Courtesy of the Star Tribune:"Oh my God, it is Obama": Alaska mom, baby meet ex-president https://t.co/hig00Hf1uQ http://pic.twitter.com/zKhxy7oWnw— ABC News (@ABC) July 8, 2017
An Alaska mother is cherishing cellphone photos she snapped of her wide-eyed 6-month-old baby in the arms of former President Barack Obama.
Jolene Jackinsky was at Anchorage International Airport on Monday looking for an airline when she ended up in a waiting area for private flights where a man she thought looked like Obama was sitting.
"As I got closer, I thought: Oh my God, it is Obama," she recalled Friday from Newhalen, a small Alaska village where she's vacationing.
Obama then walked up to her and asked "Who is this pretty girl?"
Oh man! If I would have known that the greatest President of my lifetime was in my state, I would have dropped everything and made a beeline for the airport.
You may not know it from our voting record but a lot of Alaskans admire Barack Obama, and his trip up here in 2015 really endeared to many Alaskans.
So I imagine if this visit had been made public there would have been quite a large crowd of admirers who would have joined me in welcoming this great man to our great state.
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