On Friday, August 17, Senator Barack Obama held a Rural Summit in Tama, Iowa. Attendees participated in one of three breakout sessions: agriculture, energy, and rural economic development and quality of life. When addressing the participants, Senator Obama answered questions on the Farm Bill, caps on farm subsidies, and other issues. After the event, Barack met with Norma "Duffy" Lyon, who presented Barack with the "Butter O."Here is part of Barack's speech:
When I say that the rural agenda should be America's agenda, part of it is because rural values should be and are America's values. The values of hard work, and self reliance, and individual initiative, and honesty, and fair dealing, but also the value of mutual responsibility - that we're not in this thing alone, we're in it together.
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