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Obamas swim, play and stroll on summer break (a weekend getaway in Maine)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/17/10 | AFP

Posted on 07/17/2010 5:35:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AFP) – US President Barack Obama and his family packed a full day of tennis, swimming and hiking into a weekend getaway in the northeastern state of Maine on Saturday.

The Obamas began the day with rounds of tennis and some splashing in the pool, followed by lunch by the waterfront at an island hotel, according to reporters traveling with the president.

Obama, his wife Michelle and their daughters Malia and Sasha then toured a lighthouse on the southern tip of Mount Desert Island, taking along their rambunctious dog Bo.

The family mingled with visitors and admired the view from the top of the lighthouse before heading on a nearly hour-long hike along the Ship Harbor Hiking Trail.

"Good family time," said the First Lady's press secretary Katie McCormick-Lelyveld, who went along on the hike.

It was "about an hour walk with stops at the water to skip rocks and play with the dog. A few other families were hiking, many with their dogs, and the family stopped to say hi along the way," she said.

"Beautiful views and cool air -- and pretty rocky at times! A nice hike," she added.

After the First Family arrived on Friday, they promptly took off on a bike ride and later stopped for ice cream.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: maine; obamas; summerbreak
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To: UCANSEE2

ll, the dog doesn’t actually ‘live’ at the White House, or travel with the ‘first family’.

The whole deal was that since the DOG couldn’t travel unescorted, REGGIE LOVE had to sacrifice his busy career time and accompany the dog for ‘visitation’ with the first family.

So, taxpayers paid for REGGIE to follow the Obama’s on vacation. And the White House made sure it was technically ‘legal’.

The dog doesnt live with them? WhY? Is he too muzzie for a dog in the same house?


21 posted on 07/17/2010 5:49:58 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The Acting President....is an incompetent puppet of Soros.)
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To: JimSEA
We could have saved a dime or two if his dog hadn’t needed its own airplane.

I thought Michelle flew in with the kids?

22 posted on 07/17/2010 5:49:58 PM PDT by digger48
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To: NormsRevenge

So that is how he got the two-headed snake from Maine to vote with him such much. He promised to vacation there.


23 posted on 07/17/2010 5:52:49 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: razorback-bert
How come it is always Michelle with the dog and not Barry?

Cause even the dog thinks the Kenyan stinks.

24 posted on 07/17/2010 5:53:20 PM PDT by digger48
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To: UCANSEE2

Poor dog is right, he needs a farm with lakes and woods to run around on.. must be fun being a dog walker at the WH.


25 posted on 07/17/2010 5:54:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: razorback-bert
How come it is always Michelle with the dog and not Barry?

I have been led to believe that Muslims don't like dogs.

Why does Michelle never accompany Barry to a Muslim country?

She would be subject to Sharia Law.


26 posted on 07/17/2010 5:57:57 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: NormsRevenge
When is the lazy arrogant pos going to have a working vacation, like President Bush did. All he does is party, play golf, eat ice cream, play hoops, go sight seeing etc.

Wvery time President Bush went to Crawford he always took his cabinet with him. It was just like he was in the White House

27 posted on 07/17/2010 6:00:45 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: NormsRevenge

Screw them and the donkey they rode in on.

Another 2+ years of these intolerable elitists.

It’s painful, every day, it’s painful.

HOPE we can CHANGE it back.


28 posted on 07/17/2010 6:02:27 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Everytime a democrat loses, a Moonbat gets its wings burned off.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I heard they’re going to Marthas Vineyard


29 posted on 07/17/2010 6:02:45 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: NormsRevenge

KENYAN DEADBEAT SUCKING THE AMERICAN NIPPLE.


30 posted on 07/17/2010 6:06:43 PM PDT by taxtruth (Something really stinks In The Federal Government/Mafia and I think it's BO!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Photobucket Why just a few days ago Sasquatch told the rest of us "little people" to go to the gulf and support them. I wonder if the thought of leading by example ever occurs to them. As a side note when I googled " Pictures of Michelle Obama in Panama city" I could not find one with the oil shirt she was wearing. I had to look up an old thread on FR. Almost seems like it's been scrubbed.
31 posted on 07/17/2010 6:08:56 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: JimSEA

Aint that the truth. Guess there wasn’t enough room on Air Force One.


32 posted on 07/17/2010 6:10:53 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: NormsRevenge

I would have liked to seen the Obama’s try to swim in the ocean there.


33 posted on 07/17/2010 6:12:11 PM PDT by AU72
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To: NormsRevenge

AAAwww that is wonderful the hard working family gets a break\s


34 posted on 07/17/2010 6:14:22 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: NormsRevenge

Two wars, the oil spill, the economy, 41 rounds of golf and he’s on his 7th vacation ... God help America.


35 posted on 07/17/2010 6:14:46 PM PDT by Boston Blackie (The zoo has a African lion, the White House has a lyin' African.)
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To: ladyvet

NON ELECTED PERSON WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY.WHO ELECTED THIS IDIOT?


36 posted on 07/17/2010 6:16:48 PM PDT by taxtruth (Something really stinks In The Federal Government/Mafia and I think it's BO!)
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To: ladyvet

Total hypocrits. Yet the media still falls for the spin doctor manipulation. What manipulation? Oh come now, with his poll numbers falling, Democrats treating him like the perverted uncle at the family reunion, and the economy looking like a repeat of the early 1930s, the spin doctors probably are telling him to do more family ops and fill the newspapers with “feel good” stories of a daughter going to camp, etc. This vacation is calculated to increase his poll numbers, nothing more. Still, his advisors should have had the family go to the Gulf. Big mistake not doing so.


37 posted on 07/17/2010 6:18:14 PM PDT by SorosOwnsObama
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To: NormsRevenge

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m really happy the First Family is enjoying their summer vacations when so many people are barely able to put food on their tables. Who said America doesn’t have any royalty?


38 posted on 07/17/2010 6:18:21 PM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Anyone know where they’re going for vacation next weekend?

:-)

39 posted on 07/17/2010 6:19:14 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: ladyvet

Everything remotely negative that Zero or the higher-ups in his Admin do is scrubbed within hours of the faux pas happening (this is usually when they speak the truth like with Joe the Plumber). I am convinced he has a little room in the basement of the WH where his Internet wizards clean up all the messes he and his minions create. Similar to the Clintons but on an even bigger scale. I have a clear recollection of Nancy Pelousi saying to G Stephanopoulos ‘Americans over age 55 use entirely too much of our health care resources’. But it is buried on the Internet and was within hours of his Sunday show last summer.


40 posted on 07/17/2010 6:19:32 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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