North Carolina Primaries: Raleigh Time to make a difference…

May 6, 2008

…or maybe we should get a drink at The Raleigh Times instead?

It was 5pm on Tuesday, voting day, and Aly and I were out the door to vote. But as we were getting ready to leave, Joey got the inside scoop that “in 15 minutes, Barack Obama is gonna be down at The Raleigh Times!”

Ooooooooh, serious ethical dilemma here. What do we do? Do we VOTE for a potential future president or do we SEE a potential future president? Ultimately, we hedged our bets and drove to the polls first, hoping everyone else had already voted and lines would be short (they were!!) and then we raced back to The Times hoping Obama would still be there (he was!!)

When we got to The Times, at least half of Designbox was already in prime gawking positions. After waiting it out for 20-30 minutes, we all got to see Obama, most of us shook his hand (including me!), and our friend Claire even got his autograph. The biggest story was that Ty got slightly manhandled by the secret service because he had one of his hands behind his back. Oops.

Barack Obama loves someone near Beth

Barack Obama loves someone near Aly

Barack Obama loves Claire and Claire loves us so Barack Obama loves us!

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