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Obama Plans 17-Day Christmas Vacation in Hawaii

Dec. 3, 2011 8:28am Madeleine Morgenstern

President Barack Obama and his family will spend 17 days in Hawaii for Christmas vacation, the White House announced.

President Barack Obama will be setting off later this month for a 17-day Christmas vacation in Hawaii with his family.

The White House travel office said Obama has no public events scheduled for the trip, which is scheduled for Dec. 17 to Jan. 2. He spent several days in Hawaii last month for an economic summit with other world leaders.

According to the Daily Mail, the president’s family covers the cost of a private beach front residence in Kailua, Oahu, for the span of the vacation, reportedly dubbed a ‘Winter White House’ that costs up to $3,500 a day, or $75,000 a month.

Still, taxpayers help foot the bill for security and travel costs: A similar vacation last year cost more than $1.4 million.

Obama announced plans for the trip during a campaign fundraiser while he was in Hawaii for last month’s summit.

“Michelle and the girls will be back shortly for Christmas vacation, as we do every year,” Obama said in November. “We’ll see if Washington gets its business done, so I can get here as well. But that’s always a challenge.”

News of the vacation comes as Obama said Congress shouldn’t adjourn for the holidays themselves until they pass an extension to the payroll tax cut. The tax cut is set to expire at the end of the year, and though both parties support extending it, they differ sharply on how to offset the costs.

“We’re going to keep pushing Congress to make this happen. They shouldn’t go home for the holidays until they get this done,” Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday.

The 17-day Christmas vacation follows Obama’s 11-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard this summer.

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Comments (413)

Gonzo
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:02am
So he’s going to Asia? That’s a big birthday celebration considering you’re not a follower of The One who was born that day. Maybe you should wait for Mohamed’s birthday Barry.

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- hud
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:12am
  maybe God (the one true God) will send a shark.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:23am
  Sharks have better taste in humans.
  
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- 666Sucks
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:23am
  I have news for you, God sent Obama. We were all asleep at the helm and evil, communism was taking over God’s country. We were allowing them to evict God from his own land. We better wake up, or Obama will cull all of us. Some times he gives us what we need, not what we want! God said he would never wipe us out again, he never said he would stop us from doing it to ourselves!
  
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- tmplarnite
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:57am
  Never happen… as sharks will not eat manure! Where are are the politicians with any morals or grapes to draw up “Articles of Impeachment”?
  
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- MadinIllinois
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:10pm
  Does he EVER work – what are the American people paying this man to do?? Ever time I turn around, he or Moochelle are going on another vacation – must be nice considering that there are over 14 million American citizens out of work in this country.
  
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- db321
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:41pm
  IT beyond belief – Hopefully we vote him out – until then, someone please remove the Photoshop image of this phony and chief from the Article.
  
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- 0handicap
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:52pm
  I would like to know if he tells his children the negative things that people are saying about him? If so, is he proud of the fact that he continues to spend so much of other peoples money on frivilous things like expensive vacations and what do his girls think about it? Do they even realize the damage he is doing to this country, or are they completely shielded from these kinds of comments? Just wondering.
  
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- Jinglebob
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:57pm
  Not to worry…he is present.
  
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- motonutt
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 12:58pm
  He is a mirror of those who support him…..lazy, entitled, and did I say lazy?
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:15pm
  Lazy,, ? Barry Lazy???
  Do you know that he’s never worked harder in his life?? At any JOB that he has ever had. Do you realize how much energy he expends , golfing and swimming and visiting all those friends from his Hawaii day’s? They must number in the ONES or TWO’s
  
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- jzs
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:28pm
  As of mid-August President Obama had taken 61 days vacation. How many had Bush taken at that point in his first term? Three times as many, 180 days. Reagan? Twice as many at 120 days.
  
  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/17/eveningnews/main20093801.shtml
- dread_pirate_roberts
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:44pm
  YARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! What a gnarly surprise, to think this President would go on vacation. I thought he was squaking @ Congress that they couldn’t/shouldn’t(like he has the authority to tell em what to do) go on Christmas vacation without passing his legislation.
  
  I’d LOVE ta have em walk the bloody plank!!
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:18pm
  Wait, do you mean he was working?
  
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- Sleazy Hippo
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 2:23pm
  Hey, he does not have a California ranch to go to 64% of the year. Or a Texas White house to go to 58% of the days he is in office.
- Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 3:26pm
  We’ll let him swim here!
  http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/10440249/
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 3:31pm
  It only cost us 10 grand $$$ an hr to fly air force on an $300,000 a day fore security for the whole family. Another reason to just send them to Camp David. I remember when all the news outlets squaked when Bush spent 2 days playing golf at Thanks Giving back in 2009.
  
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- SpeckChaser
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 3:40pm
  Only 17? For everything he has done I feel confident the American working class would grant him a permanent vacation.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 3:53pm
  jzs
  
  Conducting the business of the Office of the Presidency from a person’s home/ house/domicile is vastly difference than hobnobbing at Martha’s Vinyard or some other hoity toity locale..
  
  You have heard of the HOME OFFICE have you not?
  
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- drbage
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 3:57pm
  So, the governor of RI states that it is a “holiday” tree, but Obummer, Moochelle, and kids light the Christmas tree. The swamp dwellers in Washington loudly proclaim “separation of Church and State” and misquote the Constitution by saying “freedom ‘from’ religion, yet if it is a Christian or Jewish holiday they are on vacation. Wonder when the ACLU and their acolytes will bring suit proclaiming that Congree is discriminating against non-Christians, non-Jews, and non-believers? Probably the simplest example of the duplicity of the swamp dwellers.
  
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- AOL_REFUGEE
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:06pm
  This so-called president is really just a do-nothing, single-ply @sswype.
  
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- jzs
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:33pm
  WALKABOUT – all President’s work on their vacation. They take a phone and whatever else they need. But I think you’re saying that when Bush went on vacation he worked, but when Obama goes on vacation he doesn’t work. Okay, sure, whatever.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:36pm
  jzs
  
  There should be a book “Vacation for Dummies”.
  
  If I were to propose vacation on a ranch in Texas or Hawaii, my spouse would insist on Hawaii.
  
  If I were to propose vacation on a ranch in Texas or Martha’s Vineyard, my spouse would insist on Hawaii.
  
  If I were a Washington politician spending time back in my home state in my own home & still conducting business, my spouse wouldn’t call that a vacation.
  
  Maybe more pleasant surrounding than the swamp that is inside the Washington Beltway full of nattering journalists & shrill congressmen like Frank, Dodd, Kennedy, Maxine Waters & others, but it wouldn’t be a vacation.
  
  I hopes this educate you JeZuS, but I doubt it. You will go back to your liberal talking points & reboot.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:48pm
  jzs
  
  You state the obvious, Presidents work while on ‘vacation’. Duh!
  
  There is a big difference in style & substance between being in Martha’s Vineyard & Texas.
  
  What is needed is the tail n umber of all the jets (creating CO2) of the rich & famous flying into the Vineyard while Obama is there.
  
  There is a he11 of a difference between Camp David & Hawaii. Camp David is a White House Annex.
  
  Camp David is the White House for all intents & purposes. The benefit of Camp David is that some OWS person (leftists loon) can’t fire on the President when they are outside.
  
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- survivorseed
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:53pm
  JZS…Blazers are completely immune to facts as walkabout has shown. Don’t forget, Bush left god out of his thanksgiving day address and not just his youtube version but that didn’t stop the CINO’s on this site throwing their panties in the corner in disgust.
  
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- teamarcheson
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 4:59pm
  Everyone Has the Wrong Idea About All The Vacations Obama Takes.
  
  It is said he hates being in the Oval Office. He stays away and takes vacation to get away from the White House cameras and recording devices. If he met people in the WH there would be a record and the FBI could be listening. He gets away so he can talk with people from Russia, China, Cuba, the terrorists without be heard. This is why he insists on a Teleprompter so no misplaced word is ever spoken that can be recorded. In the future we may learn who is really at the other end of his Telepromptersw.
  
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- teamarcheson
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:00pm
  Is that really Obama. It looks as if his head was pasted onto another body.
  
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- Zurich
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:00pm
  Actually two sharks for him and the other one for his boyfriend…..
  
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- Your Sensie
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:20pm
  JZS, Agree with everything you say, that’s why I’m a leftist moron.
  
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- MONICNE
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:39pm
  Ron Reagan and George W. Bush and even lowly Dick Cheney had the Secret Service upgrade their ranches security and lodging – at a cost of millions of taxpayer dollars. George Bush had the Kennebunkport complex upgraded, Nixon had his San Clemente property upgraded. After they left office, the improvements are still in place, which benefits and protects their families, and are well deserved rewards for their diligent service and hard work.
  
  The only ones who did not get these benefits was Jimmy Carter, who also refused Secret Service coverage 2 years after leaving office; and who is the only living ex-president to refuse a pension.
  
  TEA
  
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- Sleazy Hippo
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:41pm
  He needs a work ethic like Governor Sarah Palin has.
  
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- tifosa
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:08pm
  Honestly, how much fun is it that the editors know how to keep you frothing at the mouth?! A pic with no shirt, his head tipped up, tell you about a vacation….Really taps into the roots of your Obamapohobia. :) (never mind that Bush and co. were busy ignoring warnings~read about the August 6th memoand Richard Clarke~while Bush took his summer vacation and let our country be attacked.)
  
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- smokeysmoke
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:38pm
  look at the bright side his vacation is BEFORE the holidays…. so im sure that when christmas comes around he will need another vacation… so in the month of december i will expect to seee obama take 25 days of leisure 4 days of campeigning in battleground states, and two days of actual work…. i knew obama understood the true meaning of christmas
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:39pm
  I think it was 8 years of Bill Clinton having a intern servicing him, while OBL plotted, that allowed 9/11. 8 years. Eight.
  Not 6 months
  
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- apollo18
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:19pm
  Who taught this guy how to be president?
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:27pm
  Yo 6:
  Actually he does say that He will shorten the days for the sake of the elect. and will not allow us to do that… but I agree… Obama is discipline to this nation, appointed and allowed by the LORD.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:34pm
  tifosa
  
  Obviously, if we had waterboarded Moussaoui, we would have avoided 911. But no we had to use liberal rules. Read Miranda rights to an enemy combatant. I am sure that Zaccarias pi ssed his pants after the FBI Mirandized him.
  
  Thanks for bring the August 6 Memo up. :)
  
  http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=August_6%2C_2001%2C_President%27s_Daily_Briefing_Memo
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:43pm
  Tifosa,
  
  What would have Gore done. Been a Clinton II? Lob a few cruise missiles in to Afghanistan or Sudan?
  
  That is the definition of tough, decisive action. Let me tell you.
  
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- NOBAMA201258
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 5:52am
  In light of the recent repeal of article 125 which banned sodomy and bestiality, we are becoming as depraved as the Roman Empire, now The One is going off to celebrate Saturnalia or Kwanzaa, could I say ***** fiddled while Rome (Washington) burned ?
  
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- Mateytwo Barreett
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:46am
  No, Gonzo. You got it wrong! He just got bac from Asia. Doing some fundraising and congress bashing this week and THEN a couple well deserved weeks of R & R in the ol’ “home state” , refocusing the ol’ jobslaser. Moochell and the girls will go out a couple days before and the do will fly out the day after. Hmmm, I wounder if they use a decoy plane for the dog. Is it a 747 or just a gulfstream. I guess at least 550 to make the pacific leg.
  But- you gotta hand it to him. over 400, 000 NEW jobs applications- another 315,000 aren’t getting benies anymore, and 112,000 for seasonal workers. . . And you can tell the people that the unemployment dropped .4 %
  Pick one-
  “disengenuous”
  fib
  litttle white lie
  lie
  whopper
  presidential remark
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:28am
  will the time difference allow him to pick up those 3am calls???
  
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- BayouScott
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 4:39pm
  Obama leaves another taxpayer paid vacation and told congress “get to work” and have a bill for me to sign when I return? WTF! Wake up America
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 6:21pm
  One would think he would go home for Christmas.
  
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- Grey Eagle
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 8:15pm
  Wonder how much this little vacation will cost the taxpayers?
  
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- lodgerat
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 10:30pm
  Is there any chance he could make this vacation a little longer, let’s say about a year.
  
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- Cosmos102
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 11:46pm
  He needs to keep his ass in the WH and stop pillaging our money! I hope he goes bankrupt once he’s voted out. I’m sure the wife will keep feeling entitled to that life style of champagne and lobster everyday.
  
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- chfields62
  Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:41am
  I always thought a vacation was a break from working?? Since he hasn’t actually done any work yet, other than destroy the economy and apologize to every dictator on the planet, how can he justify yet another expensive vacation at the cost to the taxpayers?? He is already the worst POS er.. I mean POTUS in the history of this country. Can’t wait to evict his a$$ 2012 is right around the corner…kiss your A$$ bye bye….
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:00am
Now, why is it that I was never able to take a 17-day vacation, anyplace, especially HI, at taxpayer expense?

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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:12am
  I would venture a guess that you don’t have these things because you’re honest and not a greedy hypocritical fraud.
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:20am
  We all need a 17 day vacation. Chris Christie had it right, “What are we paying him for?” Oh well, the majority of fools fell for the rhetoric he spewed. To me his original campaign sounded like a pep rally, or a bunch dancing around the bon-fire with beating of drums into a frenzy (just prior to the kill) We Americans were the kill.
  Some always use words that don’t mean what we think, you need to look at the whole picture and see who their friends are too. Personally, I don’t like those who want to bring down America.
  
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- INOGAWD
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:58am
  Let’s Occupy Hawaii………….
  
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- PeachyinGA
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:46am
  I too wish I could afford a 17-day ‘Asian’ vacation.
  
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- GUNNSUP
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:25pm
  None of them want to stir the pot because all 535 of them are getting rich off of each & every one of us. Time to remove the trash from cap hill….one way or the other!
  
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- Daughter of Freedom
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 3:34pm
  Yes, cause all of us can afford to spend money to the moon and back about 6 times! Why Hawaii, oh so he can visit his “home state”! His exact words when he visited his “home state”. ” It’s great to be her in this part of Asia”
  
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Prepare for the 2nd Coming
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:57am
For their lack of compassion for the American people, and their extreme arrogance, the Obamas’ epitomize the words “trailor trash”. Woops, sorry, that’s way too good for them!

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- SheriS
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:55am
  I would say you pretty much “nailed it”! Can’t wait until this pathetic Prez, even worse then Carter, is permantely in someplace else besides Washington, DC! I expect our elected Prez to be safe at all times, but the cost of Secret Service to be with Prez in the islands is ridiculous most certainly at the rate he is burning our money! Most of us can’t afford to buy Christmas presents or travel over the holidays, but Obama is happy to flaunt that with his trip to the islands—I would like to see him just stay there!
  
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- thefnshow
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:17am
  now why are you insulting trailer trash…what did trailer trash ever do to you ?
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:27am
  The Clampets go to Washington?
  
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- Stopit
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:27am
  I live in a trailer? It’s pretty nice.
  
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dbdbdb
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:55am
I think Chris Christie said it best “what are we paying this guy for?” Let’s put him on permanent vacation in November 2012.

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:27am
  Let’s put him on permanent vacation NOW!
  
  MERRY CHRISTMAS, AMERICA!!!!
  
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- IMPEACHBHO
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:40am
  We agree!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqVZUCRth0
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:37am
  Fast and Furious, Solyndra .. etc … this guy has done WAY more than Nixon .. why is he still in the White House?. He should be in “the Big House” aka Prison.
  
  TEA!
  
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- fuzzy20841
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:48am
  I agree!! Vacation from what?
  
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- hadenoughinpa
  Posted on December 4, 2011 at 1:37pm
  Gone in one TEA
  
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NOBALONEY
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:55am
Obama’s favorite things campaigning, fundraising, and vacationing. Washington continues to flounder with no real direction, while the president enjoys his 17 day vacation in Asia.

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freenj
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:54am
Let’s put him on permanent vacation on Nov. 6, 2012! The posser in chief, what a thief.

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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:29am
  And they blamed Bush for being on Vacation on his own ranch which cost us a fraction to what the Obama’s are costing us with their full time vacationing. It’s isn’t just the family, it’s the many Secret Service guys who have to be with them. We’re not only paying for the first family, we’re also paying for all these others to accompany them plus all the other costs of flying to & fro.
  Kinda reminds me of greedy kids who sneak extra stuff because they have no manners
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:33am
  BLUE: You got it ! When the Obama family goes on one of their trip/ vacation, it ” takes a village ” in retinue as old Hillary liked to say….
  
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- freeus
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 1:40pm
  I’ll second the permanent vacation. Hope it rains the whole time.
  
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AmeriCat
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:53am
That photo-shopped pic of Obama becomes more hilarious with each vacation!

Say…with no Reggie Love….any word on who is the new dude?

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Jeopao
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:52am
Pay no attention to the masses struggling to make end meet every week, enjoy yourself BO

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irishunion
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:52am
WOW! The country is in huge debt and Obama charters Air Force 1 to Hawaii. Do you know how much fuel costs from DC to Hawaii?!?! Lets say fuel burn is 36000 gallons at 8.50 a gallon (KIAD fuel price), thats over $300,000 for each leg of the flight!!!!!

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- birdman8421
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:30am
  AIR FORCE ONE costs $180,000 per hour. That does not include the minimum two additional aircraft that transport secret service and the limo and escort cars. Mooshelles plane is somewhat cheaper should she need to travel without the won. Not sure what Bo’s plane costs.
  
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COFemale
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:51am
Wow, it must be nice to go home for Christmas. I can’t afford to travel anywhere. I am not celebrating Christmas this year; I am not hanging lights, I am not sending Christmas cards. I am even debating on whether to send Toy R us gift cards to my grand kids, I have six. I probably will, but it won’t be as high as it was when I was working. I am now in survivor mode. I know there are many people worse off than me, at least I still have a roof over my head and some food in the pantry.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t begrudge the President for taking a vacation for the holidays; I mean who doesn’t need to take some time off for doing nothing for the last year. That is tiring in itself.

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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:09am
  No two-week vacation here either. I’m donating my Christmas present and vacation money to a food bank. Think how many mouths Obama could feed on what it’s costing We The People for his family to go to his place of birth in Asia – our 57th state.
  
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- Agnes
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:14pm
  He has never done anything productive in his entire life!
  
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- phillipwgirard
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 6:05pm
  I’m thankful i have a roof over my head, i have no food to speak of, been eating at friends house, though i wake up with anxiety attacks i still have hope and pray in the evening. I also know there are others worse off than myself, i try to look ahead, as i hope you all do, Merry Christmas! i will not let them take that away from me.
  
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- Jaimo
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:00pm
  Unfortunately the loser in the White House isn’t going home. His home is in Chicago. That’s where he owns his home (that he got from Tony Rezko in a sweet deal none of us would ever be able to get), but I digress. He’s going to Hawaii to rent a place.
  
  If he’s all about going home why isn’t he in Chicago right now hanging lights on his porch near Grant Park.
  
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- KAdams
  Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:24am
  @Philip
  
  Stay strong, keep faith in God, brother. Jesus told us to place all our cares on Him. God bless, and we will keep you in our prayers as well. We don’t know who you are, but we know God does, and he knows of whom we pray for. God bless, Philip.
  
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Obama Bin Lying
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:51am
Notice how all our Liberal friends are being quiet now about GW and his vacations. More proof of Liberall hypocrisy.

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- Look4DBigPicture
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:42am
  My moderate Democratic friends are so embarrassed by Obama and his socialist friends that they avoid serious discussions about our country altogether. I kinda feel sorry for them, because they must feel guilty for voting these greedy thugs into office.
  
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staythecourse
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:50am
Now wait a minute. I read Obama’s book and also Moochell’s book. Before Obama ran for president and wrote his book….they were broke! Absolutely broke! (He apparently had trouble understanding credit and balancing his own check book back then.) Then he made money with his book and also got a president’s salary. Suddenly he and his family can afford to pay out of pocket for a vacation of this magnitude???? The news stories today speak of ‘insider trading’ with Congress. PLEASE…SOMEONE INVESTIGATE THE PRESIDEN’TS SUDDEN SURGE IN WEALTH. Money doesn’t grow on Trees…I know. I have trees and nothing but leaves, fruits and nuts grow on them. Where are the obama’s getting all of this moneyfrom? Is there ‘insider trading” going on with the obamas regarding all of the business deals he is brokering for all of his buddies. PLEASE…BLAZE… LOOK INTO THE QUESTION OF WHERE DID THEY GET ALL OF THEIR MONEY FROM!!!!

Also, just currious. When did the role of a president shift to being a deal broker for corporations to the rest of the world. I don’t think I remember any president EVER making so many deals for private companies with other countries.

And….I ‘m so tired of apresident who doesn’t work… and his family who only knows how to spend our money on themselves. Do you notice how with every other president how much they age in their first years in office. This president has aged a day….except for **** that goes from black to grey to black agai

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- irishunion
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:53am
  “Gifts”
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:50am
You know people, seventy years ago on Dec 7th, there was another famous day in Hawaii that did occur; at Pearl Harbor, and I have to wonder what kind of mockery Mr Obama will make of that…

Probably saying “…America deserved what happened for the greatest of evils we did at the time…”

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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:11am
  Unfortunately, you probably just hit that nail square on the head. It will just be another apology and/or photo op with some Japanese tourists.
  
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HuskerVet
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:48am
The elitist arrogance of this Idiot has no bounds. He and Wifey are going to take advantage of all the perks and spend all the taxpayers dollars they can before they trash the “Occupied ” White House when they’re forced to leave.

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- AmeriCat
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:00am
  Yup! Why should he spend any more money of Soros and Maurice Strong,
  
  when he can spend all the money he wants, taken from The American Taxpayer.
  
  Stronger than ever…..TEA
  
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Hickory
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:48am
Incompetent, lazy, ignorant, stupid and above all, a Muslim. That about describes our POTUS.

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- Agnes
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:19pm
  Nor to mention a phony clown who continues to brain wash his supporters!
  
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NHwinter
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:48am
This is the King and his family. He must go in 2012 or we are doomed. He has lead the life of priviledge and OWS should be at his front door. What fools Americans have been.

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- RamboTheDog
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:08am
  Ditto!
  
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uprising
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:46am
Going to be the first former President to get food stamps, and section 8.

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- dmforman
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:57am
  Soros and others will take care of him. He has friends in high places:)
  
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Donald
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:45am
Why NOT….maybe the little woman can head to Itlay on Air Force to go on a 7 days shopping spree with the girls….Americans insist that you use air force one…..

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- dmforman
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 10:58am
  Hoping they take one plane as a family and don’t do two like they did to Martha’s Vineyard.
  
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mwhaley
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:42am
This dictator is not worried in the least bit about the elections next year. I still think he knows something we, the American people, do not know.

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- staythecourse
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:52am
  I agree. He doesn’t even look worried at all about the economy, the election, or world events. Instead he is smiling and laughing all the time. I think he even did a ‘hop, skip, jump’ coming off the plane to PA the other day!
  
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- AmeriCat
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:54am
  Exactly……!
  
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- txwheels
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:19am
  I would bet money that just before the election, we will face some kind of ‘security’ threat and Odumbo declares Martial Law. Easy way to insure at least another 4 years in office…
  
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- momrules
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:41am
  I’ve been telling my family that I doubt there will ever be a free election in this country again and I get laughed at. Obama does not care about low poll numbers, the economy, the scandals,or the Middle East crisis. Notice that he is happy as a pig in slop except when blaming everything on the Republicans.
  This man DOES know something that we don’t know and isn’t worried in the least.
  
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YepImaConservative
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:40am
I wonder why Obama never goes back to the “Chicago Vacation Compound” where it all started for him… Bill Ayer’s house of terrorism and Rearend Wright’s house of ill repute.

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- AmeriCat
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:56am
  And to his Lifetime Membership in Chicago’s “Man Country.”
  
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- YepImaConservative
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:06am
  Lol. had to look that up. Yeah, him and “Ram” Emanuel.
  
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- INOGAWD
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 11:06am
  Bo and Mo should Vacation in Chitown, now known
  as “Rahmville”………
  
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- Agnes
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:23pm
  Not luxurious enough!
  
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Hiswill
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:40am
WHAT! He has been on the campaign trail for weeks. When does this guy work? It’s one big vacation for this guy, no wonder he wants to keep the title of POTUS

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- AzDebi
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:50am
  What is truly FRIGHTENING is that there are those who will defend and re-elect him! “No one ever went broke underestimating the ignorance of the American people”…I have to admit that there are times when it is very hard to argue with that statement!
  
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teddie888
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:38am
BO is like the article of the girl with 15 kids and thinks someone else is responsible for them . The girl and BO both think they are entitled for us to pay for them

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demint.disciple
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:37am
Hmmmm, Going back to Asia for another vacation I see , huh ? Bringing the whole family this time little girl ?

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- Agnes
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 5:25pm
  “Asia” the country in which he actually and really was born in.
  
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chasbronson
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:37am
He has never come off vacation,except to campaign.Life as president has been one big vacation. He thinks he won the lottery

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- Darla_K
  Posted on December 3, 2011 at 9:37am
  He did win the lottery, look how he gets to tear our country apart from limb to limb for years.
  
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Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 3, 2011 at 8:33am
Hows that hope and change workin out for ya ???

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