Hours After Meeting Obama, Ohio Restaurant Owner Dies

[Cowboy]

I wonder what she said to piss him off.

The owner of an Akron restaurant where President Barack Obama stopped for breakfast this morning died, apparently of a heart attack, shortly after meeting him.
Josephine “Ann” Harris, 70, of Copley Township, was taken by ambulance to Akron General Medical Center after complaining of fatigue and a tingling feeling. She was pronounced dead at 11:18 a.m., according to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Harris, just a few hours before, had the honor of meeting — and hugging — Obama when he stopped at her family’s restaurant, Ann’s Place, on South Hawkins Avenue for breakfast. ...
Obama stopped in Ann’s Place for breakfast about 8:30 a.m. Harris was ecstatic about his visit when a Beacon Journal reporter spoke to her shortly afterward.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hours-after-meeting-obama-ohio-restaurant-owner-dies_648200.html

 

[FrancSevin]

Just more fodder for the conspiratists and the late night comics

 

[300 H and H]

In the movies they just used to faint......

Strong reaction to the sight of her "savior" I'd say...

 

[luvs]

he ruins lives. i've abided by that from the day he was elected.

 

[pirate_girl]

Just more fodder for the conspiratists and the late night comics

Sad is that.
Surely there will be jokes a plenty.
No joking here, or meant to be taken as such-- but I think it sucks that her last moments were spent on this earth after an event such as this.

Too much excitement for her.
She may have already had an underlying condition that contributed to her demise.

It's nice that the President called her daughter from Air Force One to express his sorrow.

At least he got something right.

 

[JEV]

Sad is that.
Surely there will be jokes a plenty.
No joking here, or meant to be taken as such-- but I think it sucks that her last moments were spent on this earth after an event such as this.

Too much excitement for her.
She may have already had an underlying condition that contributed to her demise.

It's nice that the President called her daughter from Air Force One to express his sorrow.

At least he got something right.

Boy, how out of character is that? The narcissist must need every vote he can get, since he doesn't have a stellar record to run on.

 

[FrancSevin]

In the movies they just used to faint......

Strong reaction to the sight of her "savior" I'd say...

Swooning has fallen out of fashion.
SWOON

Pronunciation: swun
Hear it! <http://www.alphadictionary.com/sounds/swoon.mp3>


Part of Speech: Verb, intransitive (no direct object)

Meaning: To faint or be light-headed, giddy, as though on the
brink of fainting.

Notes: [Image 1] Swooning seems to have gone out of fashion.
100 years ago the slightest mention of anything inappropriate
(a vulgar word) let along upsetting (a death in the family) or
exciting (a marriage proposal) would send a proper young lady
into a swoon. Swoons were reflected in a characteristic gesture-
touching the forehead with the back of the wrist. A picture of
a swooning maiden can still be seen in the main titles of PBS
'Mystery', though hardly anywhere else. When swooning was fashionable,
weakness was a cultivated trait of young maidens. You've come
a long way, baby, and the journey left its mark in a trail of
words like 'swoon'.

In Play: Because swooning is a sign of weakness, it has always
been associated more with women than with men: "Carmen Ghia swooned
when she heard Philbrick refer to his underwear in mixed company."
How times have changed. However, since it simply refers to giddiness,
the brink of fainting, it is applicable (even today) to both
sexes: "When Matthew returned from work the first day after his
honeymoon, the unexpected aromas of Beverly's cooking caused
him to swoon."

Word History: Today's Good Word is yet another of those extreme
rarities: an original English word not borrowed from any other
language! This one comes from Old English 'geswogen', the past
participle of *swogan "to suffocate". This verb evolved into
Middle English swow "to faint" with a past participle swoon "fainted"
which became the verb itself a bit later. A slightly longer version
of the past participle devolved into aswoon, an adjective-adverb
"to be faint-headed, about to faint".

-Dr. Goodword, alphaDictionary