When he has a teleprompter. If he doesn't have that he stumbles around and makes Bush seem coherent.
When he has a teleprompter. If he doesn't have that he stumbles around and makes Bush seem coherent.
ProfJohn
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That was nice of him to shake hands with people etc etc.
I am sure that anyone who sat at their table and tried to ignore him were left alone.
Rush Limbaugh and Bill Clinton ended up at the same event during Clinton's presidency and Clinton walked up and introduced himself to Rush and his wife/girlfriend. It was very cordial and nice without any politics. If those two can be friendly to each other then I think anyone can be friendly to another American.
Hell, Bush 41 and Clinton have become good friends since leaving office. Politics and the media amplifies out differences and ignores our similarities.
I am sure that anyone who sat at their table and tried to ignore him were left alone.
Rush Limbaugh and Bill Clinton ended up at the same event during Clinton's presidency and Clinton walked up and introduced himself to Rush and his wife/girlfriend. It was very cordial and nice without any politics. If those two can be friendly to each other then I think anyone can be friendly to another American.
Hell, Bush 41 and Clinton have become good friends since leaving office. Politics and the media amplifies out differences and ignores our similarities.
Bateluer
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Agreed. I don't like President Obama and disagree vehemently with 99% of his policies, but I'd still like to meet him in person.
Closest I've ever been to a US President was watching Gerald Ford attend a benefit at a museum in Michigan, watched him walk across the ground floor shaking hands from the second floor balcony. And I was stationed at Luke AFB when George W Bush and AF1 landed there a few times, but I never got anywhere near him.
HamburgerBoy
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Ever heard of affirmative action? Do you know his LSAT or SAT score? Do you know what school he got into and attended straight out of high school before he discovered how to manipulate white guilt and take advantage of affirmative action?
Kanalua
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I thought Pres. Clinton was a douche, but it was still cool meeting him while he was President.
Obama will be here in Hawaii for Christmas (3rd year in a row). I live a block away from his Grandmother's place (the building he lived in for a few years as a kid). There is an Obama "shrine" (seriously) in the open air lobby of the building. Regardless of how little I think of Obama as a President, he's still the President and I think it's kinda cool every time I walk by the building and see the Obama shrine (the thought that the President lived in that building growing up...just down the street from where I live). Sucks when his entourage brings traffic to a stand still.
Obama will be here in Hawaii for Christmas (3rd year in a row). I live a block away from his Grandmother's place (the building he lived in for a few years as a kid). There is an Obama "shrine" (seriously) in the open air lobby of the building. Regardless of how little I think of Obama as a President, he's still the President and I think it's kinda cool every time I walk by the building and see the Obama shrine (the thought that the President lived in that building growing up...just down the street from where I live). Sucks when his entourage brings traffic to a stand still.
halik
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bamacre
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Agreed. Don't worry about the "classy" comment. I wouldn't shake the hand of any president who is still alive. Fuck 'em all.
bamacre
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Oh fuck that. Respect the rank? They don't, why should we? For Christ's sake, these people are our employees, not our bosses. Treat them like a king, and they'll rule like one.
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CallMeJoe
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Take off the hood for a moment and think; affirmative action may help get one into Harvard, but it most certainly does not earn one an honors degree.
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It would be cool to run into Obama at Frontera, but I'd be more excited to run into Rick Bayless. Somehow he never walks through while I'm in the place.
Was Obama eating in Frontera or downstairs at Topolomampo?
Was Obama eating in Frontera or downstairs at Topolomampo?
yllus
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Shaking Hands With Barbara Bush In The 7th Grade is going to be the name of my new band.
Siddhartha
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He was passing through downstairs and heading to the fancier part (which I assume is Topolomampo since I don't really know the restaurants).
I hoped to see Bayless, but I did not. We were told that Bayless was there, which may have meant that our meals were even more tasty than it would otherwise be. I'll have to hand it to their chefs though, the habenero sauce was perfect. First time that I've had one that I could truely taste the fruit of the habenero while at the same time being to hot to eat the whole sauce bowl (meaning it had both heat and flavor).
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Main dishes were mostly in the $20s (although some were less). Appetizers were $8 to $44. Drinks were $7-$14. Deserts were $8.25. Table for four came out to $280 after tip. It was pricey but not that bad considering what I just paid in Paris restaurants for lesser meals.
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