What I've learned, when I decided to run, what I was betting on, was that change in America does not happen from the top down. It happens from the bottom up. -
Barack Obama as a candidate for president. Taco Bell Arena, Boise State University, 2008
He's baaaack!
President Barack Obama will make a Boise stop as part of a national tour discussing themes from his State of the Union address Tuesday, according to the White House.
A Friday announcement of the visit did not specify Obama's topics or why he chose Boise as part of his tour. Also not yet known is anything about tickets or how to attend the speech. Those details were not expected to be available Friday.
One possible topic could be immigration. Idaho leads the nation in the percentage of immigrants who could be eligible for Obama's recently announced deferred deportation program, according to the Pew Research Center in Washington.
He spoke to more than 14,000 people in Taco Bell Arena during the 2008 campaign.
The day after his Idaho visit, he'll speak in Lawrence, Kansas, according to the Idaho Statesman.
The last area visit by a sitting president was by George W. Bush, who spoke to military families at the Idaho Center in Nampa in August 2005, then stayed at the Tamarack Resort, where he mountain-biked with then-Gov. Dirk Kempthorne.