Michelle Obama: Not ready to leave 'Trying to mount a coup'

[Pirate Smile]

Not ready to leave
'Trying to mount a coup'


President Barack Obama walks with daughter Sasha Obama through the Honolulu Zoo in Honolulu on Sunday. AP Close

HONOLULU - On the last day of his Hawaiian vacation, President Barack Obama declared that he did not want to go home.

Asked during an after-hours tour of the Honolulu Zoo if he was ready to head back to Washington, Obama and his family replied in unison: "No!"

"Let's stay," first lady Michelle Obama joked to reporters. "We'll all stay. Are we all in? I'm trying to mount a coup."

The president spent some of the final hours of his 11-day trip at the zoo, on the golf course and visiting the cemetery where his grandfather is buried.

Obama's Sunday began in the way he started each of his vacation days: at the gym. Afterward, he played 18 holes on the Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course with his friends Marty Nesbitt of Chicago, and Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos from Hawaii.

Obama's motorcade then headed to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, where he spent about 10 minutes before heading over to the zoo to meet up with his wife and daughters Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11.

Just as when they went to the movie "Avatar" and went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay and had a picnic on the beach, the first family had the zoo all to themselves as the sun set over the Waikiki tourist attraction.

Wearing a black polo shirt with dark olive slacks and sandals, Obama walked with Malia as they checked out the white-handed gibbon, ring-tailed lemur and the Francois monkey, according to a pool report. The first lady walked with Sasha.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0110/not_ready_to_leave_62cb1800-f71f-4ef3-a54e-b049dc0766ff.html

[CrownPrinceBandar]

1. Can somebody say "Western Whitehouse".............

The Oval Office in Honolulu will be stocked with fresh pineapple and poi.

[azmouse]

2. Sasha is so adorable.

[closeupready]

3. Michelle is so funny. I'm laughing because you know she has a sense of humor,

she's caricaturing that 'Black Nationalist/terrorist fist-jab' crap the reich-wing tried to foist on her during the campaign. :rofl: Go Michelle!

[AspenRose]

4. Clusterfox news will have a field day parsing this quote

We (the intelligent, those who possess common sense) understand what she was saying, but....


Don't be surprised when you hear "THE OBAMAS WANT TO STAGE A COUP!111!!!" on every right-wing media outlet. Probably will be front page on Drudge.

[Pirate Smile]

5. It's a joke. Only the RW idiots would try to turn it into something else which they do with

everything.

I thought it was cute. :)

[AspenRose]

6. *You* know that, *I* know that

*We* have common sense and aren't desperate to grasp onto ANYTHING just to make the president look bad!

I thought it was funny, too!

[Pirate Smile]

7. On this kind of stuff which is clearly a joke, my attitude is pretty much "F#@k'em!"

They make themselves look like idiots when they try to politicize this kind of thing. Only the people that already hate them will buy it and they aren't worth killing the humor and personality that helps them get through this crap.

I say - Let Michelle be Michelle! :)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Coup, shmoo! How ordinary!

GWB staged one.

Twice.

:hi:

[Arkana]

21. "A TERRORIST FIST-COUP"??????

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. They were the only ones in the theater? Good!

I'd hate to watch "Avatar" in a room full of guys with crew-cuts, wearing funny 3d glasses, looking everywhere but the screen, talking into their cufflinks.

I bet Secret Service would be a real buzz-kill.

:hi:

[tosh]

10. ...

:rofl: @ that image!

[hootinholler]

17. I dunno

I would have sent them out to find some primo Kona for that movie.

-Hoot

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. I'd have sent them for Maui Wowee!

But that's why he's the prez, and I'm just a ...

:hi:

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[roody]

11. Does Michelle know about Honduras?

[Freddie Stubbs]

14. She appears to be an intelligent, well-informed woman

[eleny]

12. This article invites a number of criticisms of the president

For instance, it says how he started his Sunday at the gym followed by a golf game. I think this obviously invites right wingers to ask "What? No church attendance?"

Then they say how he spent 10 minutes at the National Cemetery before spending the day at the zoo, a movie and a beach picnic where the family enjoyed the privilege of privacy. Again, people are spoon fed a contrast of how much time he spends where.

I don't agree with the administration in all things and have said so. But this type of reporting, after 8 years of the Vacation-President we just had to endure, is bullshit.

[levander]

13. They get the zoo all to themselves?

How much does that cost?

[Rebubula]

15. Gosh...

...I am surprised that you are still here.

The Family that has dedicated the next 8 years to the service of our country gets a day away from gawkers and protesters to enjoy some time at a zoo....and all you have is questions on how much money that cost?

[hootinholler]

16. Since it wasn't open anyway

Probably nothing.

-Hoot

[Born_A_Truman]

22. Why? Are you offering to pay for it?

Sheesh!

Did you ask that about idiot-son's photo op on a carrier?

[jberryhill]

23. How Much Does That Kind Of Publicity Cost?

Tell me. Did you know Honolulu had a zoo?

Do you know how many people NOW know that Honolulu has a zoo?

[Cha]

20. I'm so happy for them that they

got some real family time in there on his Island birth place..yeah, freepy little birther teabaggers.