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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Why is Patrick Ewing sitting at a table with Uh-Bama?
How charming, getting chummy with the locals. And taking a number, just like everyone else.
Fake,fake.fake.
Another vacation for the destructive One.
Looks to me like 0’s having a Shaq attack.
Good grief...The low life Commie, trashing my favorite, and last decent area of the US.
I wanna see him eat some pork.
Gluttons
Doesn't sound too healthy to me—gonna put some more junk in the trunk hey Mo?
Do they ever go to Camp David??????????????
Michelle has her ‘olive oil’ hairstyle I see. I wish she would just bun it instead...that looks like crap!
I’m sure someone can photoshop the number 44 in there (or maybe 666).
You've done a few of those and they're pretty darn good.
You should post some here to share. I seem to remember a particularly clever one about hot mustard...
While telling the rest of us how bad it is for us.
The Camp David golf course is not good enough for him.
I must have missed it. I did not think that he was back from the last vacation. I think that they just make a stop at the White House for a change of clothes.
Think of all the carbon poisoning of the air just to get them there, the smoke from the grill, the lights turned on so they wouldn’t bite their fingers instead of the ribs, the resources it took to raise and slaughter that hog (not his wife), and not to mention the wasted energy it took to find four people to sit near them pretending they gave a damn about them.
Because he’s a fabrication. He isn’t a real person. He’s a Wright/Ayers/Soros construct, created for the sole purpose of ruining the country.
Their trip will be featured on an upcoming episode of the hit TV show, Monster Quest titled “In search of Americas Wild Man”.
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