The AP finds attendees at this weekend’s health care forum who find Barack Obama a little light on substance.

Daniel Romo, 45, a clerk at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles and a member of the Service Employees International Union that sponsored the forum, left with Clinton and Edwards as his top choices. Obama did not impress him.
“I believe that he needed to know a little more about health care issues and he was just unprepared,” Romo said.
David Peter, a child support case worker and member of the SEIU in Las Vegas who was also in the audience, said Obama may have been better off not participating in the forum. Peter is a local organizer for anti-war candidate Dennis Kucinich, but said he was impressed with Clinton’s health care plan and disappointed in Obama.
“He wasn’t prepared for it,” Peter said. “I saw him speak here about a month ago and it was on his issues and just on sort of introducing himself to the people and I thought he was much better on that speech than he was in this forum.”
Obama was pressed by a union member in the audience who said she went to his Web site to learn more about his health care vision, but didn’t find much beyond his commitment to reduce HIV/AIDS and lead poisoning.

The headline?

“Is Obama all style and little substance?”

Ow.

In related news, AFP is calling former Iowa Governor’s Tom Vilsack support of Hillary Clinton “crucial” and “a prime political endorsement.”

I know he was governor of the first caucus state, but beyond that, wasn’t he best known for having a name that inspired AFLAC jokes on the Daily Show?