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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hate to be the one to say it, but.....
Do you know how many right-leaning independent voters might be having second thoughts about Mitt all because this "robust white male independent voter and small business owner" is giving the President a bear hug?
Oh, and I don't really hate being the one to say it.
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)"if I eat your pizza, will I look like that?"
Mitt would probably say: "How do you eat pizza all day and look like that?"
and along with so many other more pressing things, there's the difference.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)"This food item you sell, what was it again...oh, yes this 'pizza' as you call it, do the common folk find it edible? I'm not sure I'd really want to consume anything that looks so...well, you know, a tradesman's type of food."
Squinch
(51,021 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Care Acutely
(1,370 posts). . .Yer GOOD.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)sees and hears (and instinctively feels) what people want and need.
This pizza guy needed to be vindicated for who he is and what he does--our President managed to answer all those aspirations in one funny question.
Rmoney is deaf and dumb when it comes to people.
ann---
(1,933 posts)It's great to see our president having fun with "us people!"
bluerum
(6,109 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Dick Morris told me so.
teddy51
(3,491 posts)he is a down to earth person. This pic just proves how likable he really is!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)chollybocker
(3,687 posts)rateyes
(17,438 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)BootinUp
(47,197 posts)it is done with heavy duty equipment.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)I don't think even Manute Bol could get his arms all the way around Christie.
Kyad06
(127 posts)"The spirit is willing but the flesh is just too much"
Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Duzys for awhile!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)By itself it won't change minds, but it is part of an overall impression where right leaning independents realize Obama is sane and Mittens is not.
patrice
(47,992 posts)MercutioATC
(28,470 posts)...I can't believe the Secret Service allowed that.
Spazito
(50,484 posts)"Obama said he decided to stop by Van Duzer's restaurant because the restaurateur had done some record-breaking work promoting blood donations in his community. Van Duzer has received commendations from the White House and U.S. surgeon general."
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/obama-gets-a-bear-hug-from-florida-pizza-shop-owner/1#.UE06ro1lTCt
MercutioATC
(28,470 posts)Makes a lot more sense now
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)former-republican
(2,163 posts)Oh I'm sure they were getting ready to pounce on him if they perceived the action was a threat.
It's a nice photo and I hope it's shown on some MSM networks.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)Of the Secret Service agents possibly flipping out over Van Duzer lifting the president of the United States, he [Van Duzen] said: He said I was all right as long as I didnt take him away.
http://theobamadiary.com/
burrowowl
(17,652 posts)Wow, that pizza guy is strong!
AnnieBW
(10,459 posts)Someone does something good for his community, they should be rewarded.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)I'd love to pick up President Obama and give him a big hug too!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)The President shoulda pulled himself up... by his boot straps.
NotThisTime
(3,657 posts)I would have been scared if I was the President ROFL....
OnlinePoker
(5,727 posts)Isn't he one of the tallest presidents ever?
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)I think Abraham Lincoln was the tallest at 6'4. I wonder how big the pizza owner guy is, he must be huge!
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Imagine the President going over his daily schedule, "and at 10:30 am, there's a photo op with another business owner who wants to lift you..."
Also, I'm waiting for some RW knucklehead to make a remark about how Republicans are always carrying the President.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I love our President and one of the reasons is he is one of us who made good, that all. He's still one of us regular folks. I truly believe that. He's just a good dude and a smart person who's time has come and just when someone like him is sorely needed.
ETA: could you imagine someone picking up Romney like that. I'd bet his stomach muscles are so weak that he'd shit his magic underwear
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)on his face when this happened. It was funny.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I like it.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)and will again in 2012. There are still many sane, moderate Republicans out there and Obama is their best hope.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)now or in the future.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)That is the best picture of many pictures. That film clip of POS lifting the baby up and how it was laughing so and then that other pic where he is surrounded by kids...
He's a good man doing a hard job for all of us.
He looks out for Dem's and republicans and independents and communists and socialist, red, black, brown or white; he is the president of the United States of America!