The Battle Of The Greasy Grass

There are lots of election events I would like to cover, but can't.  Today is one of those as Barack Obama goes to the Crow Indian Reservation in south central Montana.

Obama starts first with a rally in Billings and then goes south on I-90 to Crow Agency, not far from the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Don't be surprised if you see some network TV reporters with the battlefield in the background tonight.

It's a road that I have traveled often in my life, flying into Billings and then zipping down the road to see my mother's side of the family who have lived two hours south around Sheridan, Wyoming.

Halfway there is the site of the battle known by many as where Gen. George Custer made his infamous "Last Stand" along the Little Bighorn River.

It's too bad it isn't Hillary Clinton in Crow Agency campaigning for the Montana Primary on June 3, because the media would love that metaphor.

"Clinton Makes Last Stand"  - I can see the headline now.

The sights off the interstate aren't much in between Crow Agency and Hardin to the north, as the Little Bighorn River snakes its way back and forth along I-90.

The poverty is evident from the asphalt.  When you get off the exit for the battlefield, there is a casino situated not far from the battlefield itself. 

Usually some of the neon letters that spell CASINO have been out each time I've been by at night.  The parking lot is often fairly empty.  It's not the Bellagio or anything.

I stopped by the battlefield again last August with some of my high school friends who came West for a quick weekend of golf in Wyoming.  It's a fairly fascinating place to say the least.

I'm sure some other Presidential candidate must have gone through Crow Agency before, but I couldn't find anything in a few Google searches.

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton visited a Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey distillery in Kentucky.  I'm sure that would have been an interesting event to be at.

But I would really like to be under the Big Sky today to see Obama and the Crow.

"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry," Custer is reported to have said.

There also aren't enough Democrats right now in the world for Hillary Clinton to defeat Barack Obama.


There are lots of election events I would like to cover, but can't.  Today is one of those as Barack Obama goes to the Crow Indian Reservation in south central Montana. Obama starts first with a rally in Billings and then goes south on I-90 to Crow Agency, not far ...