The buzz surrounding Tuesday’s visit by Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner for president, to Cape Girardeau to make an appeal to those elusive working-class voters, centers on one question:

What prompted him to go there?

Over the past 20…

President Bush answered a softball question about what happens after the White House. He says his time there has been fun — he takes a jab at the furniture “like a museum” — but says he’s ready to return to…

A questioner says he’s pretty hungry and then asks about the recent issue of rising food prices.

The president says at home we need to expand WIC programs to feed children. And Congress needs to up global aid. But he…

A questioner wants to know what the president’s biggest domestic challenge is.

“The biggest domestic challenge is to protect america from attack. My job is to do everything i can to rally forces to protect you.”

“I never thought I’d be…

We’re into the Q&A period.

The first one came from a World Wide Tech exec about health care.

President Bush says there are two paths — government paid and private. He immediately dismisses a single-payer or universal system as “government…

He’s turning to trade, which he doesn’t have as much support on. He talks about “missour-ah farmers” and World Wide Technology needing trade.

“Trade policy ought to make it easier for you to enter foreign markets.  Opening up markets is…

The president is moving pretty quickly here. He’s on to housing now.

He gave a bare-bones plan for what to do that included:

• Let state housing authorities issue tax free bonds
• Help people renegotiate
• Adress resetting mortgages.

Not much more and now we’re on…

President Bush is hitting hard on the “pro-growth economic package.” He says consumption and spending is the key. He says this isn’t another one of those “the check is in the mail deal.”

“You’re going to get some money. Turns…

The president is somewhere between Lambert International and the factory here. In the meantime, everyone here has been chatting a bit and listening to some music pumped over the stereo.

The play list seems a bit ecletic, ranging from some…

President George W. Bush and Air Force One touched down about twenty minutes ago.

Political Fix box Jo Mannies was on the scene. Jo reports that Bush stepped off the plane to be greeted by Gov. Matt Blunt, St. Louis Mayor…