Sen. Barack Obama tours the dairy complex and barns of Penn State University - pics

[Kadie]

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., left looks at the components of the cow feed with assistant manager Travis Edwards, right, as he tours the dairy complex and barns of Penn State University in University Park , Pa., Sunday, March 30, 2008.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., center talks with Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa.,left and Travis Edwards, assistant manager, as they tour the dairy complex and barns of Penn State University in University Park , Pa., Sunday, March 30, 2008.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., pets cow as he tours the dairy complex and barns of Penn State University in University Park , Pa., Sunday, March 30, 2008.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., feeds a calf as he tours the dairy complex and barns of Penn State University in University Park , Pa., Sunday, March 30, 2008.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

[Bicoastal]

1. This guy looks familiar.

Is he running for office or something?

[otohara]

2. Pandering to Cows

I am outraged!

[Catherina]

3. Rofl! n/t

:rofl:

[polpilot]

7. That cow & calf are Black AND White. No race card today.

[WillyT]

10. You Owe Me A New Keyboard...

:rofl::evilgrin::rofl:

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

20. next Obama will be blamed for all the CO2 emissions from cows butts

he's been friends with cows, for how long now? He knew they belched, he still didnt' denounce
and reject them?

[cboy4]

30. Don't put it past him

:bounce:

[polpilot]

4. That calf sucking the bottle reminds me of Hillary sucking the life out of the party.

Did I say that?

[DJ13]

5. Love that first picture

Its like he's thinking "what the hell is that crap? YECH!"

[Catherina]

6. Thanks Kadie. I saved the last one n/t

[Kadie]

31. I tried to post the links to yahoo,

so people could vote them up, but I couldn't get them to work.

Oh well.

Glad you liked them.

:hi:

[Adelante]

8. OMG - Moooooooo

This is funnier than the bowling :rofl:



Obama will win PA!!

[immoderate]

14. Obama performs the Vulcan Mind-Meld on a potential constituent!

--IMM

[thereismore]

9. The last one is a keeper. He sure is getting a lot of publicity from his bus tour. nt

[trashcanistanista]

11. The feeding the baby calf is priceless. I love it!

Thank you for posting. K&R

[VolcanoJen]

12. I am lovin' the Bus Tour!!

These photos are great... the Terrible Towel, the bowling alley, the beers.

"Hi, I'm Barack Obama!"
"Hi, I'm a cow!"

:-)

[Adelante]

15. Me, too, Jen

This is wonderful, all of it. :)

[Muttocracy]

13. This photographer must be assigned to him - does great work

And as someone who pet the local cows myself, I'm even more charmed :)

[ginnyinWI]

22. yeah I've noticed that name on a lot of pics.

He is very good! Here's another of his I like:

[1776Forever]

16. Actually as somenoe that has made it clear that he will proctect us the cow feed is important!

I have often wondered how anyone could make an argument about putting certain parts of a cow back into the feed they eat and cannibalizing it.

If anyone cares to learn more here is an article that explain it but there is new scientific research that says some of it may be viral too:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/fda_mad_cow.html

These regulations were proposed back in 2005:

The new regulations are similar to those proposed in Canada, which proposes to ban the use of risky tissues, like brains and spinal cords, from all animal feed, not just cattle feed. Former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford revealed the plans last month at a Consumer Federation of America food policy conference.

The agency is proposing to amend its animal feed regulations to prohibit the use in all animal feed of certain high-risk cattle materials that can potentially carry the BSE-infectious agent. All of the proposed prohibitions, except for those related to tallow, have already applied to cattle feed since 1997.

..............

I hope Barack will keep up on this and other food recalls that are so important to our quality of life in the U.S.!

[jody]

17. Gathering more BS for his speeches. n/t

[RichardRay]

19. Even a city slicker like Barack would know...

that he's unlikely to find any bullshit in that location!! (Them ain't bulls, jody)

[jody]

25. I've raised cows and where there are cows, bulls can't be far away. n/t

[RichardRay]

18. Shortly after the third picture was taken (reaching out to the cows)

The cow pictured was seen leading a large group of her sisters in a spontaneous demostration for Barack Obama.

"I've never seen them do that before," said Travis Edwards, assistant manager.

The Obama campaign is said to be outfitting one of its call banks with stalls to support the growing Calling All Cows movement that is sweeping rural Pennsylvania.

[JayFredMuggs]

32. OMG

I don't think I have ever laughed as hard as I did after viewing that picture and reading your post!


I love this!

[caseycoon]

21. I love the pics!

Thanks Kadie!
:applause:

K&R

[Unsane]

23. Obama and Casey = best friends forever

[Vinca]

24. Caption for the 1st picture: "What the hell is that??"

:rofl:

[cooolandrew]

26. He's a natural farmer. =)...

FIRED UP READY TO MILK THE COWS. :bounce:

[TheDonkey]

27. CUTE!

[Ino]

28. Why do calves feed from a BOTTLE on a dairy farm?! (nt)

[TheDonkey]

29. b/c the real milk is for us

;) calves get powder. I think everyone from PA knows this, it is taught in school ;D