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Obama has some summer fun while monitoring Libya
Associated Press ^ | Sunday, August 21, 2011 11:40 PM EDT | ERICA WERNER

Posted on 08/21/2011 8:56:13 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — In between briefings on Libya, President Barack Obama packed golf, beach time, a stop at a seafood restaurant and a visit to a wealthy friend's seaside compound into his Martha's Vineyard vacation Sunday.

Meanwhile, across the globe, rebels stormed into Tripoli as Moammar Gadhafi's hold on power crumbled.

Obama monitored events closely even as he engaged in a heavy schedule of summertime activities under mostly sunny skies. As crowds gathered in Tripoli's Green Square, Obama was buying seafood at a popular restaurant.

When reporters asked him for his reaction on Libya, he said he'd have one when events became clearer.

Obama then headed to adviser Valerie Jarrett's house for what the White House billed as dinner....

(Excerpt) Read more at centurylink.net ...


TOPICS: Food; Hobbies; Sports; Travel
KEYWORDS: golf; nerofiddling; obama; otherstuff; vacation
Thank goodness that Libya thing isn't interrupting anything important!
1 posted on 08/21/2011 8:56:16 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

Another fluff piece, another round of Kool-aid.


2 posted on 08/21/2011 8:59:22 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Hunton Peck

VJ vacations on MV too? How convenient. No wonder the wookie is traveling separately.


3 posted on 08/21/2011 8:59:50 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Huskrrrr

Not really. It serves as a great illustration of his uselessness. Nero complex.


4 posted on 08/21/2011 9:01:08 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: FlyingEagle

Sounds like Jarrett has a house there.


5 posted on 08/21/2011 9:01:38 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Hunton Peck
It's Obamatime! Nobody's working too hard!


6 posted on 08/21/2011 9:11:50 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Kind of appropriate, considering how many Americans don’t have work at all....


7 posted on 08/21/2011 9:13:40 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: dead

Oh, good grief. I just looked closer at your pic and realized all I did was repeat your point.


8 posted on 08/21/2011 9:14:49 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Hunton Peck

There is a rich, black folk section to Martha’s Vineyard, I believe....


9 posted on 08/21/2011 9:39:16 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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Monitoring Libya?

Would that be from the 3rd or 4th hole?


10 posted on 08/21/2011 9:43:39 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight
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11 posted on 08/21/2011 10:27:01 PM PDT by cruise_missile
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