Posted on 07/26/2009 6:25:30 AM PDT by Liz
The Obamas will rent the stunning 29-acre Blue Heron Farm, on Martha's Vineyard, Chilmark, a glamorous spread featuring spectacular views, the Vineyard Gazette reported. Features a Victorian farmhouse, 5-bedroom "guest house," reconstructed Pennsylvania barn and NH shed.... owned by Mississippi timber magnate William Van Devender and wife Mollie.....had $20 million pricetag in 2005. Prior owners hosted the Clintons in 1998. The Obamas can stroll to a private saltwater pond or take a dip in the Atlantic from a private beach. Other features: a private dock with a Boston Whaler, a catamaran and several kayaks, a pool, and a hot tub overlooking the water w/ "total privacy," a vegetable garden, a miniature boathouse on the water with a loft for sleepovers. Obama was due the last week of August and was expected to pay the rental out of his own pocket. Similar luxury rentals rent between $35,000-50,000 per week.
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I think Michele is more interested in the availability of wine.
First a week in France and now this!
She must be throwing back some seriously expensive vino.
The senator was running a bit late; but when he finally glided into the auditorium, escorted by an assortment of aides, he was greeted by a tremendous swell of applause as he took to the stage. Dressed in a brown jacket and red tie, Obama approached the podium, flanked by two giant screens enlarging his image, and began a softly spoken but compelling speech that recalled his own days, after his graduation in 1983 from Columbia University, as a community organizer in poor neighborhoods of Chicago. “You’ll have boundless opportunities when you graduate,” he told the students, “and it’s very easy to just take that diploma, forget about all this progressive-politics stuff, and go chasing after the big house and the large salary and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy. But I hope you don’t get off that easy. There’s nothing wrong with making money, but focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition.”
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275
Oh Wowser! ? Obama went to minus 11! He’s just fallen off the watermelon truck.
I wonder if the O’s vacation home is as energy efficient as the one the Bushes built for themselves in Crawford.
***bill and hill stayed with friends on the vineyard?***
Wasn’t that the time she PRETENDED to be angry with him about Monica, and after a few days of posing for the press, she forgave him?
dunno!
i got lost in the lies and fanfare.
Of course not. But that doesn’t matter to the MSM. I don’t believe I have ever heard the media even mention that the Crawford home is completely energy saving. They also never mention that Gore’s house is an energy hog. And they have not even talked about all the arrests in NJ. One Republican and a slew of Dems. No mention.I agree with others, didn’t they just have a European vacation, including Grandma, on us. One more thing, I don’t want to pay for O to invite Gates to have a beer at the White House. Pay for your own beer O.
This might help his polls among liberals, who will be watching their President live the liberal-dream lifestyle. For the non-liberals, especially the folks getting beat up by this recession, watching Zero vacation at a $20 mil crib might not elicit a positive response from them if they’re polled.
Yes it is. It's only 8.8 miles from Chappaquiddick.
Maybe fatso Teddy can take Bary for a Sunday drive 
I was trying to be nice. You know how picky some people are.
"Ut, oh Teddy's gone off the bridge.........again."
LOL——she can always borrow it.
I hope to God those two cops burned all their gloves and clothes after touch that turd! Probably the biggest thrill that dumb bitch ever had by the stupid grin on her face!
Just hypothesizing here, but I think that part of the problem with the Chicago house, if they actually wanted to go there, may be it's suburban location. That type of house doesn't easily lend itself to the accommodations the WH staff and security personnel would need to have in place when the first family is in residence there.
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