Obama Gave Italian Woman's Family "Gifts" After Leering at Her

— By Nick Baumann

| Fri Jul. 10, 2009 9:35 AM PDT

Jake Tapper tweets on what I'm calling Assgate:

heard more outrage from conservative tweeps today re: alleged POTUS once-over than about @johnensign, @davidvitter + mark sanford combined

And that's outrage over a photo that doesn't show what they say it shows. In other news, John Ensign's parents gave the family of the woman he was having an affair with a $96,000 "gift."

Now if my headline were true, you'd have a real story.

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Nick Baumann covers national politics for Mother Jones' DC Bureau. For more of his stories, click here. He can also be found on twitter.

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Comments

Yawn.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 11:04 AM PDT.

Yawn.

Judging from the video he

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 12:16 PM PDT.

Judging from the video he was too busy to notice. Shame... it was a fine ass.

seriously

Submitted by madely_moderate (not verified) on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 1:32 PM PDT.

Even if he was checking it out who could blame him. He is the President not a corpse.

seriously

Submitted by madly_moderate (not verified) on Fri Jul. 10, 2009 1:33 PM PDT.

Even if he was checking it out who could blame him. He is the President not a corpse.

Thanks

Submitted by M Wood (not verified) on Sat Jul. 11, 2009 1:54 PM PDT.

Thanks for giving me a chance to check it out.

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