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Obamas to vacation in Maine next weekend
Bangor Daily News ^ | 7-10-10 | Judy Harrison

Posted on 07/10/2010 4:21:51 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

BANGOR, Maine — The first family will spend next weekend vacationing on Mount Desert Island, according to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree.

President Barack Obama and his family are scheduled to arrive Friday, July 16, and stay through Sunday, July 18.

Information about where the family would stay and the sights they might take in while visiting Maine was not available Friday night. The visit is a personal family vacation and no public appearances are scheduled, Pingree said.

“What an honor that the Obama family has chosen Maine for vacation when they could have gone anywhere in the country,” she said. “I think the Obamas will really enjoy the quiet woods, beautiful coast, wonderful people and everything else that brings thousands of families here every year.”

While White House officials were mum about where on the island the first family would stay, Obama has political connections on MDI. George Mitchell, U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace, owns a home in Seal Harbor. Mitchell and his wife, Heather, have two children, Andrew, 12, and Claire, 9. The Obama children, Malia and Sasha, are 12 and 9, respectively.

Last August, the first family visited Yellowstone National Park and Grand Canyon National Park. The Obamas also spent time on Martha’s Vineyard in August 2009.

Information about whether the family would arrive in Air Force One, the presidential jet, was not available. Neither the Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton nor the Portland International Jetport has runways long enough to accommodate the Boeing 747.

Air Force One could land at Bangor International Airport and the Obamas could take a helicopter to the airport in Trenton, then take a motorcade to MDI. Last summer, Air Force One landed on Cape Cod, the family took a helicopter to Martha’s Vineyard, then rode in a motorcade to the 28-acre compound where they stayed.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: anothercokebender; marxistfamily; obama; vacation
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To: neefer
Hey, she's fat.

He looks like he's on his way to catch the little yellow bus with his mommy but forgot his helmet.

61 posted on 07/10/2010 5:30:05 PM PDT by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What is this the 3rd vacation since the oil spill started? Does he ever do anything excpet be on TV making speeches that say exactly zero or be busy taking over American companies?


62 posted on 07/10/2010 5:30:31 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Vendome

No camp David is just their weekend get away nearly every weekend.


63 posted on 07/10/2010 5:31:38 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: massmike
..A vacation from WHAT?????

Well, from all that golf, of course!

64 posted on 07/10/2010 5:32:26 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$ or PETA.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Holy Cow.. I am glad he is getting a vacation.. why, what has it been? 3 weeks? and only got to play golf twice this week? Poor baby /s


65 posted on 07/10/2010 5:40:13 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

No, let him go! If I remember correctly last time he was up in that area that deep river driver TEDDY passed away. Here’s hoping!


66 posted on 07/10/2010 5:44:19 PM PDT by ScoopAmma (We are led by the Resident -in Chief; aka part-time member of Webelo Troop 44)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The comment section got disabled after over 150 comments were posted. About 75% negative.
My personal favorite...”I’m praying for rain and lots of fog for that weekend.”


67 posted on 07/10/2010 5:47:55 PM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; onyx
Obama has political connections on MDI. George Mitchell, U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace, owns a home in Seal Harbor. Mitchell and his wife, Heather, have two children, Andrew, 12, and Claire, 9. The Obama children, Malia and Sasha, are 12 and 9, respectively.

George Mitchell is 77 YRS OLD!!!!

68 posted on 07/10/2010 5:53:21 PM PDT by xsmommy
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Will he be golfing? He might try to get out and play some golf, it could help with all the stress with the bad economy and still leaking oil spill?


69 posted on 07/10/2010 6:02:24 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: john drake

Does anyone know how many days he’s actually been “working” in the WH. Las Vegas last week, Maine coming up, clandestine appearances at burger joints, sporadic visits to childrens’s classrooms. There’s nothing this man won’t do to get out of the house.


70 posted on 07/10/2010 6:08:12 PM PDT by dools007
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To: Vendome
"Has he even vacationed at Camp David?"

Camp David is a whitey hang-out. He's chaning things, Man!!!

71 posted on 07/10/2010 6:08:19 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Chellie Pingree. A mutant libtard moron! Honor my ASS! He’s a fungus, a curse, a disease that needs eradication before it kills us!


72 posted on 07/10/2010 6:10:28 PM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: azishot
I’m more *concerned* about what she’s going to wear!

Do not fear, MO's fashion czars are busy "dumpster diving" for the event as we speak.
73 posted on 07/10/2010 6:10:31 PM PDT by mstar
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To: GQuagmire

From your link about the island:

“Current notable summer residents include David Rockefeller, Martha Stewart,[7] Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.”


74 posted on 07/10/2010 6:10:43 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Zer0 needs to vacation in Kenya.


75 posted on 07/10/2010 6:14:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dools007

I guess being in a job he can’t do and being married to that witch would drive any normal man to be on the road regularly. I use normal carefully in this case, he ain’t, at least not by American standards.


76 posted on 07/10/2010 6:22:32 PM PDT by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: Lockbar

Word!

Ice Baby...


77 posted on 07/10/2010 6:22:43 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Chellie Pingree is an absolutist progressive of the first degree. In no wise does she represent any aspect of Maine that is not transplanted here on the soles of crocs worn by New Jersey and Maryland tourists. What she thinks concerning any subject is of no concern to anyone north of Portland. However, if there is any one locale in Maine that would consider themselves honored by such an appearance, it would be Bar Harbor. There is such a concentration of treasonous pukes cloaking themselves in self congratulatory virtue that it may well seem to the Imam in Chief that he has arrived in the Promised Land. I would hazard that in the aftermath of the visit, we find that he made use of an SEIU or AFL-CIO compound. You know what? He's a citizen, or at least a permanent resident. He can go where ever he wants. I don't care what he does.
78 posted on 07/10/2010 6:23:08 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

This guy has had more vacations than most people have vacation DAYS!

Does he ever work? (Rhetorical question!)


80 posted on 07/10/2010 6:40:01 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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