Obama left lasting impression on one-day boss

[dkf]

It was just a year ago that Pauline Beck - a 62-year-old mother and home health care worker in Alameda - got a memorable and unusually up-close-and-personal look at a then largely unknown presidential candidate named Barack Obama.

The Illinois senator, then considered something of a longshot Democratic presidential hopeful, came to East Oakland and wanted to tag along with Beck to learn about her often backbreaking, $10.50-an-hour job.

Now, with Obama just days from becoming the Democratic presidential nominee and returning to the Bay Area on Sunday for a San Francisco fundraiser, Beck says she's more than impressed at how her famous apprentice turned out.

"He was genuine. And you could feel the love and concern he had," said Beck, who was chosen by the Service Employees International Union to give Obama a campaign experience that would focus attention on the duties and problems of everyday working people.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/15/MN7212AD5I.DTL&tsp=1

[eshfemme]

1. Awww, that's such a sweet story!

[dkf]

5. Now that is the kind of guy a girl wants to marry.

Lucky Michelle.

[Judi Lynn]

2. This article is really worthwhile. Hope a lot of people will take time to read this. Thanks. n/t

[grantcart]

3. very nice

[Hope And Change]

4. K & R!

[progressoid]

6. Can't see McDoofus doing this can we?!

[gblady]

7. great story.....

thanks for sharing.

[Triana]

8. What a lovely woman Pauline Beck is. She DESERVES a break...

...some time off, decent healthcare for herself. I don't know how she does it, but bless her!