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Someone's Making a Romantic Drama About the Obamas
It seems only natural that the first black president of the United States would have a movie made about him. It's a little less obvious that that movie would be released before Obama actually left office. It's downright bizarre that the movie would not be about Obama's life, rise through politics, or election to the presidency but, rather, about his first date with his wife.
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"OBAMAS GO ON DATE MERE TWO DECADES BEFORE BENGHAZI" -Fox News
If you didn't know, because why the hell would you, here's the story: the Obamas met while working together at a law firm in Chicago, and their first date that someone has decided to stretch into a whole goddamn movie consisted of visiting the Art Institute of Chicago (which hopefully involved them gawking at paintings at an ever-increasing scale), taking a long walk, seeing Do the Right Thing, getting ice cream, and then kissing on a street corner. All in all, a cute first date that might take up five or six minutes in a normal movie (or two minutes if you're Ted Mosby) -- so is it really worth making a whole feature film about?
Evidently, though, the filmmakers aren't the only ones with the weirdo, borderline fanfic obsession with the Obamas' personal life; a nearby shopping mall actually commissioned a 1.5 ton granite monument commemorating their first kiss, because that's not off-putting and kind of creepy at all.
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Rumors that a nearby Hilton is bronzing the sheets the Obamas first had sex on have been neither confirmed nor denied.
When he's not writing Benghazi-Obama erotica, Chris writes for his website and tweets.
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