I had no idea where Ankeny, Iowa was on a map, so I rejoiced when the plane blew a tire on the tarmac in Washington. What a relief. Well, it didn’t last long. Airports actually carry spare tires.
Even funnier than the fact that there’s a place called Ankeny, is the fact that I was actually in Ankeny 14 years ago stumping for Bill. The topic then is the topic today. Health care. Political footballs never die, they just get carried back and forth.
Since I was a couple of hours late getting in to Iowa (airplane tires don’t blow themselves up) we had to feed lunch to all the people waiting in line at the Des Moines Area Community College. Since Iowans don’t contribute much money to a presidential campaign, expenses and contributions were pretty much a wash.
I found out that Ankeny is over 100 years old. I believe it. Some of those wrinkled old codgers in Iowa look like they’ve been facing a North wind for about 100 years.
What’s interesting about Ankeny, besides the fact that anyone lives here, is that their little community college is named Des Moines Area Community College. It’s as if they don’t want anyone to know they live in Ankeny and their kids attend ACC. ‘Des Moines’ sounds so French and classy. Duh-moines. Duh. That cracks me up every time.
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