I'm Going To See The President On Friday!!!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

President Obama is going to be in my little suburb of Columbus on Friday, and I'm picking up my ticket to see him tomorrow. So excited! I haven't seen him since 2008 when I and about 100,000 of my friends packed the Statehouse lawn on the Sunday before Election Day. And we all know how that story turned out.

I was actually just lamenting to the wife that I might not be able to get to an event to see him this time around (I wasn't able to get to some of his other Columbus appearances), and then this e-mail invitation popped up in my Inbox.

I'll be sure to report back on Friday afternoon with as much detail as possible and maybe even a few pictures.

[JeffHead]

1. I'm green with envy....

The closest I've been to a politician in a position of power was Dan Quayle at a Cubs game. I was standing in line for a beer and he comes walking by with his little Cubbies jacket on being escorted by the secret service on his way to throw out the first pitch. The Cubs lost 15-6 so he was about as good for the Cubs as he was for the country.

[ananda]

2. Me too!

I did get to meet Lyndon Johnson and shake his hand when I was eleven,
at Wynnewood Shopping Center in Oak Cliff (Dallas) when he was running
for the presidential nomination against Kennedy.

Later, in the early eighties, I met members of Kennedy's admin at a Camelot
Symposium in Dallas. I shook hands with Sargent Shriver while my mom's
friend gushed on and on about how much she admired Eunice for all her
good works and the Special Olympics. We were just Kennedy fools, I guess,
and happy for it I must say!

[postulater]

3. I shook hands with Hubert Humphrey

when he campaigned in the primaries in the early sixties. He was touring our state and gave a speech from the band shell on our courthouse square.

Oh, and I shook Ms. Obama's hand this fall. That was better then Humphrey.

[goclark]

4. lucky you.....super cool!

[ChoppinBroccoli]

5. Got My Ticket Today; Off To See Him Tomorrow Morning

I was told that the venue is very small and they're only expecting about 2,000 people to be there. I'm hoping that I can get close enough to get a good picture and possibly even shake the hand of the President or speak to him. I've never spoken to a President before. In 2004, I got to have a brief conversation with John Kerry and he signed his book for me (same with Howard Dean a few months later, after he was no longer a Presidential candidate), but never a President. Fingers crossed.