Photos: "I Love Iowa." (The Obama Presidency, Day 463)

Clio the Leo

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Tue Apr-27-10 10:11 PM
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Photos: "I Love Iowa." (The Obama Presidency, Day 463)

Edited on Tue Apr-27-10 10:14 PM by Clio the Leo

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/27/getting-root-causes-our-fiscal-challenges">Getting to the Root Causes of Our Fiscal Challenges
President Barack Obama, flanked by National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Co-Chairmen, former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, right, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, walk to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, after the president spoke at a Rose Garden event where he stressed the importance of finding a bipartisan consensus on ways to improve America's long-term fiscal health and debt reduction.

(Since Mr. Bipartisan made a point of putting his hands on BOTH of their backs knowing the press would take a picture and publish it all over the globe, I'll indulge him.)

I have no idea what Sen. Simpson was saying here, but we can be reasonably certain that it was crude, rude and VERY funny.

"I'm Barack Obama ... I'm the leader of the Free World ... therefore, I do NOT have to wear a tie to Iowa if I don't want to! So there!"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/27/investing-americas-energy-security">Investing in America's Energy Security
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a Siemens Energy wind turbine blade plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, Tuesday, April 27, 2010.

U.S. President Barack Obama inspects a wind turbine blade at the Siemens Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Plant in Fort Madision, Iowa April 27, 2010. Obama's three-state trip in the latest segment of his "White House to Main Street" tour to discuss ideas for rebuilding the economy.

Here the President is seen speaking with a group of DU cheerleaders (heh .... note to mods, that's a joke, I'm one of those afore mentioned cheerleaders)
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks with kneeling employees

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/27/strengthening-rural-economy">Strengthening the Rural Economy
President Barack Obama, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, right, tour http://www.mogoorganic.com/Home.html">Mogoorganic farm with owner Morgan Hoenig, left, Tuesday, April 27, 2010, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

(at long last, something in a shot with the President that is more beautiful than him ... just LOOK at that sky!)

Just a quiet stroll through the garden...

BROADVIEW, IL - APRIL 27: A protestor is lead away after being arrested for blocking a street to prevent vehicles from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center from transporting immigrants to the airport for a deportation flight on April 27, 2010 in Broadview, Illinois. About twenty-four people were arrested this morning outside the center as about 150 others demonstrated nearby, angry about the passage of Arizona's controversial immigration law and the Obama administration's failure to enact immigration reform.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/27/raw-video-president-obama-drops-iowa-diner">Raw Video: President Obama Drops-In on an Iowa Diner
U.S. President Barack Obama hugs a supporter outside a restaurant in Mount Pleasant,

President Barack Obama carries an infant as he greets people outside of Jerry's Pizza during his unannounced visit in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,

The president of the United States likes his pie tart, his coffee stale and his reporters out in the parking lot.

President Obama, relaxed and strolling in shirtsleeves, popped by Jerry's restaurant on Rte. 218 in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday and took the afternoon crew by surprise around 2:30 p.m.

One of the workers immediately called his wife � who didn't believe him � so he handed the phone to former Gov. Tom Vilsack, who was part of the entourage, to confirm that Obama had ambled in.

After chatting with a gray-haired patron, Obama asked his staff if he could stay for a cup of coffee � and began scanning a chalkboard over the kitchen that listed all the pies available: custard, chocolate, coconut, lemon, rhubarb, pecan, cherry, apple, peach and butterscotch.

"Let's see," Obama said, "rhubarb ... and a cup of coffee."

When someone offered to brew a fresh pot, the president, who had two dozen motorcade vehicles idling outside, said he'd take what was already at hand.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0410/situation_brew_685a757c-2f00-4396-a80b-35360b4ef2a8.html

President Barack Obama walks around greeting patrons during his unannounced visit to Jerry's Pizza in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Tuesday 27, April, 2010.

"um ... I'm over here!"

http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/04/27/HP/R/32231/Financial+Reform+Halted+in+Senate+President+Seeks+to+Rally+Support.aspx">Video: The President's Town Hall in Ottumwa, Iowa
U.S. President Barack Obama looks on as he speaks at a town hall meeting with the flags of Iowa in the background in Ottumwa, Iowa April 27, 2010. Obama is on a three-state trip in the latest segment of his "White House to Main Street" tour to discuss ideas for rebuilding the economy.

Palestinian schoolgirls walk past a billboard in which Palestinians are encouraged to send messages addressed to US President Barack Obama asking for liberation and the end of (Israeli) occupation, on April 27, 2010 in the West Bank city of Hebron. Two senior Israeli officers were reprimanded and a sergeant was demoted over the killing of four Palestinians during clashes in the West Bank in March, the military said.