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."

[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.