Raise your hand if you would be comfortable with your spouse kissing another person on the lips.
A peck on the cheek is customary in many cultures around the world and it isn’t entirely unheard of here in the United States, but a kiss on the lips? Come on now…
Yet this kind of greeting is exactly the one Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, and First Lady Jill Biden shared during the State of the Union address.
Videos of the kiss set the internet ablaze with speculation and ridicule, in case you missed the moment, here it is:
Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff greet each other with… a kiss on the lips?
Is this… normal? pic.twitter.com/HX5p74fJHw
— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) February 8, 2023
When pressed about the incident the ‘Vice President’ of the United States then responded with this very political non-answer—circling back to fighting racism and claiming…