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Marker placed at Hyde Park shopping center where Obamas shared first kiss (mega-barf alert)
Chicago Tribune ^ | August 16, 2012 | Dahleen Glanton

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; marker; obama
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To: GraceG
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!

41 posted on 08/16/2012 1:41:28 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Zakeet

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.


42 posted on 08/16/2012 2:07:50 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: Zakeet

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


43 posted on 08/16/2012 2:37:36 PM PDT by elephant
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To: Zakeet

mecca for the moocher class.


44 posted on 08/16/2012 2:38:04 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
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).

45 posted on 08/16/2012 4:02:05 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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