First Dates: Barack, Michelle, John, Cindy

Michelle Robinson was mentoring Barack Obama at a law firm in 1989 when he asked her out. They went to the Art Institute, strolled down Michigan Avenue, and watched Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."

John and Cindy McCain had a more complicated first meeting, but the short version is that in 1979 at a military reception in Hawaii he talked her into joining him for drinks afterwards at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

Strange to think that without those two dates, sparrowblog wouldn't be hosting all you google, live, msn, and yahoo searchers on the hunt for news about Meghan, Jimmy, Jack, Bridget, Sasha, and Malia. And then what would I do with myself?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Umm...This is incorrect. Barack and Michelle met at a the law firm they worked at in Chicago after law school, she was his mentor.

Mitali Perkins said...

thank you, you're right, duly fixed.