The Obamas Go On Broadway Date

May 30. 2009

President Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, took time out of their busy schedules to go on a date. The first couple went to a Broadway play in New York. First kids Malia and Sasha...were out of gas (kidding).

Obama keeps promise with New York date

NEW YORK (AFP) — US President Barack Obama swept First Lady Michelle Obama off to a Broadway show -- to honor a promise made in the heat of his gruelling 2008 campaign.

The Obamas flew to New York, not on the iconic presidential jet, but aboard a small military plane -- still dubbed Air Force One with the president aboard -- for a meal in Manhattan's West Village and a night at the theater.

Republicans however immediately seized on the trip, accusing Obama of enjoying himself at taxpayers expense, as ordinary Americans battle the economic crisis and another iconic US firm, GM, struggles for survival.

Obama, in a statement issued through a spokesman, said: "I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished."

The epitome of glamour, the Obamas earlier left the White House aboard his Marine One helicopter.

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