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President Barack Obama waves to well-wishers upon his arrival on Air Force One at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport on Thursday. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman is at right. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 01 obama day one )

President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Grand Ole Creamery in St. Paul as part of his two-day visit to the Twin Cities on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 024 Obama )

A secret service agent walks alongside Air Force One as President Barack Obama lands at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for his two-day visit to the Twin Cities on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 03 Obama )

President Barack Obama greets supporters on the tarmac after flying in Air Force One to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for his two-day visit to the Twin Cities on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 02 Obama )

President Barack Obama greets Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, left, on the tarmac upon his arrival on Air Force One at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 02 obama day one )

A pair of stairs are readied for the pending arrival of Air Force One and President Barack Obama at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin)

With a belly fully of Jucy Lucy at Matt's Bar in Minneapolis, President Barack Obama heds to Minnehaha Park for a town hall meeting on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 06 obama day one )

President Barack Obama works the rope line outside Matt's Bar after ordering a Jucy Lucy at the bar in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 06 obama day one )

President Barack Obama has a quick chat with Rebekah Erler of Minneapolis at Matt's Bar before going to a town hall meeting at Minnehaha Falls onThursday. Obama met with Erler, who recently wrote the White House about her struggles to make ends meet.(Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 05 obama day one )

President Barack Obama laughs with patrons at Matt's Bar, where he poked his head in while on the way to a town hall meeting at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 04 obama day one )

President Barack Obama greets customers at Matt's Bar in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 03 obama day one )

A small child gets a Presidential pat on the head from Barack Obama outside Matt's Bar in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 08 obama day one )

People laugh with President Barack Obama outside Matt's Bar after he ordered a Jucy Lucy for lunch in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 10 obama day one )

A young admirer is momentarily overcome while meeting President Barack Obama outside Matt's Bar in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 07 obama day one )

President Barack Obama answers a question from an audience member during a town hall meeting at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 011 Obama )

President Barack Obama greets the crowd before speaking and answering questions at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 12 obama day one )

The student body president at the University of Minnesota asks President Barack Obama how to secure a president to speak at at future graduation during a question and answer period at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 17 obama day one )

President Barack Obama speaks at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 13 obama day one )

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, left, claps after President Barack Obama mentioned the new Green Line light rail train at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. Behind Coleman is Congressman Keith Ellison and Governor Mark Dayton. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 20 obama day one )

A fashionable photographer photographs the president at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 15 obama day one )

An ebullient young man asks President Barack Obama a question at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 19 obama day one )

A sign language interpreter works as President Barack Obama speaks at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 18 obama day one )

President Barack Obama is greeted by supporters after speaking at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 22 obama day one )

President Barack Obama greets the crowd before speaking and answering questions at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 21 obama day one )

President Barack Obama is greeted by supporters after speaking at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 23 obama day one )

President Barack Obama holds up a jar of "Minnesalsa" he planned to purchase at the Golden Fig in St. Paul on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 23 obama day one )

President Barack Obama jokes with Lisa McCannin of St. Paul at the Golden Fig in St. Paul on Thursday. Lisa's sister Lauri Crowell owns the store. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 26 obama day one )

Onlookers on Grand Avenue crane to get a look of President Barack Obama as he greets people in front of the Wild Onion restaurant in St. Paul on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 27 obama day one )

President Barack Obama greets employees at the Grand Ole Creamery on Grand Avenue in St. Paul on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 29 obama day one )

Senior advisor Valerie Jarrett tells the president she already had ice cream before he arrived as President Barack Obama orders a cone at the Grand Old Creamery in St. Paul on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 30 obama day one )

President Barack Obama offers to buy ice cream for members of the media after he got a scoop of Black Hills Gold at Grand Ole Creamery on Grand Avenue in St. Paul on Thursday. (Pioneer Press: Ben Garvin) ( blg 31 obama day one )