Obama Vacation Day 10
EmailFrom ABC News' Jon Garcia: After his regular early morning workout at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii and following a secure conference call with top aides investigating what went wrong with anti-terror programs, President Obama took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, and some other members of his family to the Sea Life Park, a privately owned marine park about ten miles down the coast from the Obama's vacation rental.
The park, which normally opens at 10:30 am local time, admitted the Obama party at about 9 am, ensuring the public–and the press–would not interrupt their visit. They stayed for about an hour before returning to Kailua. No word on what they did inside.
Then by noon, the Obama family was off to the beach, again on the grounds of the Marine base, again ensuring that the general public and press don’t interrupt their family time. After three hours of sun and surf, the First Family headed home to prepare for an evening out for dinner.
To round out day ten of their vacation, the Obama's and a party of at least nine, including senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, stopped by Lucy's Bar and Grill in Kailua for dinner.
Tomorrow, day eleven, is scheduled to be the last day of the family vacation. An aide says they are leaving a little early because the President has a lot on his plate and is eager to get back to DC.
– Jon Garcia
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How nice, while we are having to go thru the effects of Climate Change, you know the more CO2 that is released the hotter the planet will get to worrying about where the next terrorist will come from, even though according to NEWSWEEK
EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to “Homeland”
He and The Family get a Terror Free nice warm vacation. NICE
Posted by: bdaman | January 3, 2010, 7:22 am 7:22 am
An aide says they are leaving a little early because the President has a lot on his plate and is eager to get back to DC.
According to NEWSWEEK
EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to “Homeland”
He had alot on his plate before he left.
Posted by: bdaman | January 3, 2010, 7:24 am 7:24 am
Now a prominent scientist has come out with a statement that instead of warming we are going to have at least 50 years of a cooling trend. Buy a coat and let Obama stay in H.
Posted by: earl | January 3, 2010, 8:13 am 8:13 am
These people act like aristocrats. We are so screwed.
Posted by: KansasGirl | January 3, 2010, 8:46 am 8:46 am
This should be a public relations disaster for Obama…but it won’t be. Rather its something along the lines that he needed the time off to recover from the exhaustion of having to deal with the “last 8 years.”
Posted by: Jaack B. Nimble | January 3, 2010, 8:47 am 8:47 am
Aw, screw that boring, useless stuff about Barky’s adminsitration colossal failure to put 2 and 2 together and allowed a terrorist attack to happen killing almost 300 on a plane and countless others on the ground..
…I need to know more about what Barky had for breakfast. Did he have waffles? Did he like them? Syrup..was there syrup involved.
Thanks guys, for staying on top of the really, really important stuff.
Posted by: Barky's most starry-eyed cultist | January 3, 2010, 9:35 am 9:35 am
Boy, oh boy…I can’t wait until Barky gets back from Hawai’i. I want to ask Gibbs how much he liked the trip.
I hope there are pictures of him w/o his shirt
Posted by: member of the WH press | January 3, 2010, 9:38 am 9:38 am
Where’s that deep abiding faith and church? Can’t fit church in with all that golf I suppose.
Posted by: Walter | January 3, 2010, 9:43 am 9:43 am
wow i was for Obama, when he was running for president until the last day, my late fathe told me he was bad and not to vote for him that a lot of us will regret putting him into office, well guess what i think we all do now, i dont like the guy he is horrible on what he does, if people out there thought Mr.Bush was a bad president this guys took the the seat first, i have no respect for him, he doesn’t care for the people he cares for his people his family and how much money he gets to for sitting on his behind and let others do the choices for him. I’m ademocrat 100% but now i feel used and abused by the guys, he is just a glorify guy in a suit!!!! i hope he enjoye his time away from his responsibilities that we are paying for and his wife is enjoying her 500+ shoes, and no i am not a racist i love black people i just dont like him
Posted by: maria | January 3, 2010, 9:46 am 9:46 am
Just so long as they and their guests enjoyed the taxpayer provided posh vacation. I hope the jobless, homeless and hungry didn’t cross their minds to take a moment of joy away.
Posted by: Vickie | January 3, 2010, 9:59 am 9:59 am
And not a word about Michelle’s attire? Details. We demand hard-hitting details.
Posted by: Bob | January 3, 2010, 10:10 am 10:10 am
Maria…you should have Trusted yourself…trust someone when You don’t trust yourself and decisions…stupid, uh.
Kansasgirl…Aristocrats? That was the other one..Kennebunport, Texas, born with a “silver foot”..went to Yale, didn’t learn anything and dodged the draft Because he was an Aristocrat, remember. Uhmm, Walter..church isn’t outside of you… it is inside of you. What some call “religion and christian”, I don’t want any…no thanks. My God is awesome! And if it’s in You, hate, racism, division, judgementalism etc is Not ever on your tongue. Hope you find God, and know WHY you go to Church.
Hope you had a good holiday vacation with your daughters and first lady, Mr. President, while working everyday.
Posted by: sara | January 3, 2010, 10:35 am 10:35 am
Just so long as they and their guests enjoyed the taxpayer provided posh vacation.
Vickie | Jan 3, 2010 9:59:07 AM
Heaven forbid the President of the United States dare to take a vacation. And we pay the leader of the free world? Wow – what a scandal. He should be chained to his desk 365 days a year during the day and working a second job at night to earn food money.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 3, 2010, 11:00 am 11:00 am
Posted by: sara | Jan 3, 2010 10:35:04 AM
Average unemployment under Bush: 5%
Average unemployment under Obama: 9%+ (?)
Optics do matter.
Posted by: tjp612 | January 3, 2010, 11:03 am 11:03 am
EXCLUSIVE: Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to “Homeland”
bdaman | Jan 3, 2010 7:22:30 AM
Exclusive? Everyone knows that on the 18th, before Christmas, Obama approved an escallation of attacks on Al Quaida in Yemen. Hardly surprising that before launching the cruise missiles Obama recieved a briefing. And in retrospect, it is awfully nice to see that he was taking military action against them before they launched their underwear bomber attack – perhaps the smoking holes in the ground around him distracted the bomb maker?
Posted by: jhw539 | January 3, 2010, 11:04 am 11:04 am
Sara, Barry is a snob.
Posted by: KansasGirl | January 3, 2010, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
Do any if you truly think that a vacation fir the President is like one for you? Does yours start the day with an international security briefing?
Posted by: jay | January 3, 2010, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Must be a slow news day. God help the general public to invade his vacation that the tax payers are paying for. I dont see this joker getting reelected, cant wait to see where they are going on Spring break.
Posted by: patty | January 3, 2010, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm
The man has vacationed more than Bush! At least Bush and Clinton vacationed either at the ranch or at a friends home. Obama, no, he has to rent a 4,000 a night vacation home for at least 10 freaking days.
Obama = Bush
Posted by: Walter | January 3, 2010, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
The man has vacationed more than Bush!
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Not at all. Bush spent the entire month of August 2001 at his ranch in Texas and returned to Washington just in time to get caught totally off guard by 9/11.
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 3:14 pm 3:14 pm
Average unemployment under Bush: 5%
Average unemployment under Obama: 9%+
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The ‘arguments’ put forward by Republicans and the right are so phony who bothers to listen to them anymore?
Like a bunch of zombies they crawl around trying to spread their slime.
When the Bush administration left office the unemployment rate was at 7.6% and skyrocketing – hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost every month. The stock market had crashed. Major banks and financial insitutions were crashing. Foreclosures and bankruptcies were through the roof.
Oh yes, this is all the current President’s fault.
Try being authentic for a change – the Republicans and the right are an embarrassment to the country.
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
“Try being authentic for a change”
…coming from one whose responses are limited to a handful of rady copy-and-paste talking points that usually include Bush…
Pot, meet Kettle
Posted by: tjp612 | January 3, 2010, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
…coming from one whose responses are limited to a handful of rady copy-and-paste talking points that usually include Bush…
Posted by: tjp612 | Jan 3, 2010 3:32:57 PM
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Unable to come up with any worthwhile points in responds, the Republicans and the right wing fall back to personal smears . . ..
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
I wish they would stop saying that the President is on vacation when he (no matter who is in office) happen to be somewhere other than Washington. The Vice President is not in charge. It’s more like telecommuting than a vacation.
Posted by: ellsbells930 | January 3, 2010, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm
“Unable to come up with any worthwhile points in responds, the Republicans and the right wing fall back to personal smears”
The hypocrisy is stunning.
Posted by: tjp612 | January 3, 2010, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
“Unable to come up with any worthwhile points in responds, the Republicans and the right wing fall back to personal smears”
The hypocrisy is stunning.
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Unable to come up with any worthwhile points in responds, the Republicans and the right wing fall back to personal smears . . . again.
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 3:59 pm 3:59 pm
The problem with those of you who get stuck in your ideologue is that you can’t see that Obama vacations as much as Bush. And, if you explain that Obama is working on vacation then you have to say that Bush worked on vacation as well.
Obama = Bush
Hopefully, those of you who post 24/7 will find a job in the new year.
Peace out, T!
Posted by: Walter | January 3, 2010, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
The problem with those of you who get stuck in your ideologue is that you can’t see that Obama vacations as much as Bush
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Oh really? Bush took the full month of August off in 2001 and returned to Washington just in time to get caught off guard by 9/11.
When the shoe bomber incident happened on December 22, Bush was already on Christmas holidays.
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
“When the shoe bomber incident happened on December 22, Bush was already on Christmas holidays.”
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What’s wrong with that?
Posted by: Curious | January 3, 2010, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm
tierra said ” Bush took the full month of August off in 2001 ”
I don’t recall Bush turning power over to Cheney during that time. No President takes time off. Period. They are still President no matter where they are. They don’t need to be in Washington to continue working. As I said before, it is more like telecommuting than it is a vacation.
Posted by: ellsbells930 | January 3, 2010, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
Zero is incompentent.
Posted by: KansasGirl | January 3, 2010, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
we’re in the middle of 2 wars whether he likes it or not and in the middle of a depression and i’m 33 and have never seen a president be so careless by taking vacation after vacation to hawaii?Bush was a much better president and lived in the real world and made historic decisions.obama acts as if though nothing is happening in the world.
Posted by: Pablo | January 3, 2010, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
Posted by: ellsbells930 | Jan 3, 2010 7:52:35 PM
tierra said ” Bush took the full month of August off in 2001 ”
“When the shoe bomber incident happened on December 22, Bush was already on Christmas holidays.”
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These comments were posted in the context of somebody ragging on Obama for ‘taking more holidays than Bush’.
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
we’re in the middle of 2 wars whether he likes it or not and in the middle of a depression and i’m 33 and have never seen a president be so careless by taking vacation after vacation to hawaii?
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‘Vacation after vacation to hawaii’ and more dumb comments.
You get the picture ellsbelles? Jump right in here, seems to me this fellow is making the same stupid mistake.
Posted by: tierra | January 3, 2010, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm
You people need to leave Obama alone.
He is the greatest thing that ever happened to America. hes the greatest thing that happend to the world actully.
hes going to get this mess straightned out. and make sure we all have a pleace to live, for just one example.
if the man wants to eat an icem creame cone, why is that anyone’s business
Posted by: crispybacon | January 3, 2010, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
At Sea Life Park, Sasha and Malia swam with the dolphins while their dad watched from the side lines. That’s what they did inside. Swimming with the dolphins is a very popular activity at Sea Life Park. I’m sure the girls enjoyed it.
Posted by: Guy Brown | January 3, 2010, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm
Who cares? Really – who cares?
Posted by: Arnold | January 4, 2010, 12:06 am 12:06 am
approximate # of vacation days for last five presidents:
Carter – 79 ; Clinton – 152 ; Reagan – 335 ; Bush Sr – 543 ; Geo W – 1020
Posted by: Kitty | January 4, 2010, 9:17 am 9:17 am
Kitty – Please Actually George W took the least then any other President, also had the least amount of Tax payers bill for dinners and vacations.
Ob ama already spent more tax dollars on vacationing then the last 5 Presidents combined (it ws @50,000 dollars a day when he went to Martha’s vineyard of just tax dollars)
So please, Thou I think he should take the next 1111 days for Vacation!!
Posted by: spock | January 4, 2010, 11:51 am 11:51 am
Also please note Obama has tasken over a 100 days Vacation, IN HIS FIRST YEAR!!!! (only 365 days in a year)
Posted by: spock | January 4, 2010, 11:54 am 11:54 am
For those knocking Pres GW Bush, he actually never took a Vacation, he went to his Ranch or Camp David, he did not go trollying around the Would on Tax Dollars!! Especially when the same Libs attacked CEOs for doing the same thing!! the difference is the CEO’s were not on Tax dollars at the time!!
Posted by: spock | January 4, 2010, 11:57 am 11:57 am
Going to Camp David is not a vacation-it has all of the security,communications and capability of the White House.The Catoctin area is 1/2 hour from Pennsylvania Ave. by helicopter.The “cabins” can accomidate staff,cabinet members and foreign leaders.The problem with Obama is the perception that he is taking too much time off- when he ran a campaign implying that the country was going down the drain and needed aggresive leadership you don’t expect a leader to have a cavalier job attitude.
Posted by: Nephron | January 4, 2010, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm
Obama has his own money idiots, it’s not tax dollars that he’s spending. With the year that he has had, he deserves to get away. As president, you are allowed to choose where you want to go on vacation, just as any american. Get off his case! Him being in Washington or Hawaii, isn’t going to make the world end.
Posted by: No of your business | January 4, 2010, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
Obama has not done any bad thing 4 going on vacation afterall he still respond to issue as a president during the period. U guys shd leave him alone.
Posted by: Saanu michael | January 6, 2010, 12:26 am 12:26 am
The problem with Obama is the perception that he is taking too much time off- when he ran a campaign implying that the country was going down the drain and needed aggressive leadership you don’t expect a leader to have a cavalier job attitude.
Posted by: Personal Concierge | January 11, 2010, 7:12 am 7:12 am
Obama needs to continue his vacations when he is done being president. We have wars going on. We also have the jobless rate the highest it has been. We have too many issues going on here for our president to be vacationing every other month. If the job is too stressful then someone else needs to do the job. We need a leader in office in Washington.
Posted by: Wanda | May 18, 2010, 2:30 pm 2:30 pm
There is nobody I have spoken to since B.O. became president of my country who has a good thing to say about him. He is the worst and most dangerous president this country has ever suffered thru. We can hardly wait till he is gone from this country. He has even given Harvard a bad name since he associates himself with the school.
Posted by: evelyn gallagher | July 6, 2010, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm