Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Ultimate Friendship
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Fifty percent of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. The other 49 percent of marriages are not as strong as the Obama-Biden relationship.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Mini-golfing is a popular dating activity, as Obama and Biden discover here.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.It’s important to make your loved ones laugh.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Here, Obama and Biden are either exercising or realizing that they left the oven on.
From Digital Focus/Alamy.Very few people have double dates as public as when the Obamas and Bidens attend Democratic conventions.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.The two practice their “dads watching their hyperactive children on the playground” poses.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Biden anxiously waits for Obama to play fetch.
From AFP/Getty Images.Obama orders lunch while Biden wonders whether he should claim he forgot his wallet.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.This tender, intimate gesture reminds one of senior prom.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Nobody puts Barack in the corner.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Biden anxiously waits for Obama to finish his call and look at that cool bird outside.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Obama and Biden stare into each other’s eyes, wishing that they had a milkshake to share.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.This is a metaphor of sorts.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Hugs for everyone.
From Getty Images.Not only do they share meals together, they don’t even look at their phones while eating. Now that’s commitment.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Either they’re a) dressed to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, b) acting as groomsmen in a wedding, or c) accidentally dressed the same and are now impromptu twins. (The real answer is a, but c is frighteningly plausible.)
By Cheriss May/NurPhoto/Getty Images.Of course, every once in a while, couples get embarrassed by each other in public.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Taking a breather, and possibly gossiping about the audacity of those Republicans in the Senate.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.They even got matching armchairs!
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Friends don’t let friends grieve alone.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Look at them. I mean, just look at them.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Even they know that no one has what they have.
2010 Getty ImagesThey’re not ashamed to show their love in front of a stadium full of people.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.And this photo was only the beginning move of their special, five-minute-long secret handshake.
Courtesy of The White House/By Pete Souza.Don’t go! Please don’t go!
