Handshakes and Promises
So as I was driving to work yesterday, my mother calls. “Kate, guess where I am?”
“Umm…”
“The Hillary Clinton rally in Hartford! We’ve got some great seats. Right behind her! Look for me on TV!”
Rolling my eyes and chuckling, I was sure she was over exaggerating. When I got to work, I watched the stump speech and sure enough, not even 20 feet behind Senator Clinton was the floating head of my mother. It was surreal.
In her own words:
Just wanted to send a few pics i took today in Hartford Ct. I actually met, shook hands with and had a small dialogue with Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I was seated about 20 feet behind Sen Clinton, and had a birds eye view of her and the workings of the Secret Service.
She is an amazing woman. Except for a voice hoarse from rigors of campaigning, she was warm and engaging and quite a pretty woman; far softer than she looks like (sic) on TV.
I told, (more like shouted) to her, “We need to restore our country to its greatness and I hope that you will help to do this if elected!”
She caught my eye, reached up to me over a crush of other people, gave me a firm handshake and simply said in a most sincere and serious way( a vow, really) “I WILL!!!”
I was stunned and somehow still find this unbelievable, that I possibly have just met and had a few words with the next leader of the free world.Here are the pics as promised. I have also included a link to a video of her speech. I am seated behind her under directly under the sign. I am in a burgundy shirt to the left. (OF COURSE!)
http://www.wfsb.com/politics/15150613/detail.html
Below - Mom is the one right next to the A on the blue AMERICA sign.
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Comments
That’s actually a pretty cool story.
I’m still personally not convinced there is a good candidate this year, at least not one I can get on board with. It’s depressing, it is.
My depresshun. Let me show you it.
Posted by: Shawn Powers | January 29th, 2008 12:49
Your mother is awesome.
Posted by: R-nonymous | January 29th, 2008 19:38
to R-nonymous
thank you!!
Love,
Mom
Posted by: Ellen | January 30th, 2008 04:33
Your mom and my son Paul were seen on T V and I was proud to see them out and about……..It pays to get close up impressions of the candidates……….Our vote is so important in November…….your mom’s experience reminds me of when I lived in the Virgin Islands , a U S territory and Ronald Regan then a senator visited the island and he shook my hand………Later he became president not quite my pick……….But I saw the guy close ………….To be truthful I didn’t recognize the shirt she was wearing was one I had given her…….GUYS MAKE YOUR VOTE OF YOUR CHOICE COUNT IN NOVEMBER…
Posted by: GLORIA | February 10th, 2008 16:29