Low-budget town parade draws blockbuster nominee

INDEPENDENCE Day with one president; one potential president in unapologetic cowboy country; and as much yee-haw as you can shake a hotdog at.

It started with a parade dripping with everything from star spangled banners to baseball bats.

Yet all this week both the local and national press asked the same question — why did the Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama come to Butte, Montana, for the Fourth of July?