Posted on 12/30/2009 5:53:13 PM PST by kristinn
...a sign when President Obama delayed his Hawaiian vacation until the Senate passed the healthcare bill: There wasn’t going to be a whole lot of relaxing going on this Christmas.
Sure, there’s been the requisite Hawaiian vacation activities -- golf, basketball, tennis, picnics and snorkeling, but for every minute of fun, the president has had hours and hours of briefings and secure conference calls.
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Even without politics, Obama’s days are frenzied. He works out at the Marine Corps Base before dawn every morning, including Christmas Day. On Sunday, a day many people might watch football and sleep in, Obama left for the gym at 6:36 a.m., worked out and played basketball with staff there for two hours, was briefed about another unruly airline passenger, and then went to the beach with his family -- all before noon. That night, the Obamas went out to dinner for about 2 1/2 hours, not leaving for home until 11 p.m., making Sunday a 16-hour day.
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The long days and constant news have made the Obamas' vacation not very fun for the staff and media traveling with the president. Journalists spend most of the day in a frigid ballroom in the Moana Surfrider hotel in Waikiki, waiting to hear if any other news is breaking, or if any officials will drop by for briefings. A recent dinner featured yawning journalists checking BlackBerrys for new developments on the thwarted terrorist plot, ready for bed by 10 p.m.
White House staffers have been waking between 3 and 4 in the morning because of the time difference with Washington, D.C., and spending 17-hour days in windowless hotel conference rooms, not on the beach. Many are skipping meals. Most haven’t gotten the chance to don the bathing suits they toted all the way from Washington.
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If the briefing took more than an hour, I'd be surprised. The rest of the time was his usual exercise stuff and the rest was family. So what if it was 16 hours? That leaves a good night's sleep. Cry me a river.
If Emperor Obama worked out at the Marine Corps gym before dawn on Christmas morning, which Marines had to come in to open the place and miss Christmas morning with their families?
The latest pictures of him show his eyes half shut, all of them and it’s strange looking.
oh still laughing from your comments, many thanks for a good laugh I needed that!
Or American enough or patriotic enough.
Workouts, basketball, time at the beach with family, long dinners.
I'm crying for the poor Commie.
Here’s a thought:
Get your butts OUT of the frigid ballroom and do a little INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM! Obama supposedly grew up in Hawaii-—maybe you could attempt this new-fangled thing called an interview of people who knew him and his grandparents!
Obama is over with. He will be a lame duck President soon.
I’m in LA, so I realize fully that the Times IS a joke. And yet not.
Black humor, definitely a life saver in dark times. You’re welcome.
The only thing he has experience in is using a teleprompter and taking vacations.
vaudine
What did Obama think this was going to be like a Senator’s job and he only had to show up once in a while? Oh boohoo poor wittle OBozo never had a real job before.....
Eithe that or floating around in the pool!
Ha ha! Why not go all out? Try “northwest flight 25” and you’ll get the same crappola.
Strangely (NOT!), “Climategate” gave the Google engine the same sort of trouble in late November.
Wish we could ground his butt so he’d get enough rest to inform us who he is and his employers name.
Democrat lapdogs
Yeah, but aren't we lucky he wasn't reading to a group of school children at the time! /s
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