# Awesome, candid photoset from Election Night from Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722 "2008-11-07T21:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/41 "2008-11-10T14:44:46Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Not of Obama, but from one of his rallies and more tear-jerking material: [1000 Words](http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/dintofinley/2008/11/1000-words.php) You just made me cry. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/42 "2008-11-10T15:05:05Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > [This is my favourite](http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3009095726/in/set-72157608716313371/). Just an old married couple, sitting and watching tv together. 😃 > > Michelle really is beautiful, and that dress does look better when you see it closer up. I love that Michelle looks like a real woman, not a whip-thin Barbie doll. She looks like a woman who has had two kids, a political husband, and could kick my ass without breaking a sweat. I agree. I love the [Newsweek article](http://www.newsweek.com/id/167755/page/2) description of her as a jokester and girly girl who wouldn’t hesitate to eat a cheeseburger. A woman after my own heart. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/43 "2008-11-10T15:26:26Z")
In the photoset linked in the OP, what is that light purple thing on Obama’s belt in the early pictures (like [this one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3009094432/in/set-72157608716313371/))? I doesn’t look like a phone to me. Anyway, I just really like Joe Biden for some reason. He just kind of seems like a cool uncle or something. I thought the picture of [him with Obama’s daughters](http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3009094810/in/set-72157608716313371/) was sweet. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/44 "2008-11-10T16:08:30Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Anyway, I just really like Joe Biden for some reason. He just kind of seems like a cool uncle or something. Me too. I love how he has this shark’s smile but he doesn’t seem scary. I tell ya, when he and Barack are standing there grinning it’s like megawatt bright. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/45 "2008-11-10T17:18:17Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > In the photoset linked in the OP, what is that light purple thing on Obama’s belt in the early pictures (like [this one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3009094432/in/set-72157608716313371/))? I doesn’t look like a phone to me. Looks like a hard plastic Blackberry cover to me. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/46 "2008-11-10T18:07:00Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Looks like a hard plastic Blackberry cover to me. Barack is a BlackBerry addict after all. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/47 "2008-11-10T18:18:42Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Looks like a hard plastic Blackberry cover to me. Yeah, I guess so. The bottom of it just looks weird – like a single tooth coming down, but that might just be black trim pieces not showing up against his pants. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/48 "2008-11-10T18:27:51Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > In the photoset linked in the OP, what is that light purple thing on Obama’s belt in the early pictures (like [this one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/3009094432/in/set-72157608716313371/))? I doesn’t look like a phone to me. I think it’s his [Hand Phaser](http://www.phasers.net/2360/type1.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/49 "2008-11-10T19:23:48Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Barack is a BlackBerry addict after all. He has a couple of different cellphones (three or four, I think), and has to change the number on at least one of them fairly routinely (seems people like giving it out to their friends, which must suck for him, but I gotta admit it’d be fun as hell to call up the President and say, “Whazzup!”). ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722/50 "2008-11-10T21:54:31Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > In the photoset linked in the OP, what is that light purple thing on Obama’s belt in the early pictures (like this one)? I doesn’t look like a phone to me. Here’s another vote for CrackBerry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-candid-photoset-from-election-night-from-obama/471722.md?page=2)