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    <author><![CDATA[William D. Lindsey]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I've always thought what's REALLY presidential is showing up in crotch-enhanced fake flyboy gear to give a "victory" speech.  When no victory has been won.  And when you didn't even serve as a real flyboy in the real war going on during your college years, because your family's money bought your way out of military action: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/89686/the_10_most_awesomely_bad_moments_of_the_bush_presidency" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.alternet.org/story/89686/the_10&hellip;</a>.<br>
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That's what I think is REALLY presidential.<br>
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Well, that and sitting and chewing your lip and staring into space as you're reading "The Pet Goat" while buildings are tumbling to the ground in New York and the Pentagon is on fire: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pet_Goat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pet_Goat</a><br>
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Now that's REAL presidential behavior.
        
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      <![CDATA[It was pretty early this morning when I heard it, but I believe I heard pizza-guy on NPR this morning admitting that, although he's a Republican, he did vote for Barack in '08 and plans to do the same again this year. Also, the bearhug had been cleared beforehand with security.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Verla Sweere]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Durango--it did not come immediately to mind.  Obviously not an informal pizza part affair in any case.  And Republican or not, I believe Obama won his man's vote.
        
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      <![CDATA[Anybody else remember THIS “presidential” pic?<br>
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<a href="http://goo.gl/mnf6V" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/mnf6V</a><br>
        
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      <![CDATA[DBI, It's just one jock greeting another jock. At least Van Duzer didn't slap POTUS on the butt as jocks are known to do.
        
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      <![CDATA[I read somewhere that the bearhug was pre-cleared with the Secret Service.  Otherwise, Pizzaboy is on the ground with a Glock in his ear.  Those Secret Service guys have no sense of humor.
        
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      <![CDATA[mag and I noticed at our kid's junior high band concerts starting in the early 2000s that people don't know how to behave any more. When I met Lady Bird Johnson back in 1964 I was a little guy and she was bigger than me, but not a cell in my body thought about lifting her off the ground. <br>
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I've seen a few other Presidents from afar and didn't think about lifting them off the ground either. If I had met George W. Bush I probably would have thought about knocking him to the ground, but I'm pretty sure if I ever come face to face with a US President in the future....I'll shake his or her hand if offered, but I will not lift them off the ground. <br>
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Now...who knows, maybe this pizza guy's main trick in life is lifting people off the ground? I guess he wanted to impress Obama? Or maybe he wanted to show he was a bigger man? Or maybe he's just wacky...many in the pizza business are, ya know. <br>
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I think I'll sleep well tonight. The picture didn't traumatize me too badly. But I sure wish Americans would learn how to behave, even more I wish Americans would learn how to vote smarter..............
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm surprised the Secret Service agents did draw down on this guy.
        
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      <![CDATA[There are folks who are T****A**ed, then real folks.  Who'd you rather, mittens at a socialite dinner, all white of course, big money, snooty s***s or Bama and rbeer at a Pizza place?  He Reminds me of Bill at the burger joints.  <br>
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Loving it that the Dems are getting a bounce in the polls and donations.  I think cause the truth of what the repugs really stand for is coming to the fore.  Essentially only good for mittens and the 1% and screw the rest. Their theme is, "wait till I get elected then I'll tell you what I'm going to do".  "Meanwhile my money stays in the Bahammas, blind trust you know".  And "oh gosh I need another elevator for the presidential limo."
        
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      <![CDATA[The TV anchors pointed out that the pizza parlor owner is a Republican.   Nice to know there is one who can be friendly with a Democrat without being suspect.
        
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      <![CDATA[Here's an example of what I think is not presidential. It's making a little movie to show at some press corps dinner in which the president makes a big show of looking for non-existent WMD's under the Oval Office desk. The lies told about those WMD's led to a war which killed or maimed for life thousands of American GI's. He was their Commander in Chief. He made a joke about the reason he gave for their sacrifice.  Not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
        
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      <![CDATA[Daisy, I would say Mittens is robotized instead.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm guessing Burris prefers his candidate lobotomized.  Good thing there's one in the race.
        
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      <![CDATA[That's all you got, Burris?<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[very presidential...
        
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