Spender Family Blog

When the President comes to town, the traveling circus comes along for the ride. Police choppers circle above, navy boats surround the island, a bazillion cops block the roads and the odd law abiding citizen gets within a hundred feet of him. We were one of the lucky ones to get inside the cordon on Wall Street. After just a few minutes, 12 police bikers led the President’s 31 car convoy along Wall Street to Federal Hall for a speech on Health Reform. We were all being cool until “the beast” limo went past and, yes, Mr President gave us a big ‘ol wave ‘n smile combo! We all cheered like gormless groupies and rode a high for the rest of the day. Ridiculous, yes, but I guess you had to be there.

If you look really, really, really, really closely at this video, you’ll see a whole lot of Presidential limo, but not a whole lot a President. Yep – I was too busy waving to point the camera in the right direction. Ha!