Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss (mega-barf alert)

Chicago Tribune ^ | August 16, 2012 | Dahleen Glanton

[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."

[Zakeet]

Some suggested that the site could become a popular spot for first dates and even marriage proposals.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The morons living in this country REALLY need to get a life.

[Iron Munro]

Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss

This sounds like another made up Obama factoid.
Larry Sinclair never said anything about Michelle being there.

[GraceG]

How are they sure this was the spot, it could have been a composite spot......

[Da Coyote]

I’m guessin’ that the dork’s first kiss was with another dork.

[LyinLibs]

I’m placing a marker at the spot where Omoslem first fellated Larry Sinclair.

[massgopguy]

And then off to Lenin’s tomb for the ceremony.

[AppyPappy]

Who was the lucky guy?

Michelle is rumored to have said “Goony Goohoo” after the kiss.

[Pollster1]

How are they sure this was the spot, it could have been a composite spot......

Can you imagine how much Michelle must be simmering on the inside if this is a composite?

[JaguarXKE]

And others think it could become a place where people can go who wish to become violently ill.

[Puppage]

He was immediately smitten. She wasn't so sure

....but the money was right.

[tje]

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“...it tasted like chocolate”

That’s racist!!

[skeeter]

Who was the lucky guy?

[b4its2late]

It’s a great place for the drunks to purge themselves.

[Ingtar]

He didn’t do that. Someone else did it.

[kingu]

Hey, you know, better this than the marker in the Oval Office from Bill’s time there...

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Who cares about these two would be haters & destroyers of America? I would suggest that the Obamabot media start looking real hard at continuing to carry water for these two anti-Americans. Obama/Biden are going to be defeated big time and the Obamabot media is not going to be looked upon kindly!!! End of story!!!

[layman]

She wasn't so sure.

Because she had always just assumed he was gay.

[JaguarXKE]

How are they sure this was the spot, it could have been a composite spot......

I think Composit Spot was his dog ( not sure if it's the one he ate)

[wideawake]

Some suggested that the site could become a popular spot for first dates and even marriage proposals.

"Why are you kneeling down in this parking lot across the street from the Ribs'N'Bibs? . . . oh, no . . ."

[Harley]

I kissed her and she tasted like chocolate.

Now if you kiss her she'll taste like: ribs, pizza, french fries, cheeseburgers, bratwurst, lemon merengue pie, chocolate cake, brownies, onion rings, chicken wings, sheetrock, carpet, and breath mints.

[Third Person]

Help me out people... shouldn’t the marker read that the curb doubled as the dinner table?

[FlingWingFlyer]

"...I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."

And you stole that BS line from that goofy "mayor" who was running New Orleans during Katrina.

Got anything original?

[Third Person]

I’m glad Michelle didn’t tell us what Barry tasted like.

[Pearls Before Swine]

“...it tasted like chocolate”

That’s racist!!

With O, according to Larry Sinclair, that might be sexist, too.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

“I kissed her and IT tasted like chocolate.”

Um, why is he referring to ‘her’ as ‘it’?

Heh.

[Slyfox]

[taterjay]

Hahahahahahahaahahahaha!!!!

[Sacajaweau]

"Tastes like chocolate"....is this a Freudian slip?? Me thinks so.

The clown in Loiusiana( I think) would say they is both "milk chocolate".

The marker is ridiculous. Hope the birds sh** all over it.

[biggredd1]

does the motel where soetoro and larry sinclair came together have a sign up that says “soetoro slept here?”

[GQuagmire]

[Mich Patriot]

"Hey, you know, better this than the marker in the Oval Office from Bill’s time there..."

I assume you're referring to the carpet stain?

[Stentor]

Superfund site. The White Hut must be a write off.

[Doogle]

...the shopping center where they knew they could cash their ill gotten welfare checks with no questions asked.....(6 social security numbers)

[crosshairs]

More election time diversion away from the fact that barry is gay.

[Popman]

My Gawd...are people that vacuous to mark the spot where the Obama's first kissed...

It smacks of "cult of personality"

Maybe we should mark the spot were they first did the horizontal mambo

Yes, I'm a racist because I used white figures

[Dr. Sivana]

That’s funny ... I actually had ice cream from that Baskin Robbins, and combined with straight instant coffee (alnighter for paper due next day at U of C) I wound up puking. That was in ‘85.

He also patronized Valois. Now that is a good solid eatery.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Funny, Hyde Park will memorialize this "sacred" spot but the hospital in Hawaii where he was supposedly born won't even admit to the "sacred" event.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Funny, Hyde Park will memorialize this "sacred" spot but the hospital in Hawaii where he was supposedly born won't even admit to the "sacred" event.

[Las Vegas Ron]

How are they sure this was the spot, it could have been a composite spot......

Even iif it was the spot, he didn't do that, some one else did!

[OrangeHoof]

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.

[elephant]

This is pure bull $hit! No, they are not god like.

[TurboZamboni]

mecca for the moocher class.

[BlatherNaut]

The morons living in this country REALLY need to get a life.

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).