John Cronin at SolidPrinciples.com had this posted on the site:
Obama Stops to Browse at a Bookstore
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
IOWA CITY — President Obama spent plenty of time in Iowa as a candidate. On Thursday, he had a little homecoming of sorts, making a surprise visit to the Prairie Lights bookstore, a business he had referred to during a campaign-style rally just an hour earlier.
An account by the pool reporter, Carol Lee of Politico, who was traveling with Mr. Obama, offers the details. (To decode just a little bit for the average reader outside the Beltway, POTUS is the code name for the president of the United States, the Gibbs referred to is Robert Gibbs, his press secretary, and your “pooler” means Ms. Lee, the reporter assigned on this day to cover the president as part of a small contingent of print and TV journalists as well as photographers who are among the White House correspondents rotating pool duty, which requires sharing their reports.)
Here’s the pool report:
“Well, this used to be my favorite place,” Obama told the owner as she showed him around.
He remarked how as president he can’t really mosey around bookstores anymore, and said the office comes with the good and bad.
Obama walked around the store apparently in pursuit of the children’s/young adult section.
Along his way, he picked up “No Apology” by Mitt Romney and “Courage and Consequence” by Karl Rove.
“What do you think, guys?” he asked the pool, holding up a hardback copy of each in his hands before setting them back down.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/obama-stops-to-browse-at-a-bookstore/
[Too bad the Prez didn't buy the books. A couple of good things would have happened. He would learn something about the way the world and the economy really works and he could have helped "stimulate" that book store's business with his purchases.]
~~John Cronin~~
Mitts the man to bring our country back.
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