[ohioWfan]

Watching the SOTU again! GREAT speech!!

I'm always struck in these photos with how totally COMFORTABLE people are when they're with our President!

Like this.....

[ilovew]

I think I'd be hysterical if I met him. I can see it now..."Oh my God, can I hug you? Will you autograph this? Can I follow you around for a while...like the rest of my life?"

[kayak]

People like that are so comfortable with the President because he puts them at ease.

Some of you may recall that a couple of years ago one of our part-time employees had the opportunity to hear the President speak. He was in Charlotte to talk about programs to help people move from welfare to work. Our employee's full-time job was with an agency that helped people do just that. The lady who got to introduce the President was one of the people who had entered the program as a single mom on welfare and had worked through the program and at the time was working for the agency .... quite an accomplishment on her part under difficult circumstances.

I spoke with our employee later and she said that one of the things that most impressed her was how the President obviously cared about people ..... and how he had made such an effort to put the lady who was to introduce him at ease. She was, understandably, a nervous wreck but the President joked with her and reached out to her and she did a great job when it was time for the introduction.

It was very similar circumstances to the one in this picture you referenced.

[SevenofNine]

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[CyberAnt]

I'll go farther than that .. The President always appears to be comfortable with people touching him like he's just a normal person.

I've been paying particular attention to that issue lately. I noticed recently that Dean bounded onto a stage where a lady was waiting to greet him and he literally crashed into her. She was very gracious about it .. but it was very crass behavior for a married man toward another woman in public.

I also noticed something else I thought was rather peculiar. During one of Kerry's handshaking routines, this young lady came up to him and gave him a very, very familiar type of hug (similar to the famous Monica hug to WJC). Kerry looked right at her and didn't smile at all. He didn't quite have that deer in the headlights look .. but it was close. I have no idea who the young woman was, or her relationship to him. I thought it was very interesting though ..??

Then .. I was watching the President today as he entered the stage at the college to give his speech. He's always very gracious to the ladies and the men. Absolutely the opposite of the Dean entrance.