Talk about a public display of affection. President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's unlikely "bromance," sparked last fall amid a natural disaster and a presidential campaign, blossomed into full flush last Tuesday on their very public second date.
Obama was back in the Garden State to check up on the rebuilding effort seven months after he and the Republican governor took a helicopter tour to survey the destruction from Hurricane Sandy, which killed more than 100 and damaged houses and businesses along the Jersey Shore.
This time, the pair took a stroll along the Point Pleasant boardwalk, paused to inspect an unfinished sand sculpture and tried their hand at the Touchdown Fever football toss, where Christie — not usually considered the more athletic of the two — won the president a stuffed bear by throwing the ball through a tire.