Have you ever met a sitting President/PM/world leader?

[elperromagico]

Poll question: Have you ever met a sitting President/PM/world leader?

I met President Clinton back in '97. He's got a firm handshake. :P

How about you?

[Worst Username Ever]

1. I have if you count wellstone n/t

[candy]

2. No,but I was 10 feet away from Kennedy the night-------

before the election in 1960.

[havocmom]

3. Sitting? No.

But I got to see/hear a standing & outstanding Ted Kennedy in the MT Capitol back in 80. :thumbsup:

[johnnie]

4. Bill Clinton

When he was campaigning the first time around. Great speaker. I had my Elvis/Nixon shirt on, he chuckled.

[Wat_Tyler]

5. Paul Martin. Underwhelming.

[Fenris]

16. Pretty much describes Paul Martin.

[Kellanved]

6. don't know if he qualifies as "World Leader"

I have met Chancellor Schröder on a few occasions.

[elperromagico]

10. Certainly he does.

Germany is a world power.

[Fenris]

17. What's he like?

[Kellanved]

18. difficult to describe

At first it's like getting a punch in the gut, he certainly has a very commanding aura and an iron will. Then one realizes that he is pretty short, somehow that isn't visible on TV.

The time I actually got to speak with him (once met him shopping and a few times on party events), I was helping on the re-election campaign, so it is not like I had professional dealings with him. He is a real pro politician, no doubt about it.
His humble social background surfaces occasionally (albeit in a controlled way), sharing a case of beer with us campaigners seemed natural to him. So, yeah I think he is the real guy for the job and far more Social-Democratic than it appears.
I certainly wouldn't like to go against him, but I would even less like to buy a horse from him.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Does Kissenger qualify?

[Xipe Totec]

8. I Saw Jerry Ford in '76

When he visited South Texas. He tried to eat a Mexican tamale without first removing the corn husk wrapper. :dunce:

Poor Jerry! Nice guy but culturally clueless.

[Az_lefty]

9. Does McCain qualify? Oh, never mind....

[TrogL]

11. Martin and Chretien

and McLellan, who I predict to be the next PM.

[bloodyjack]

12. My uncle met Nikita Kruschev which means you are a NOBODY

and so am I, I guess :(

[MatrixEscape]

13. No, but I have had

a floating President PM me about Globe Trotters.

[UrbScotty]

14. Other than Governor Granholm, no.

I met her at 4:43 PM on her third day in office.

[e_Stoner]

15. Yes, maybe.

I met the Mayor of Kathmandu, and I met him at Waterloo!

Family trip in Belgium. The mayor of Kathmandu is sort of like a national leader. There's not a whole heck of a lot of Nepal that's "organized" otherwise.

[GOPisEvil]

19. Yes. Sort of. Jimmy Carter.

I was living in Hawaii and Carter came to the Air Force Base we were living on. My parents took me to the receiving line. I got to shake his hand, as well as Mrs. Carter's.

[ronnykmarshall]

20. I saw Bill Clinton twice.

He was in his limo waving.

I have also met Al and Tipper Gore, but this was in 2003.

[Parrcrow]

21. Jean Chretien and Pierre Trudeau

and Ed Broadbent.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Just exes:

Jimmy Carter and Helmut Schmidt.

Plus Dennis Kucinich.

[Kellanved]

23. Schmidt?

Wow, I met him once. Probably the most impressive person I had the honor to meet.

[flamingyouth]

24. I shook Clinton's hand in 1992

Haven't washed it since! ;)

[The Flaming Red Head]

25. Got stepped on by the Secret Service

does that count?

[thebeaglehaslanded]

26. Harry Truman. Met him one Sunday morning in church.

We used to laugh that there were more secret service agents in the congregation when the president attended than there were regular members of the church.