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Obama Drops By The County Fair
ABC News ^ | August 17, 2011 | Mary Bruce

Posted on 08/17/2011 1:21:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

ATKINSON, ILLINOIS -- President Obama is spending the last day of his Midwest bus tour in Illinois, the state that launched his political career. This morning, on his way to the first of two town halls that he will participate in today, the president made a detour to visit the Whiteside County Fair in Morrison, Ill.

After greeting some of the people visiting the fair, the president stopped by the dairy cow contest. “I’m probably not the guy to judge this stuff,” Obama said.

Obama then posed for pictures and worked the ropeline, signing autographs as he went along. “I don't want to see any of these on E-Bay,” he joked.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bustour; failure; obama; obamabustour
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So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy.
1 posted on 08/17/2011 1:21:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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“I don't want to see any of these on E-Bay,” he joked.

Nope, not a narcissist.

2 posted on 08/17/2011 1:23:51 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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Getting chummy with the locals. No campaign stop here.


3 posted on 08/17/2011 1:24:08 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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The Obamamobile rolls into Atkinson, IL, pop. 972, where Obama must think he can draw a crowd of more than a hundred or two. If he went to a larger venue in this RED area of IL he’d be booed.


4 posted on 08/17/2011 1:27:18 PM PDT by bigbob
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“Drops By”

BS! If you believe that, I have a bridge I want to sell you.


5 posted on 08/17/2011 1:28:29 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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After greeting some of the people visiting the fair, the president stopped by the dairy cow contest

Any chance this cow was there?


6 posted on 08/17/2011 1:30:04 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The Repubs and Dems are arguing whether to pour 9 or 10 buckets of gasoline on a burning house.)
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“the state that launched his political career?”.....

More like the state he screwed over to get his socialist agenda rolling...


7 posted on 08/17/2011 1:30:54 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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worked the ropeline

What's the odds on that? He just "drops by" the fair and what do you know, there's a rope line!

8 posted on 08/17/2011 1:31:22 PM PDT by noexcuses
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worked the ropeline

What's the odds on that? He just "drops by" the fair and what do you know, there's a rope line!

9 posted on 08/17/2011 1:31:26 PM PDT by noexcuses
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Rope-a-dope.......


10 posted on 08/17/2011 1:32:14 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Thank god I’m flying into Peoria tomorrow and not today.


11 posted on 08/17/2011 1:33:19 PM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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“the state that launched his political career?”.....

You mean the state he screwed over to get his socialist agenda rolling...


12 posted on 08/17/2011 1:36:40 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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He’ll win for the prize bull.


13 posted on 08/17/2011 1:36:53 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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"....the president stopped by the dairy cow contest. “I’m probably not the guy to judge this stuff,” Obama said. "

Judge? Shove a scoop in his hands and tell him to start picking up all that "stuff" he spreads everywhere he goes.

14 posted on 08/17/2011 1:46:24 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Word to the wise....never sweat the petty things, and more importantly, never pet the sweaty things.)
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the president made a detour to visit the Whiteside County Fair in Morrison, Ill.

Perhaps there was a chance to see a “flash mob” beating up on Whitey”!!!


15 posted on 08/17/2011 1:49:25 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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As a neighbor in next door Indiana, I’ve always felt bad for the large part of Illinois that’s good people, but dominated by the Chicago political mob.


16 posted on 08/17/2011 1:50:10 PM PDT by nascarnation
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Eating Fried Constitutions on a stick.


17 posted on 08/17/2011 1:50:50 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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Was there some flash mob to “beat Whitey” at the county fair?


18 posted on 08/17/2011 1:52:20 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Obama Drops By The Count Fair

Talk about an unoriginal thinker & copy-cat!! First the bus tour & now the county fair.

Who does Obama think he is - Sarah Palin?

19 posted on 08/17/2011 1:57:01 PM PDT by LADY J ( Change your thoughts and you change your world.. - Norman Vincent Peale))
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get a little antelope poop on me boots

Put on a real Southern African drawl

Slap some whiteys err skin...


20 posted on 08/17/2011 2:05:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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