Marine Asks First Lady Michelle Obama to Marine Corps Ball
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While sorting donations at the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign, this afternoon First Lady Michelle Obama received an unusual request.
Across a pile of race cars, the Associated Press reports Lance Cpl. Aaron Leeks invited Obama to be his date for next year’s Marine Corps Ball.
The 20-year-old Marine from Maryland told the AP, Obama said “she’d love to go.”
“Actually she said I’d need to speak to her husband, too, but she said she’d love to,” Leeks said.
No word yet on whether the request has received the president’s approval. “If the president’s watching this, this might be the first he’s heard of it,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joked at today’s daily briefing.
Carney did not know if Mrs. Obama will in fact attend the ball, but said, “I’m sure she was flattered by the invitation.”
A user with the name “Aaron Leeks” has already changed his profile picture on Facebook to a photograph of himself in uniform with the First Lady, matching the outfits the two wore during the charity event today.
This is not this year’s first celebrity invitation for a Marine Corps Ball. Co-stars Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake both attended the ball in November.
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What an idiot.. Asking a married woman to a ball??? That is VERY inappropriate.
Posted by: Will i am | December 16, 2011, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm
Wait and see. this will become one of those endearing PR STUNTS! I’m cynical enough to believe the your soldier was put up to it. The months leading up to the 2012 election are going to be DRIPPING with the Obamas wonderfulness… if the major networks have anything to do with it!
Posted by: Tex Geoas | December 16, 2011, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
Tex; Agreed….sigh.
Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
Give it a break Obama haters. (this mean’s you TEX GEOAS). Let the Marine have his moment in the sun. Even IF this is a PR stunt, (not likely), it’s a far better “stunt” than Bush pulled when he distorted the tragaity of Pat Tillman’s friendly fire death to promote his invasion of Iraq.
Posted by: dan | December 16, 2011, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
Dan (8:43 PM); You would think Michelle could be asked on a date without the Obama campaign giving the media a heads up! LOL!
Posted by: newcountryman | December 16, 2011, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm
The election will be over before the ball. Anyway, I don’t think the Secret Service would allow this and it would be highly inappropriate for a married woman to so publicly go out on a date with another man.
Posted by: Jim | December 16, 2011, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Dan Ok I get the Obama hater thing but lets have a spacific example of “Bush exploiting Pat Tillmans Death for the Iraq invasion”. I served in OIF and never heard of any such thing. It does not even make sense. I could se the connection to OEF (Afganistan) but not OIF (Iraq). Anyways waiting for an example.
Posted by: William | December 16, 2011, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
Posted by: William | December 16, 2011, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
As with the phonied up story of Jessica Lynch, I would think the lies were told about the Pat Tillman situation as a public relations ploy by the Bush administration. These (completely phony) heroic stories would serve to increase (rather than damage) recruitment for both wars. In short, lying propaganda from the Bush administration.
Posted by: James | December 17, 2011, 4:49 am 4:49 am
@ NEWCOUNTRYMAN, et al.: The marine isn’t asking her for sex, he’s asking her to go to a formal ball! There is nothing inappropriate about asking, and it is HER choice (not yours) as to whether she chooses to attend. Maybe it’s time for you to pull your mind out of the gutter and read a little about REAL etiquette. If you were a REAL man, you would understand exactly what I am talking about, however based on your posts . . . . .
Posted by: David Levy | December 17, 2011, 8:03 am 8:03 am
Ive taken my mother to the ball and she still married.. What is wrong with that?! The ball is a place where Marines take a look back over the past years and pay repect to our brothers.
Posted by: Marine | December 17, 2011, 9:50 am 9:50 am
What a sweet and endearing invitation for that young marine to extend. If Mrs. Obama goes, and why wouldn’t she, I would think the president would be just as flattered and proud as she looked in the video. Michelle, I love the Christmas tree!
Posted by: Sandi | December 18, 2011, 9:59 am 9:59 am