“I think we are probably responsible for (Barack) Obama being in office, yes. If nobody else is gonna say it, then I’m gonna say it. The confidence, the swagger we instilled in our communities made that possible.

“I met him (Obama) twice… If God said I could pick one person to be my father, I’d want to be Sean Combs Obama. That’s how dope he is. I hope he reads this interview and adopts me.

“I wouldn’t even need to be in the will. I got my own money.”

Each comes with one of three dresses, all designed to show off Michelle’s most famous physical trait. “Of course, all figures will have bare arms.”

“Well, I don’t actually go that way,” Beckford says, “but I notice a lot of people think I do.” But if I’ma do it, I’m going for Obama. If I got with him, I could run the country. If I was that way, yeah, Obama.” Asks an incredulous Andy Cohen: “You would give it to Obama?” Beckford: “Yeah, I’d be the one in control. … Who you gonna go for? Will Smith? Somebody pretty like that?”

“On more than one occasion, Barack tried not to look startled when some random woman in the crowd would grasp him firmly by the derriere — and sometimes try to hold on.”
After an appearance in Peoria, Ill., the future president slid into the back of his SUV, and allegedly said, “Jesus, I wish they’d stop grabbing my ass.” “Michelle, understandably was not amused,” Andersen writes. He quotes her as saying, “. . . I want to tell these women, ‘Back off. Get a life.’ It’s just embarrassing, that’s all.”