Des Moines, IA - Current Local Temperature: 5 degrees.
I finally got into Des Moines this evening, a little later than I was expecting do to the need to recover from a very celebratory New Years. It turned out to be pretty good timing, however, as I was cruising down I-235 next to Chris Dodd's campaign bus. He was endorsed by the IFAA, a large firefighters union, and has plastered their logo and slogans all over the sides of the bus.
I heard a couple of radio ad's for Obama as I was scanning the dial on the drive in. He's promoting his health care plan, which differs from Senators Clinton and Edwards in that it doesn't mandate health coverage for all people. I talked at length about the failures of this plan in a previous post entitled, "My Brother's Keeper" (December 2007), but I'll suffice to say that when healthy people aren't require to buy into a health plan they won't do it, and the result is a bunch of sick people paying a lot more for their coverage.
I'll be out on the town tomorrow in the freezing cold, and I'll post again what I see once I'm a bit more settled in.
Goodnight, and Good Luck.
I finally got into Des Moines this evening, a little later than I was expecting do to the need to recover from a very celebratory New Years. It turned out to be pretty good timing, however, as I was cruising down I-235 next to Chris Dodd's campaign bus. He was endorsed by the IFAA, a large firefighters union, and has plastered their logo and slogans all over the sides of the bus.
I heard a couple of radio ad's for Obama as I was scanning the dial on the drive in. He's promoting his health care plan, which differs from Senators Clinton and Edwards in that it doesn't mandate health coverage for all people. I talked at length about the failures of this plan in a previous post entitled, "My Brother's Keeper" (December 2007), but I'll suffice to say that when healthy people aren't require to buy into a health plan they won't do it, and the result is a bunch of sick people paying a lot more for their coverage.
I'll be out on the town tomorrow in the freezing cold, and I'll post again what I see once I'm a bit more settled in.
Goodnight, and Good Luck.
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You'll have to let us know if you stumble into any candidates or their surrogates!
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