# Ask the guy who just went to an Obama rally... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116 "2008-10-22T20:16:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/21 "2008-10-23T00:32:47Z")
I was there too, **newscrasher**! And the best thing was that I got to stand on the floor behind the podium and SHAKE HIS HAND!! I actually shook his hand twice because I’m greedy like that. All day I’ve been hopped up on the excitement of it all. Go, OBAMA!!! ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/22 "2008-10-23T00:49:32Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I was there too, **newscrasher**! And the best thing was that I got to stand on the floor behind the podium and SHAKE HIS HAND!! > > I actually shook his hand twice because I’m greedy like that. > > All day I’ve been hopped up on the excitement of it all. > > Go, OBAMA!!! Can I have one of your handshakes? …please?.. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/23 "2008-10-23T00:52:13Z")
You may rent one of them for the low, low price of $1000 a minute. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/24 "2008-10-23T03:20:22Z")
My mother’s was the first hand that Al Gore and Barack shook at the huge rally in Detroit at the Joe Louis Arena. She said that they have very smooth hands. She also didn’t wash her hand for a day or so. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/25 "2008-10-23T06:21:24Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > I went to the rally in Richmond, VA today. Ask away! What are your plans for dealing with my deep, gnawing envy? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/26 "2008-10-23T06:39:45Z")
There was also an Obama rally today a couple of towns over from mine (Leesburg, VA, in Northern Virginia). I thought about going, but I am sure it was a mad house, since it’s a small town, and the rally was at a local park, with limited parking. I guess I was just too lazy to deal with the crowds! But it would have been fun… I wonder, with people gathering many hours before the event, and parking and traffic crazy, how do they get the candidate through the crowds and to the state?? p.s. In 1996, I got to shake President Clinton’s hand at a rally in West Virginia! I was there with my college chapter of the Young Democrats. I remember his hand being really soft. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_Tightlips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@Joey\_Tightlips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_Tightlips)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116/27 "2008-10-23T12:01:22Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > The same guys (I guess) sit outside Planned Parenthood with 10’x20’ pictures of aborted fetuses. Unfortunately it is right next to the most popular museum in the city, which is frequented by school groups. meh…☹ Fellow Richmonder here- Yeah the anti abortion people are pretty visible in our fair city, unfortunately. I work downtown so I see them on street corners once in a while (usually on nice summer days). One time they had the pictures on posters and I said to the guy, “that looks delicious, what restaurant are you advertising?”. He just stood there dubmfounded but as I walked away he started screaming something about Jebus. _shrug_ Given the number of people like that and the “south will rise again” crazies, it’s pretty amazing Obama is leading VA. I was sorry I missed the rally, a couple of my coworkers walked up to it but they said the line was around the block and not moving so they didn’t stay. The local news said there were roughly an additional 7000 people outside. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-just-went-to-an-obama-rally/469116.md?page=1)