Obama will ‘recharge’ on Hawaii vacation- Awesome coverage from Honolulu Advertiser (Including Pics)

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Obama will ‘recharge’ on Hawaii vacation

By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writers

The first family touched down amid intense security in President Obama's hometown yesterday and settled in for what is expected to be a 10-day vacation in Kailua, with apparent plans to decorate an 8-foot Noble fir Christmas tree last night.

Coast Guard personnel in semi-rigid boats patrolled the nearby Kawainui Canal, and a pair of gunboats sat behind Kailuana Loop, where the Obamas will be staying in a five-bedroom, beachfront home that's up for sale for $8.9 million.

One of the Obamas' neighbors, Dr. Scott Miscovich, helped one of his patients deliver two truckloads of poinsettias to the vacation home on Tuesday and saw a bare Christmas tree that the first family planned to decorate last night, Miscovich said.

The Coast Guard yesterday declared much of Kailua Bay around the Obama vacation home a security zone. And neighbors said the security ring around Obama was much tighter than during his last Christmas visit as the president-elect.

"It was a little more local style last year," said Ron Sutherland, whose home sits just outside four concrete barriers Secret Service agents placed at the entrance of Kailuana Loop.

Other than a steady throng of Honolulu police, Coast Guardsmen and Secret Service agents, the only people who could pass the barriers yesterday were those with identification showing they live in the neighborhood — or were on an approved list of visitors.

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[rurallib]

1. "spose he'll do a little surfing? I think a surfing president would be cool!

Merry whatever you celebrate!

[Brother Buzz]

12. I believe body surfing is his gig

[dkf]

2. The guy is driving me nuts, but he is definitely good for our state.

I've often thought he needs to get his fighting spirit recharged. He looks exhausted to the point of giving in on things he ought not to. I feel rather bad for the fella.

[mnhtnbb]

3. I don't blame him for going home to Honolulu instead of Chicago for Christmas!

[Kingofalldems]

4. Did he bring his Callaways?

[optimator]

5. sends 16000 troops to afghanistan for xmas

then takes 10 days off in hawaii.
I don't know how he can sleep.

George Washington once said that any Commander in Chief should be in the field with his troops, otherwise it would be hypocritical and unjust to send our volunteer soldiers into war.

[NavyMom]

6. Duh, show me pic with bush or cheney with the troops for christmas & not a photo op,,nt

[arcadian]

8. The "not Bush" argument doesn't work anymore.

[Froward69]

7. HAHAHA Like either Bush or RAYgun would go

any where near where real shooting is going on...

Millions of free people visit their Families, or visit where they were BORN.

tell me optimator, do you believe President Obama was Born in Hawaii?

[arcadian]

9. Again, I say, the "not Bush" argument doesn't work anymore.

[HopeOverFear]

11. optimator's just jealous cuz he can't go to Hawaii lol

[jwirr]

10. Who were the presidents who even visited the front lines since Washington?

I know of Eisenhower but that is all. He was foremost a trained soldier. I do not think even Washington would be allowed to do that today. War is totally different.

[jenmito]

13. Yeah-how DARE he do what he said he was gonna do and then

go to his birthplace for vacation. :eyes: