President Obama, above, is glimpsed in a car mirror leaving Pyramid Rock Beach at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kailua, returning from golf on Kanehoe on Sunday. First Lady Michelle Obama is pictured below leaving Alan Wong's Restaurant in Honolulu after dinner with her husband and other family and friends. (Photos by Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images)
by Alana Semuels
Even vacationing in Hawaii, President Obama doesn't often sit still.
He heads to the Marine Corps gym every day for a predawn workout. On Sunday, his schedule also included a 6 a.m. briefing with security advisors and basketball with friends Eric Whitaker, Marty Nesbit and some White House aides.
At 9 a.m., he got another briefing, this time about another incident, on Sunday, on the Northwest flight arriving in Detroit from Amsterdam. A Nigerian passenger had locked himself in the bathroom, worrying passengers and crew about his intentions. The luckless man turned out to be ill, not a terrorist.
DC Now is keeping an eye on the vacationing president in Hawaii.
Comments
The mansion President Spokesman-for-the-Common-Man is staying at rents for $4,000 a day.
Posted by: Amused | December 28, 2009 9:50 AM
Obama must be one Happy Dictator with his Obama Care in the folds, Homeland Security could be another problem-
Posted by: Inky | December 28, 2009 9:52 AM
How much is GW Bush's "common man" ranch in Crawford valued at? i'm guessing more than than the median price in Texas...
http://www.political-buzz.com/
Posted by: matt | December 28, 2009 10:11 AM
Real men play basketball every day; pretenders clear brush at their ranch only when the cameras are rolling.
Posted by: BC | December 28, 2009 10:24 AM
Real men must also know how to bankrupt a country
and make it's currency crash in 1 year.
Posted by: wingnut master | December 28, 2009 11:02 AM
He should stay in Hawaii as long as he wants. It will keep him out of trouble and off of the news. He is useless.
Is Michelle pregnant?
Posted by: joanniek | December 28, 2009 12:03 PM
Let's not forget that real men also know how to lie and deceive its citizens into two wars...then leave them unfinished.
Posted by: Doug R. | December 28, 2009 12:22 PM
Doogie,
Did President Bush and Vice-President Cheney deceive Senators Clinton, Kerry, Edwards, Feinstien, Lieberman, Bayh, and 23 other democratic Senators? If so, it doesn't say much for the 2004 democratic Presidential ticket or the current Secretary of State that they were deceived by someone like President Bush?
In 2004, even President Clinton defended President Bush. Was President Clinton deceived also?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/19/clinton.iraq/index.html
Posted by: Terry | December 28, 2009 1:39 PM
It looks like BC is dreaming of the Obama vacation in the Caribbean Islands of Hawaii!!
Posted by: John D, still right, as usual | December 28, 2009 3:49 PM
If I want to know the right w. talking points I check with an old friend who's one of the few Republicans living in Chicago.
A rare breed.
So much less time consuming than tuning into right wing radio.
Anyway, this week the big anti-Prez talking point:
VACATIONING!!!!
While people in Detroit a jobless!!!!!
$4000 per day!!!!!
Never mind the fact that all other presidents have gone off on vacation from time to time....
The horror! The horror! as Joseph Conrad might have said were he a right winger.
All I can say is: right wingers better get some new talking point writers.
Posted by: ornery | December 28, 2009 4:29 PM