“Iowa takes its job seriously. The caucus process is the most democratic - small d - way to do this, we have the opportunity to talk about the issues and ask the hard questions, and a lot of us have been doing that for a lot of years.”

“The Democrats have Congress, we’re halfway there. We can try to negotiate with the president. But let’s do our job and choose the best person for the Democratic nomination and let’s begin here in Iowa.”

But I didn’t hear him say Obama WAS the best person…

Also, CR Mayor Kay Halloran was there - and she just endorsed Vilsack. I took it as a nice show of respect for Obama and a good chance to say hi to a bunch of fired up constituents. Insert the Dennis Miller disclaimer here.