Restaurant owner gives Obama giant bear hug
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — If President Barack Obama was looking for a lift in Florida, he got one from Scott Van Duzer.
The 46-year-old, six-foot-three Republican gave Obama a bear hug, raising him off the ground as Obama marveled at the man's strength — and enthusiasm.
Van Duzer owns the Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant where Obama stopped on Sunday during a Florida bus swing. He also runs a foundation that helps collect blood for the ill; he has received White House commendations for his work.
As he entered, Obama admired Van Duzer's biceps, saying "Look at these guns!"
Said Obama: "The guy's just got a big heart, along with big pecs."
Of his embrace, Van Duzer said: "I was overwhelmed when I saw him."
He said Obama had his vote.
Scott Van Duzer is like 75% of America we like our President....
@cptmac11 75% .... LOLÂ good one!
Corporations are people too my friend...
I guess they are mitts Only friends....
WOW he must be a people person.
Mitt would Never get a real American to give him the time of day let alone a hug...
He is not a people person.
Or like he says...""We just don't like those kind of people their not our type""
Maybe mitt can be the president of the corporations and..
 Obama Will be the President of the American people.
Secret service must have been at the massage parlor next door getting the "presidential".
Isn"t it great that the pubes would trash a small business owner and his business just because he hugged the black guy? Pubes have no bearing, no honor. They would eat one of their own just to protest a racial view. Now you got the kooch bothers and romney leaning back and shaking hands. Hi fiveing themselves for manipulating these middle class pubes to attack each other. Yup romney says, we"ll keep them mad and stupid, bush and chaney did it, why can't we
@swimmer Dems:Â "We will keep them unemployed and reliant on us, Clinton and Johnson did it, why cant we"
@Greg11 Well the republicans have destroyed the jobs market you're half way there
Oh, how so? Or are you just repeating that spoon fed rhetoric the left is dishing?
And he does not hug him back. Typical behavior for a guy that attended a white hating church for 20 years.Â
@MrAchilles Yea and he was probably picking his pocket too right???
You're love of country is sad to say the least..
But you're hatred of the President is worse.
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Surprised he didn't get tackled by the secret service.
@molotovmouse They know a real American when they see one..
Mitt would have had him shot...
What gives? We can't comment on bacon?.....the nerve
Obama got a hug and Biden got a lap dance. These guys are closer to my way of life than Romney and Ryan.
 @WendyTeagarden I'd like to know what it's like to be rich.. even for a little while.
@molotovmouse Ask you're loser mitt buddy
 @WendyTeagarden I already said I would stop. So I did.
 My parents put me in a cage on the roof when we went on vacation.
@Kushfan At least they did not eat you.
@MrAchilles Did they beat him like your parents did you??
@Kushfan You little tiger, you.
My parents nicknamed me Seamus.
Is this what is meant by a political mandate? LOL
@Greg11 It's called supporting your president like over 75% of America does...
@cptmac11 I don't know where you are getting your numbers from, but it clearly isnt 75%
Dude, could you help the POTUS out and crack his back for him? Thanks.
Maybe a man-crush on both sides?
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As he entered, Obama admired Van Duzer's biceps, saying "Look at these guns!"
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Of his embrace, Van Duzer said: "I was overwhelmed when I saw him."
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Awww, I just love love, don't you love love?
 @Greg11 politics aside, the dude did have.....beernpizza
@Greg11Â Van Duzer should have checked his gun in at the door.
Maybe he was HOPING that some CHANGE would fall out.
Come on baby...I said burp!
In other news: Mitt Romney blasts President Obama's recent restaurant hug: "This type of man-on-man hugging and gosh darn tom-foolery is a direct example of a president whose ideals rip apart the very moral fabric of American society". Â
@fulcrum Read between the lines. He did not reciprocate the hug. He does not like white people or America. Obummer should have just kept attending that white hating church he went to for 20 years.Â
@MrAchilles Are you still mailing out those KKK booklets??
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I'm sure this moment of political passion gave the good folks of the Secret Service Presidential Detail a mild stroke. They get treated like furniture, until they're needed...and given the size of this dude, they were probably asking "Who's got the .50 cal?"
@Don_Keyshow Run on up to the $25000. per plate event and give Ryan a hug.
Better yet, pay twice that and get a hug from a white hating POTUS that pretends to like America.Â
@MrAchilles So some black guy stole your girl or what.
If ever I saw a whinny white guy you are it.
Not a good career path dude...
 @WendyTeagarden Sorry Wen. I do recall the prez walking away with 14 mil after a dinner with Clooney. I'll stop now.
@Don_Keyshow I see a Barney Fife moment approaching!
Now I want some pizza.
 @JTesla You rang?
@JTesla It's a beer and pizza summit.