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Obama kicks back with 'FOB#1' (Friend of Barack)
Daily Mail UK ^ | Dec. 28, 2011

Posted on 12/28/2011 9:32:41 AM PST by COUNTrecount

Barack Obama and his family enjoyed their festive getaway in Hawaii at a popular snorkelling spot with the President's best friend and long-time supporter.

The President, First Lady Michelle Obama and their girls Malia, 13, and Sasha, 10, were joined on their annual trip by Marty Nesbitt - President Obama’s best friend and his 2008 campaign treasurer.

The two families spent a warm and sunny afternoon at one of the most popular snorkeling spots on the island of Oahu during the festive break.

It was a familiar scene for the Obamas and their children - Barack Obama and Marty Nesbitt have been close friends for decades.

Mr Nesbitt, along with other longtime friends Valerie Jarrett and Eric Whitaker, form Obama's 'inner circle'. Mr Nesbitt himself has been referred to by a mutual friend as 'FOB#1' (Friend of Barack).

Mr Nesbitt, an entrepreneur who started a successful airport-parking company in Chicago, previously served as the finance chairman of Obama's unsuccessful 2000 congressional compaign.

Mr Nesbitt's doctor wife Anita Blanchard also delivered both of the Obamas' children, while Obama himself is godfather to the Nesbitt's youngest son.

President Obama met Marty Nesbitt in Chicago through Michelle's brother Craig Robinson, a skilled basketball player at Princeton.

Though Mr Nesbitt ended up going to college elsewhere, he became friends with Robinson and then eventually Barack Obama during the early stages of the future First Lady's new relationship.

As Michelle's relationship with her future husband became more serious in the early 1990s, Barack Obama and Marty Nesbitt became very close friends as part of a group of affluent African-Americans in the Hyde Park area of Chicago.

Mr Nesbitt has previously said that he first saw President Obama's ability during a husbands versus wives game of Scrabble.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anitablanchard; ericwhitaker; martynesbitt; nesbitt; obamavacation; valeriejarrett
The Chicago way.

President Obama enlisted the help of Mr Nesbitt during his 1996 bid for State Senator in Chicago, and also during his unsuccessful 2000 congressional campaign

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The entrepreneur also put Barack Obama in touch with the wealthy Pritzer family in 2002 to help him with a subsequent Senate bid.

Grand day out: Obama turns to talk to buddy Marty Nesbitt and his wife Anita Blanchard, while Sasha, wearing a John Lennon t-shirt, looks at the ground.

1 posted on 12/28/2011 9:32:47 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Is it a political law that daughts MUST hold their daddy,s hands when you are a Democrat President???


3 posted on 12/28/2011 9:37:13 AM PST by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Does Obamas shirt say “islandsnow”? or “Islamnow”?


4 posted on 12/28/2011 9:42:14 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: COUNTrecount

“....who started a successful airport-parking company in Chicago”

Airport

Parking

Chicago

I’m sure everything’s above board.


5 posted on 12/28/2011 9:56:07 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Ann Archy
Is it a political law that daughts MUST hold their daddy,s hands when you are a Democrat President???

It gets them used to the idea of the "Momma/Daddy State" guiding them through the rest of their lives (and provides similar imagery for the rest of us boobs).

6 posted on 12/28/2011 9:58:16 AM PST by pawdoggie
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To: al baby

that was a stupid racist comment


7 posted on 12/28/2011 10:17:51 AM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to profreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: COUNTrecount

This is the second time Obama playing scrabble is referenced.Last year or the year before he played it with commie Jarrett in his vineyard mansion.Who gives a rats foot about Obama playing scrabble?


8 posted on 12/28/2011 10:20:54 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: COUNTrecount

Obama big point Scrabble words:

INKOMPETENT

REDIZTRIBUTION

DYSTRUCTION


9 posted on 12/28/2011 10:30:47 AM PST by Blue Ink
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To: COUNTrecount

:: Sasha, wearing a John Lennon t-shirt ::

Ha! Excellent.

Lennon was quite vocal regarding his disdain for economic socialism and corresponding enjoyment of free markets.


10 posted on 12/28/2011 10:49:48 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a tyrannical and violent POLITICAL ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: Blue Ink
Obama and his cronies are fobbits(look it up;grunts know).They are so disconnected from reality and society.People are hurting;American future is bleak.Scrabble this and Kwanzaa too Kenyan.
11 posted on 12/28/2011 10:56:49 AM PST by shanover (These are the times that try men's souls....tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Paine)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

12 posted on 12/28/2011 10:56:49 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: lacrew
Airport Parking Chicago I’m sure everything’s above board.

I heard that some of the parking spaces should have memorial markers.

13 posted on 12/28/2011 11:01:46 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Obama kicks back

They probably find the kick-back pun to be cute and quaint, since it's a Dem who is re-directing trillions to their friends. They had a few barrels of venom for any hint of it during the previous administration.

14 posted on 12/28/2011 11:03:27 AM PST by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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