"You gotta get some juice. I’m just saying – it’s true.”

[bigtree]

REUTERS/Larry Downing

President Barack Obama has taken to advising a home remedy for audience members who faint during his events: Eat something.

Mr. Obama first doled out the “little tip,” as he calls it, to a woman at his speech in North Carolina last week. “Folks do this all the time in my meetings,” he quipped after she passed out. “You’ve always got to eat before you stand for a long time.”

And so on Thursday, when an audience member in Maryland fainted, the medic in chief couldn’t help himself.

“All right, remember next time if you’re standing for a long time, you gotta eat,” he told the person. The audience laughed, apparently not taking him seriously enough. “No, no, it’s true,” the president said. “You gotta get something to eat. You gotta get some juice. I’m just saying – it’s true.”

Indeed, anyone who attends a presidential speech can be left standing for quite a long time, arriving hours in advance to go through security sweeps and waiting for a president who is oftentimes running late.


read: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/03/15/as-audience-members-faint-obama-warns-youve-got-to-eat/?mod=google_news_blog


REUTERS/Larry Downing

[Bluenorthwest]

1. He's right. It's nice of him to make a point of it.

Hydrate. Eat something.

[monmouth]

2. He's just too cute for his own good as grandma would say...LOL...nt

[malaise]

3. Isn't that the truth

[Motown_Johnny]

4. They handed out bottles of water to the crowd when I saw him

way way back on Labor Day last year.


Still some people had issues. One woman just decided to sit down right where she had been standing and people started freaking out around her. I will admit it didn't seem real safe because if the crowd shifted she could have been stepped on, but she ended up being OK.

One kinda strange note. They wanted the caps to the bottles passed back to the guy with the water. I guess they didn't want full bottles being thrown but that is just a guess.