WATCH ABOVE: President Obama stopped by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center Monday near his home on Chicago’s South Side to cast his ballot for the midterm elections.
WASHINGTON – Let’s be clear: It was a joke. It unfolded while Obama cast an early ballot Monday in Chicago.
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A young woman, Aia Cooper, was voting next to Obama when her boyfriend, Mike Jones, decided to crack wise: “Mr. President, don’t touch my girlfriend.”
Obama, laughing, replied: “There’s an example of a brother just embarrassing me for no reason.”
Cooper apologized. But Obama imagined how she would retell the encounter: “I can’t believe Mike, he is such a fool. I was just mortified. … But fortunately, the president was nice about it, so it’s all right.”
Obama gave her a smooch. “Give him something to talk about.”
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