Great photo of President Obama and a very surprised student

[Siwsan]

He stopped by a bar in Denver that is frequented by students. I admit, I'd probably be making the same face.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. PBO just has that effect on normal people.

The ones that don't delude themselves about birth certificates and the lies of the RW media machine. He's the people's President. Bush never was and Mitt won't be either.

[11 Bravo]

2. Word. The man connects with real people in a way that I haven't seen for a ...

very long time.

[customerserviceguy]

5. And our President

wouldn't do something utterly cheesy like pretend that lady pinched him on the arse.

[muntrv]

8. At least Barack didn't criticize her cookies.

[Eric J in MN]

18. Did someone else criticize cookies? NT

NT

[muntrv]

19. Mitt Romney said a host's cookies tasted like 7-11.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/cookiegate-romney-cookie_n_1449848.html

[CTyankee]

24. Worse yet, he called it "the 7-11 Bakery."

As if 7-11 stores had them. That's pretty high on the out of touch scale...

[rury]

12. Mitt won't be president.

PERIOD!!

[TheWraith]

17. Saying that, you remind me of how Bush had to have completely filtered crowds.

You would never, never, in a billion years, imagine Bush just casually walking into a bar or restaurant the way Obama does and getting something to eat.

[freshwest]

3. Wow! Wish that was me!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. LOL!! Me too!!

I'd give him the biggest fattest HUG he's ever had in his life!!!!!!!

[CTyankee]

4. She looked stunned!

I would be too!

Is this great or what?

[Rose Siding]

6. That's just flat out adorable

-and so very genuine.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. That is a great pic!

I am sure she will treasure it. How fun.

[DCBob]

10. That's great. Love the expression.

She is one lucky gal. The President seems to enjoying it as well.

[blaze]

11. Hahaha! They interviewed her on local tv

This was in Boulder... and she said this is how she poses in 95% of pictures taken of her.

She said she was all set to just smile sweetly for this unique occasion and then thought, "What the heck!" and struck her usual pose.

[rury]

13. She said she told him that he "smells good!!"

I find myself wondering what kind of cologne or body wash he uses.
I just imagine that President Obama smells delicious!!

[Siwsan]

15. I thought the same thing when I got a hug from Al Gore

Also thought he had the smoothest cheek.

[Sanity Claws]

20. I assume you are talking about one of the cheeks on his face

[blaze]

21. Oh!

Now I'm wondering about cologne!

[longship]

14. OMG! The President is hugging me!

One vote at a time. But this pic is worth thousands because it highlights the difference between Barack and Willard. The former is human, the latter, a robot.

[DCBob]

16. Willard would probably make some dumb sexist joke...

and ruin the event.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

22. In March I was at a private event where a fairly prominent Southern Republican keynoted

Arch conservative, but not a teabagger, worked for Bush for one term. Early Romney supporter and touted possible running mate to bring out the southern conservatives for Romney.

After his speech (which was mostly reminiscing about his diplomatic career) the floor opened to questions for about twenty minutes, most of them coming from thirty year old virgin looking policy wonks with leading questions setting him up to trash Obama, but he wasn't taking the bait. After several of these and visibly irritated he said "The President is extremely popular, you need to come to terms with that. I support Governor Romney but the President is someone who demands respect as an opponent and a man."

After several other questions he came back to the point, "this guy is popular, this will be a very difficult election to win" and eventually took some cheap shots at Gingrich and Santorum supporters.

My work takes me into some extremely conservative circles, and I still hear more people trashing the President here than I do there. People love this guy, while Romney runs the spectrum from alienating and weird to potential antichrist depending on your perspective.

[gateley]

25. Wow - well good for him! Sounds as though he's real and not just marching along with the others. nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

23. That picture is fucking priceless!