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  • Shotgun Spratling

At around noon today, under mostly sunny skies in a park in tiny Cannon Falls, Minnesota, President Obama will give his first speech in a crucial three-day midwest bus tour. He’ll be in Iowa tomorrow, then finish the tour on Wednesday in the small Illinois towns of Atkinson and Alpha.

The economy is a mess, unemployment far too high, Washington paralyzed. What’s a president to say?