Obama was the punchline of a bystander's joke while casting an early ballot Monday in Chicago. But the president managed to smoothly turn the tables on the jokester.
A young woman, Aia Cooper, was voting next to Obama when her boyfriend, Mike Jones, decided to crack wise: "Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend."
Obama, laughing, replied: "There's an example of a brother just embarrassing me for no reason."
Cooper apologized. But Obama imagined how she would retell the encounter: "I can't believe Mike, he is such a fool. I was just mortified...But fortunately, the president was nice about it, so it's all right."
Obama gave her a smooch. "Give him something to talk about."