President Obama made an unscheduled stop at the Iowa State Fair on Monday evening on the first day of his three-day Iowa bus tour. Emerging from Ground Force One, Obama shouted “Let’s go to the fair,” bought his ticket and then bought an “Iowa State Fair, nothing compares” baseball hat which he immediately put on, according to pool reporter Helene Cooper.
The President shook hands and took pictures; he declined a cinnamon roll saying he wanted to save room for porkchop on a stick and declined a smoothie saying “Smoothie sounds ok but a beer sounds better.”
At the beer tent, he ended up buying folks a round of beer.
From the pool report:
Finally Potus came over. “Hey everyone whose over 21, you gotta buy a beer!” Someone yelled, “is it on you?”
Potus said: “let me see what’s in my wallet,” and peered into his wallet.
The beer crowd, meanwhile, started chanting, “four more beers!”
Potus said, “I’ll tell you what, except for Romney sign, I’ll but beers for ten people.”
Earlier in the day, VP candidate Paul Ryan made a speech at the state fair, mentiong that Obama wasn’t at the fair: “I heard President Obama is starting his bus tour today, and I heard he wasn’t going to come to the Iowa State Fair.”
