# In which I meet the President and smooch the First Lady **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592 "2010-10-18T20:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/21 "2010-10-19T11:15:45Z")
You bid too low. When Michelle agreed, you could have asked, “Really? Okay, how 'bout the lips, then? With a little tongue action?” ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/22 "2010-10-19T11:45:24Z")
I’m quite jealous. ---
**Author:** ![bahimes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/23 "2010-10-19T12:06:27Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > You realize you’ve just ruined every “How far removed are you from someone famous?” thread forever, don’t you? That’s why I don’t tell people how many celebs/politicos I have met in embassies. I don’t know if it really counts, now, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/24 "2010-10-19T15:05:23Z")
I am soooo jealous. Except I would have kissed him, not her. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/25 "2010-10-19T15:09:45Z")
So do you somehow get the photos mailed to you, or what? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/26 "2010-10-19T15:21:27Z")
I don’t know if your wife reads this board so out of respect for her and keeping the dignity of the office in mind I will not ask if you had wood. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/27 "2010-10-19T15:31:23Z")
Thank you, yet again, for showing just how classy you are, **BMalion**. :rolleyes: 😉 > [@davidm](#): > > You beat me. I met Al Gore, but I haven’t met Obama yet. I met Al Gore just once, in early 1988, during the New Hampshire primary campaign. I was working for the Mike Dukakis campaign at the time and was on the floor at the NH state Democratic convention. It was very crowded, I turned around, and… there was candidate Al Gore! He stuck his hand out, I automatically took it, and at a loss for anything else to say (and not wanting to wish him “Good luck,” since I was working for one of his opponents), said, “Uh… may the best man win!” He looked at me oddly and said, “Uh… thanks!” I met Bill Clinton both before and after he was President, but not during. Obama was the first incumbent POTUS I’ve met. **Paul in Qatar** , see post 16. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/28 "2010-10-19T16:23:45Z")
So you couldn’t even ask about fisting, huh? Too bad. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/29 "2010-10-19T17:03:17Z")
There was never a lull in the conversation in which I might have introduced the topic, no. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/30 "2010-10-19T17:38:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > There was never a lull in the conversation in which I might have introduced the topic, no. Typical democrats. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/31 "2010-10-19T17:45:25Z")
Wow! You know the President, and I know _you_! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/32 "2010-10-19T19:02:26Z")
Amazing! You saw politicians at a political event! 😉 I’m glad you had a good time. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/33 "2010-10-19T19:28:32Z")
I’m jealous. My invitation must’ve been lost in the mail or the interwebs. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/34 "2010-10-21T01:50:59Z")
Me so jealous too. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/35 "2010-10-21T17:01:09Z")
How much did it cost you? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/36 "2010-10-21T17:06:38Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > How much did it cost you? His soul… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/37 "2010-10-21T18:01:51Z")
Not even a “terrorist fist bump”, huh? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/38 "2010-10-21T18:50:36Z")
Humph. Well, _I’ve_ met the Lord Mayor of Dundee. So there. [/jealous] ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/39 "2010-10-21T19:31:54Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > How much did it cost you? More than $10, less than $10 million. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-meet-the-president-and-smooch-the-first-lady/557592/40 "2010-10-21T19:44:36Z")
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