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Obamas R&R;: Marine Corps Base Hawaii
Yahoo! Buzz A Marine base where young men are trained for war might not sound like an inviting place for President Barack Obama and his family to relax. But the First Family has spent many hours of their Hawaiian Vacation at the picturesque Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the windward Kaneohe Bay. The commander in chief has visited the base daily since his arrival just before Christmas, working out at its gym, taking his young daughters bowling, and palling around with friends on the base’s c...

Obama Sticks To The Familiar On Hawaiian Vacation
Honolulu — More than a week into his Hawaiian holiday, President Barack Obama is proving to be a creature of habit. While some travelers seek adventure and spontaneity, Obama seeks comfort and consistency. His routine here in Oahu, the island where he was born and mostly raised, is by now patently familiar to the locals trying to catch a glimpse of their hometown president, and the reporters who come here to cover him. Obama is almost certain to spend his mornings working out at Marine C...

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Washington Examiner : President and family on multi-million dollar Christmas Vacation in Hawaii By: Mark Tapscott 12/29/10 5:04 PM Editorial Page Editor President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas Vacation with friends and family in the chief executive's home state of Hawaii. Nobody questions a president's right or need to take take away from the White House, but an investigation by Hawaii Reporter has turned up some eye-opening information about the costs and other asp...

Obama extends vacation in Hawaii by 1 day
It's tough to say goodbye to a Hawaiian Vacation, even for the President of the United States. President Obama has decided to extended his Aloha State holiday by a day in order to spend more time with his wife and daughters, presidential spokesman Bill Burton announced  Thursday. The commander in chief will now leave Hawaii late on Jan. 3 and arrive back in Washington on Jan. 4, said Burton, noting Obama sent his family to Hawaii ahead so he could finish up his work. Obama eventually joined t...

GREAT MERCIFUL ZEUS: Did you see how much money it cost taxpayers for the Obamas to shoot a Lifestyles of the Wasteful and Extr
GREAT MERCIFUL ZEUS: Did you see how much Money it cost Taxpayers for the Obamas to shoot a “Lifestyles of the Wasteful and Extravagant” episode in Hawaii? If you have something spirited to drink, fix yourself a glass of it before you click on the link above and read just how much taxpayer Money the Obamas wasted in Hawaii on their latest Vacation. If you don’t have any beer, wine, vodka, or whatever, put some fruit juice under the radiator and let it ferment a while, because y...

After 'Season of Progress' Obama Sees No Bounce in Approval Rating
Politico.com The spate of legislative accomplishments in the lame-duck session celebrated by the White House appears to have had little effect on President Obama’s Approval Rating , according to Gallup’s latest tracking poll. Between Dec. 26 and 28 - soon after Obama arrived in Hawaii for his Christmas Vacation - Obama’s Approval Rating was 47 percent, two points lower than his rating from the previous week, Gallup reports. He has averaged a 46 percent rating si...

Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation
FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama waves from... Honolulu (AP) - More than a week into his Hawaiian holiday, President Barack Obama is proving to be a creature of habit. While some travelers seek adventure and spontaneity, Obama seeks comfort and consistency. His routine here in Oahu, the island where he was born and mostly raised, is by now patently familiar to the locals trying to catch a glimpse of their hometown president, and the reporters who come here to cove...

Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation (AP)
Honolulu – More than a week into his Hawaiian holiday, President Barack Obama is proving to be a creature of habit. While some travelers seek adventure and spontaneity, Obama seeks comfort and consistency. His routine here in Oahu, the island where he was born and mostly raised, is by now patently familiar to the locals trying to catch a glimpse of their hometown president, and the reporters who come here to cover him. Obama is almost certain to spend his mornings working out at Marine C...

Obama Extends Hawaii Vacation
President Barack Obama and his family won't be returning to Washington, D.C. as soon as expected. The president decided to extend their Hawaiian Vacation a few more days. Obama had a late start on his holiday Vacation after staying in D.C. to work on Legislation in Congress before the year ended. A spokesman for the president said he wants to spend more time with his wife and daughters before returning to work, even though his daughters will miss a couple days of school. This is the second tim...

Obama craves familiarity on Hawaiian vacation
More than a week into his Hawaiian holiday, President Barack Obama is proving to be a creature of habit. While some travelers seek adventure and spontaneity, Obama seeks comfort and consistency. His routine here in Oahu, the island where he was born and mostly raised, is by now patently familiar to the locals trying to catch a glimpse of their hometown president, and the reporters who come here to cover him. Obama is almost certain to spend his mornings working out at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. A...

Obama Extends Hawaiian Vacation a Day
Yahoo! Buzz President Barack Obama is taking an extra day for his Hawaiian Vacation, which got off to a late start due to Congress’s busy lame-duck session. “After the extended Lame Duck and five-day delay of his trip here, he’s just trying to squeeze in more time with his family before returning to Washington,” Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said Wednesday. Mr. Obama is vacationing in Kailua, Hawaii, and has spent much of his free time working out, playing basketba...

Obama Extends His Hawaiian Vacation
(NewsCore) - US President Barack Obama has extended his Hawaiian Vacation by a day, the White House said Wednesday. Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was scheduled to remain there until Sunday. He will now depart Hawaii late in the evening on Monday, Jan. 3, and arrive in Washington, D.C., the following afternoon, spokesman Bill Burton said in an email. "After the extended Lame Duck [session of Congress] and five-day delay of his trip here, he's just trying to squeeze in more time with his family b...

Obama extends Hawaii vacation after delayed start
HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is extending his Vacation in Hawaii by a day to spend more time with his family after their departure from Washington was delayed last week, the White House said on Wednesday. Obama will leave Hawaii, where grew up, late on Monday evening, arriving in Washington on Tuesday afternoon, spokesman Bill Burton said. Previously, the White House said Obama would leave Hawaii on Sunday. The president delayed the start of his Vacation to stay in Washington whil...

Obama's Multimillion-Dollar Hawaiian Vacation
President Obama and his family are enjoying a delightful Christmas Vacation with friends and family in the chief executive's home state of Hawaii. Nobody questions a president's right or need to take take away from the White House, but an investigation by Hawaii Reporter has turned up some eye-opening information about the costs and other aspects of the Obama get-away. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and at...

Obama's Hawaii Vacation Is Revealing
Presidents reveal a lot about themselves through their Vacation habits. And that's true for Barack Obama as he makes his annual Christmas jaunt to Hawaii. [See photos of the Obamas behind the scenes.] Every president needs to find his own way to relax and enjoy a respite from the crises and pressures of office. Some have sought solace at their own estates, as I recounted in my 2005 book, From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats. George Washington visited hi...

Obama vacation costing more than $1.4M, paper claims
No one knows exactly how much President Obama's Vacation in Hawaii is costing Taxpayers -- neither the White House nor the Secret Service like to provide such information -- but one local news outlet is putting the tab at more than $1.4 million, at least. The Hawaii Reporter did some calculating, though, as we've explained before, it's almost impossible to assess the true cost of these kinds of trips. For example, most of the cost of the Reporter's estimate is the president's Air Force One ride...

The US Media Hit on Helen Thomas
Yet, beneath her establishment credentials and status, she was always an outsider too " one of nine Children born to a family of Lebanese immigrants in Winchester, Kentucky, who despite their Middle East origins, were Christians in the Greek Orthodox Church. She became a pioneering woman, a modern day Helen of Troy, who broke the glass ceiling, infiltrating the clubby, mostly male, inside-the-Beltway world of big egos and self-important media prima donnas, most supplicants to power, not chall...

More Blue Crabs, but Chesapeake Bay Is Still at Risk, Report Says
Associated Press A group of volunteers washed and bagged oyster shells as part of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation oyster restoration program in Gloucester Point, Va. The blue crab population is growing again in Chesapeake Bay, but the 64,000 square-mile system of bays, marshes and rivers remains imperiled, according to a report [pdf] released Tuesday by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit advocacy organization that measures the health of this complex system, the largest es...

Holiday polls add little political cheer to Obama's Hawaiian vacation
President Obama's Approval Rating after two years in office is higher than President Clinton's was at the same time, but the latest poll Ratings are mixed political news....

Obama Makes Six Recess Appointments
The Huffington Post reports: Honolulu — President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday to make six Recess Appointments, including a deputy Attorney General whose links to the Insurance giant American International Group had stalled his confirmation. Obama first nominated James Cole to the No. 2 Justice Department post in May. But Republican lawmakers blocked his confirmation in part because of questions about his role as an independent consultant for AIG before its near collapse and go...

'The Factor's' Top Moments From 2010
What do Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher have in common? They all went head-to-head with Bill O’Reilly this year! You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. President Barack Obama smiles with a shave Ice at Island Snow at...

Jobless claims reach 2008 levels
That was the last time initial claims were under 400,000. In the week ending Dec. 25, first-time claims for Unemployment Benefits fell by 34,000, pushing the week's total to 388,000. The four-week rolling average of initial Unemployment benefit claims also dropped, declining by 12,500 to 414,000. Nationwide, the Unemployment Rate jumped from 9.6 percent to 9.8 percent in November as an increase in jobs failed to match the increased size of the Workforce. The Labor Department said the biggest inc...

Bradley W. Bloch: Can Obama Get His Networking Groove Back?
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post used President Obama's departure for Hawaii as occasion to suggest that the president will be entering the second half of his term with a greater focus on the human side of governing. That this speculation seems to be based on little more than his desire to meet with leaders of both parties at Camp David shows how much of a "schmooze Deficit," as the Post put it, Obama seems to be running. Both these articles depict Obama's insularity as a by-pr...

Obama, Republicans face new Washington battles
Stumble This! WASHINGTON — Barack Obama returns to a transformed Washington next week, with empowered Republicans bristling for a defining Budget fight and the calendar relentlessly pointing to the 2012 election. President Obama will swap the peace of his Hawaii Vacation for a stormy new political season, looking more resilient and self-confident than many thought possible with his political stock replenished by year-end victories. But the rare period of Bipartisanship between Democrats a...

Your Taxes On Vacation
Before you read this, check to make sure your stomach is strong enough. President and family on multi-million dollar Christmas Vacation in Hawaii ...