Health & Fitness
Legislation, Education: Obama As Community Organizer
Why does voting matter? If Obama wins, how can he make the next four years any better with continuing Republican obstruction? Here are some possible answers.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak on the University of Iowa Pentacrest today, September 7, 2012.
Five years ago, April 22, 2007, I had the opportunity to put a question to him at a comparable event in Iowa City.
It was a question I had put to a great many presidential candidates since the 1970s, starting with a series of television interviews I hosted, on through the quadrennial parade of candidates through Iowa City attracted by Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
It soon became apparent that most candidates for public office, including presidential candidates, have been asked so many questions, at so many events and interviews, over so many years, that few if any questions come to them as a surprise. The responses are smooth and designed to sooth, rehearsed and delivered as if recorded, played back from a tape cassette implanted in their brain.
The possibility occurred to me of . . . [for 'the rest of the story,' and its implications, click here]