Obamas On The (Hiking) Trail: "Are you who I think you are? You are!"

[babylonsister]

http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100425/OBAMA/304250056

Hiker describes chance encounter with President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama on Mountains-to-Sea Trail

Jonathan Walczak • April 25, 2010


WEAVERVILLE — Howard Dusenbery was sitting downstairs in the inn he owns with his wife, Kristen, in Weaverville, the Dry Ridge Inn, when a quiet, 65-year-old guest came downstairs for breakfast Saturday morning.

The couple, who bought the inn 10 years ago, asked her what she did the previous day.

“And she says, ‘Well, I met the president,'” Howard Dusenbery said. “And I went, ‘What? Really? Where was that?' And she said, ‘When I was hiking on the parkway.'”

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Russell ran into more Secret Service agents, who she said were dressed in all black. They carried a “big, heavy case of some sort,” she said. A woman quickly walked up to Russell and asked her if it was OK for the agents to scan her with a metal detecting wand.

“They went through my pockets and my little waist pack and my camera, they checked to make sure it was a camera,” Russell said. “And then I probably went 10 feet and I couldn't believe it. I just looked up and I said something really stupid, like ‘Are you who I think you are? You are!'”

Russell shook the president and first lady's hands, and told the president she voted for him in 2008. She didn't tell him, however, that she had campaigned for him in Ohio and had been chased off several peoples' properties.

(One man even greeted her with a hunting bow and told her he wasn't interested).

The president and first lady introduced themselves and told Russell to have a nice day, before they moved on down the trail.

“Talk about a strange meeting of time and space,” Russell said. “I was ecstatic, I really was.”

[BlooInBloo]

1. I hate that person.

:P

[babylonsister]

2. Ha! Can you imagine?! nt

[BlooInBloo]

3. Some people get nookie when hiking the Appalachian Trail, other people meet Obama...

Possibly I should reconsider my choice of where I live.

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. Are you speaking of Governor Sanford?

:P

[tabatha]

5. I was reading some of the comments to that article.

And of course there are the usual douchebag freepers.

And some of the responses to the douchebag freepers are hilarious.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Thanks for reminding me!

Haven't had my Sunday Kos hate-mail fix yet. Comment sections are good substitutes.

"LINCOLN FREED THE SLAVES AND HE WAS A REPUBLICAN!!!!!YOU HOWEVER ARE A SLAVE TO THE HOMOSEXUAL BABYKILLING GOD HATING CHAVEZ/CASTRO CROWD!!!! YOU SICKEN ME YOU AND YOUR DEVIANT PERVERTED LIFESTYLE!!!!! AT LEAST THE TEA PARTY IS CALLING FOR RESPONSIBLR GOVT, NOT LIKE THIS MONKEY WHO HAS SPENT 3 TIMES A MUCH AS BUSH DID IN 8 YEARS!!!! AND WHY ARE WE STILL IN THE WAR?????? LOOKS LIKE OBAMA IS A WARMONGER TOO!!!!!YOU HOMOSEXUALS WILL DIE OUT BECAUSE OF A.I.D.S A PUNISHMENT FROM GOD!!!!!!!THERE ARE ONLY 2% OF YOU SODOMN ITES!!!!!!GO BAREBACK AND DIE A MISERABLE DEATH SICKO. ASH EVIL."

:rofl:

[tabatha]

7. Hence, I loved the reply:

"You still riled up because Bush-lite and Osama Bin Laden were homosexual lovers?"

and

"Lord, all his yelling and babble is giving me a headache."