It may never have happened without Mitt Romney:
Bain Capital, the investment firm that Mitt Romney made famous, made a leveraged buyout that saved the site of Barack and Michelle Obamas first kiss.
In 2005, Bain and two other private equity firms purchased Dunkin Brands Incorporated for $2.425 billion, according to a 2006 company press release.
Dunkin Brands is the parent company of Baskin-Robbins, at whose Hyde Park, Chicago location the president and his future wife Michelle went on their first date and shared their first lip lock.
President Obama took the first lady out on a date in 1989 when the two worked at the same Chicago law firm, according to a Chicago Tribune article.
A 3,000-pound granite boulder now occupies the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Street, outside the ice cream parlor, bearing a quote about the couples first date.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/16/romneys-bain-saved-site-of-obamas-first-kiss/#ixzz25H1bm2de
Did Oprah pay for this?