This Guy Is *Kinda* Excited to Meet the President Rope lines always put politicians face-to-face with a sea of humanity that can be unsavory and strange as often as it’s not. And when President Barack Obama was shaking hands and greeting people after a Democratic National Commitee event in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, he saw eye-to-eye with this guy. To be perfectly fair, that might be the same reaction some of us might have when meeting POTUS.