Obama Writes Opinion Piece For Iowa Student Newspaper

3618384Barack Obama, who has been courting college students in his effort to win the Jan. 3rd Iowa caucuses, has penned an opinion piece for the Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa's student newspaper.

As UWIRE reported, the column touts Obama's positions on student loans, health care, Iraq, the environment, and other issues.

"Under my plan, if you graduate and don't find a job that provides health insurance right away, you can stay on your parents' insurance until you're 25," he wrote.

On December 4th, Iowa State's student newspaper, the Iowa State Daily, endorsed Obama. "Obama has not been afraid to throw a lot of his time and resources into trying to invigorate the younger crowd," noted the editors.

Students will be on vacation on the caucus date, but Obama has encouraged those who live out of state to return to campus early to caucus for him.

As UWIRE notes, at an appearance at Iowa State, Obama sought to reassure college students who might feel that they are not welcome at the caucuses.

""Don't let people tell you that you can't caucus," he said. "You're Iowa students, you can be Iowa caucus-goers."

[anniesdogs]

CBS calls this site a ''horserace'' and Iowa calls it a ''caucus''-but neither has ALL the candidates! Kuchinich has DELIBORATELY been left out of both the caucus and the horserace sites. This is not the way to keep a representative democracy functioning and healthy, and I am really upset that not one of the candidates that WERE included has publicly stated any objection to the ''coldshoulder'' Kuchinich has received during this primary season! If anyone should be defending democracy, it is these candidates! I don''t know who I''m voting for yet, but at 67 years of age, I have been terribly worried about this country for years. I have watched local election screwed up, and then the national elections not only screwed up, but the outright theft of votes and deliberately blocking legal voters from the polls, television calling elections instead of election officials and the Supreme Court APPOINTING a president instead of issuing orders for a recount of CITIZEN VOTES! As an Independent, I have voted for candidates from both parties throughout my voting life - Now to see candidates, who have paid their filing fees deliberately snubbed by the press, television and caucuses is not the way this government was supposed to work. Have we become so controlled by the media, so unsophisticated in our awareness and so lax in our responsibility as citizens that we will put up with these actions and let our country flounder and freedom vanish? It''s beginning to look like that will indeed be the case.

[alyce_b]

What happens when you are older than 25? Many students are older than 25 at graduation when they finish a MA or PhD program or go back to undergraduate after taking time off, they can not depend on their parents. We need UNIVERSAL health care not just health care for some.

[sushi17-2009]

This has nothing to do "unsavory chicago politics." There is nothing misleading about the statement "you''re Iowa students, you can be Iowa caucus goers." Nowhere sis he say, you can vote in Iowa and you''re home state.

According to the Iowa Secretary of State, all Iowa students have the right to vote in the town where they attend college in Iowa. Fromthe Secretary''s website:

''If you are from another state (i.e. Illinois) and are attending college in Iowa (i.e. Iowa State University), you may register to vote in:

1. your Iowa college town or

2. your home state (hometown) and vote absentee - subject to the laws of your home state.

[sushi17-2009]

This has nothing to do "unsavory chicago politics." There is nothing misleading about the statement "you''re Iowa students, you can be Iowa caucus goers." Nowhere sis he say, you can vote in Iowa and you''re home state.

According to the Iowa Secretary of State, all Iowa students have the right to vote in the town where they attend college in Iowa. Fromthe Secretary''s website:

''If you are from another state (i.e. Illinois) and are attending college in Iowa (i.e. Iowa State University), you may register to vote in:

1. your Iowa college town or

2. your home state (hometown) and vote absentee - subject to the laws of your home state.