Obamas hit the beach ("managed to squeeze in" "nearly five hours" of family time)

LATimes ^ | August 25, 2011 | Maeve Reston and Kim Geiger

[trisham]

LOLOLOLOL! Like that would ever happen!

[SanFranDan]

Expensive massages, top shelf vodka and five-star hotels: First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations

The Obamas’ summer break on Martha’s Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.
But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.

White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2029615/Michelle-Obama-accused-spending-10m-public-money-vacations.html#ixzz1W5YhVPhn

[maggief]

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/25/leadership-in-action-obama-paused-during-golf-game-to-speak-with-fema-director-on-approaching-hurricane/

Leadership In Action: Obama Paused During Golf Game To Speak With FEMA Director On Approaching Hurricane…

(ABC News) — With the powerful Hurricane Irene heading toward the Carolinas, the White House says preparations are well underway, but that the President has no plans to return to Washington D.C. early.

Mr. Obama was briefed this morning, and paused during his golf round yesterday to speak to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, Craig Fugate.

FEMA was roundly criticized for its handling of Hurricane Katrina during the previous administration. But Mr. Obama, through his spokesman suggests much is different now. Earnest says the President has “complete confidence” in FEMA Administrator Fugate.

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Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 08/24/2011 Obama plays through on golf course during earthquake, inspires critics

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-plays-through-on-golf-course-during-earthquake-inspires-critics/2011/08/23/gIQAnfrRaJ_blog.html
13 posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:36:16 PM by maggief

[oust the louse]

Mr. Obama was briefed this morning, and paused during his golf round yesterday to speak to the head of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, Craig Fugate.

Gee thanks for the attention...I hope you 3 putt every single green you loser.

[freekitty]

I really wonder how much Wookie Wide Load drinks?

[silverleaf]

Bathing suit photos of the first wookie are strictly banned-releasee could cause shift of the magnetic poles

[silverleaf]

Does that mean RuPaul could be first lady with the right staff assistance with hair and makeup?

[geege]

Your right, She’s in the “Helen Thomas” catagory....

[maggief]

http://marthasvineyard.patch.com/articles/obama-hits-the-beach-dines-with-governor

Later Thursday evening, the President and First Lady traveled to State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury, where they enjoyed a three-hour dinner with a bevy of power brokers. Their dinner companions included Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick and his wife, Diane; senior advisor and friend Valerie Jarrett and her daughter Laura; and long-time Clinton friends Vernon and Ann Jordan.

On a rainy evening, a motorcade takes U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to dinner on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts Reuters via Yahoo! News - Aug 25 05:07pm

[mojitojoe]

Maybe she looks like a guy because she is a guy, you decide:

[Palio di Siena]

a three putt is a good thing for that shank-monkey.

[mojitojoe]

[geege]

Yep, that’s her....

[hsalaw]

Oh, yikes. Even without the unfortunate bulge, that’s one ugly dress.

[mojitojoe]

If I have to be civil, then no comment.

[mojitojoe]

“The scenario being played out these days is pretty much the same regardless of the particulars. You knock on the door – it’s always closed. Always. Often you have to knock for some time before being given approval from inside to enter. The big screen will be on – the volume loud. You can easily hear it from outside the door. The sports channels are the ones most commonly playing, though sometimes the channel will be set to music, or Fox News. Sometimes Valerie Jarrett might be there, but most often it is just the president and his personal aide. A large leather chair will be facing the television – it’s well worn. Not part of the White House furnishings but something the president must have brought in from back home.

That’s where you’ll most often find the President of the United States – the most powerful man in the free ****ing world. He often sits with one leg draped over one of the chair’s arms and the other leg stuck straight onto the floor. Shorts, sweats, a t-shirt, and like I said, no shoes or just those sandal things that so many of the younger people like to wear these days. And that leg that’s draped over an arm of the chair will be bopping up and down, like…like someone with a lot of nervous energy. Like a kid does. And there’s the smell of smoke hanging on the president. The guy never quite smoking – that was all bullsh*t. I told you that already. In fact, there’s one of those smokeless ash trays on the desk in there. And that desk, it’s a mess. Magazines spread out all over it. Stupid shit too. Real low brow reading material the president is into. People. Rolling Stone. Lots of those tabloid things. The most common thread with this sh*t is it’s about the president. If it’s about him, he’s gonna read it. Good or bad – doesn’t matter. If somebody is talking about him, he’s reading it. He’s watching it. Whatever. The guy’s self-obsession is off the ****ing charts.

So that’s what you first see when you enter the room – the upstairs office of President Obama. Next you’re gonna notice how small the guy looks. Really thin. He pads his suits up you know. The top end. The shoulders. It became an actual issue during the 2008 campaign – some of his handlers were saying it made his neck look too small. Fact is, it made his neck look just like it is – small. The guy is scrawny. All knees and elbows sitting in that chair. Sometimes he gets up when you come in, sometimes he remains seated and will just turn the volume on the TV down with the remote and say, “What you got?”

That foot is bouncing up and down while you give him the briefing, but he rarely looks over at you – always looking at whatever is on the television. If it’s Jarrett in the room, or the personal assistant, one of them is there to keep the time. Your time. Don’t go over that fifteen minutes. And even if the president doesn’t look like he hears a word you’re saying, they are listening to everything. Every go**amn syllable coming out of your mouth, and if something is said they don’t like, they jot down notes. Been told it’s to use for the end of day summary they give the president – their own version of what is important and what can be ignored…and who might need to be pushed down, or pushed out…or whatever. So you’re looking at the president, this skinny guy, who’s ignoring you, who’s dressed like some kind of f***ing frat boy wannabe, with somebody else taking notes on what you’re saying, and then you get up and walk out. The president might acknowledge you on some days, give a little nod, maybe even a thank you, but most often he just continues to look at the TV, bounce that foot on the chair, his skin looking off-color, pale, the eyes out of focus, the hair a helleva lot more gray than is shown in public, the wrinkles around the mouth far deeper…and the hands. His f***ing hands are so…they are just these thin little stick digits. They are like these long-fingered woman’s hands. And his wrists, you could wrap your own fingers all the way around those wrists – again, so much like a woman’s hands. Almost freakish. Certainly not the strong alpha-male type image that America was given during the 2008 campaign.”

http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/

[liberalh8ter]

[geege]

She’s probebly very “jolly”.....

[Cincinna]

All that vacation time, golf, partying, feasting, fundraising, and they are still sourpusses.
These people won’t be happy til America is totally wrecked.

[Cincinna]

Oh no! Don’t tell me I have to scroll down to see pics of their aroyal Heinesses in bathing suits!
I hear Michelle-Antoinette really cleared out the boutiques on Nantucket and the Vineyard.