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President and family on multi-million dollar Christmas vacation in Hawaii
washingtonexaminer.com/blogs ^ | 12/29/10 5:04 PM | Mark Tapscott Editorial Page Editor Hawaii Reporter

Posted on 12/30/2010 7:37:42 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

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President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas vacation with friends and family in the chief executive's home state of Hawaii.

Nobody questions a president's right or need to take take away from the White House, but an investigation by Hawaii Reporter has turned up some eye-opening information about the costs and other aspects of the Obama get-away.

Just consider these estimates on part of the costs of the latest Obama Hawaii trip:

* Mrs. Obama’s early flight to Hawaii: $63,000 (White House Dossier)

* Obama’s round trip flight to Hawaii: $1 million (GAO estimates)

* Housing in beachfront homes for Secret Service and Seals in Kailua ($1,200 a day for 14 days): $16,800

* Costs for White House staff staying at Moana Hotel: $134,400 ($400 per day for 24 staff) – excluding meals and other room costs

* Police overtime: $250,000 (2009 costs reported by Honolulu Police Department)

* Ambulance: $10,000 (City Spokesperson)

TOTAL COST: $1,474,200

But that $1.47 million figure leaves out a number of signficant costs that simply could not be calculated by Hawaii Reporter:

* Rental of office building in Kailua on canal

Security upgrades and additional phone lines.

* Costs for car rentals and fuel for White House staff staying at Moana Hotel (Secret Service imports most of the cars used here to escort the president).

* Surveillance before the president arrives.

* Travel costs for Secret Service and White House staff traveling ahead of the President.

SNIP

"They could have chosen a less expensive and more secure place to stay such as a beachfront home on the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station – just a two-minute drive away from the Kailuana Place property where they are now," according to Hawaii Reporter.

Read more at the Washington Examiner:

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cost; hawaii; obama; vacation
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1 posted on 12/30/2010 7:37:48 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Why was an office building rented? Is this common?


2 posted on 12/30/2010 7:39:22 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

THE 2010 HAWAII VACATION

http://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.html


3 posted on 12/30/2010 7:43:01 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

I don’t see anything here that is out of the norm for the president. It costs an enormous amount of money for the president to travel anywhere (just think of all the staff and security, all the arrangements to be made, all the things that have to be with the president at all times-—etc etc), no matter who is president, and it costs an enormous amount to keep him in Washington DC. The presidency costs an enormous amount of money.


4 posted on 12/30/2010 7:43:03 AM PST by ChurtleDawg (voting only encourages them)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Not sure, Secret Service should already have a field office in the area. May be for WH staff.


5 posted on 12/30/2010 7:43:42 AM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (Free Iowahawk! (http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/11/crisisgate.html))
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Some would say we should cut the president a break.

Considering every republican since Nixon has for the most part vacationed on their own property and STILL received sh*t from the media, and considering that the spare-no-expense vacations of this clown and his wife have gone virually unexamined by the legacy media, there's no way I could accept this as just a perk of the job.

6 posted on 12/30/2010 7:44:37 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Worth every penny if it means he’s not in DC F’n up the country!!


7 posted on 12/30/2010 7:46:05 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Nobody questions a president's right or need to take take away [sic] from the White House ...

OH, I beg to differ!!! IIRC, every single time President George W. Bush stepped out of the White House, to go to his own home in Texas, there were indeed questions -- make that howls -- about him going anywhere.

BO/BS is a demonrat so it is perfectly fine for him to take a multi-million dollar vacation every month or two.
Nevermind...

8 posted on 12/30/2010 7:46:07 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected

That’s what I was thinking WH staff. Also do the Obama’s pay for their nanny/ MIL? I thought I read somewhere that Obama was paying for the house rental per night. Is he?


9 posted on 12/30/2010 7:46:18 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

dunham is not returning until jan 4, his kids will miss TWO days of school, WHY? This smells big time. What kind of example is dunham setting for kids to miss school? The kids arrived early with the fat lady on a separate plane and can fly home on a separate plane to get to school on time. Dunham can stay his extra days to work on the birth certificate fraud.


10 posted on 12/30/2010 7:47:04 AM PST by biggredd1
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To: ChurtleDawg
I don’t see anything here that is out of the norm for the president. It costs an enormous amount of money for the president to travel anywhere (just think of all the staff and security, all the arrangements to be made, all the things that have to be with the president at all times-—etc etc), no matter who is president, and it costs an enormous amount to keep him in Washington DC. The presidency costs an enormous amount of money.

You are right it is expensive for his majesty to take a vacation. Now will you explain why he has to take one so often?
11 posted on 12/30/2010 7:47:04 AM PST by John D
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To: ChurtleDawg
I don’t see anything here that is out of the norm for the president.

See post #6 and 8.

12 posted on 12/30/2010 7:48:37 AM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: Just A Nobody

Considering Obama likes to vacation in swanky locations and W enjoyed his Crawford ranch in August, the MSM would prefer an Obama vacation gig.


13 posted on 12/30/2010 7:49:33 AM PST by AU72
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

He should have to declare it as income and pay taxes on anything that is not strictly government business, especially on anything spent of his wife and children.


14 posted on 12/30/2010 7:54:07 AM PST by Library Lady
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Chump change when you consider what he’s costing us when he’s in the White House.


15 posted on 12/30/2010 7:54:21 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: ChurtleDawg
It is called examples of leadership from the CIC of a Country that has enormous debt, yet bask in luxury. Are you telling me it is protocol for the First Lady to loose patience and take "her own jet"?



Clinton's Hilton Head trip was a policy wankfest/New Age orgy, "working vacation".
16 posted on 12/30/2010 7:56:34 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: AU72

Bush vs Obama. Is it really a surprise the prima donnas in the state run press file their stories the way they do?

17 posted on 12/30/2010 7:56:44 AM PST by skeeter
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To: rollo tomasi

Dang, the scourge of the extra “o”...loose=lose


18 posted on 12/30/2010 7:59:01 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

If the 0-boy would completely decouple himself from the levels of power during those vacations, the multimillion $ price tag would be worth the cost.


19 posted on 12/30/2010 8:01:41 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: ChurtleDawg
LOL and I suppose you don't see anything wrong with Obama also getting a media pass on the high gas prices? I am an Independent and it is so clear that the media favor and cover for Obama. Bush could not pass gas,golf, go to his ranch,be reading to children when 9/11 happened. Obama gets a pass because the liberal media are progressives like Obama.

So when a; HOW MUCH are Obama’s spending now, ON ANOTHER VACATION story comes out; I think it is fair as the MSM control, loses it's heading of protection of they're savior,Obama.

As well as this country is in dire straits economically there will be folks up north that cannot afford to heat their homes due to Obama’s policies. Every day people are not working and struggling with sugar,gas,cotton going up. Every day people that are seeing inflation with no COLA.

So Obama extending his Hawaii vacation and basking in the sun while Americans are worried about paying electric bills is NEWS and people are wide awake to the arrogance of the worst president to date-Barry Soetoro, Barack Obama whatever his name is. NO MATTER how many times the MSM try to float his BUT, but, but, HE WENT to CHURCH story.

The SOB probably did bong hits in his mansion beach home laughing as he tells Hawaii’s new gov to TRY to have his back on where Obama was BORN! HERE IS SOME COMMON SENSE:
How about Obama release his college and all COLB’s/passports/ birth records and no one ‘will have to have’ a showdown with BIRTHERS.

20 posted on 12/30/2010 8:02:06 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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