New Yorkers, who only count as Real Americans when they’re being terror-killed by brown foreigners, speak out on how Emperor You’re Not The Boss Of Me Obama invaded their city and ruined a perfectly good Saturday night:
In typical Manhattan style, diners at a Greenwich Village restaurant Saturday night pretended not to notice the famous couple at dinner – until after dessert.
"Nobody bothered them," Rachel Levit of Manhattan said of the First Couple. "They sat and had their private meal.
"When they stood up to leave," she continued, "this blasé New York crowd stood up and exploded in spontaneous applause."
As President Obama and his wife, Michelle, ate their date night meal at the classy Blue Hill restaurant, most of the others at the eatery tried not to stare.
"He was amazing," Susan Korchak said. "It was great. She was very tall – statuesque and gorgeous."
"They’re a very special couple," her husband, Richard, said. "It was their date night and it was our date night, too."
With a table right next to the Obamas, the trick was tougher for Dana Hubbe and her daughter Chloe, 8.
"He was so nice," Hubbe said, gushing.
She said Obama asked her daughter how old she was and whether she liked living in the city.
Michelle Obama had two martinis, and the President had the wine that accompanied the tasting menu, she said.
Hubbe said she couldn’t help but compliment the First Lady.
"I told her, ‘All politics aside, you look amazing,’" she recalled. "She said it was all about Pilates."
Levit said the President didn’t make eye contact with the rest of the room during dinner and was locked on his beautiful wife until he got up: "And then he said, ‘Hi, guys.’"
Eva Fleischer of Manhattan was excited just to eat in the same room.
"I can’t wait to call my daughter in Atlanta and tell her," she said.
Diners said they were searched by Secret Service before going into the restaurant. The entire block of Washington Place was closed off and residents said they were ordered to keep their windows closed.
"We were going to [take a picture]; I was going to try to do it on my phone," Fleischer said. "The restaurant people did not want us to do that … we respected that."
It doesn’t take much to read between the lines when Dana Hubbe said "’All politics aside, you look amazing" to understand that she was actually condemning the administration’s socialist tax policies while at the same time contemplating the possibilities of plunging a salad fork into the President’s neck, thereby saving America.
I, for one, breathed a sigh of relief that Obama did not demand any foreign terrorist condiments or yell out for some mother-fucking iced tea because, as everyone knows, you can’t take these people anywhere.




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How long till some winger asks if they had watermellon?
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Michelle Obama had two martinis, and the President had the wine that accompanied the tasting menu
I’m no fanboy, but I’m liking these people more and more.
But did they eat arugula? Or fancy mustard? It must be time to try to revive condiment-gate.
Nice to see a sane, decent, and reasonably normal president after the last eight years. Not sure I agree with all (or even most) of his policies, but I am liking him more and more as a person.
The extension of ” you look amazing..” is for a black woman married to the Muslim anti-Christ who is going to sell our children into slavery, or something.
Oh, yeah? Ya want the real New Yahk additude, ya?
Check out Frank Bruni’s blog in da paper.
I was shocked to find the restaurant reviewer for the New York Times is such a snob! Shocked, I tellya.
Dr Dick has the right balance.
I’m PISSED that he turned out to be just another politician, although I’m old enough that I should have expected it.
But goddam it, these are some bright, interesting, independent, courageous, handsome people, and I can’t help it. I LIKE them…
mikey
How long before somebody calls Michelle an alcoholic and don’t forget the made up story about how the Obamas(Fill in the black -Clintons/Gores/Carters) didn’t leave a tip.
Whenever Bush came to town, it was usually on a weekday and he would (deliberately, I think) make sure he landed in rush hour to fuck up traffic on the FDR. And no-one lined 6th Avenue to cheer the bastard, trust me.
Did they serve him his m*****f****** ice tea, or did he have to scream for it?
This may be cause to re-open the investigation into lobstergate.
I was flipping through the channels last night and caught a show on the history channel that explored places with hidden passageways and secret tunnels. One place was Club 21 in NYC where Man of the People, the quintessential Everyman himself, Tricky Dick Nixon, had a private stock of Dom and Chateau Lafite Rothschild in the basement wine cellar dining room.
And we know Bush never took a day off during his 8 years. How dare the Obamas do so!
Two martinis? Just wait. Just wait. The wingers will Kitty Dukakis poor Mrs. Obama to death. Any minute now, they will announce that the First Lady is drinking the rubbing alcohol in the White House physician’s office.
I once had lunch with President Clinton when he walked into a “cafeteria” style restaurant after a speech in Cleveland. Sokoloski’s University Inn. The Sokoloski brothers put on the spread for Bill. They made him a plate of Pierogi, stuffed cabbage, mac ‘n’ cheese, sausage and peppers. I sat next to him during lunch and he didn’t eat any of it…just a taste.
the next day in the paper, you would have thought that president Fatty McFatso ate the entire lunch.
It was actually pretty cool, and Bill also received a round of applause on his way in and out.
After the invasion of Iraq, I wondered once in a while what I would do if I were in a diner or ice cream parlor and the Bush retinue wandered in looking for a photo op. I decided that I’d have to pay what I owed and leave the premises immediately. If questioned by a media representative I’d tell them I’d rather climb into a sleeping bag with a scorpion than occupy the same room as George Bush.
When I see right wing accounts of the Obamas being out in public in restaurants, the Republicans are indignant and incredulous about the “audacity” of the President. But when I read firsthand accounts by ordinary people who were there, they are gushing and excited and so proud. Who do you want to believe?
Mad props for the Smoove B reference. Erm … Yo. I think.
Did anyone catch when Obama said, “Mmm-mmmm. That is a tasty burger.”
Oh wait, that was in Arlington on Friday.
I was in saudi arabia in 78 or 79..eating at a resturant. Looked up and there was Spiro Agnew at the next table. I did plunge a fork into his neck. He didn’t notice.
“Michelle Obama had two martinis…”
I like her more than ever.