Showing posts with label obama newton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama newton. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2009
President's Earth Day Stop Costs 9,116 gallons
Just how important are background and symbols to a president? President Barack Obama flew to Newton, Iowa, yesterday to talk about his alternative energy plan....how we need to be more green. He used a wind turbine tower manufacturer, Trinity Structural Towers, as his backdrop. The other backdrop was Earth Day. A CBS reporter tallied up the cost to the earth of this trip because of the president's travel and security requirements. His total: 9,116 gallons of fuel.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
President Obama Arrives in Newton
12:28am It looks like President Obama's tour of Trinity Towers in Newton is about finished. The tour took place on the other side of the building from where we are, so we can't really see much. But some guys dressed in blue shirts with white hard hats have now entered our side of the room. And Tom Vilsack scurried past to find a seat. At last check President Obama's speech is scheduled to take place at 12:55.
I wonder if he will take questions from the media afterwards. There is a second area sectioned off to the side of the main platform where I assume someone will speak. But it's not the big of an area. So I really wonder if it's for the prez.
The president's person assistant, Reggie Love, just placed his speech on the main podium. Crews have set up TelePrompTers also. The president didn't seem to rely on the TelePrompTers this much when he campaign here. Perhaps, things have changed. Love was always by the president's side in the two years before the Iowa caucus. I remember following him to a Des Moines high school several months before the caucuses. Love told about a dozen high school men's basketball players about the importance of playing as a team. Love played basketball and football for Duke and tried to make a go of it in the NFL for a while. He was (I assume still is) a regular player on the president's basketball games.
It's now 12:40pm. I'm really hungry. I remember seeing a table that said food for "Traveling Press only". We drove here from Des Moines. Does that count?
I wonder if he will take questions from the media afterwards. There is a second area sectioned off to the side of the main platform where I assume someone will speak. But it's not the big of an area. So I really wonder if it's for the prez.
The president's person assistant, Reggie Love, just placed his speech on the main podium. Crews have set up TelePrompTers also. The president didn't seem to rely on the TelePrompTers this much when he campaign here. Perhaps, things have changed. Love was always by the president's side in the two years before the Iowa caucus. I remember following him to a Des Moines high school several months before the caucuses. Love told about a dozen high school men's basketball players about the importance of playing as a team. Love played basketball and football for Duke and tried to make a go of it in the NFL for a while. He was (I assume still is) a regular player on the president's basketball games.
It's now 12:40pm. I'm really hungry. I remember seeing a table that said food for "Traveling Press only". We drove here from Des Moines. Does that count?
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