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The biography claims Michelle Obama gave her husband the silent treatment because many women "pushed their bodies up against his, slipped phone numbers into his pockets" and "whispered lewd suggestions in his ear." One time, he allegedly said, "Jesus, I wish they'd stop grabbing my ass." Michelle's response: "I want to tell these women, 'Back off. Get a life.' It's just embarrassing, that's all."
Not that we condone this behavior, but the President is a good looking guy. As history has taught us, many women will stop at nothing to try and get with a man in office. So far nothing in the book has pointed to Obama being receptive of such advances, so we see no problem. Except maybe he might want tighter security.
Other details paint Michelle as controlling, saying she urged Barack to pass on Hillary Clinton as a running mate, asking him if he "could live with" Bill and Hillary living down the hall in the White House. (Really? This sounds totally ridiculous.) The books also claims she pushed for "Yes we can!" as the campaign slogan, despite the fact that campaign manager David Axelrod thought it was "childish and corny."
In the most harsh bit of gossip fodder, the book claims Obama "had grown close to an attractive young African-American woman [working for the Obama campaign] named Vera Baker. When Baker suddenly and inexplicably vanished from the campaign and resurfaced on the Caribbean island of Martinique, tongues reportedly began wagging. A jealous Michelle, it was suggested, had engineered Baker's departure." Baker herself shrugged off reporters saying "nothing happened."
We real hate when tabloids impose on celebrity relationships, particularly ones that seem wholesome and good. We wish, particularly in this case, that people would stop digging and mind their own business. Barack Obama has a country to run, and whether or not he has or has had any marriage difficulties have nothing to do with his job. Let the man--and the woman--do their work. [NY Post][Jezebel]
