Well, isn't that special!
Posted on 12/26/2009 1:32:10 PM PST by maggief
KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii - President Barack Obama is playing golf with friends from Hawaii and Chicago on the second full day of his Hawaii vacation.
The president's motorcade traveled a few minutes from his vacation home to the golf course at the Marine Corps base in Kaneohe Bay on Saturday morning.
The Kaneohe Klipper golf course overlooks the Pacific Ocean, and is well-known among island golfers as a scenic course.
Obama is playing with Greg Orme, Mike Ramos, and Bobby Titcomb -- all from Hawaii -- and Eric Whitaker, a friend from Chicago.
Earlier in the day, Obama and his wife worked out at the Marine Corps base gym.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Well, isn't that special!
He also plans to visit the Hawaii Department of Health to verify that his “birth” certificate is “safe and sound” under lock and key!
He also plans to visit the Hawaii Department of Health to verify that his “birth” certificate is “safe and sound” under lock and key!
Are you sure that is not the U.S SS moving the birth certificate to a new location that is more safe and sound?
“Jingle Bombs” must be a hit everywhere.
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.
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Don’t forget.....”unprecedented”. ;-)
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!
Kwanza or Ramadan carols perhaps, but Christmas I doubt it.
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.
Someone post the video where Barry O. is taking mulligans and hip throwing his crackberry when the reporter says “This guy sucks!”
Good doggie, find the Obama....good boy.
“Obama is living like a king with no criticism from the mainstream media...”
Said the NY Times, uncritically...
A reality check on terror...and a pretty good drive...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc&NR=1
Heh! That’s CHANGE GOLFERS CAN BELIEVE IN!
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?
Rahmahdan?
The makeup they use is to present a caricature of a semi-beautiful wife. She is an Avatar for Lancôme .
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