Obama's 17 Day vacation to cost taxpayers approximately $4,135,000

[Dos Equis]

Interesting how the handful of times he goes to church each year is always a photo op.

President Obama attends church services with family
By Star-Advertiser news services
POSTED: 08:42 a.m. HST, Dec 25, 2011
LAST UPDATED: 12:22 p.m. HST, Dec 25, 2011
 
AP

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha arrive for Christmas service at the chapel on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.

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After spending a quiet Christmas morning with his family, President Barack Obama attended church services Sunday at a Marine base near his rented Hawaiian vacation home.

The Obamas made the short drive from their multimillion-dollar Kailua Beach house to the chapel at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. The president dressed casually in dark khaki pants and a short-sleeve blue shirt, and his wife and daughters donned sundresses for Christmas services on a bright and breezy day.

The president and his family also went to church on base on Christmas during his vacation last year.

The Obamas have been spending the holiday with a small group of friends and family, including the president’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives in Hawaii with her family.

On Christmas Eve, the president made phone calls to 10 service members stationed around the world, two from each branch of the military. The White House said he thanked them for their service and the sacrifice of being away from their families at the holidays.

The White House said the president was also monitoring developments in Nigeria and the administration offered its condolences to the Nigerian people, especially the families of the at least 39 people killed Sunday.

The majority died on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Mass, part of an apparently coordinated assault by a radical Muslim sect.

The White House says U.S. officials have been in contact with their counterparts in Nigeria and pledged to assist them in bringing those responsible to justice.

Obama has kept a low profile since arriving in Hawaii on Friday evening to start a vacation delayed by the stalemate in Washington over extending payroll tax cuts. He has no public events planned, and his only outings are expected to be to the golf course or to take his daughters for shave ice, a Hawaiian snow cone.

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[Soul Crusher]

He has a lot of sins to atone for

[Dos Equis]

"The president reportedly called 10 service members stationed around the world, two from each branch of the military, on Christmas Eve." 

Wow.  I'm overwhelmed.    He calls ten service members from the confines of a multimillionaire beach house on one of the nicest beaches in the world.  Merry Christmas.   

[Soul Crusher]

"The president reportedly called 10 service members stationed around the world, two from each branch of the military, on Christmas Eve." 

Wow.  I'm overwhelmed.    He calls ten service members from the confines of a multimillionaire beach house on one of the nicest beaches in the world.  Merry Christmas.   

He probably was giggling while watching that fat Big Foot wife do cannonballs into the pool. 


He should have went to Afghanistan for Christmas.   


But then again - the Communist Thug King gets to laugh at everyone elese while he grifts, loots, steals, and thugs up the joint while he moron fans suck it up.       

[Dos Equis]

He probably was giggling while watching that fat Big Foot wife do cannonballs into the pool. 


He should have went to Afghanistan for Christmas.   
 

Exactly.  Or Thanksgiving.  Or both. 

[blacken700]

[Straw Man]

Interesting how the handful of times he goes to church each year is always a photo op.

every single thing he does on public is a "photo op"

[Soul Crusher]

every single thing he does on public is a "photo op"

Like giving the churchill bust back to the UK that they gave us for 9/11?


Obama represents every degenerative force in this nation.     

[Fury]

Merry Christmas, serfs! Here's your $40. Now excuse me while I go shovel $300 worth of sushi down my throat before hitting the links for a quick $400 round of 18.

[Straw Man]

Like giving the churchill bust back to the UK that they gave us for 9/11?

Obama represents every degenerative force in this nation.     

you know NOTHING about that do you?

[Soul Crusher]

you know NOTHING about that do you?

I know everything about it.   

Your communist messiah gave it back from Day 1 he set foot in office.   He hated churchill based upon his 3rd world marxist kenyan world view that guilt ridden white socialists and leftists like yourself begged for.

 

 

[blacken700]

Winston Churchill that had occupied a cherished spot in President Bush's Oval Office. Intended as a symbol of transatlantic solidarity, the bust was a loaner from former British prime minister Tony Blair following the September 11 attacks. A bust of Abraham Lincoln—Obama's historical hero—now sits in its place. A White House spokesperson says the Churchill bust was removed before Obama's inauguration as part of the usual changeover operations, adding that every president puts his own stamp on the Oval Office.

[Soul Crusher]

Winston Churchill that had occupied a cherished spot in President Bush's Oval Office. Intended as a symbol of transatlantic solidarity, the bust was a loaner from former British prime minister Tony Blair following the September 11 attacks. A bust of Abraham Lincoln—Obama's historical hero—now sits in its place. A White House spokesperson says the Churchill bust was removed before Obama's inauguration as part of the usual changeover operations, adding that every president puts his own stamp on the Oval Office.

Yeah ok douchebag.   Believe what you want.      If i could pay for a40 acres and a mule and obama would agree to go back to Kenya, I would do it tommorow if he would agree.   

[Straw Man]

I know everything about it.   
Your communist messiah gave it back from Day 1 he set foot in office.   He hated churchill based upon his 3rd world marxist kenyan world view that guilt ridden white socialists and leftists like yourself begged for.

thanks for proving that you know nothing about it

[Soul Crusher]

thanks for proving that you know nothing about it

Tell me specifically what you disagree with. 

Obama is a communist radical pofs marxist neo-terrorist traitor and plague on this nation, as are those who voted for him.   

[blacken700]

glen beck 

[Soul Crusher]

glen beck 

And?   You post clips by papantonio no? 

That communist neo-terrorist Obama took the churchill bust out of office because of what the brits did in Kenya. 


only a communist leech, a guilt ridden white commie, a black, an enviro nazi, or a govt union thug, could support this shit show any longer.   

[blacken700]

you defend your answer with glen beck     you are a lawyer no?

[Soul Crusher]

you defend your answer with glen beck     you are a lawyer no?

Would you prefer I posted exerpts out of other sources? 

[blacken700]

please do,credible sources

[Soul Crusher]

please do,credible sources

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html




Screw obama and every rat commie thug who voted for him - all of you should be banished to Kenya via a muslim a prayer rug.   

[blacken700]

Huckabee: "The bust of Winston Churchill, a great insult to the British. But then if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather."

Try substituting Indonesia into those comments and it makes little sense.






Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony, known as the Dutch East Indies. The British controlled Malaysia, which is kind of close to Indonesia, but the Mau Mau uprising took place in Kenya in the 1950s. Churchill was the British prime minister when the uprising erupted in 1952. Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was reportedly detained during the conflict, though that is not confirmed. (See third update below.)

In his memoir "Dreams from my Father," Obama wrote that he did not visit Kenya until he was in his 20s. Obama barely knew his father, who abandoned Obama's mother shortly after he was born and played almost no role in Obama's upbringing.

The question of the Winston Churchill bust is a bit murkier.

Huckabee is right that the British press went a little nuts over this issue. But the bust was on loan from the British to President George W. Bush and the White House said it was due to be returned before Obama even arrived at the White House. Still, the British embassy said they would extend the loan if Obama wished. But Obama replaced the bust with one of Abraham Lincoln--a Republican!--and now the Churchill bust resides at the residence of the British ambassador. Obama later tried make amends, praising Churchill at a news conference and making a point of noting he kept a biography of Churchill on display.

But in any case Churchill had nothing to do with Indonesia, where Obama lived for five years, until he was 10.

So Huckabee's whole statement kind of falls apart, especially when Kenya is replaced by Indonesia. What was he really thinking?

We asked a Huckabee spokesman for an explanation and will post an answer if we get one.

Update: Huckabee's spokesman points out that the governor discusses the Winston Churchill incident on page 183 in his new book, "A Simple Government." Huckabee writes that "our wartime partnership with Winston Churchill and the British people is part of our story; the Mau Mau rebellion is not." He accuses Obama of emphasizing "his story rather than history." We are still waiting for a fuller explanation.

Further update, 4:30 PM: Huckabee appeared on Bryan Fischer's radio show Wednesday and discussed the incident further, noting that, regarding the return of the Churchill bust, he merely quoted the outrage of a British newspaper in his book. "I do think he [Obama] has a different world view and I think it is, in part, molded out of a very different experience," Huckabee said. "Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas."

The idea that Obama attended a madrassa had been debunked by original Fact Checker Michael Dobbs (it was a Catholic school.) But the notion that Obama is anti-colonial--and that this is bad--is also a little strange. After all, one of the biggest foes of Winston Churchill's efforts to hold onto British colonies was none other than President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Third update, March 3: Justin Elliott at Salon has an interesting interview with an historian that adds context to questions concerning the Mau Mau uprising.

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[Straw Man]

bust was loaned to Bush by Tony Blair

key word = loaned

Every POTUS removes items from former administration

If they didn't the place would look like a gift shop

he replaced it with a bust of Lincoln

333 hates this country so much that he prefers a statue of a foreign leader over one of our greatest POTUS's

Of course if you're  delusional, paranoid moron (like Beck and 333) then mundane activities become nefarious CT's

[Soul Crusher]

bust was loaned to Bush by Tony Blair

key word = loaned

Every POTUS removes items from former administration

If they didn't the place would look like a gift shop

he replaced it with a bust of Lincoln

333 hates this country so much that he prefers a statue of a foreign leader over one of our greatest POTUS's

Of course if you're  delusional, paranoid moron (like Beck and 333) then mundane activities become nefarious CT's

LOL.     Only from a communist liberal regressive like yourself would hate on WC.   

[Straw Man]

LOL.     Only from a communist liberal regressive like yourself would hate on WC.   

when did I say I hated Winston Churchill

your reading comprehension is profoundly horrible for someone who claims to be an attorney