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'Fuss and muss' over Barack Obama's NY date with wife made him unhappy | Barack Obama has revealed that there was just one day since entering the White House that he felt 'unhappy'
being the President-when his 'date night' with wife Michelle became a political issue. In an interview, the President said that on one Saturday in May when he
kept a campaign promise to take his wife to New York after the election for one
of their "date nights" - dinner and a Broadway play. But his good husband gesture
did not go quite well with Conservative commentators and Republican officials,
who criticised him for doing so. "People made it into a political issue," the
Telegraph quoted Obama as telling The New York Times magazine for an article about
the Obamas' marriage. The article was posted on the Times' website on Wednesday
and will appear in the Nov 1 issue. "If I weren't president, I would be happy
to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised
her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers.
That would please me greatly," he added. However, Presidents have to travel by
secure, government aircraft or vehicles. "The notion that I just couldn't take
my wife out on a date without it being a political issue was not something I was
happy with," said Obama. The article explores the effects of the presidency on
the couple's 17-year union, and revisits well-documented tension between them
in earlier years when Obama pursued his political career in Illinois , leaving
his wife largely home alone in Chicago with their daughters. |
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