Posted on 03/23/2017 7:42:44 PM PDT by kaehurowing
What is Barack Obama Doing Now? Former President in French Polynesia for Month-Long Vacation
BY EMMANUELLE ESPIRITU , CHRISTIAN POST CONTRIBUTOR Mar 23, 2017 | 6:43 AM
After eight years in office in one of the world's most difficult and demanding jobs, former U.S. President Barack Obama is now taking life in a more relaxed stride. As a private citizen, Obama is now able to just go out there and soak up the sun, and where can he better do that than in the celebrated French Polynesian luxury resort, The Brando.
The former POTUS has reportedly flown to Tahiti by private jet and arrived at Faa'a International Airport just outside the capital of Papeete at around 3:30 p.m. However, he did not stay in Tahiti for long. Just 30 minutes after his arrival, he caught a ride on a much smaller private plane headed for The Brando, an eco-conscious luxury resort on the French Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa.
The private island used to be the Tahitian royal family's favorite destination until it was bought by actor Marlon Brando in the 1960s while he was there filming the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty." The actor later renamed the island to The Brando, and it has now become the Reader's Choice Awards top pick for resorts in Australia and the South Pacific. The island can only be accessed via a 20-minute private plane ride from the nearby island of Tahiti.
The eco-minded resort takes its power from solar energy and coconut oil and is ventilated by a seawater air-conditioning system. Mosquitoes will never be a problem since the private island is also said to be home to an innovative mosquito eradication project that has even brought in researchers from Oxford University.
Obama will reportedly stay in The Brando for a month, where he is believed to be taking some time out to finally work on his memoirs, for which he and his wife Michelle have reportedly signed a $60-million deal with the Penguin Random House publisher.
The former U.S. president is also expected to visit some of the other islands in the French Polynesia, and might also be spending time on film producer David Geffen's $300-million yacht, which was previously spotted moored in Papeete, but has now since moved off the coast of the nearby island of Moorea. Geffen, who founded DreamWorks, is also a friend and big supporter of Obama.
It is not yet clear whether the rest of the former first family will be joining Obama on his French Polynesian getaway at a much later date.
The former President has also recently expressed his regards and respect for the late Chuck Berry via his official Twitter account.
In a previous interview with the Rolling Stone, Berry had been quoted to say how grateful he was to have lived long enough to see the day that a man with Obama's "qualities, features, and all that he has" would become president.
"My dad said, 'You may not live to see that day,' and I believed him. I thank God that I have," Berry said.
This slop is so representative of the bootlicking swill that accompanies media coverage of Democrats.
You tell the truth, but the American people had rather believe the myth of the media.
Isn’t he 55?
Geffen is a well know Hollyweird fag. Was said to be that Eisner creep’s butt buddy at one time.
You have me confused with someone who gives a shit where Ophonybama is and what he is doing!
Along the sand, let’s walk the shore together now, just hand in hand. It’s gonna be fair weather now, when the stars come out, stop to count them in the sky.
I prefer to look at things from a less romantic perspective ... to me, it's nothing more than flotsam and jetsam washed up on the beach.
You are correct. No ‘romance between Reggie and Barry, just a hump and dump, butt pirate boogie, and a rump ranger sword fight bumpin’ uglies partay!
The question isn’t WHAT he is doing, but WHO.
This article actually made me sick. This sorry excuse of a president trashed this country, (he trashed the whole world) then he goes off to paradise to relax and work on a 60 million dollar book deal. I sure hope God has special plans for this worthless POS.
This article actually made me sick. This sorry excuse of a president trashed this country, (he trashed the whole world) then he goes off to paradise to relax and work on a 60 million dollar book deal. I sure hope God has special plans for this worthless POS.
“Hmmm. How can the resort be “eco-minded” yet eradicate mosquitos... and with them any organism dependent on them for food, such as birds, amphibians, minnows and terrestrial and aquatic insects... or as a host, such as microscopic parasites that plague even skeeters, or certain plants that benefit or even rely on male mosquitos as pollinators, such as certain orchids? “
There was a very well research article published several years ago that disagreed with your assessment.
There are effectively no plants or animals that require mosquitoes. There are animals that eat lots of them but they can and will happily eat other things if mosquitoes’ are not present. There are some plants that male mosquitoes pollinate but other things will pollinate them as well. The article found that they play almost no exclusive role in nature in a positive sense. The biologist conducting this investigation were actually amazed at how little positive impact parasitic insects had on the environment.
The article concluded by saying (I am paraphrasing) that if all parasitic insects (mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and the like) disappeared they would basically not be missed with any emotion except relief. They actually play very little positive role in the natural order, but bring misery, disease, plague and discomfort in huge measure wherever they appear (Much like socialist)
If you could eliminate mosquitoes large parts of the world’s human and animal residents would bow down and worship you as god. The rest would acknowledge you as God’s servant.
If this island can kill every mosquitoes they need to export that technology.
Here is a link to a popularized version of the article
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
OK, I’ve been thinking the standard MO of getting out of sight until things cool off and have even entertained the extradition angle but then I just had another thought. Put your foil hat on... Recent ban on electronic devices larger than cell phone... Isn’t the French Polynesia upwind from us? Where is Val? Did she stay in DC?
DDT?
Hiding?
Lol!
Well put. It’s beyond disgusting.
I'm afraid his ego might capsize the island.
That is all the Dem's and liberals seem to say when the POTUS AND FAMILY go to his Florida residence ...the cost?
Then there is Moochelle where ever she is hiding, and val jar, where ever she is at, and then the two teenage girls, one in NY and one in Washington D.C. oh my the waste of money...
wake up voters...
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