Iowa Attorney & former County Democratic Chairman Tim Lapointe: "Obama seems a bit too glib"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Taking Iowa Democrats' pulse on caucus day
With caucuses only hours away, we check in on those we interviewed

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DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowans vote Thursday night, so let’s check the political pulse of Democrats we’ve interviewed this year.

Some of these Iowa Democrats I’ve known for several years, such as Mason City attorney Tim Lapointe; others, like Levi Van Oort, from Clarence, Iowa, I’ve met at campaign events over the past few months.

Lapointe, who was the Cerro Gordo County Democratic chairman from 1998 to 2004 and an ardent Howard Dean supporter four years ago, said, “Hillary Clinton strikes me as more presidential” than her rivals. “That is a main reason I am supporting her.”

“Obama seems a bit too glib and he seems to say the same things over and over, without adding anything to the substance of his position, like a rock star singing the same great songs over and over again,” said Lapointe. He has seen both Clinton and Barack Obama three times. As for 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards, Lapointe said, “I love his new message, but there is still that undefinable quality about him which I will always see as second or third place.” He has seen Edwards on the campaign trail “at least four times in the last four years.”