Posted on 04/23/2010 10:22:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog
First stop for the first couple's weekend vacation on Friday was a roadside restaurant that President Barack Obama visited during the final month of his White House campaign. First meal on the trip: barbecued ribs.
Obama and first lady Michelle Obama landed in the Blue Ridge Mountains and made a quick stop at Twelve Bones Smokehouse on the way to their resort. The White House said the first couple ate ribs, mac and cheese, greens, baked beans, corn bread and corn pudding before motorcading to their mountaintop hotel.
Deputy press secretary Bill Burton said the couple -- vacationing without their two young daughters -- washed their midday meal down with sweet tea.
This trip was meant to be vacation, and Obama didn't even plan to make calls on the fierce debate over financial reform legislation in the Senate, press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at the White House on Friday.
"Knock on wood," Gibbs said.
On Obama's previous visit to the city, in October 2008, the then-senator prepared for a debate and rallied supporters -- and lamented he couldn't play golf.
"What a spectacular place," Obama said during the Oct. 5, 2008, stop in Asheville.
"The only thing I don't like about it is that I had to drive by the golf course, and it looks really nice. And my staff won't let me play. I'm going to have to come back."
Back, he is. And not just for the golf: The president always keeps his eye on politics.
Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976. He defeated Republican Sen. John McCain by just 0.4 percentage points in a state that favored President George W. Bush's re-election by 12 percentage points four years earlier.
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I was out riding my Spyder in Asheville yesterday and almost drove down Sweeten Creek Rd. where one of the 12 Bones BBQ is located, not knowing that the Obamas were there at that exact time. I was going to stop at 12 Bones, but something told me not to go that route.
Hubba Hubba BBQ in Flat Rock is much better IMHO (especially the smoked fish tacos)
I always had to take my kids on vacation with me. I don’t see any kids. Just like a lot of black families Grandma is raising them.
That's because he is. My Gaydar goes off every time I see a photo of him.
Michelle is nothing but a beard.
Dammit!
He’s squatting in my house, taking over my cars dealerships, screwing with my healthcare etc and etc now he is besmirching my mountains????
This disgusting act cannot be allowed to stand!
Do they turn their number for every picture?
He was nostalgic about a time when his ratings were above 50%.
(And the simpleton women behind Michelle are the kind of 'swing voters' we must worry about every election.)
It’s just a shame he doesn’t get to golf whenever he feels like it. It makes me want to cry.
Thankfully, I left South Carolina Thursday, before this idiot infested the state.
Yup!
Ain’t BBQ without PORK!
Yep. Patrick Ewing disguised as a Wookie.
That’s right. I live next to N.C. and go to Asheville area all the time to see my daughter in college. Just leave us alone! Don’t taint this place, one of the last “hideaways” from the hellhole that he is turning much of the country into. Except for its envirohippies, NC is the America I knew and loved.
The good news is it's going to rain all weekend......
“Another vacation for the destructive One.”
On our dime?
I can’t afford a vacation this year . Must be nice to pretend for the cameras that you are just a middle class tourist seeing the sights while everyone else is trying to keep the lights on.
“I wanna see him eat some pork.”
As the pig pigs out, he will issue an EO declaring that it is Hallal pig.
Looks like MO gave her wig another vacation, too.
:)
I spy a salt shaker on Obama’s table...tsk, tsk.
The less they go to Camp David, the less it have to be fumigated when they are finally kicked to the curb.
Sanitizing the White House will be a big enough task.
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