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Obama vacation: out and about (books, golf, ice cream)
Cape Cod Times ^ | August 21, 2010 | Doug Fraser

Posted on 08/21/2010 6:17:35 AM PDT by maggief

VINEYARD HAVEN — The first family had an answer yesterday to those who said they were perhaps a little too reclusive while on the island.

On the first full day of their Martha's Vineyard vacation, the Obamas were almost Clintonesque, first traveling to a Vineyard Haven bookstore before the president took in a round of golf in the early afternoon, followed by the first appearance of first lady Michelle Obama, who took the girls for ice cream in Oak Bluffs.

At a press conference yesterday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said President Barack Obama has a relatively spontaneous approach to each vacation day, deciding in the morning whether to play basketball, go to the beach or get some ice cream.

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By 1:30 p.m., Obama was golfing at the private Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown with his friend Eric Whitaker, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson and U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. Clyburn is the first South Carolinian and only the second African-American to serve as the House majority whip. On its website, the golf course touts itself as environmentally friendly, having abandoned pesticides and embraced composted soil.

(Excerpt) Read more at capecodonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhovacation; mantoinette; marthasvineyard; obamafamily; vacationgal
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1 posted on 08/21/2010 6:17:38 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

This guy is through.

Two more years and a few months to get through. Beginning in January the damage can be contained. We have a lot of work to do.


2 posted on 08/21/2010 6:20:19 AM PDT by kjo
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To: maggief

The guy in the back must be giving himself chloroform.


3 posted on 08/21/2010 6:23:00 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: maggief
President Barack Obama has a relatively spontaneous approach to each vacation day, deciding in the morning whether to play basketball, go to the beach or get some ice cream.

They're trying so hard to make Zero seem human, but it's not working.

4 posted on 08/21/2010 6:23:22 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
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To: maggief

The Friends reported this morning that Barry did not get such a warm welcome on The Island.


5 posted on 08/21/2010 6:24:50 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

It was clear last time he was not expected back. Dunno why they are so utterly tone deaf.


6 posted on 08/21/2010 6:28:05 AM PDT by omega4179 (JD Hayworth)
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To: Tax-chick

What’s with the ice cream all the time. Has someone told them ice cream is a popular American dessert?

Well, I guess it is, but I thought she ... shouldn’t she be taking them out for some leafy veggies?


7 posted on 08/21/2010 6:29:51 AM PDT by altura
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To: maggief

Meanwhile, Saturday Today and CBS News Saturday Morning working hard to save his failed presidency.


8 posted on 08/21/2010 6:30:09 AM PDT by John W (Chuck Todd Is An Ass)
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To: maggief
"deciding in the morning whether to play basketball, go to the beach or get some ice cream."

That must take a lot of energy!

Some people wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to survive the day, but PLAY ON BARRY!

9 posted on 08/21/2010 6:31:15 AM PDT by Chong (How's that HopEy, changEy, (thingEy) stuff working out for ya?)
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To: kjo

For a family that wants us all to eat lettuce, they sure eat a lot of ice cream.

FUBO


10 posted on 08/21/2010 6:32:01 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: omega4179
It was clear last time he was not expected back. Dunno why they are so utterly tone deaf.

Narcissism?

11 posted on 08/21/2010 6:32:07 AM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: Miss Didi

Of course they would get upset, anywhere Obama goes the surrounding area goes into lockdown mode, you cannot set off fireworks, fly model planes or go ballooning near where he is.

The flight restrictions alone shut down almost all air traffic. Tourism suffers because first off you cannot get into the area and then if you do you will be monitored, photographed and all your past will be dug up and filed away.

Nobody wants Obama anymore, he brinks ill fortune to the land.


12 posted on 08/21/2010 6:32:56 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: altura
"shouldn’t she be taking them out for some leafy veggies?"

BINGO!

13 posted on 08/21/2010 6:33:18 AM PDT by Chong (How's that HopEy, changEy, (thingEy) stuff working out for ya?)
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To: altura

“Do what I say, not what I do.”

Maybe they’ve taken donations from the dairy industry and they’re doing product placement.


14 posted on 08/21/2010 6:34:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
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To: maggief

LOL! The video interview at Mad Martha’s Ice Cream is so, like just really uh like just so like really great!


15 posted on 08/21/2010 6:34:42 AM PDT by NautiNurse (ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
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To: NautiNurse

Like fer sure!

(Ice cream flavors are a guarded secret. LOL!)


16 posted on 08/21/2010 6:36:32 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Miss Didi

you are kidding, maybe there is hope.
i am really repulsed by these pictures while our men are being killed daily and people in the US are in dire straits


17 posted on 08/21/2010 6:40:08 AM PDT by mel
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To: altura

Well, the price of arugula is too high for their purse. So it’s ice cream ice cream.


18 posted on 08/21/2010 6:40:40 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: maggief
He plays golf, the family eats during the day.
He better hurry up and stuff his face on camera and very publicly.
Each day that he doesn't eat during the day makes him more and more a follower of Islam in the eyes of many. He'll never be able to make anyone believe he isn't until he does so during Ramadan.
19 posted on 08/21/2010 6:41:06 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: maggief

The guy in back covering his face for the camera? very strange.


20 posted on 08/21/2010 6:41:07 AM PDT by muddler (Diligentia, Vis and Celeritas)
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