Posted on 02/09/2009 3:49:46 PM PST by lewisglad
President Barack Obama made his first weekend visit to Camp David, and Monday gave a thumbs up to the retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains.
"It was beautiful," he said Monday. "The girls just had a great time. They had a lot of fun. You can see that during the summer it's going to be a nice place to spend a lot of time. Hit a few golf balls. Played a little basketball."
The Obamas made it a group outing to the camp.
"Sasha brought one of her friends and then a friend of Michelle's and ours came up with her two kids," Obama said aboard Air Force One as he flew to Indiana for a town hall meeting pitching his economic stimulus proposal.
First Lady Michelle Obama gave it great marks as well during a visit Monday to the Interior Department.
"Some of the greatest adventures that we experience in life here in this nation, like family vacations, and camping, and hiking, and fishing, if you're blessed to have access to those resources, are possible because of the work that you do right here in this department," she said.
"And Barack and I and the girls, as you may have read, just had a little retreat away. We visited Camp David for the first time, and got to experience the beautiful, the beauty of those grounds, and it was just wonderful to get a bit of a break and to spend some quality time as a family in nature."
The secluded, and heavily guarded, retreat features several cabins on heavily wooded grounds. A key attraction for First Families is the ability to walk around outdoors out of sight of the press or public.
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Did any of you get to take your kids on a little getaway this weekend?
I didn’t. I was paying bills and trying to pay down as much on the credit cards as possible. This year has been the first time I’ve ever not paid off the cards each month.
Nope. They'll use it as a lower 48 retreat. They'll fly to Hawaii for their summer vacation.
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Words fail me.
Hey, he could use the stimulus cash to build a new capitol there.
In instead of DC it would be CD.
I'm sure the Obamas have taken many vacations with their children, and if they haven't other than political junkets, doesn't matter. Sincerely, they seem like good parents.
But they go to Camp David, are excited, which I understand. But because it says Camp, Michelle thinks she's camping and hiking and fishing?
Just like us folk.
Amazing
"Some of the greatest adventures that we experience in life here in this nation, like family vacations, and camping, and hiking, and fishing, if you're blessed to have access to those resources, are possible because of the work that you do right here in this department," she said.
He is to much of a chicken sh-t to go to Chicago.
No way I could keep up with the volume of an absurdity list. I'll have to leave it to the media.
LOL! Good one.
so Michelle took a friend? ..Would that be her good friend Bernadine Dohrn? I keep wondering how long it will be before Dohrn and Ayers join them in desicrating our national treasures - the White House et al.
Oh great, The newspapers will be full of photo-op’s of the chosen one with his shirt off, shooting basketballs, trying to do chinup, and many, many other useless pictures while people lineup to collect their last unemployment check with no work in sight.
But don’t forget the tax payers money he is sending to other countries for his charity, murder of the most inocents.
I wonder what David is doing now days.
Apparently he hasn’t amounted to much.
Prior to the last 2 decades of socialist distraction and interference, all Americans were able to say the same thing about the National Parks and Monuments. Of course, such resources aren't as freely available to Americans today as they were then, because, we have a new socialist democratic elite, who just couldn't be bothered in sharing this amongst the common folk.
Kools.
Movin' on up!
As long as this thing infests Camp David, I’ll refer to it as The Alpine Retreat.
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