Schaller here: I’ll be covering the Republicans from Iowa this week for the Prospect, with Dana on the Democratic beat. Not to tread on her turf, but from my hotel room here in Des Moines I couldn’t help notice that Hillary Clinton, a few moments ago in a speech she gave in Maquoketa, was touting energy independence and said that those who say Americans can conserve and drive fuel-efficient vehicles forget that “we’re the country that put a man on the moon…that invented the Internet.” Not only is this the basic sentiment expressed by Al Gore at the end of his Inconvenient Truth slide show, but it’s interesting that, of all the great American achievements, Clinton mentioned the moon landing and the Internet. It’s not a coincidence that Gore won Iowa 8 years ago. --Tom Schaller
