Have You Seen Anything Like This Before?

[bdamomma]

a newly elected President out and about and meeting with citizens was it ever done before, and without loyalty oaths being taken to attend or just members only of one party only.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. YES

YES - Bush did the same:rofl: (well - almost the same - :banghead:)

[Cha]

2. Just 'cause Obama's Prez of these

here United STates of America doesn't mean he can't communicate with us like he always did..Thank Goodness we got him:bounce:

[bdamomma]

4. I love the idea of him talking to us, face to face.

and we can throw some questions at him, we are not playing politics like the Congress is.

[Deep13]

7. "Thank Goodness we got him"

What an apt way of putting it. :hi:

All that hopeful effort and donations by his supporters plus the unwillingness of the voting public to be distracted by prejudice = "goodness."

[Cha]

11. It's so true~

:hi:

[Barack_America]

3. And people camping out for DAYS to get the chance to see him...

...and have their questions answered.

Amazing.

[Vinca]

17. The people camping out for days thing is astounding.

Surely that has never happened in the history of the country.

[Deep13]

5. Sure, but it has bee a long time. nt

[Captain Hilts]

6. Yeah, FDR and Clinton did it.

The Secret Service put a leash on Clinton.

[uponit7771]

8. +1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bdamomma]

9. FDR loved the people he would always have the doors open

for the public. Lincoln too, regular citizens would come in the WH to ask him questions.

[Deep13]

10. Reminds me of Elizabeth at Tilbury.

Jefferson answered the WH door himself. Nixon went wandering around the Mall once.

[Art_from_Ark]

19. John Kennedy tried it

Jimmy Carter eschewed the limousine at his inauguration to walk to the White House

[grannie4peace]

12. wasn't he wonderful?!!!

:toast: :headbang: :headbang: :fistbump: :applause: :applause: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[wildflower]

13. Bush had his campaign against Social Security

That didn't fare too well, thank goodness.

[glitch]

14. Yes, but it's been a long long while. I didn't think I'd live to see it again. Glad to be wrong! nt

[Baikonour]

15. The Bush town-hall meetings gave us some of his most classic Bushisms.

"The fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there's jobs at the machine-making place."

[monmouth]

16. OMG, I missed that one. Priceless....n/t

[Flying Dream Blues]

18. heh heh...where wings take dream and they can put food on their family! nt

[4lbs]

20. Also, the people there at that Town Hall in Indiana weren't handpicked and were allowed to ask tough

questions.

Bushie would have just hid on a military base, where his people could maniacally control the response and questioning.