OBAMA WILL SPEND HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII

STAR BULLETIN ^ | 12/04/09 | Richard Borreca

[Corazon]

Hawaii's home-grown president, Barack Obama, is expected back in Honolulu on Dec. 23, according to sources in Washington.

The president and his family are expected to stay until Jan. 2, meaning he will celebrate both Christmas and New Year's in the islands.

In the past, Obama made a point of celebrating Christmas with his grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham. The woman who raised

Obama when his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was working and studying in Indonesia, died last November.

Also in past years, Obama would spend time with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.

Soetoro-Ng and her husband, Konrad Ng, are also expected back in Honolulu. They were living in Washington, D.C., this year

while Ng, a University of Hawaii professor, was scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Asian Pacific American program.

Soetoro-Ng had recalled during last year's campaign that she and her brother would often use Christmastime to play Scrabble together.

[Corazon]

OBAMA WILL SPEND HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII

Obamas will spend holidays in Hawaii

By Richard Borreca 

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Dec 04, 2009

Hawaii's home-grown president, Barack Obama, is expected back in Honolulu on Dec. 23, according to sources in Washington.

The president and his family are expected to stay until Jan. 2, meaning he will celebrate both Christmas and New Year's in the islands.

In the past, Obama made a point of celebrating Christmas with his grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham. The woman who raised

Obama when his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was working and studying in Indonesia, died last November.

Also in past years, Obama would spend time with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng.

Soetoro-Ng and her husband, Konrad Ng, are also expected back in Honolulu. They were living in Washington, D.C., this year

while Ng, a University of Hawaii professor, was scholar-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution's Asian Pacific American program.

Soetoro-Ng had recalled during last year's campaign that she and her brother would often use Christmastime to play Scrabble together.

Brian Schatz, Hawaii Democratic Party chairman, said yesterday that while he could not confirm Obama's trip, a visit would show how

 Obama's love for the islands remains.

"It would show how strong and deep are his ties to his home state," Schatz said. "We are all proud of him and excited any time

 he chooses to come here."

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[x_plus_one]

Maybe someone could pay the chinese to make it snow there for Christmas.

[JoeMac]

Unemployment at 10% and President Putz is on vacation. This little Chicago punk is really asking for it.

[cameraeye]

That is rich! Hope he sends postcards.

[LiberConservative]

Mele Kalikimaka. Asshole.

[Don Corleone]

God, he really loves to party on Whitey’s dime.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Obama will spend the holidays in Hawaii. Sources report that nobody is interested and nobody cares.

[Canedawg]

Returning to the scene of the crime?

dead grandmas tell no tales.

[toddausauras]

That’s going to play well in Michigan and Ohio.

[A message]

Where is the leftist outrage at ALL the carbon created by this travel?

[hal ogen]

Maybe he could sign the release for his birth certificate while he’s there? On a personal note: Please don’t come back.

[WVKayaker]

ZERO'S AIR FORCE ONE FREQUENT FLYER MILES-TO-DATE -- 137,157+

From a RECENT post on FreeRepublic ...

Cost Of A Date

From a former Air Force Colonel....

First, let me say that I’ve moved three presidents up to now and I’ve seen incredible waste. But, the “new” guy really takes the cake. I don’t have an issue with the President promising his wife dinner and a show or that he even takes his wife out. But, when I saw the news say that the date cost $24,000, here’s what you DON’T know.

Three days before “dinner” a C-17 flew Marines and the helicopter maintenance equipment to JFK Airport . The day before “dinner” I flew the USSS (secret service) and the motorcade to JFK Airport .

Our crew of 5 spent two days and nights at the Hilton in Times Square . My hotel bill: $621.66 plus $64 a day in per diem. The USSS guys were at a different Hilton in NYC, so figure that cost another $14,000 (or so) plus per diem. The Marines had to have cost as much and were there four days, so figure another $55,000 plus per diem (for 44 Marines).

We were supposed to fly the motorcade back and go home, but the Air Force was so short of C-17’s that we were re-tasked to take the motorcade back, return to JFK and take the helicopter back to Quantico. When we got back to JFK, while the pilot was turning the plane around to park, he noticed a rotor blade sticking out of the hangar where the helicopter was parked and informed me that either it wasn’t ready to transport or it was flying home. After shutting down I walked over to the hangar and to my surprise I find FIVE helicopters, not ONE.

We’re obviously not transporting five big helicopters. I went and talked to the Marines guarding the “fleet” and found that they were flying all five helicopters home and we were only transporting the Marines and the maintenance equipment. After talking to the Marine(s) in charge, I was told that the White House requested FIVE helicopters. The Marines told me that they spent all morning trying to figure out how much it cost them to come and said they figured it cost them $140,000 to stay there (I don’t know where they came up with that) and the trip’s total had to be about $1,000,000. We heard that the President didn’t use Air Force One (the 747) so I asked if he came in on one of the 757’s. I was told that he came in on THREE Air Force Lear jets.

So, date night consisted of:
2 C-17’s flying three missions, 3 Lear jets, 5 Helicopters, Presidential Motorcade, 44 Marines, more than 20 USSS personnel on our plane. Who knows what it cost the NYPD and NY Port Authority (at the airport) in overtime.

These are the same people that chastised the automobile CEO’s for using their aircraft. It further proves that the media only use the facts that make the President look good and hide any facts that will detract from his persona. Is this the ‘change’ we expected?

Talk with friends and those who are not blinded by charisma. Many folks I know who voted for Obama are very disappointed and sorry they did so. The Emperor’s clothes on a grand scale. “Transparency”? Remember, 2010 is just around the corner. All we have to do is survive long enough."

[Fresh Wind]

Another vacation? Great. I hope he does absolutely no work while he’s there. He can **** up anything important while he’s playing golf or working on his tan.

[Fresh Wind]

Arrrgh! Meant “can’t”!

[Shimmer1]

ping

[character_matters]

Didn’t he say something about not resting until we found jobs?

[primatreat]

Jesus,, Not another F@@king 2 week vacation. Please Let the prick stay over there and find his birth records so we will shut up about his legality! As it will be confirmed he an’t one of usens.

[silverleaf]

Yeah, he can play “Grandma Got Run Over By Reindeer” and wipe the tears from his eyes over a mai tai by the pool

Mele Kailikimaka, Chicago style. An obama family Christmas in Hawaii, continuing a tradition that started...last year? I’ll let other freepers find the record of obama family Christmas in Hawaii

2007: In Chicago
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-wasnt-in-wrights-christmas-audience

[Iron Munro]

I thought he might want to take his family home for Christmas.

[Semper Mark]

Obama: I'm dreaming of a white trip to Hawaii this Christmas...

...just like the one you wish you could take.