Laura Bush is my friend

posted by: Nick | on: Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 10:45

I think I’m in a state of shock. Killing time before we hooked up with Blue State Digital, the company running Barack Obama’s online operation, we wandered around the White House, taking the obligatory tourist photos. A few of us had dropped off the pace, when the huge security gates opened and a cavalcade slowly edged passed. Instinctively one looks. Laura Bush is looking out of the one of the cars. See catches our eye, thinks all is well and gives us a wave.

We later mulled over what we should have done. A gesture, a shout for Obama or even a wave back. We did nothing except stand there like zombies – more in disbelief with our own inaction.