blog GAMIL: an insider look at design » Barack Obama http://www.gamil.com elements of inspiration and moments of distraction from a small design firm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 President Obama in Raleigh http://www.gamil.com/2009/07/29/president-obama-in-raleigh/ http://www.gamil.com/2009/07/29/president-obama-in-raleigh/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:08:06 +0000 beth http://www.gamil.com/?p=1721 obama-raleigh-7-29-09-450

President Obama had a town meeting in Raleigh today. He was at Broughton High School speaking about healthcare. For some of us who didn’t get to go to the actual meeting, standing on the street waving at the presidential motorcade was the next best thing.

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Inauguration Day snow in Raleigh

Inauguration Day on "The Mall" in Washington DC

Inauguration Day on "the Mall" in Washington DC

"the moment," January 20, 2009

]]> http://www.gamil.com/2009/01/20/inauguration-day-snowbama-in-raleigh/feed/ 6 North Carolina Primaries: Raleigh Time to make a difference… http://www.gamil.com/2008/05/06/nc-primary-our-time-to-make-a-difference/ http://www.gamil.com/2008/05/06/nc-primary-our-time-to-make-a-difference/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 23:23:54 +0000 beth http://gamil.com/?p=650 …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 in Raleigh
Barack Obama loves someone near Beth

Barack Obama in Raleigh
Barack Obama loves someone near Aly


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

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