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Obama Hopes for Trouble-Free Hawaii Vacation (AP barf alert)
AP via Christian Science Monitor ^ | Josh Lederman

Posted on 12/22/2013 2:28:25 PM PST by kristinn

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The president, first lady Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, and first dogs Sunny and Bo hopped an overnight flight Friday aboard Air Force One to Honolulu, where they were whisked by motorcade to a beachside home in Kailua, a sleepy suburb with a five-mile stretch of beach popular among windsurfers and tourists.

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The president has no public events scheduled during his vacation, which is expected to last through Jan. 5. In previous years, frequent golf outings have accompanied trips to local restaurants and other island outings.

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Conditions seem ripe this year for a few weeks of interrupted family time. Obama did spend part of Saturday morning conferring with top national security aides about the situation in South Sudan, where U.S. military aircraft evacuating Americans from the violence-plagued African nation came under gunfire and had to divert to Uganda. The White House said four U.S. troops were injured in that incident.

Throughout his vacation Obama will continue to get regular briefings from advisers traveling with him, White House officials said. Obama and his supporters were hoping those routine updates wouldn't interfere with regular rounds of golf and family outings for shave ice, the Hawaii version of a snow cone.

"I don't want any interruptions. He deserves a vacation," Brian Pritchett, an assistant principal visiting from Mount Vernon, N.Y., said as he sipped a rum-infused drink dubbed the "Obama Mama" at a Honolulu hotel. "He puts in too many hours to not have his vacation with his family. I know that's what I would do."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: obama
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To: Secret Agent Man

I always worry when they all leave the country....means we are vulnerable...


21 posted on 12/22/2013 2:49:43 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: kristinn

Poor guy he has it so hard!

Must be hard to have to depend on Air Force 1 to jet you around, never had to wait traffic and be waited on hand and foot and play non-stop golf in Hawaii.


22 posted on 12/22/2013 2:53:08 PM PST by skyman
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To: kristinn
Meet Trouble:


23 posted on 12/22/2013 2:54:36 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our PRE-EXISTING HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: goodnesswins
I always worry when they all leave the country

We gotta somehow figure out how to deny him access back into the continental US.

24 posted on 12/22/2013 2:56:13 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our PRE-EXISTING HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: dfwgator

Marcia! Marcia! Marcia! (Right? Whud I win ‘gator?)


25 posted on 12/22/2013 3:05:12 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: Slyfox

An earlier post suggested that Hawaii should not have become the 50th state - if you drop it now, he may have to present a passport.


26 posted on 12/22/2013 3:05:15 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: kristinn

Today, Barry has spent about $235349.12 on his Christmas vacation. Not to worry though. He’s paying for it out of his own pocket...with our money.


27 posted on 12/22/2013 3:07:51 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: kristinn

While the rest of us hope for the largest Hawaiian Volcanic Eruption in recorded History.


28 posted on 12/22/2013 3:10:09 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (A Communist is nothing more than an honest Democrat...)
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To: kristinn

Memo to self, don’t send your Children to School in Mount Vernon, New York.


29 posted on 12/22/2013 3:13:02 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (A Communist is nothing more than an honest Democrat...)
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To: Kickass Conservative

maybe the island will flip over


30 posted on 12/22/2013 3:14:11 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: JudyinCanada
Hawaii should not have become the 50th state - if you drop it now, he may have to present a passport.

That is interesting. He would have to provide a passport.

I wonder which one of the two dozen or more Social Security numbers he stole did he use to get his passport?

31 posted on 12/22/2013 3:25:38 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our PRE-EXISTING HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: bigbob

>”maybe the island will flip over”<

Depends where Moochelle is standing when Hillary decides to come by and say hello.


32 posted on 12/22/2013 3:26:38 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (A Communist is nothing more than an honest Democrat...)
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To: dfwgator

ROFL Is that pic from the Brady Bunch? If it is...I agree hope he has it handing around his neck =)


33 posted on 12/22/2013 3:32:59 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Patriot Babe

*hanging


34 posted on 12/22/2013 3:35:12 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: kristinn

” drink dubbed the “Obama Mama”

Wow I didn’t know the Wookie had a drink named after her =)


35 posted on 12/22/2013 3:36:03 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: Slyfox

Bet he doesn’t have one.


36 posted on 12/22/2013 3:41:49 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Patriot Babe

Wow I didn’t know the Wookie had a drink named after her =)

I did, it’s called a double, set me up again bartender.


37 posted on 12/22/2013 3:46:18 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: JudyinCanada
He had one when he went to Kenya and Malaysia under his real name Barry Sotero.

He didn't have his magic mojo back then where he is able to make people do stuff just cause they think he is their Messiah.

Passport is now expired. It sure would be interesting to look at now.

38 posted on 12/22/2013 3:54:10 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our PRE-EXISTING HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Obama probably has the older daughter Malia (?) watch Fox for him. Malia then reports (in cursive) back to Mommy, who filters the news even more, making it almost digestible for Obama’s delicate condition.


39 posted on 12/22/2013 4:12:04 PM PST by lee martell
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To: kristinn

I almost vomited when I read “He puts in too many hours” from some dummy tourist from New York. Interfere with his golf games? NOTHING interferes with his golf games.

I’ll never understand why blacks and poor people will support people like this and actually believe they care about them.


40 posted on 12/22/2013 4:14:17 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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