Obama will watch her speech from Kansas City, Missouri, where he's scheduled to campaign the following day, according to an e-mail Sunday to the campaign's traveling press corps from spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
But the Navy seems less committed to its version of the new fighter than the Air Force and Marine Corps are to theirs, so Boeing has launched a campaign to offer the sea service a cheaper alternative.
It had been brewing for the whole of the campaign so far... there have been mutterings from many of the press corps about the lack of women politicians being put up to talk to us in the daily press conferences held by the Lib Dem, Tory and Labour parties.