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Drama For Obama as Child's Injury Delays Golf Game
Reuters ^ | December 29, 2009 | Jeff Mason and Bill Trott

Posted on 12/29/2009 11:27:56 AM PST by reaganaut1

KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Vacationing President Barack Obama interrupted a golf game on Monday and sped back to his holiday house after the child of friends was hurt in a beach accident.

Obama, on vacation in the island state where he grew up, raced home in his motorcade in a bit of high drama shortly after arriving at a lush golf course for an afternoon game.

The child, identified by the White House as the son of Obama's friends Eric and Cheryl Whitaker, is now well and did not require stitches as first suggested, an official said.

"Eric and Cheryl Whitaker's son was examined and released from the hospital. He is home playing with his friends and just fine," said White House spokesman Bill Burton.

Eric Whitaker had been in the president's golfing party when word reached them that the boy had been injured. An ambulance with flashing lights sped past a van of reporters near the family compound after the president's arrival.

The ambulance later drove off with lights still flashing and Obama returned to the golf course to play.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhochristmas; golfingobama; obama; odrama
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Al Qaeda trying to kill us is not enough to delay his golf game.

I wonder if even apolitical Americans, who have never heard of National Review (or The Nation), will read headlines like these and wonder if the President gives a damn. I think Flight 253 could become Obama's Katrina (except that the media is on his side but certainly not Bush's).

1 posted on 12/29/2009 11:27:56 AM PST by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

“Cheryl Whitaker, is now well and did not require stitches as first suggested, an official said”

I’m assuming she did not need stitches because Obama had already healed her?


2 posted on 12/29/2009 11:31:19 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: reaganaut1

He is a muslim.


3 posted on 12/29/2009 11:31:22 AM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: reaganaut1

Shows what a milquetoast wuss he is. A kid bumps his head and his wife calls him shrieking that he has to come racing home.

Doofus drops everything and runs home creating a furor and the kid doesn’t even need a single stitch or a cast.

Crybabies and professional whiners... Obama is the wuss that has to drop everything and run home when Bigfoot throws hysterics. The stupid wookie couldn’t even open a package of band-aids without shreiking for Bambi to come racing home with his motorcycle escorts.


4 posted on 12/29/2009 11:32:25 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: reaganaut1
"Drama For Obama..."

obama IS a drama.

Let's see, did he drop everything to rush to Ft. Hood...oh, that's right, he was too busy delivering a "shout out" to one of his bro's.

How about all those blizzards in the midwest...did he drop it all to work with FEMA on that?

This a-hole is arrogance personified, and really needs an attitude adjustment in 2010, and in 2012.

o'drama doesn't care about anything that cannot benefit him personally. He is a showboat of the first magnitude and for someone who condemns "profiling", all the hell he does his profile himself.
5 posted on 12/29/2009 11:33:54 AM PST by FrankR (Time waits for no man...or man-child, including kenyans.)
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To: reaganaut1

*****raced home in his motorcade in a bit of high drama shortly after arriving at a lush golf course ****

Well isn’t that special..........


6 posted on 12/29/2009 11:34:33 AM PST by sodpoodle (Stop wasting our wealth and start telling the truth.)
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To: reaganaut1

Biden said he would be tested...


7 posted on 12/29/2009 11:34:45 AM PST by lacrew (The 274th trimester is a very late procedure)
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To: lacrew

LOL!


8 posted on 12/29/2009 11:37:14 AM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: reaganaut1
Rather bizarre !
9 posted on 12/29/2009 11:39:08 AM PST by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: reaganaut1

Bad enough he had golfus interruptus to speak to the American people, but golfus interruptus a second time!

How sad for the tired overworked presidente.


10 posted on 12/29/2009 11:40:15 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Bon mots

The kid got an owie and they rushed them off in an ambulance with the lights flashing.

Sounds like another case for Whaaaaambulance Five O, a new series slated to be aired in the spring.

All this fuss over a scratch, and Obama took three days to address the Christmas attack on a jetliner.

Wow...

“Child falls. The alarm sounds go off. And who comes to the rescue with a band-aid, why it’s POTUS and company, the power behind Whaaaambulance Five O.” Look at them whip into action! Now this is what an action show should be!

Just don’t call if an airliner nearly gets taken out. A three day response time is hardly the stuff for Whaaaaambulance Five O.


11 posted on 12/29/2009 11:42:16 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Good news. HC bill will not cover illegal aliens. Bad news. 20-35 million will become citizens.)
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To: Bon mots

Yeah, and think of the potential for accidents with a speeding ambulance going to the scene - have these people never heard of driving a kid with a boo-boo to the ER themselves? I mean, it’s not as if it was one of the Obama girls who would require SS protection. Sheesh.


12 posted on 12/29/2009 11:42:50 AM PST by GnuHere
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To: reaganaut1

Who is Eric Whitaker ?


13 posted on 12/29/2009 11:43:37 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Bon mots

Very funny, thanks for the laugh!


14 posted on 12/29/2009 11:44:18 AM PST by panaxanax (It's time for TEA Party Patriots to get an 'ATTITUDE'.)
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To: TexasCajun

Eric Whitaker, Michelle's old boss.

15 posted on 12/29/2009 11:46:08 AM PST by TexasCajun
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Who’s gonna pay that ambulance and hospital bill? For what? Some sort of bump on the head? These people get more and more dispicable every day.


16 posted on 12/29/2009 11:46:43 AM PST by FlJoePa
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To: panaxanax

Could you imagine what would have happened if - God forbid - Michelle or one of her little angels actually broke a nail?

They would have mobilized the Hawaii National Guard.


17 posted on 12/29/2009 11:49:10 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: TexasCajun
..maybe after Michelle's gig.

Eric E. Whitaker, MD, MPH

Executive Vice President, Strategic Affiliations Associate Dean, Community-Based Research

University of Chicago Medial Center

18 posted on 12/29/2009 11:49:43 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: FlJoePa

Let’s see here, some kid gets an owie while playing in the water.

Waiting, waiting, waiting...........Nope, I still don’t care.


19 posted on 12/29/2009 11:49:55 AM PST by shelterguy
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Eric Whitaker, Michelle's old boss.

What part did he play in that corruption involving the bribe paid to Michelle Obama disguised as some 'no-show' job for which she was wholly unqualified, and that Barack Obama funded for $5million of taxpayers' dollars?

20 posted on 12/29/2009 11:51:06 AM PST by Bon mots
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