PRESIDENT OBAMA VISIT

Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, center,  was in the crowd in Ripley to welcome the president. With  large oil pipe stacked 20 feet high as a backdrop, President Barack Obama delivered a speech promoting his administration's energy policies  to a group of about 200 invited guests at a pipe storage  yard just north of Ripley Thursday morning,  March 22, 2012.   Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman
Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, center, was in the crowd in Ripley to welcome the president. With large oil pipe stacked 20 feet high as a backdrop, President Barack Obama delivered a speech promoting his administration's energy policies to a group of about 200 invited guests at a pipe storage yard just north of Ripley Thursday morning, March 22, 2012. Photo by Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman