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Obama surprises local farmers' market crowdWednesday, August 20 ( updated 12:34 pm)
By John Newsom
Staff Writer
Obama visits the farmers' market (photo gallery)
GREENSBORO — The few folks who came to the Greensboro Farmers' Curb Market today expected to find home-grown tomatoes and okra and fresh baked breads and muffins.
They weren't expecting Sen. Barack Obama, who made an unannounced visit to Greensboro this morning.
The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois shook hands, signed autographs and posed for pictures Wednesday morning. It was his only public appearance here today. After about 25 minutes, Obama left for a town hall meeting in Martinsville, Va., later Wednesday.
Vendors and customers said they had no warning that one of two men who could be elected president in November was going to visit the farmers market until he walked in about 9:30 a.m.
The people who met Obama came away impressed.
"I do think he'll be our next president," said Mike Faucette, a Browns Summit farmer who said he got Obama to promise more rigorous inspection of organic food imported here from China.
"I thought it was about as good an answer as he could have made," Faucette said.
Polly Evans, who works at the farm, added, "Spur of the moment is hard to do."
But keeping a secret is apparently pretty easy. Except for law enforcement and the Obama campaign, few people knew the candidate was in town. (The News & Record was told Tuesday to have a reporter and photographer at the O. Henry Hotel by 8 a.m. Wednesday. Campaign officials did not tell reporters about Wednesday's stop until Obama's bus was nearly there.)
Obama's morning started at the O. Henry Hotel, where he stayed Tuesday night after after a campaign stop in Raleigh. Wednesday morning, he worked out and played basketball at Grimsley High School and was also interviewed by Stuart Scott for an upcoming ESPN show.
After a quick shower and change of clothes back at the hotel, Obama boarded a bus for his Greensboro appearance. That the candidate would be in town today was known largely by media and his campaign staff. But about 20 people waited beside a bus full of reporters for the candidate to emerge from the O. Henry.
When he came out of the hotel's back door at about 9:20 a.m., several women squealed:
Obaaaaaaaaama!
Obama was about to step on his bus, but he wheeled back around and waved and smiled as the group used cell phones and digital cameras to snap his picture.
Greensboro police blocked traffic along Green Valley Road, Benjamin Parkway and Wendover Avenue as the Obama motorcade — two buses and about 10 marked and unmarked police cars — made the 7-minute trip from the hotel to the farmers' market.
Reporters filed in first. The word was out. Obama is coming.
"He's going to be here?" said Gladys Clapp, who was selling fresh corn. "I've got to tell my husband."
Obama strode through a set of double doors to applause and the flash of cameras. The candidate wore a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a blue striped tie and no jacket.
"One minute you're selling baby clothes, the next minute you're being swarmed by Secret Service," Jacqui van Lier of Greensboro said later.
Her stall was the first one Obama visited, and there he took 7-month-old Anna van Lier out of her mom's arms.
"Is this baby for sale?" the candidate quipped.
"Anna," Jacqui said, "meet the next president of the United States."
Obama quizzed van Lier: Is this the grandmother? Is this the mother? Are these your goods? Anna was quiet and still, unfazed by the sudden attention, and then Obama moved on.
"My first thought," Jacqui van Lier said later, "was, I didn't have my camera."
But plenty of people did, and they snapped pictures of Obama as he moved through the tight aisles. Obama signed the back of a family picture for Sandra Anderson Groat, the city's mayor pro tem. Others thrust scraps of paper at Obama, who talked as he signed. (Obama, like Republican candidate John McCain, is a lefty.)
He asked a fourth-grade teacher when school started. He thanked a woman who welcomed him to Greensboro.
"Could you shake my daughter's hand? I want her to remember that," said Ann Cahill of Greensboro. Obama complied and gave 5-year-old Anne Joy Cahill-Swenson a quick shake.
"Thank you, senator," Ann Cahill replied.
Someone asked why he was visiting North Carolina, which has gone to the Democrat in the presidential race only once since 1964.
"I wouldn't be here if I didn't think I could win," Obama replied without looking up from the autograph he was signing.
Obama made no public statement about his vice presidential choice. Multiple reports indicate that Obama will pick his running mate sometime between now and Saturday before an appearance in Springfield, Ill.
Obama paused long enough between handshakes and autographs to buy a bag of biscuits, then dropped $5 on Margariette Graves for a quarter of her homemade pound cake.
"I tried to give him the cake," Graves said later. "He wouldn't take it."
Graves did manage to give Obama a zucchini muffin. He took a bite, then replied, "I think I'm going to put this in my bag."
Sometime later Obama picked up a second bag full of corn and other locally-grown food.
At 9:55 a.m., after more meeting and greeting and signing and chatting, Obama made his way back to the door he had come in through. Before he left, he turned, waved and called out, "See you, everybody!"
"Bye, Barack!" the crowd yelled back. They clapped and whooped, and he was gone.
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McCain likes applesauce:
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All Torso.
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Obama surprises local farmers' market crowdWednesday, August 20 ( updated 12:34 pm)
By John Newsom
Staff Writer
Obama visits the farmers' market (photo gallery)
GREENSBORO — The few folks who came to the Greensboro Farmers' Curb Market today expected to find home-grown tomatoes and okra and fresh baked breads and muffins.
They weren't expecting Sen. Barack Obama, who made an unannounced visit to Greensboro this morning.
The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois shook hands, signed autographs and posed for pictures Wednesday morning. It was his only public appearance here today. After about 25 minutes, Obama left for a town hall meeting in Martinsville, Va., later Wednesday.
Vendors and customers said they had no warning that one of two men who could be elected president in November was going to visit the farmers market until he walked in about 9:30 a.m.
The people who met Obama came away impressed.
"I do think he'll be our next president," said Mike Faucette, a Browns Summit farmer who said he got Obama to promise more rigorous inspection of organic food imported here from China.
"I thought it was about as good an answer as he could have made," Faucette said.
Polly Evans, who works at the farm, added, "Spur of the moment is hard to do."
But keeping a secret is apparently pretty easy. Except for law enforcement and the Obama campaign, few people knew the candidate was in town. (The News & Record was told Tuesday to have a reporter and photographer at the O. Henry Hotel by 8 a.m. Wednesday. Campaign officials did not tell reporters about Wednesday's stop until Obama's bus was nearly there.)
Obama's morning started at the O. Henry Hotel, where he stayed Tuesday night after after a campaign stop in Raleigh. Wednesday morning, he worked out and played basketball at Grimsley High School and was also interviewed by Stuart Scott for an upcoming ESPN show.
After a quick shower and change of clothes back at the hotel, Obama boarded a bus for his Greensboro appearance. That the candidate would be in town today was known largely by media and his campaign staff. But about 20 people waited beside a bus full of reporters for the candidate to emerge from the O. Henry.
When he came out of the hotel's back door at about 9:20 a.m., several women squealed:
Obaaaaaaaaama!
Obama was about to step on his bus, but he wheeled back around and waved and smiled as the group used cell phones and digital cameras to snap his picture.
Greensboro police blocked traffic along Green Valley Road, Benjamin Parkway and Wendover Avenue as the Obama motorcade — two buses and about 10 marked and unmarked police cars — made the 7-minute trip from the hotel to the farmers' market.
Reporters filed in first. The word was out. Obama is coming.
"He's going to be here?" said Gladys Clapp, who was selling fresh corn. "I've got to tell my husband."
Obama strode through a set of double doors to applause and the flash of cameras. The candidate wore a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a blue striped tie and no jacket.
"One minute you're selling baby clothes, the next minute you're being swarmed by Secret Service," Jacqui van Lier of Greensboro said later.
Her stall was the first one Obama visited, and there he took 7-month-old Anna van Lier out of her mom's arms.
"Is this baby for sale?" the candidate quipped.
"Anna," Jacqui said, "meet the next president of the United States."
Obama quizzed van Lier: Is this the grandmother? Is this the mother? Are these your goods? Anna was quiet and still, unfazed by the sudden attention, and then Obama moved on.
"My first thought," Jacqui van Lier said later, "was, I didn't have my camera."
But plenty of people did, and they snapped pictures of Obama as he moved through the tight aisles. Obama signed the back of a family picture for Sandra Anderson Groat, the city's mayor pro tem. Others thrust scraps of paper at Obama, who talked as he signed. (Obama, like Republican candidate John McCain, is a lefty.)
He asked a fourth-grade teacher when school started. He thanked a woman who welcomed him to Greensboro.
"Could you shake my daughter's hand? I want her to remember that," said Ann Cahill of Greensboro. Obama complied and gave 5-year-old Anne Joy Cahill-Swenson a quick shake.
"Thank you, senator," Ann Cahill replied.
Someone asked why he was visiting North Carolina, which has gone to the Democrat in the presidential race only once since 1964.
"I wouldn't be here if I didn't think I could win," Obama replied without looking up from the autograph he was signing.
Obama made no public statement about his vice presidential choice. Multiple reports indicate that Obama will pick his running mate sometime between now and Saturday before an appearance in Springfield, Ill.
Obama paused long enough between handshakes and autographs to buy a bag of biscuits, then dropped $5 on Margariette Graves for a quarter of her homemade pound cake.
"I tried to give him the cake," Graves said later. "He wouldn't take it."
Graves did manage to give Obama a zucchini muffin. He took a bite, then replied, "I think I'm going to put this in my bag."
Sometime later Obama picked up a second bag full of corn and other locally-grown food.
At 9:55 a.m., after more meeting and greeting and signing and chatting, Obama made his way back to the door he had come in through. Before he left, he turned, waved and called out, "See you, everybody!"
"Bye, Barack!" the crowd yelled back. They clapped and whooped, and he was gone.
who cares, he will be owned in november
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All Torso.
All Twink.
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as if people believe this BS ??? sad if they actually do.
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WOW REAL FOOD!!!! WITH REAL PEOPLE!?!??! AT A REAL MARKET!?!?!?!?!?! HOLY COW
I thought he just fed himself intravenously thru a tube inserted into his ear every 3 days.
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TA = pathetic dupe wasting the $ $ $ others woked for that he did not do shit to deserve.
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TA - FAIL
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TA - FAIL
Your Missing Billy Mimnaugh i take it?
boom...
Team Adonis...
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Bump.
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Bump.
haha why?
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haha why?
For a goof.
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For a goof.
But I don`t get it. ???
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Neither do I. I was trying to figure out why you were so giddy over this and trying to see if the same euphoria still holds true for you.
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That pic is hilarious.
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McCain likes applesauce:
HOLY CRAP.
Nothing went right for mccain, let's be honest. Cursed.
He doesn't vet palin, she turns out to be an embarassment. Applesauce jumps off shelf just to diss him during silly photo ops like this.
Geez, what a spectacle 2008 was. I can't wait for 2012 :)
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Bump. TA - do you realize how suckered you were yet?
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Bump. TA - do you realize how suckered you were yet?
Yes. I did not plan on voting for a Republican that is further to the right than Ronald Reagan.
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Yes. I did not plan on voting for a Republican that is further to the right than Ronald Reagan.
Are you voting for him again?
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Are you voting for him again?
No idea really. I have to see what happens. I may just sit this one out or vote for Buddy Roemer. We will see what happens.
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No idea really. I have to see what happens. I may just sit this one out or vote for Buddy Roemer. We will see what happens.
I don't understand why this guy is not getting more attention from the Repubs
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Wow a article about how OB went to a farmers market?
We are saved. ::)
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McCain likes applesauce:
BWAA HAHA funny. looking back, that dude couldn't catch a break. a simple shopping trip = shit breaking everywhere.
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BWAA HAHA funny. looking back, that dude couldn't catch a break. a simple shopping trip = shit breaking everywhere.
Lmfao was that awkward!
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BWAA HAHA funny. looking back, that dude couldn't catch a break. a simple shopping trip = shit breaking everywhere.
Roflmao!