by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama's return to Iowa today, his first tour of the state that gave him the first push in his long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in January of 2008, is a trip down memory lane.
"Iowa will always be a special place for the president and a special place for those that spent, I think we figured, one out of every three or four days in 2007 here,'' said Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary and veteran of an Iowa caucus campaign that made Obama a viable contender.
Gibbs joined the president on today's Iowa day-trip for Earth Day, and they were joking about this: "The president and I were joking that we had no idea you could come to Iowa and just do one stop and go home. ..
"A normal day for most of 2007... most days were anywhere from four to seven stops and a hotel room that you rarely unpacked in because all you wanted to do was go to sleep.''
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