Obamas hits golf course to start Vineyard vacation

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/24/09 | Philip Elliot - ap

[NormsRevenge]

CHILMARK, Mass. – President Barack Obama played tennis with his wife and golf with his buddies Monday, starting his first vacation in office on Martha's Vineyard, a picturesque island known as a refuge for the wealthy and privileged.

Obama began the day with a workout at his rented retreat, then tennis with Michelle Obama, White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters traveling with the president. Obama later played golf with UBS Investment Bank President Robert Wolf and Chicago physician Eric Whitaker, both friends. White House aide Marvin Nicholson was also in the foursome.

White House officials have stressed that the president is on a private vacation and very little is planned. But the White House continued governing at full pace and with tremendous interest for All Things Obama, officials have trickled out a few personal details here and there.

[NormsRevenge]

Michelle Antoinette Obama: 'Let them eat quiche!' (paraphrased, sort of)

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U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he plays golf at Farm Neck
Golf Course at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 24, 2009.
REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES POLITICS SPORT GOLF)

[the invisib1e hand]

please, don't we get a vacation from them?

[TornadoAlley3]

and with tremendous interest for All Things Obama, officials have trickled out a few personal details here and there.

vomit

[NormsRevenge]

OW!

FORE!!!

US President Barack Obama, seen here on August 20, 2009. Obama's administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit forecast to about nine trillion dollars, up about two trillion from the previous forecast, a US official said Friday. (AFP/File/Jim Watson)

[Badabing Badablonde]

White House officials have stressed that the president is on a private vacation and very little is planned.

BS....you don't accidentally pick up a golf game with those characters.....not planned my @$$.

[Lou Budvis]

All I can think of is how much W was scorned every time he played golf or went on vacation. At least he owned his ranch and his family owned the compound in Kennybunkport so we didn’t have to front money for his vacation rentals.

[Boiling Pots]

WTH? Didn’t the King command the media to not report on his comings and goings??

[a fool in paradise]

"It's good to be the king." - Mel Brooks' History of the World Part I.

[mowowie]

Watching hussein play tennis is probably pretty amuzing.

[kellynla]

Enjoy it while you can, Hussein;
because your “jig is up” very soon!

[mowowie]

That would be “amusing”
lol

[maggief]

LIES!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8379236

First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, have accompanied the president on jaunts overseas, but they have mostly kept their own schedule on those trips, taking in the sights and sounds of Europe while the president attended events and meetings.

Except for a few weekends at Camp David, and quick trips to Chicago and New York City, the president has stayed close to the White House so next week could be a true vacation, a break from policy and politics, if world events cooperate with his vacation plan.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Golf? How is that any different from his regular schedule?

[NormsRevenge]

I want to see a Part 2 ot the movie.. Mel owes us that for watching his movies over the years. ;-)

[popdonnelly]

He’s there to get his picture taken with Ted Kennedy.

[calex59]

Wow, big surprise. Imagine, Bozo plays golf(and spends our money and takes our freedoms). What a POS.

[maggief]

President Barack Obama waits for another player to hit as he plays golf during his vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Oak Bluffs, Mass., Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

[calex59]

Oh, yeah, I thought he said he wanted total privacy. I guess he lied again.

[NormsRevenge]

scuttlebutt was the secret service was already checking out the Kennedy compound.

Teddy K has good days and then he has bad days.