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Secret Service??? (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2012 OP
That's so sweet and hilarious at the same time. charlyvi Sep 2012 #1
That's Adorable..and Cha Sep 2012 #2
Here's some background I found on FB... babylonsister Sep 2012 #3
here's some more on the SS and who Van Duzer, republican, is Voting for! Cha Sep 2012 #4
Very cool-thank you, Cha! babylonsister Sep 2012 #5

charlyvi

(6,537 posts)
1. That's so sweet and hilarious at the same time.
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:49 PM
Sep 2012

This guy reminds me of my boyfriend......my very Italian boyfriend!

Cha

(297,196 posts)
2. That's Adorable..and
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 05:23 PM
Sep 2012

Good Question..where are the Secret Service?! The dark shadowy figures in the corner over on the right?

Taking the Pic.. beside the camera person? Inquirying minds..!

babylonsister

(171,059 posts)
3. Here's some background I found on FB...
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 07:10 PM
Sep 2012

"In this key swing state, Obama stopped at Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Italian Restaurant, where he was greeted by owner Scott Van Duzer, a muscular man dressed in a gray T-shirt and matching athletic shorts. Van Duzer was so smitten by the president that he embraced him in a bear hug, leaned backward and lifted the 6-foot-2 president a foot off the ground. Photos of the moment show Obama with his arms spread wide and palms turned upward, as if to say he’s at the mercy of the pizzaman." - Washington Post, 9/9/2012

Cha

(297,196 posts)
4. here's some more on the SS and who Van Duzer, republican, is Voting for!
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 07:30 PM
Sep 2012

snip..

"The president then approached Van Duzer, 46, of Port St. Lucie, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 260 pounds. “Everybody look at these guns,” Obama said, pointing to Van Duzer’s muscles. “If I eat your pizza will I look like that?”

snip..

…. Van Duzer, who said he played basketball, football and baseball in high school, said he is a registered Republican, yet voted for Obama in 2008 and plans to do so again in November.

“I don’t vote party line, I vote who I feel comfortable with, and I do feel extremely comfortable with him,” Van Duzer said.

Of the Secret Service agents possibly flipping out over Van Duzer lifting the president of the United States, he said: “He said I was all right as long as I didn’t take him away.”



More pics..

http://theobamadiary.com/2012/09/09/coming-up-president-obama-in-west-palm-beach-450-et/

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