Posted on 12/24/2008 9:32:05 AM PST by marthemaria
More than a dozen photographs of a bathing suit-clad President-elect Barack Obama surfaced online Monday showing the shirtless Chicagoan accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and their two young daughters on the white-sand beach in front of their vacation home. Reporters, photographers and television camera operators traveling with the Obamas have been banned by the Secret Service from approaching the oceanfront estate in nearby Kailua where the family is vacationing. But an enterprising paparazzi photographer wearing a Hawaiian shirt apparently strolled along the beach,
saw the Obamas, took out his long-lens camera and started shooting. The photographer was less than 200 feet from the Obamas, said Frank Griffin, co-owner of Bauer-Griffin, the California-based paparazzi agency that snapped the shots. But the Secret Service agents guarding the property did not ask the photographer to leave the beach. "There was tacit approval that he was able to shoot what he could shoot.
It's a public beach," Griffin said in a telephone interview Monday with The Washington Post. He declined to identify the photographer, but said he is a contractor who lives in Hawaii and whose family has a house not far from the Obama's vacation property The guy just walked along there.
He had a camera in his hand. He wasn't hiding behind the bushes. He took some pictures. Everybody saw him. And then he walked off," Griffin said. "It was as simple as that." Griffin added that the Secret Service "didn't seem to mind."
"He wasn't hiding behind the trees, he wasn't on a boat and he wasn't doing anything that we are used to doing," Griffin said. Asked whether the photographs constitute a security breach, Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt declined to discuss the matter, saying only: "We don't comment on security." p>
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He has no chest hair. Does he shave it off or is he just a girly boy?
LOL...shoot, I get darker than that in the summer, and I’m Scot-Irish!
I think he waxes.
Who gives a rat’s patootie how he looks without his shirt? I certainly don’t.
Is there a site or page that has all the animations and vids made from this? It has endless possibilities.
Another POSEUR.
Left wing lunatics love their cult of personality.
Just like Adolf Hitler, everything you see about him is very carefully planned, staged and coordinated with a genuflecting, adoring press.
He selects the pose, probably got to choose the picture.
Made sure he pumped up with weights that his lackeys dragged all the way out there...
Just like Hitler meticulously designed all the uniforms and insignia for the Nazis, Obama was involved in his stupid Presidential seal, his own worshipful salute, that stupid faux Greek oracle he spoke from at the convention, and even the laughable made-up "Office of the President-Elect".
Just friggin' kill me already, I don't need to wait till January 20th for more torture.
He may not have Obama’s “pecs” (LOL!) but at least Putin looks like he could probably administer an ass-kicking to somebody.
Putin is a shorty, but has black belts in Judo. He's probably reasonably tough and can hurt someone. Judo is not the best fighting style, but it's very much a rough & tumble one... even Bruce Lee said it was probably one of the best of that day because there was real full force contact of some type.
Nowadays, BJJ and Muay Thai reign supreme in MMA - Judo relied a bit much upon the JudoGi (the uniform) for many of its moves. Once the opponent removes the Gi, a lot of the moves evaporate.
One-on-one, a groundfighter has a bit of an advantage, and Judo has some striking moves too, so he would kick 0Bambis skinny black @$$.
With the man boobs he’s sporting you could put a hut in the background and I’d assume it was another run of the mill naked woman from a tribe in Africa within the pages of National Geographic...
Agree......Uncle Sugar was teaching the Gracie Bro’s 7 basics in the late 80’s to some of us. Aikido was to that point my choice. Now Krav Maga is a favorite for me in my old age if my handgun carried fails me for some unknown reason........hopefully !
Wing Tsun Kung Fu is good for an older or smaller person, but it's not good in sport fighting. If you combined the BJJ and Sambo ground techniques with Krav Maga and Wing Tsun, you probably wouldn't need to torture yourself with the Muai Thai training (OUCH).
Truth is, a fighter trained in a style like Shotokan - very primitive and fairly useless as far as I'm concerned, can still kick the snot out of untrained fighters.
I spent 8 years learning Karate, Judo, Tae Kwon Do and more before finding Wing Tsun Kung Fu. It doesn't look at all like the fighting they do in films. Finally, arrived at MMA - a distillation of the deadliest techniques.
Some of the grappling I learned in Kung Fu was the same that I learned in Krav Maga.
Agree thus I spar with strongest I can to know what does an doesn’t work for me as I get older. My tag line an glock 31 are my core plan in old age.
Stay safe !!
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