Why did Obama escape the oval office to go to Madison? Liberian immigrant Mansfield Neblett just wanted to wear his cheesehead hat to President Barack Obama's speech at a Wisconsin middle school.
The first roadblock were U.S. Secret Service agents. They initially told him the bright yellow hat in the shape of a slice of cheese usually worn by fans at Green Bay Packers games was a security risk.
The 46-year-old Neblett told them he'd skip the Wednesday speech.
The agents relented and Neblett took his place in the last row of the gymnasium.
But wearing the hat during the speech wasn't meant to be.
Before Obama took the stage, someone representing him approached Neblett and offered to get the hat signed by the president. Neblett gladly turned it over.
The President used his visit as a backdrop to announce his new education initiative, called "Race To The Top" in which he plans to make more than $4 billion dollars available to states who meet specific educational criteria
Source: CBS Newsa
Besides loving to fly on Air Force One and escaping the Oval Office, why did Obama waste your money to get another meaningless speech? Besides political payback, what was the urgent need for this education speech? It could have been given at the White House or in the DC area.
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