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brooklynite

(94,572 posts) Tue Sep 27, 2022, 08:34 AM Sep 2022

Eleven years ago, I met Joe Biden for the first time...

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Eleven years ago, I met Joe Biden for the first time... (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2022 OP

Nice Polybius Sep 2022 #1

I briefly said hello to him at a 2006 Florida Democratic Party event Tommy Carcetti Sep 2022 #2

I shook his hand at a rally in 2008. Elessar Zappa Sep 2022 #3

Polybius

(15,417 posts)

1. Nice

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 09:09 AM

Sep 2022

The only future President that I ever met was Trump, ugh.

Tommy Carcetti

(43,182 posts)

2. I briefly said hello to him at a 2006 Florida Democratic Party event

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 09:33 AM

Sep 2022

He greeted me back with a cheerful “Good evening young man!” and a smile.

Only other President I’ve “met” was shaking Bill Clinton’s hand at a 2016 campaign rally.

Never met a sitting President though.

Elessar Zappa

(13,991 posts)

3. I shook his hand at a rally in 2008.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 02:04 PM

Sep 2022

He gave an excellent speech for Obama.

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