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Barack Obama did his part to play nice at the polls!
On Monday afternoon, the president was casting his vote early for Chicago's midterm elections when he encountered a jealous boyfriend with a big mouth! The boyfriend, identified by Today as Mike Jones, addressed Obama as he voted alongside Jones' gal Aia Cooper, saying, "Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend now."
"Did you just say that?" asked Cooper.
Obama heard Jones loud and clear, though, and without missing a beat, he responded flatly, "You know, I really wasn't planning on it."
Cooper apologized for her boyfriend's immaturity, but that wasn't the end of it. "Now, there's an example of a brother just embarrassing you for no reason," remarked Obama. "Just for no reason whatsoever!"
"I knew he was going to say something smart," said the girlfriend somewhat embarrassedly, "but I didn't know what he was gonna say."
The president wasn't through with it, though! "And now, you'll be going back home and talking to your friends about, 'I can't believe—' what's his name?...'I can't believe Mike. Mike: He is such a fool.'"
"Fortunately," Obama continued, mimicking Jones' girlfriend, "the president was nice about it, so it was all right."
Luckily for the couple, Obama did, indeed, have a sense of humor about the whole thing. "It's all right," he said. "Mike seems like a decent guy."
As Obama and Cooper parted ways, though, the president joked, "Give me a kiss and give him something to talk about!" Then, after planting a tiny kiss on Jones' girlfriend's cheek, he joked, "Now, he's really jealous!"
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