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The First Marriage [Obama Upset NY Wife Dinner-Date Became Political]
NYTimes ^ | October 28, 2009

Posted on 10/28/2009 3:08:17 PM PDT by Steelfish

The First Marriage

JODI KANTOR October 26, 2009

Another Washington dusk, another motorcade, another intimate evening played out in public view. On Oct. 3, just a day after their failed Olympics bid in Copenhagen, Barack and Michelle Obama slipped into a Georgetown restaurant for one of their now-familiar date nights: this time, to toast their 17th wedding anniversary. As with their previous outings, even the dark photographs taken by passers-by and posted on the Web looked glamorous: the president tieless, in a suit; the first lady in a backless sheath.

The Obama date-night tradition stretches back to the days when the president spent half his time in Springfield, Ill., reuniting at week’s close with his wife, who kept a regular Friday manicure and hair appointment for the occasion. But five days before he ventured out for his anniversary dinner, the president lamented what has happened to his nights out with his wife.

“I would say the one time during our stay here in the White House so far that has. . . .” He paused so long in choosing his words that Michelle Obama, sitting alongside him, prompted him. “Has what?”

“Annoyed me,” the president answered.

“Don’t say it!” the first lady mock-warned. “Uh-oh.”

“Was when I took Michelle to New York and people made it into a political issue,” he continued, recalling the evening last spring when they flew to New York for dinner and a show, eliciting Republican gibes for spending federal money on their own entertainment.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: bho44; datenight; flotusmichelle; obamafamily
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To: imfrmdixie

I wondered that also. Bali trip before their marriage. BHO & Michelle in Bali in 90’s — early 90’s. I think he finished book in 1992, IIRC

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2355925/posts?page=273#273


41 posted on 10/29/2009 4:40:41 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: maggief

you’re a wonder with photos. Where are the rings in 27 from? Are they current photos? Are they both on his wedding finger? They certainly don’t look like the same ring, do they (in post 27)?


42 posted on 10/29/2009 4:43:45 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: maggief

43 posted on 10/29/2009 4:44:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: maggief

44 posted on 10/29/2009 4:46:00 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: maggief

45 posted on 10/29/2009 4:50:50 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: thouworm; Brown Deer

46 posted on 10/29/2009 4:53:59 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Brown Deer

That angle seems to show how rings in 27 could be the same ring. Vertical ridges on top; ornate on either side. Do you agree?


47 posted on 10/29/2009 4:54:58 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: Steelfish

He is occupying the fricking office of the fricking motherloving President of the United States. He is the ultimte political anus - always spewing great clouds just to hear his own motherloving voice.

And he has the fricking gall to complain that some people don’t like him wasting taxpayer money in a severe economic downturn to go on a gosh-darned DATE with that witch who holds the leash on his testicles?

F him and anyone who has EVER fricking resembled the rosy pucker he calls a face!


48 posted on 10/29/2009 4:58:28 PM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: thouworm
OT: Just sayin'


49 posted on 10/29/2009 5:01:05 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a raised part in that pre-wedding ring.


50 posted on 10/29/2009 5:01:15 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: fanfan; devolve

[Their version of a State Dinner is the Wednesday night ‘rock star’ parties.]

Lol, someone else posted to me that they had one last Feburary and ‘will have’ one in November!


51 posted on 10/29/2009 5:03:27 PM PDT by potlatch (Actions Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: thouworm

too bad we couldn’t isolate that ring; that raised part really looks like it could possibly make it the same ring, don’t you think?


52 posted on 10/29/2009 5:03:57 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: browardchad; devolve
Thank you! I meant to look that up and never got to it. We will wait with baited breath to see what Michelle wears in November, lol.
53 posted on 10/29/2009 5:05:21 PM PDT by potlatch (Actions Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: potlatch

a little Glenn Beck on FNC:



54 posted on 10/29/2009 5:13:58 PM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Hey - Know what? I*d like a wider seat!" . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: thouworm

Yes, but what about 43 and 45?


55 posted on 10/29/2009 5:15:22 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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To: devolve
They just showed the Brown - Jarrett confrontation on O’Reilly’s show!
56 posted on 10/29/2009 5:17:37 PM PDT by potlatch (Actions Speak Louder Than Words)
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To: LucyT
I sense an image remake. First we have the compassionate Obama whoring for a photo-op, (I am not questioning the decision of the family to allow the media, God love them)

Poor Blackie-O cannot have a dinner date with her husband. It is not fair. They are normal people just like us

Compassionate victimization.
Political Whoring 101: If you can't hold them on the issues, be a victim. What the hell did they expect?

57 posted on 10/29/2009 5:17:54 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: potlatch

The no privacy issue coming up next.


58 posted on 10/29/2009 5:18:52 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Brown Deer

I can’t tell in 43, but first pic in 45 is certainly a completely different ring.


59 posted on 10/29/2009 5:20:36 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: maggief

60 posted on 10/29/2009 5:25:03 PM PDT by Brown Deer
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