<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On my blog I titled this post:<br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144fae"><br></font><b>ASL exchange: Deaf man: ~I am proud of you.~ Obama: ~Thank you.~</b><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://distriction.com/2012/03/sign-of-the-times/" target="_blank">Sign of the Times</a></span><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144fae"><br></font><img alt="Sign of the Times" src="http://distriction.com/wp-content/uploads/et_temp/Obama-Sign-Language-32710_186x186.jpg" style="float:left;margin-right:2em"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Stephon
stood just a few feet away from Barack Obama. The president, busy
shaking hands, looked right at him. “It was like he was waiting for me
to say something,” he said later.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">So
the 26-year-old Prince George’s Community College student took his cue
and spoke to President Obama in his first language: American Sign
Language. “I am proud of you,” Stephon signed. The president, almost
involuntary, instinctively, immediately signed back.</span><br><span style="font-size:larger">“Thank you,” Obama replied</span>.<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144fae"><br><br></font><i>[click on headline -- <a href="http://distriction.com/2012/03/sign-of-the-times/">http://distriction.com/2012/03/sign-of-the-times/</a> -- for full story, video of Obama's reply, and video with translation of Stephon describing the experience]</i><br><br>
</div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div></body></html>