Posted on 08/16/2012 12:11:10 PM PDT by Zakeet
She was an attorney at a big Chicago law firm. He was a Harvard Law student who landed a job there as a summer associate. He was immediately smitten. She wasn't so sure. But he won her over, and the couple sealed their budding romance with a kiss at the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop in Hyde Park.
So goes the story of how Michelle and Barack Obama fell in love in 1989. And on Wednesday, a historical marker went up at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and 53rd Street noting the exact location where the couple had their first smooch.
A quote from President Obama, taken from an interview published in "O, The Oprah Magazine" in February 2007, is inscribed beneath an embedded photo of the couple.
"On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Even iif it was the spot, he didn't do that, some one else did!
And now these morons are trying to put companies like Baskin Robbins out of business - he by handcuffing them with stifling regulations and she with her war on fattening foods.
This is pure bull $hit! No, they are not god like.
mecca for the moocher class.
No kidding.
That plaque is utterly inane (yet therefore a highly appropriate way of commemorating this "historic" couple, and exactly the type of thing you'd expect from the silly people who admire them).
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