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To finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Barack Obama married Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan in a ceremony in Atlanta this week.The historic partnership is the culmination of five years of courtship by Mr. Obama. Family and friends from nations around the Pacific Rim came to celebrate the union.The ceremony was closed to press, but the Shady Dealer<\/i> obtained a copy of the president\u2019s wedding vows<\/p>\n
\u201cI, Barack, promise to be a loving husband, a committed partner, and a consumer base for East Asian electronics,\u201d read the vows.<\/p>\n
Mr. Abe had some loving words in his vows as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I, Shinzo, will always be there for you till competition from China do us part,\u201d read the vows.<\/p>\n
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, who was in attendance at the wedding, remarked that the two world leaders looked thrilled to be together, but that their kiss had too much tongue.<\/p>\n
\u201cShinzo is the light of my life,\u201d said Mr. Obama at a press conference yesterday. \u201cIt was absolutely love at first joint military exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Abe expressed similar sentiments upon his return to Tokyo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so happy that I finally get to marry Barack,\u201d said Mr. Abe. \u201cIt\u2019s 2015, and a world leader should be able to marry another world leader no matter how wide the Pacific Ocean is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the condition of anonymity, senior wedding planners disclosed that Mr. Obama and Mr. Abe had been ogling each other for years, but that their love affair took on a new sense of urgency when President Xi Jinping of China began trying to woo various Asian leaders with promises of financial stability. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe just thought, now\u2019s the time.” said Mr. Obama. “Why hide it anymore?\u201d <\/p>\n
However, the expression of commitment between the leaders of the world\u2019s first- and third-largest economies drew sharp criticism from some quarters. Labor organizations expressed alarm at the nuptials, worrying that the wedding\u2019s extravagance would lead to unregulated cheap party favors flooding domestic markets. Others were dismayed that the marriage was negotiated secretly. This included former First Lady Michelle Obama, who reportedly kept swatting the wedding cake away from her ex-husband. <\/p>\n
Under pressure from Democratic primary voters, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her opposition to the marriage, a radical departure from her 2012 statement calling it \u201cthe gold standard of weddings.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, Mr.t Obama and Mr. Abe received plaudits from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was thrilled that there was an open bar.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo thumbs up for that sake,\u201d Mr. Biden declared. \u201cNever had anything like it before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Zachary Spitz Oct. 16, 2015 To finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Barack Obama married Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan in a ceremony in Atlanta this week.The historic partnership is the culmination of five years of courtship by Mr. Obama. Family and friends from nations around the Pacific Rim came to celebrate the union.The ceremony was closed to press, but the Shady Dealer obtained a copy of the president\u2019s wedding vows \u201cI, Barack, promise to be a loving husband, a committed partner, and a consumer base for East Asian electronics,\u201d read the vows. Mr. Abe had some loving words in his vows as well. \u201cAnd I, Shinzo, will always be there for you till competition from China do us part,\u201d read the vows. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, who was in attendance at the wedding, remarked that the two world leaders looked thrilled to be together, but that their kiss had too much tongue. \u201cShinzo is the light of my life,\u201d said Mr. Obama at a press conference yesterday. \u201cIt was absolutely love at first joint military exercise.\u201d Mr. Abe expressed similar sentiments upon his return to Tokyo. \u201cI\u2019m so happy that I finally get to marry Barack,\u201d said Mr. Abe. \u201cIt\u2019s 2015, and a world leader should be able to marry another world leader no matter how wide the Pacific Ocean is.\u201d Under the condition of anonymity, senior wedding planners disclosed that Mr. Obama and Mr. Abe had been ogling each other for years, but that their love affair took on a new sense of urgency when President Xi Jinping of China began trying to woo various Asian leaders with promises of financial stability. \u201cWe just thought, now\u2019s the time.” said Mr. Obama. “Why hide it anymore?\u201d However, the expression of commitment between the leaders of the world\u2019s first- and third-largest economies drew sharp criticism from some quarters. Labor organizations expressed alarm at the nuptials, worrying that the wedding\u2019s extravagance would lead to unregulated cheap party favors flooding domestic markets. Others were dismayed that the marriage was negotiated secretly. This included former First Lady Michelle Obama, who reportedly kept swatting the wedding cake away from her ex-husband. Under pressure from Democratic primary voters, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her opposition to the marriage, a radical departure from her 2012 statement calling it \u201cthe gold standard of weddings.\u201d However, Mr.t Obama and Mr. Abe received plaudits from Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was thrilled that there was an open bar. \u201cTwo thumbs up for that sake,\u201d Mr. Biden declared. \u201cNever had anything like it before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}