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Obama plays golf in Hawaii with friends
AP via Chicago Trib ^ | December 26, 2009

Posted on 12/26/2009 1:32:10 PM PST by maggief

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To: maggief
Mr. Obama was singing Christmas carols with his family at their secluded Hawaiian beachfront getaway on Friday...

Well, isn't that special!

61 posted on 12/26/2009 3:01:28 PM PST by smokingfrog (Don't mess with the mocking bird! - http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: bgill

He also plans to visit the Hawaii Department of Health to verify that his “birth” certificate is “safe and sound” under lock and key!


62 posted on 12/26/2009 3:03:24 PM PST by Mr. Wright
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To: bgill

He also plans to visit the Hawaii Department of Health to verify that his “birth” certificate is “safe and sound” under lock and key!


63 posted on 12/26/2009 3:04:39 PM PST by Mr. Wright
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To: maggief

Are you sure that is not the U.S SS moving the birth certificate to a new location that is more safe and sound?


64 posted on 12/26/2009 3:07:13 PM PST by Mr. Wright
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To: smokingfrog

“Jingle Bombs” must be a hit everywhere.


65 posted on 12/26/2009 3:08:13 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah."Our middle regiment, Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
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To: maggief
Free Republic mentioned in The NYT... The center, which is closely aligned with the Obama White House, voiced no complaint about the current president’s vacation. But the conservative Web site Free Republic did. While Americans “are still caught in the grips of the recession,” a posting on the site said last week, “Obama is living like a king with no criticism from the mainstream media.”
66 posted on 12/26/2009 3:09:40 PM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: maggief
A close friend of Obama’s from their teenage years, Greg Orme

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and friend Greg Orme (R) wait to warm up on the driving range to play golf with friends December 29, 2008 in Kailua, Hawaii.

67 posted on 12/26/2009 3:14:39 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Velveeta
He's having nice weather for his golf games!!! Meanwhile......

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68 posted on 12/26/2009 3:16:30 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: mowowie

Historic
__________________

Don’t forget.....”unprecedented”. ;-)


69 posted on 12/26/2009 3:19:13 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Hehe! I once flew in a small plane in Alaska over a golf course......and a black bear was wandering on it. LMAO!!!! That would be epic!


70 posted on 12/26/2009 3:20:32 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: CaliforniaCon

Kwanza or Ramadan carols perhaps, but Christmas I doubt it.


71 posted on 12/26/2009 3:23:26 PM PST by deputytess (Men of the West .....stand and FIGHT!)
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To: maggief
Whitaker was president of the American Medical Students Association and twice testified before Congress regarding health insurance and minority health issues, according to his official biography


Eric Whitaker

A member of Barack Obama’s tight-knit circle of friends from Hyde Park in Chicago, Whitaker was a fixture on the campaign trail, often sitting with Obama on the plane, serving as a sounding board for the candidate and helping to keep the candidate grounded with frequent basketball games.

Whitaker, who has been friends with Obama since both were in graduate school, works at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Michelle Obama also worked.

Whitaker is a medical doctor and served as Illinois Department of Public Health director from 2003 to 2007 and now serves as executive vice president of the University of Chicago’s Medical Center. Obama has said he put in a good word for his friend to political fundraiser Tony Rezko, a conversation which Obama was asked about after Rezko was convicted of bribery and fraud.

Whitaker also earned a master’s degree in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health. It was on the basketball courts of Cambridge, Mass., that Whitaker first encountered the future president of the United States. Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times, “He and I played basketball together when he was getting his master's in public health at Harvard, while I was in law school there.”

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) named Whitaker director of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Whitaker’s appointment may have been partially aided by a good word from his friend Obama to political fundraiser Tony Rezko.

In October 2007, Whitaker left the Department of Public Health to return to his alma mater, the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Michelle Obama was a vice president.

Whitaker was named to the new position of executive vice president for strategic affiliations and associate dean for community-based research to work on the hospital’s urban- health initiative, a program Michelle Obama helped create.

But the department under Whitaker was also touched by scandal. Whitaker oversaw the budget of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board. Tony Rezko and his associates controlled that board, which they used to solicit kickbacks and payoffs, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Press Here

72 posted on 12/26/2009 3:24:13 PM PST by kcvl
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To: maggief

Someone post the video where Barry O. is taking mulligans and hip throwing his crackberry when the reporter says “This guy sucks!”


73 posted on 12/26/2009 3:32:32 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Good doggie, find the Obama....good boy.


74 posted on 12/26/2009 3:35:08 PM PST by FlyVet
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To: ladyvet

“Obama is living like a king with no criticism from the mainstream media...”

Said the NY Times, uncritically...


75 posted on 12/26/2009 3:35:21 PM PST by jessduntno (I think "you'll get what you deserve" is a promise. A socialist thinks it is a threat.)
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To: PilotDave

A reality check on terror...and a pretty good drive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc&NR=1


76 posted on 12/26/2009 3:40:33 PM PST by jessduntno (I think "you'll get what you deserve" is a promise. A socialist thinks it is a threat.)
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To: DennisR

Heh! That’s CHANGE GOLFERS CAN BELIEVE IN!


77 posted on 12/26/2009 3:41:51 PM PST by Palladin (Holder and Obama are terrorists.)
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To: maggief

Couple of things about the video. I can’t stand people who have a compulsive need to put their hands on you, especially the shoulder.

I can’t stand that with a passion!

I turn so it can’t be done or draw distance. Besides, you don’t pet Alpha dogs even if you are one or pretending to be one.

The handshakes to the white guys are 4 pumps while the handshakes to the black guys only warrant 2? What’s up with that?


78 posted on 12/26/2009 3:43:02 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: maggief

Rahmahdan?


79 posted on 12/26/2009 3:44:08 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: cydcharisse

The makeup they use is to present a caricature of a semi-beautiful wife. She is an Avatar for Lancôme .


80 posted on 12/26/2009 3:47:17 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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