Barack Obama came to Springfield last night. Said he was making a tour through rural Missouri. I guess he considers a town of 380,000 "rural." He spoke this morning at a town hall meeting. No, I didn't go. I've been working round the clock on iHorseClub™. (You probably noticed I haven't had a whole lot of time to post here either!) Besides, I'm not too enthralled with either presidential candidate this year. I feel like I'm choosing between Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager, and Saul Tigh from Battlestar Galactica. Yeah, I'm a sci-fi fan.
Back to my story. So, I was mildly unamused by the whole Springfield-is-rural thing... and then I woke up this morning and found Barack's coverage interrupted by this:
A semi truck loaded with live turkeys overturned on the interstate and a massive turkey rescue and round-up was underway. In Springfield, turkey rescue trumps presidential candidate visit any day.
Maybe Obama's camp is right; we are rural.
I'm okay with that!
Found you through Faith Lifts. I'm a writer...I'll have to read what you wrote about starting a publishing company!
Posted by: gennyg | Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 02:54 PM