Harkin: McCain is hostile to farm country

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee told a Carroll audience that Barack Obama has done more to support Iowa farming in a few years than John McCain has in a political lifetime. U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin “To me this (Obama) could be a really good friend of ours in the White House to those of us who farm or live in rural communities,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said at a rural roundtable for Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois and the Democratic presidential candidate. More tha