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Obama opens vacation with security briefing, golf
AFP ^ | 8/19/11 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 08/19/2011 4:50:00 PM PDT by Nachum

VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts — The White House showed President Barack Obama absorbed in a security briefing with his top anti-terror aide Friday, countering Republican complaints about his summer vacation.

Arguing the duties of his job follow him everywhere, aides released a picture of Obama, in a blue leisure shirt, receiving his daily intelligence briefing from John Brennan at rented Blue Heron Farm on Martha's Vineyard.

Officials did not divulge contents of the briefing but it took place at a time of escalating fighting between Moamer Kadhafi's forces and Libyan rebels and followed a US call for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to go.

Obama also received a briefing on paper from his economic team.

A top economics official, Brian Deese, will arrive next week to keep Obama up to speed on global finance issues during his 10-day vacation, and the president will also prepare a major speech on jobs he will deliver next month.

Also Friday, Obama drew a crowd as his motorcade snaked through country lanes and headed into the picturesque tourist town of Vineyard Haven when he took his daughters Malia and Sasha to a local bookstore.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: briefing; obama; security; vacation
Song of the moment: See you in September
1 posted on 08/19/2011 4:50:03 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

Song of the moment....

See you in September

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGLjzFHa40

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 08/19/2011 4:51:17 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

I’d rather he just stay there and not come back.


3 posted on 08/19/2011 4:56:21 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Nachum

A “briefing on paper”—bwahaha!!!


5 posted on 08/19/2011 4:59:18 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Nachum

When is this gay idiot NOT on vacation?

Golf, ice-cream, golf, ice-cream....

>:(


6 posted on 08/19/2011 5:00:20 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Nachum

Oh my. I used to eat at Mel’s Drivein in Berkeley!


7 posted on 08/19/2011 5:02:14 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Nachum

Nero fiddled - 0bama putts on vacation.


8 posted on 08/19/2011 5:03:04 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Hope & Change - I'm out of hope, and change is all I have left every week | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: Nachum
Obama also received a briefing on paper from his economic team.

Here’s the first picture of the meeting…

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9 posted on 08/19/2011 5:06:48 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Nachum
Obama also received a briefing on paper from his economic team.

((sniff))... I'm so proud of our modern government!

10 posted on 08/19/2011 5:06:53 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Freeper football "Free Men or Lickspittle". Ask me how and why!)
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To: Nachum
  1. 10:00 - 10:05:Obama, in a blue leisure shirt, receiving his daily intelligence briefing from John Brennan at rented Blue Heron Farm on Martha's Vineyard.
  2. 10:05 - 10:10:Obama...received a briefing on paper from his economic team
  3. 10:10 - 10:45: Break (it's hard work!). Obama puts on his golf shoes and grabs his golf bag
  4. 10:45 - 10:50:Brian Deese...keeps Obama up to speed on global finance issues
  5. 10:50: Obama hits the links.

11 posted on 08/19/2011 5:11:46 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Nachum

Brennan is political clown who is. Not respected in the intelligence community. He also prefers to call Jerusalem “Al Quds”. Maybe that’s why Obama likes that a**hat.


12 posted on 08/19/2011 5:53:04 PM PDT by Conservative Vet
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To: gaijin

He is an even bigger girly man than Jaques Al-Qerry..


13 posted on 08/19/2011 6:03:12 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Sauron/Saruman 2012; it couldn't be any worse..)
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To: COBOL2Java

Great job, but I would just set all that back about an hour. I haven’t heard of him doing any work before 10:45. Other than that, you probably have it right.

His schedules that I’ve seen (of a regular work day) usually have 2 or 3 items that in total take less than 4 hours.


14 posted on 08/20/2011 10:40:35 AM PDT by cinciella
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To: COBOL2Java

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=8TiGYDvc4lU&sns=fb

And this is what President Bush did on the 4th of July!


15 posted on 08/20/2011 8:45:42 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Keith in Iowa

Like someone here on FR (I forget who) once said....”The country burns while the Putz putts”


17 posted on 08/22/2011 8:35:39 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Say what you will about Bush (and things he did to help us get where we are), at least he LOVED this country AND our military, and you could know, he was/is sincere, about that.

I will always like Bush, no matter what is said about him. I think his heart was always in the right place, even if his head (and gonads) weren’t.


18 posted on 08/22/2011 9:09:01 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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