President obama s 2008 campaign. the issue of energy is apparently a sensitive one for the president. the washington examiner reports clean coal advocates for banned from entering two campaign events this week. tuesday, supporters had their clean coal t-shirts, hats and signs confiscated at a rally in virginia, featuring vice president bite bite. thepresident vice president biden. the american coalition for clean coal electricity says this has been happening for months. rereached out to the obama campaign and have yet to hear back. finally, politico roger simon wrote a satire of vice presidential nominee paul ryan this week using this quote. he has been marching around his campaign bus saying things like , if stench calls, take a message . he was referencing this quote in the new york times if ryan wants to run for national office again, he will probably have to wash the stench of romney off of him.