Vilsack Campaigns In My Hometown

This story was a little too hard to resist. Tom Vilsack was in my hometown of West Palm Beach, FL, today, at what I know to be a depressingly suburban steakhouse, courting Palm Beach County Democrats:

If Tom Vilsack were president today, troops would begin leaving south and central Iraq, Congress would have to find a way to dig the country out of growing debt, and the nation would embrace the call to make itself less dependent on imported fuel.

So goes Vilsack’s pitch for the 2008 presidency - one he served up Monday after the Caesar salad at Mark’s CityPlace.

Maybe I’m behind in realizing this only now, but picturing Vilsack in a place like Mark’s Steakhouse in the suburban, faux-Parisian strip-mall nightmare that is CityPlace West Palm Beach is really strange to me. I can picture him at a union hall, an outdoor steak fry, a VFW hall, a small-town cafe, and all the places Iowa politicians generally make appearances, but not in an overpriced bistro/steak house adjacent to designer shoe boutiques and tacky art galleries. I’ll be interested to see what the actual newspaper article will look like in tomorrow’s paper — if there even is one. If the local reaction seems positive, I’ll be impressed.

1 comment December 13th, 2006