Obama hugs a woman boyfriend warns he should not touch

Obama hugs a woman boyfriend warns he should not touch

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 2:52 pm


Obama gives a woman a peck on the cheek in Chicago. CNN Photo credit

Obama gives a woman a peck on the cheek in Chicago. CNN Photo credit

President Barack Obama gave a jealous man plenty of blushes on Monday, when he went to Chicago to vote early in the mid-term election.

The man had walked by the President of the most powerful nation on earth, as the president cast his ballot and warned him: “don’t touch my girlfriend.”

(Watch the video here, courtesy of CNN:)

The man’s girlfriend, Aia Cooper, was voting in the booth next to Obama.

Barack Obama, not gobsmacked, calmly assured the woman: “I really wasn’t planning on it.”

“There’s an example of a brother just embarrassing you, just for no reason whatsoever.”

“And now you’ll be going back home and talking to your friends; what’s his name?” the president asked.

“Mike,” Cooper said.

“‘I can’t believe Mike. He’s such a fool,'” Obama said, impersonating the woman.

“He really is,” she agreed.

Obama continued: “‘I was just mortified. But, fortunately, the president was nice about it. So it’s all right.'”

“I am freaking out right now,” she said, laughing.

The president got the last laugh, though.

“Give me a kiss and give him something to talk about,” the president said, as he gave Cooper a hug and a peck on the cheek. “Now he’s really jealous.”

But Cooper downplayed the moment.

“He gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Just the cheek,” she told ABC’s Chicago station WLS.

“Please, Michelle, don’t come after me!”


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