I think a big part of the problem is that Secretary Vilsack finds it premature and politically discomfiting to acknowledge that he still wants to be President Vilsack someday (ideally, succeeding Mr Obama in 2017).
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.aspIn case anyone is interested, this is apparently the Iowa Farm Bureau response to those recent soil erosion reports.And speaking of those reports, I saw Secretary Vilsack's very evasive responses to press questions about them on IOWA PRESS on IPTV on Sunday. I think Secretary Vilsack would benefit from considering that old and true adage that you can't change what you refuse to acknowledge."A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree." (Gretel Ehrlich)