We did a whistle-stop in Pandora, Ohio. \u00a0 A reporter from Fox News came to do an interview — straight from the “State of the University Address” at Bluffton University. \u00a0 To stay with that theme, I gave him an unsolicited “State of the Nation Address.” \u00a0 I said we stand at the precipous of catastrophic global warming; little kids daily dodge hunger, drugs and bullets in our inner cities; we have 48 million people without healthcare insurance, we have a nine trillion dollar national debt… \u00a0 I added that maybe it’s time to look to someone outside ‘the beltway’ for new answers to these issues. \u00a0 And that person? \u00a0 Me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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