Someone, and I’m just too tired to go back and look for it, rikyrah, intimated in an earlier thread, that this lovely couple was doing the deed all over the West Wing.
This cover was a sweet way to end a very long, but productive day.
Here’s a nice late night open thread to talk about nice things in your life…or bitch about politics if you must.
ETA: I forgot to add this link about The Real Story of The Obama’s First Date and apologies if any of this is old info, I’ve been out of the loop here all day.
Anoniminous
Blog needs more Stalinism.
Omnes Omnibus
They are two really good looking people. I hope that they are banging as often as they want and in every room and position. I stand by this. Yeah, I am cool if they did really weird shit in the Oval Office. Sue me.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: heh. I’ve been getting the impression over the years that they are.
Major Major Major Major
I saw this morning that Trump said Hillary is being so protected by the media that if she shot somebody on stage she wouldn’t be prosecuted. I read a couple articles about it and they didn’t mention Trump saying that he could shoot somebody in Times Square and not lose votes. How peculiar.
Aleta
Somewhere on twitter I saw portraits of just the FL, and they blew my socks off. Also, in the entire country they are the only true adults I can think of, and they seem to be having surprising amounts of fun doing it.
redshirt
Did Abe Lincoln have sex in the Lincoln Bedroom?
amk
@Major Major Major Major: With donnie dick, it’s always 24×7 projection. Ask his ex-ghost writer.
redshirt
@Aleta: I can’t imagine loving a politician and family more than the Obamas in my near eternal life. #Millennial
amk
Can’t wait for the kenyan, his lovely, lovely wife and the rest of his ‘gang’ to hit the campaign trail.
Aleta
@redshirt: He used to sharpen his axe there.
(Did he really say this? It sounds made up to sell forest posters in the 70s.)
Major Major Major Major
@redshirt: …huh.
Aleta
@redshirt: It’s all downhill from here.
redshirt
@Aleta: That’s MY Abe Lincoln.
jl
Oh, you break my hear again! What is she doing with that nerd!?
Oh fate! Oh, the humanity!
boo hoo.
Aleta
@jl: I would marry either, if I was worthy, which I’m not, in the sllightest.
I hope I can sleep now.
NotMax
@redshirt:
He may have, but not in any sense involving a bed as the room first referred to as the Lincoln Bedroom was in actuality Lincoln’s office. IIRC, the location of that particular space is now a dining room for the first family.
Various rooms have been designated the Lincoln Bedroom, what with remodeling and reconstruction of the White House over the years. Kind of the way that any plane a sitting president boards becomes designated Air Force One, any White House room is which the Lincoln bed* is placed becomes designated the Lincoln Bedroom.
*A bed which was owned by the Lincolns, but for which there is missing solid evidence Abe ever slept in.
MomSense
@Aleta:
InStyle. The few pictures released so far are incredible.
rikyrah
What I love about the pictures from this cover is:
They are 7 & 1/2 years into his Presidency, and they still look like this. He has definitely aged in the office, but FLOTUS looks as if she has de-aged. With all that they have had thrown at them…this picture makes me happy ???
rikyrah
Southside With You was a beautiful movie.
Mike in NC
Jesus, I am old enough to remember when they joked about having to remove the BBQ sauce stains from every room in the White House when LBJ retired. The good old days!
Gemina13
I love them both, and I hope their sex life is such that every time they pass a Secret Service agent, the agent shakes his head and whispers, “Damn.“
redshirt
@rikyrah: They are so hot looking together. Literally, the ultimate Power Couple.
Frivolous
Michelle is obviously Power. I guess Obama defaults to Grace, then.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
But George Washington probably did, that fucker slept everywhere.
jl
@NotMax: The Lincoln Bedroom is a fraud? Yikes. How many dupes from how many administrations can sue to get their money back?
Mart
That Obama first date story made me puddle a little. Like victory night when the family walked out on the Grant Park stage. Drives me crazy that all the old white folks around me hate on them. The Obama’s are the definition of race, I mean Grace under pressure.
Mart
Also too, regarding beautiful Michelle aging slower than handsome Obama, I must say it is no fair. Realizing Obama has TV & photo make-up applied; Michelle gets to use “products” on hair, skin, lashes, and nails. Of course women don’t age as fast as men!
piratedan
@?BillinGlendaleCA: well, after all, he was fathering a country, dontchaknow…
Aleta
Fox News is insisting that Hillary apologize for calling Donald “an incontinent porch dog.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mart: The President has also, well been President. A job that ages people 2 to 3 years for each calendar year.
Aleta
The Drudgery has learned that Hillary just called Donald “a lil’ ol’ yaller figment in the imagination of a weak-legged one-spot coon dog.”
Suzanne
They are both incredible and gorgeous and wonderful, and I hope they have the sort of sex life that would raise even my eyebrows if I ever got to hear the deetz.
Thank you, Mr. President, may I have another?
Shit. That’s a good idea…..
Cat48
Evidently, Obama & the family could stay if they wanted. His approval rating is 58% in the new Washington Post poll that came out tonight. It hasn’t been that high since June 2009. I’m really going to miss all of them.
jl
@Cat48:
” His approval rating is 58% ”
Wow… that is nice to hear. Thanks for that news. Who says the US public is low info dummies? Good for Obama, and good for the US.
Actually, much of it is improving job market with rising real compensation rates, but more than usual, that is Obama’s doing. Yellen has turned out to be a very good pick for Fed Reserve, for example, and Obama made that happen.
On the other hand, this Barack Obama is just a smart, very successful US President, which is great.
But Michelle Obama is prettier and more fun (OBVIOUSLY!), and probably even smarter, and I bet she would make a better president.
gwangung
Mostly because she says. “NO. And I mean HELL, NO.”
Some Dude
I wish they could be there for a couple of more terms, but it is two terms to a person. Would’t mind if Michelle ran – but that would really turn the Republican crazy way past 11. They had tantrums with Barack as President, and they’re having fainting spells imagining Hillary as President, but to have a woman of color running the country – it would be so ugly as to make the last eight years seem like paradise. I want to believe the next eight years will be better, but it will only be better if the Democrats have firm control of both houses and make a hard push at the state level, so that when the census rolls around in 2020 the electoral maps can be ungerrymandered.
sukabi
@Some Dude: they’ve also got to sack up and stop taking shit and rolling over for every bullshit thing the repubs pull.. And have to push back on the both sides crap the media likes to pull…
JPL
@Mart: My reaction was the same. The family values crowd must be jealous!
Luthe
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I swear half of New Jersey has a historic site where Washington slept/camped/crossed the Delaware. Every town seems to have a “Washington wuz here” sign.
Fun fact: there are six Washington Townships in NJ.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Luthe: Gotta love the statues at Morristown Green.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
Jeeze, they’re a good looking couple. And if that’s a recent pic, the Prez is looking younger than he has in years. Maybe it’s that big NFLTG grin.
One time I was on one of those massive Democratic party conference calls where most of us unwashed masses can only listen as the IMPORTANT people talk. And every time Michelle spoke I got all fanboy weak-kneed. “Holy crap, that’s her actual live voice in my ear!” I kind of remember the subject of the call, something something volunteerism.
I use people’s opinions of her as one quick litmus test of mental health.
Botsplainer
So fucking hungover and in Cancun Airport. I was at a Mexican hip hop show until way too late.
Now I’m sitting in some atrocity called Guy Fieri’s American Kitchen and Bar, working on my second Bloody Mary and eating some mess of a breakfast burrito while al of the TVs rerun episodes of programming featuring that fat tatted up fuck.
msdc
I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Obamas have never, ever done it to Bob Seger.
At least I hope not.
Ceci n'est pas mon nym
@sukabi:
One of the things I’ve loved about Hillary over the years is how she managed to laugh, sincerely and with great amusement, at the spittle-flecked insanity that has been thrown at her for decades. Part of that genuine warmth that the press keeps trying to convince us she doesn’t have.
And Obama shares that ability to use a laugh to dismiss it. It’s really an excellent tactic to diminish your enemies.
Our Democratic congresscritters need the same courage to laugh. Even if at first they don’t feel like laughing, because frankly these people are scary and the comparisons to Nazi Germany are getting more and more obvious and explicit. Nevertheless, laughter is a powerful response and one we need.
Botsplainer
@msdc:
Sexing it up to Seger is a crime against humanity, unless you’re in your teens and listening to it as new music while banging away with some other teen in your car. Just sayin’.
And let me cast my vote for Fiona Apple or Amy Winehouse for sexytime tunes…
germy
The huffpost article was interesting. In the Southside With You movie, the guy who wrote it (he’s the one who “catches” Barack and Michelle leaving the theater together) comes across sort of like the white boss on “Blackish.” The story he tells is a corrective, but he doesn’t sound bitter.
Sometimes people get pissed if they aren’t portrayed in a movie as fully heroic.
Schlemazel
@Botsplainer:
If you willingly entered a place with Guy Fieri’s name on it you deserve whatever sludge they throw at you.
Sorry about the hangover though
Schlemazel
@msdc:
Come on man – Night Moves seems written for them!
JMG
In May, when I saw the TV promos for Ms. Obama doing a guest spot on “NCIS,” The Official TV Show of Old White People, I realized the country was finally coming around to accepting the Obamas as, well, as normal as a President and his wife can be. Too bad it’s just before they have to leave.
Chyron HR
@Schlemazel:
WOAH
Sounds like someone’s hankering to be tied to a freight train full of dynamite and sent barreling straight into FLAVORTOWN!
BLAM
Patricia Kayden
That article at the HuffPo link was absolutely lovely. And the Obamas are leaving the White House as gorgeous and poised as they entered. I must get that Essence magazine for that cover photo alone.
Schlemazel
@Chyron HR:
Still sounds better than eating at a place fronted by Fieri!
I have eaten at several places he pimped on his show & come to the conclusion either the kitchen treats him better than the normal customer or he has no idea what good food, even good dive food, is because he just loves everything.
The review of his Time Square restaurant was a classic & hit the exact notes I would expect.
Botsplainer
@Chyron HR:
It was like the sort of uninspired slop that would have appealed to me when I was 19 and drunk on Old Milwaukee or Schlitz.
JosieJ (not Josie)
@Schlemazel:
As a black woman of the Obama’s approximate age, I think I can say with confidence that they ain’t sexin’ to Night Moves. And I like Bob Seger and that song (what can I say, I have eclectic tastes).
Personally, I’d go with Prince: ideal nooky music!
gogol's wife
I may have just reached the point at which I have to cancel my subscription to the NYTimes. The public editor today advances the theory that liberals are pushing the “false balance” idea just to promote their own politics. Hillary’s e-mails should be covered just as extensively as Trump’s scams. “If you fear a Trump presidency, it’s tempting to want the media’s firepower heavily trained on one side. But a false-balance cudgel gripped mostly by liberals is not an effective way to convince undecided voters. Just more preaching to the choir.”
So their ombudsman is pushing them to be less liberal. Time to give it up, crosswords or no crosswords.
Botsplainer
And let me add – they actually fucked up the bloody marys. No real spice character, too much Worcstershire, and the garnish was bizarre. There were some appropriate items, but they also included orange and pineapple wedges.
Schlemazel
@JosieJ (not Josie):
Yeah, it was mostly a joke because thoes words seem to match. He was young & too skinny, she was hot. Segar is teen boink music from an earlier era, it ain’t them.
Schlemazel
@Botsplainer:
So you are saying they “Fieri’ed” it
Chyron HR
@Botsplainer:
A MONEY SHOT OF FLAVOR, BABY
SFAW
@Botsplainer:
WE’LL TRY NOT TO SHOUT!
Oops! I meant “we’ll try not to shout.”
ETA: Except for Chyron, I guess.
debbie
@gogol’s wife:
Tom has his work cut out for him.
GOVCHRIS1988
@JosieJ (not Josie): I would actually count this groove as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDKy2K42Rc
Emma
@gogol’s wife: Try the Times of London Cryptic Crosswords. IIRC there’s even a website dedicated to the solutions.
debbie
@Emma:
These puzzles (the Sunday one, I think) used to be published on the back page of New York magazine. Hard as hell, but I’ve missed them. Thanks for this!
WaterGirl
So can this Essence issue be purchased NOW? The google tells me that it went on sale 2 days ago, but if has already been released, I think more folks here would be talking about everything in it. Does anybody know?
TaMara (HFG)
LOL, you guys crack me up. The Bob Seger was just what was playing in the background before I wrote this. Spotify has Obama’s night music list and there are some great artists on it – Coltrane, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Miles Davis and …. Sinatra – anyone more probable than Seger for a little night moves. ;-)
Matt McIrvin
Michelle Obama will never run for President. She’s an incredible public speaker, but she’s never shown any signs of really wanting to be in electoral politics.
Luthe
@gogol’s wife: I think you can buy a subscription just to the games section of the Times, but don’t quote me on that.
JosieJ (not Josie)
@GOVCHRIS1988:
Agreed!
Msb
I hope rikyrah is right. Think of all the grief and stress that old building has absorbed; I’d love for it to have picked up some loving, sexy vibes as well.
WaterGirl
@Msb: Your comment reminded me of my niece who likes big cities because she loves the idea of walking on sidewalks where millions of footsteps have gone before her.
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