look like they're hating life haha.  

Poor old Bill Bolling.  No wonder Jon Bowerbank is going to kick his butt in 2009.  

What was most interesting about the scene was that Bolling even showed up at a groundbreaking for something he clearly had nothing to do with.  I guess when you have no accomplishments of your own to take credit for, you have to piggy-back on other people.    

He was there.
It was a photo opt.

We have idiots here that don't even bring enough shovels.
The argue who will be in the picture.
Then time to do the dirt, there is none.
What is the big deal of the picture.

Would you be making the same comments Kaine showed up and didn't have a hat on. Don't think so.

You all would probally be saying area financially not fit to pay for a political shovel or hat.

Just change it around  to look good for the democrat.