America Jealous of Date Night

Barack and Michelle Obama’s night in New York has “prompted many wives to glare across the breakfast table,” writes Jan Hoffman in the New York Times, “trying to remember the last time their husbands made a fuss over them.” After 16 years together, the Obamas still seem into each other, seeming proof that the modern fantasy of the passionate marriage is still alive.

“How do you compete with that?” Jon Stewart joked on the Daily Show. “Take it down a notch, dude!” “I’d have a lot more pizazz left for my husband, too,” opined one writer, “if we moved into the White House and my mother was on hand to baby-sit 24-7.” But some find Obama’s devotion amidst his busy schedule inspiring. “Musharraf or Michelle?” said Joy Behar of The View, “That’s a tougher thing for him than the average Joe.” (More Barack Obama stories.)