Administration of Barack Obama, 2012
Remarks at a Campaign Rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
July 10, 2012
Before President Obama delivered remarks at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, he visited the home of Jason and Ali McLaughlin to discuss the need for Congress to extend the middle-class tax cuts that would prevent a tax hike on all families earning less than $250,000.
Before speaking to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Obama visited the home of Jason and Ali McLaughlin yesterday. The McLaughlins have a son, Cooper, and a second child on the way. Jason is a high school principal and Ali is a sales manager
Before speaking to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Obama visited the home of Jason and Ali McLaughlin yesterday. The McLaughlins have a son, Cooper, and a second child on the way. Jason is a high school principal and Ali is a sales manager. Thanks to tax cuts the President has already signed into law, they'll have received $4,900 in tax relief over the course of President Obama’s first term.
U.S. President Barack Obama meets a shy Leo Olson, who hides behind his mother Sarah Olson upon his arrival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 10, 2012. Obama flew to Iowa for an event pushing for the extension of Bush-era tax cuts due to expire at the end of 2012.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Sitting at a kitchen table here with a middle-income couple and speaking later at a community college to a buoyant crowd of 1,600 supporters, President Obama on Tuesday took his message of tax fairness to Iowa, the battleground state that propelled his first run for the presidency in 2008.
President Obama meets with Jason and Ali McLaughlin and their son, Cooper, while visiting their home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
With no official business on his agenda, the president landed aboard Air Force One in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and treated local residents to the full experience of a presidential motorcade rolling through town on his way to two campaign events. The event made the top news spot on the Web-sites of the local and state newspapers and television stations.