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President Obama doesn't have a lot of patience for those who he says turn date night with his wife into a "political issue."

In an interview with the New York Times Magazine for a story on "The First Marriage," Mr. Obama said it "annoyed" him that he was criticized for flying to New York last spring to see a Broadway play and have dinner with his wife. Critics complained that the president was using public money to pay for the trip.

"If I weren’t president, I would be happy to catch the shuttle with my wife to take her to a Broadway show, as I had promised her during the campaign, and there would be no fuss and no muss and no photographers,” he said. “That would please me greatly."

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Meghan McCain, blogger and daughter of former presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ), wrote in the Daily Beast online magazine that her dating life is “on life support” after her father’s failed campaign.

And she blames her dad.

“Of all the things people warned would happen post-election, no one ever said anything about how complicated dating would become. Especially if your dad loses the election,” McCain said. “I have become something I used to despise: people who let politics dictate his or her attraction to someone.”

To illustrate her frustration, Miss McCain explained a troubling recent interaction with a potential suitor.

“One extreme fan of my mother’s recently told me I could be ‘his Cindy,’” she writes. “And then asked me if I ever wore pearls because they probably would look as good on me as they do on my mother.”

McCain thwarted the poor guy’s dreams: “Any guy that has a fetish for older women in pantsuits and large pearls obviously only finds my last name attractive about me.”

McCain previously showed off her no-nonsense, pop-culture-laden style on her blog, McCainblogette.com, where she documented traveling and campaigning for her father during the 2008 presidential campaign. She became a media fixture, speaking on behalf of her father in order to attract young voters.

The once potential First Daughter wrote she can usually tell within the first 30 seconds if a man is only interested in her because of the prospect of meeting her father. In the past, she said, she has been able to keep politics from hindering her relationships, and assumed that would continue after the campaign.

She also said she did not try to influence her Columbia University friends’ political persuasions last year – but “when it comes to dating, it's become an entirely different subject,” she said.

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