President Barack Obama came to Ottawa for 6 hours yesterday, and even the normally reserved bureaucrats were gushing.My pal at the Bank of Canada -- the institution I dearly love both for injecting a note of positivity into the recessionary debate and ensuring that my mortgage interest rate is currently an unbelievable 2.1% -- joined the well-wishers on Parliament Hill and fired off emails about the visit all day.
"He's landed and the motorcade is moving," she wrote, early in the a.m. Then later, "He turned and waved to the crowd!" She was the first to share the news that Obama had taken a spin through the Byward Market, bought some souvenirs for his daughters, and stopped to enjoy a Beaver Tail -- a flat slab of sugary, doughy goodness that makes Ottawa winter somewhat palatable.
Even Stephen Harper, who we all know is not prone to shows of enthusiasm, seemed to be transfixed in his spell.
Michael Ignatieff, leader of the opposition and our soon to be new Prime Minister, proudly proclaimed that his own meeting with the leader went "ten minutes longer than planned!" Ignatieff added that he's met many powerful leaders in his time and that some seem smaller when you meet them in person. Obama, he noted, is the man you think -- and hope -- he'll be.
What an interesting time it is to be alive.
5 comments:
Dear President Obama,
Once you actually fix something (or stop destroying stuff), I will line up for hours to see you.
Dear Anonymous:
Put your angry blog energy into something worthwhile and take initiative to help do something positive towards 'fixing something' instead of sitting around waiting to see what happens.
Dear Barb,
Amen, sister!
PS: You have nice boobs.
I am in on the boob action, and not so much the political clopyrad -- which is today's vw and apt.
Love,
The Other Anonymous
Dear Hez,
For $20...
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