Hillary Clinton visit

[susanmcgee48176]

Well, I'm terribly passionate about politics (did you guess?), but 
MOSTLY putting that aside for a moment......

The first president I met was Gerald Ford. I was on a panel with him 
when I was getting my B.A. He and I totally disagreed (even then), 
but when I made a point about the constitution permitting freedom of 
speech (at that time this was about anti-war Vietnam), he 
said "you're absolutely right." I was very affected by his ability to 
listen and see me as a human being (even if we disagreed). I've 
always had respect for him as a real gentleman...On the other hand, 
Charles Percy (a Democrat Senator was there) and all he obviously 
wanted was to have his picture taken with college students (ychhh)...
he was basically disgusting...with a limp handshake..and obviously 
false persona

I shook hands with President Nixon..and he was a plastic, hollow 
man...

In October of 1992, then Gov. Clinton spoke at the University of 
Michigan. Through some chicanery (bogus press credentials), a dear 
friend of mine and I  managed to infilitrate into the back of the 
place where he was scheduled to speak. We were immediately approached 
by Secret Service who told us we had to leave...while we were 
bullshitting a little...first Bill came by, and then Hillary...I was 
so dumbfounded that all I could say (harking back to my middle class 
training at my mother's hands) was "How do you do, Mr. President?"
Since he was not yet president, this caused him to break into a major 
grin. (I had the opportunity another time of shaking hands with him).
So, y'all know that I'm a lesbian, but he is/was an incredibly sexy 
and charismatic man..he exuded charisma.....it oozed out of him...

I was wearing a button that said "Hillary's Husband for President" 
and that evinced a smile from now Senator Clinton when I had the 
opportunity to shake hands with her....I remember that she had 
lavendar leather gloves on....and was very pleasant...

I voted for Senator Clinton in the primary, but will be very happy 
when Senator Obama wins.....

Susan