Have you ever seen a president in person?

[heatcharger]

I saw Dubya throw the first pitch at the first Nationals game back in 2005, and was pretty close to Obama at a rally in Fairfax in 2008.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I was driving my car back in 2012 and Obama's motorcade happened to pass, I saw him briefly for a second.

[TDAS04]

Options 2 and 3.  I listened to Bill Clinton campaign for his wife at a rally.

[Blair]

I saw David Cameron get ushered through a hallway at our school- he was holding some speech to highlight education reform, and they made all of six form stay in the canteen as he did (because the 17 year old radicals like me would have heckled him)

Beyond that the closest is getting a book signed by Ed Miliband; I've met Sadiq Khan which will count for something in 2025

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I've met Nick Clegg and Tony Blair.

[Vosem]

Saw Obama and Trump, both at a distance, prior to their presidencies. I rather enjoy going to rallies to see politicians, so there are several future Presidents I have either seen at a distance (Sanders and Ryan) or actually briefly spoken to (Rubio and Kasich). None of them are particularly likely, but then again, who is?

[anvi]

Saw Obama before he became president at the Springfield, Illinois rally where he announced Biden as his VP choice.  I was pretty far back in the crowd.  Really hot afternoon, and memorable for Biden referring to his running-mate as "Barack America."

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

I've seen last week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Belka but he was prime minister so it doesn't count.

[Hammy]

Closest I've come was having Obama's campaign bus pass by a tire place I was at after a rally in 2008.

[Green Line]

No.  I did walk right past John McCain (arms length) outside the Senate office building in 2009.  Had to do a double take, very cool experience.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Option 4.

[BuckeyeNut]

I've seen Obama at big rallies twice (once in '08 after the primary, and once in '12) and shook Bill's hand in '08 when he was campaigning for Hillary. Was once in a very small room with Biden during a fundraiser.

[Sir Mohamed]

Not a president, but shake hands with Kamala Harris at a campaign rally. I also saw Jerry Brown twice and Gavin Newsom once.

[Torie]

I saw President Elect Reagan though the window of his limo as he was driven into the garage of the building in which both the  law firm at which I worked and Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher (his private law firm) is located in downtown LA. He was having a meeting in the conference room of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. One of the partners of GBS, William French Smith, became his AG. I saw Richard Nixon at a rally in Panorama City in his 1968 campaign. Not ever POTUS of course, but I shook Bobby Kennedy's hand a few days before he was assassinated in North Hollywood.

[Cynthia]

The highest ranked politician I have seen is a State Senator representing me who shares the reverse of my ideology.

[Young Conservative]

No, but I've seen President Elect Trump speak four times.

[muon2]

I shook hands with GWB at a bill signing in 2005 after listening to his speech. Reuters happened to shoot a picture of it and it ran in a few locations. The pic was odd since as I'm shaking the Pres' hand, a kid jumps in between us to get an autograph. That's probably why they liked the image.

I spoke with Obama for a few minutes when he was a state senator in 2003. In early 2016 I was in the 5th row for one of his speeches, but that was too far back to shake his hand.

I was in Cleveland this summer for the first two days of the RNC. Trump made an impromptu appearance on stage then, but I was way back in the arena.

[PPT Spiral]

Shook Trump's hand, saw Obama at a rally.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I got black out drunk at a Trump speech this past summer and booed throughout his speech but he wasn't President yet.

[Fuzzy Bear]

I saw Jimmy Carter at Hofstra University in 1976 while I was campaigning for President.  Had I gone to my County Democratic Committee's fundraiser earlier that year, I could likely have gotten my picture taken with a more obscure (at the time) former Governor Carter.

I also saw Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a keynote Speaker for a Democratic fundraiser in 1981, and he was drunk as all get-out!  The highlight was when a public school teacher (whose wife had a political job) forgot self-interest and started busting Moynihan's chops on the issue of aid to Parochial Schools and Moynihan's support of the concept.  As an active alcoholic at that time, I admired Moynihan's ability to think fast on his feet while being three sheets to the wind.