A President needs to be among the people not cooped up in the White House. We are economic hard times because BUSH had no problem flying around spending money...The issue is that we should be proud that our state and the city of Arnold AND FHS got to SEE a President speak, in person, in their lifetime. Regardless of political concerns, we all should be supporting democracy to our youth.

Brienna -- Let me clarify and be more specific: Only 50 Obama supporters showed up outside and the Post-Dispatch failed to cover the protests.

Ok, why did Obama spend $350,000 of our taxpayer dollars to fly Airforce One to Missouri in these poor economic times to give this speech? He is not a good steward of are money. And why oh why did he fly Airforce One over NYC the other day for another $360,000 for a photo opportunity, and not tell New Yorkers, (scared the hell out of them/ wasted taxpayer dollars and never apologized for it) when he could have just used photo shop???? Pay attention people . . . he is a novice and he controls all our banks right now!!!!

I went. There were protesters ... but not 500 of them...

Bob, I think you are confused. The FHS gym was packed, I mean stuffed full of probably more than 2000 people. I think there may have been 20-30 protesters outside. Nobody appreciates your blatant lying.

Bob McCarty is a liar. Three of the girls I work with went and one of the girls father is the principle of Fox. Im not necessarily an Obama supporter but as a citizen of the land of opportunity I think our president deserves our respect. If you don't like hom fine, whatever, but dont make up a lie about someone. Im sure there were protesters. But he had a ton of supporters there also.

Ummm... all the Obama supporters were inside maybe? At least from the images it looks like the weather was pleasant for the protesters.

More than 500 people staged a protest outside Fox High School in Arnold this morning. Fewer than 50 Obama supporters showed up. Where's the coverage, P-D?

go obama