Obama's listening problem

President Obama clearly has a listening problem. A farmer told the president at an Atkinson, Illinois town hall this morning that he'd rather be toiling in the fields rather than "filling out forms and permits to do what we like to do." He expressed his fear about more regulation.

Obama's response from his Hollywood style set? "Don't always believe what you hear."

This farmer knows what he is talking about--this is the most regulation-addicted administration ever.



Meanwhile, there are a couple of greater Americans with ties to northwestern Illinois, which you will read about below.

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