a senator with a heart

It's interesting that he would help a stranger but evidently was never interested in helping the underprivileged members of his own family.

Wow, that is nice. Always knew he has a good heart. Yes, once we didn't have enough money for a bus ticket when I was younger and a few women helped my mom pay for the tickets. She was African American. It was back in 1982. 3 years ago when I visited my mom in New Mexico where she was living at the time I had ran out of minutes on my phone card(my niece used them up calling her boyfriend in the two days it took to get us there and used the last of my minutes as we were waiting on my dad to pick me ,my sister, and my niece up from the bus station) and a older woman also African American gave me a phone card with 260 minutes on it so I was able to keep in touch with my husband the two weeks I was away my niece and sister also used it. I am grateful for strangers with kind hearts.

Yes I am guilty of random acts of kindness, but not 103 dollars worth. But If I had the money, I hope I would do the same.

I have gone out of my way to help a stranger but I do not recall it ever happening for me. If it did, I just do not remember it.

Thanks Winterose! For posting something nice about Obama :)

That sounds just like something President-elect Obama would do :) Thanks for this info; I hadn't read that on Urban Legends and I do get David Emery's newsletter! In answer to your question: yes I have gone out of my way to help a stranger on numerous occasions. I've helped with money (when I had it to give) by giving to the homeless and those in need, by calling the police when an elderly woman fell on the sidewalk and broke her wrist, and in many other different incidents I can't think of just now. Yes a stranger has helped me too. Although there were many times a stranger helped me also, there is one incident I'm remembering now where I ran out of gas on the parkway and, after stopping to ask me if I needed help, the stranger drove to the nearest gas station to get me gas and came back to my car to put the gas in the car's tank. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of that man who helped me. But I like to think of him, and all the strangers who have helped me, as God's angels :)

That was very nice but it was 20 years ago and people change. He did not even meet his wife Michelle until 1989. (Wonder what Mary looked like). This "man" did NOT meet someone from as far away as Norway!! She is an American and she and her whole family voted for Obama and donated to his campaign.