During yesterday evening’s official state dinner to welcome President and Mrs. Obama to Argentina, the Commander-in-Chief found himself following someone else’s lead. NPR reports that two entertainers performing the country’s famous traditional dance invited the couple to join them for a few twirls around the floor.
As guests looked on, “a lithe dancer in a shimmery gold dress” approached the President to ask for a dance. After declining a couple of times, he finally relented to spend a couple of minutes doing his best to keep up with the graceful and dramatic choreography.
Mrs. Obama also took a spin around the dance floor with the woman’s male partner. While all eyes were on the President, Mrs. Obama looked much more comfortable with her partner — and the President’s — when the dance was finished.
Watch below as the First Couple enjoys Argentina‘s intimate and sexy dance.
Christopher Ryan Hickey
All the class…I adore them so much. ð???ð?»
1EqualityUSA
He’s such a long, tall, cool glass of water. I love the man. Our Country really needed someone like this, after Bush parted the scene.
joeyty
Pretty cool. Never know what’ll happen to you in Argentina.
GC1985
Argentina is a nice country… I lived there for a few years. Buenos Aires has a classic yet modern feel to it. Obama had it down well… Good job!
joeyty
@GC1985: I’m amazed they even let you in to snobby Argentina.
Xzamilio
I think it was hard for him to shift all that meat with each turn of his hips.
Blackceo
I love that man so much; the whole First Family. I’m gonna be so sad next January when he leaves office. He’ll be staying in DC though until Sasha finishes school so I hope to see him around still.
Arthur Silverstein
Dancing? While Europe is hurting from terrorist attacks?
Stached1
The Obamas getting their last paid vacations before he is out of the White House! You would think with all the bombings going on he would fly back home and be a real humanitarian! Class? What class? Obama and his “wife” have shown no class at all ever since they entered into the Presidency.
David Trower
don’t you just love this. He is such a sexy guy mmm!
1EqualityUSA
Stached1, feel better now? Poison & nails for breakfast again?
Stached1
@1EqualityUSA: Nope I had a banana, rye toast with French goat cheese, ice water, and Indian coffee made in a French press.
@Arthur Silverstein: Exactly, he was at a baseball game with a Cuban communist dictator while the attacks happened.
1EqualityUSA
Such a fancy breakfast…while people were bombed? You had a nice leisurely meal will people were subjected to terrorism? tsk tsk
avesraggiana
@Arthur Silverstein: I’m sure AIR FORCE ONE and all his accommodations have wifi. Our President can keep an eye on things wherever he is in the world. Just because he’s having fun on a state visit doesn’t mean he’s not working. And what kind of signal does that send to terrorists – to have the the Leader of the Free World scurrying home because of their terrorist attack? President Obama flying back to Washington DC would have accomplished nothing more but allow terrorists to disrupt the way we live, and to seriously call in to question one of the many values we all hold very dear – our free and open society.
Ksb1978
@1EqualityUSA: Belgium has it’s own political leaders, no? Was Obama supposed to fly there and do what?
1EqualityUSA
Ksb1978, If you care to, please read the preceding comments.
Alistair Wiseman
All three (liberal) networks gushed over Barack Obama’s “fancy footwork” and “dancing diplomacy” in Argentina. Meanwhile, four Americans are still missing in Brussels after the terrorist attack that killed at least 34. Five Americans are in the hospital, recovering from injuries sustained during the Muslim terrorist (but he can’t bring himself to say those words!) attack in Brussels. Despite this, Obama continues to dance the tango on his vacation.
Class. Pure class.
1EqualityUSA
Alistair, you are bitter. It’s ok to scrape the bottom of the barrel to stay relevant. We’ll give you a pass.
1EqualityUSA
You slipped away again, Alistair, so I’ll ask you, who are you voting for? TRUSted? A Dominionist, like Sarah Palin, who doesn’t believe in the Constitution, opting instead to push theocracy onto unwilling, tax-paying, equal citizens of the United States?
Xzamilio
@Alistair Wiseman: Whoop, there it is again. That number 4 that conservatives seem to get up in arms about. 4 in Benghazi, 4 here… surprisingly silent about the thousands of American soldier lives lost in Iraq and the unknown number of US contractors that were killed under Dubya, but yeah, let’s pretend like Obama doing a bad tango is somehow him being indifferent to the lost lives in the Brussels attack.
I do agree with your point about not calling it what it is, though… it is Islamic terrorism.
Kangol
@Alistair Wiseman: So official diplomacy is now a “vacation”? You right-wingers are too much. So telling that you didn’t say a thing about the ISIS-linked bombings in Mali or Turkey (there have been several over the last few months), but you are up in arms about Belgium, which was warned by Turkey about one of the terrorists it expelled, yet apparently let him back into the country to wreak havoc. The same Belgium that let Salah Abdeslam escape capture for FOUR MONTHS even though he was just blocks from his parents’ home. Is Barack Obama supposed to go over there and play detective himself? You also realize that Belgium has its own leaders, including a King, and an inept government that is too busy fighting over language differences to run the country. Give us a break!
Meanwhile, have conservatives ever denounced George W. Bush for the thousands of Americans killed or maimed during his term? For his destabilization of the Middle East, especially Iraq, where ISIS got its start (before Syria)? For not doing a single thing to address the crisis in Palestine? For kissing the tuches of anti-gay Saudi Arabia, which underwrites Salafism all over the globe? /CRICKETS/
Mr-DJ
Well I wouldn’t exactly call it “Torrid”. Maybe “Tentative” – as far as Tango’s go… But good on him. Still keeping it classy.
tjr101
@Arthur Silverstein: @Stached1: @Alistair Wiseman: Who are you quisling gay republicans voting for Trump or Cruz? Such “great” options.
Evji108
@Arthur Silverstein: Great Idea Arthur, all Dancing, singing and smiling should stop in the whole world because of the terrorist attacks in Europe, then we will make sure that the terrorists have achieved their mission of ruining our lives and making us all miserable.
GC1985
@joeyty: Nobody cares what a self hating fool like you thinks. Your comment is stupid and unnecessary. Piss off.
GC1985
@Stached1: What bombings you tool? Are you related to Alistair? You seem to suffer from a severe disconnect with reality. He is on a diplomatic trip building up ties. You Republicans are so fking pathetic.
GC1985
@tjr101: they don’t care. They will always criticize a fine President like Obama and advocate more of the same failure. Stached is a nutcase.
GC1985
Obama has taken less vacation than Bush or Reagan. And even less than Clinton
What happened in Europe? You republicans should not be discussing terrorism, let alone trying to score political points off the deaths of others. Worry more about your frontrunner making a fool of himself and his poll numbers which are in the toilet when up against Hillary.
Doug
If we could just get ONE MORE TERM from this guy…
Franklin
@Kangol: You better read him like a [email protected]GC1985: It took President Bush four days to get to New Orleans after Katrina; a disaster, occurring in his own country, that killed 1,577 people in that city alone. And, you want to sit here and criticize Obama for not going to a country who didn’t even ask for his help? He made his statement of support and offered to assist in any way he could, and until Belgium requests it, that’s all he needs to do right now. Do us a favor and save the outrage for someone who deserves it.
Franklin
@Kangol: You better read him like a [email protected]Alistair Wiseman: It took President Bush four days to get to New Orleans after Katrina; a disaster, occurring in his own country, that killed 1,577 people in that city alone. And, you want to sit here and criticize Obama for not going to a country who didn’t even ask for his help? He made his statement of support and offered to assist in any way he could, and until Belgium requests it, that’s all he needs to do right now. Do us a favor and save the outrage for someone who deserves it.
robho3
@Arthur Silverstein: and what exactly would you like president Obama to do?
GC1985
@Franklin: I really dont get what these right wing trolls want Obama to do. Turkey had an attack days before that killed many more citizens. What is he supposed to do? Cut short anything he is doing and fly to the country itself? Belgium has requested no assistance and is handling matters on its own. Major arrests are being done.
So yea I agree.
These fake right wing trolls hate Obama because of his high approval ratings and they push a turd like Trump. Says it all really.