It's Barack & Michelle's 16th wedding anniversary tomorrow! Barack reveals his anniversary plans!

[darius15]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Barack Obama would like one simple thing for his 16th wedding anniversary _ a quiet date with his wife.

It's unlikely, given that the Democratic presidential candidate doesn't go anywhere without drawing attention these days. He's putting his campaign on hold Friday night to fly back to Chicago and take his wife, Michelle, out to an Italian restaurant.

"I've got this whole romantic dinner planned," Obama told a rally in Grand Rapids. "I think it should go pretty well. That's my hope any ways. I've got a gift all picked out."

The campaign has kept the couple apart for much of the last two years. Even on Thursday when both were campaigning in Michigan, they were in different parts of the state and didn't plan to see each other.

Obama told reporters aboard his campaign plane that he never forgets their anniversary, after it slipped his wife's mind their first year. Asked for his thoughts on how to maintain a marriage for 16 years, he suggested a sense of humor, listening and "never get so mad that you forget why you love them."

"You know what you guys could give us for our anniversary?" he said, turning to the television reporters. "Not have a camera pool outside of the restaurant, so that everybody knows that we're there."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/02/obama-reveals-anniversary_n_131305.html


What I love about the Obamas is that you can tell tell that they genuinely love each other. I can't say the same about the McCains.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I hope the press will grant them that wish...

What a lovely guy!

I wish them many more happy years...

:toast:

[eshfemme]

2. LOL, although he was in the doghouse for a bit for getting the year wrong

Olbermann put him in the #3 spot on the Worst Person in the World list for saying it was his 15th anniversary rather than 16th. I'm pretty sure it was a joke on Olbermann's part though.

I'm hoping that the Obamas get some nice R&R too. They deserve it after all the BS they've been put through and the hard work they've been doing on behalf of the American people.

[alsame]

3. I'd like to give them both the keys to the White House as a belated gift.

[politicasista]

4. That is so cute and sweet!

:)

[monmouth]

5. I like the fact that theh Press appears at least, to really like him...n/t

[grace0418]

6. Man, if I were Michelle, I'd want a quiet night AT HOME with some movies from Netflix.

No reporters, no cameras.

[Coexist]

7. awwww....

thats so nice.