Obama barbecues with old friends on North Shore

Obama barbecues with old friends on North Shore
MOKULEIA, Hawaii (AP) — President Barack Obama and his family are returning to Oahu's North Shore for a barbecue with a High School friend at his beachfront home. Obama's 20-car Motorcade traveled the length of the island Thursday on an hourlong voyage for an afternoon visit with longtime friend Bobby Titcomb. Obama also visited Titcomb on the same day a year ago. Obama's Motorcade drove from his rental property in Kailua, across highways cleared of traffic and through a Military communi...

Obama barbecues with old friends on North Shore (AP)
MOKULEIA, Hawaii – President Barack Obama and his family are returning to Oahu's North Shore for a barbecue with a High School friend at his beachfront home. Obama's 20-car Motorcade traveled the length of the island Thursday on an hourlong voyage for an afternoon visit with longtime friend Bobby Titcomb. Obama also visited Titcomb on the same day a year ago. Obama's Motorcade drove from his rental property in Kailua, across highways cleared of traffic and through a Military community to...

Obama Goes to Barbecue on North Shore
More on the Obama Vacation as it winds down. Obama is due back by Jan. 4. President Barack Obama and his family today traveled to the North Shore for a barbecue with a High School friend at his beachfront home. Obama's 20-car Motorcade traveled from Kailua to Mokuleia on a hourlong drive for an afternoon visit with longtime friend Bobby Titcomb. Obama also visited Titcomb on the same day a year ago. Star Advertiser ...

Obama to ring in 2011 with family talent show
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama will ring in 2011 with friendly competition at his family’s annual New Year’s Eve talent show. The White House is keeping Obama’s talent a closely guarded secret. Several friends and family members will join the Obamas at their rented oceanfront home in Kailua. Obama has stayed under the radar for much of his Hawaiian Vacation, mostly spending his time at the gym, Golf Course or beach. The White House says he has been reading three b...

Obama to ring in the new year with talent show tradition
President Obama is ringing in 2011 by hosting a talent show on his Hawaii Vacation, according to the White House. White House spokesman Bill Burton said that the president was spending the evening with family and friends, who would get a chance to show off their talents in the annual tradition, according to the pool report. Burton said that the president had also spent time reading "President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime" by Lou Cannon, "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitche...

Obama To Ring in New Year With a Family Talent Show
staradvertiser President Barack Obama will ring in 2011 with friendly competition at his family's annual New Year's Eve talent show . The White House is keeping Obama's talent a closely guarded secret. Several friends and family members will join the Obamas at their rented oceanfront home in Kailua . Obama has stayed under the radar for much of his Hawaii Vacation, mostly spending his time at the gym, Golf Course or beach. The White House says he has been reading three books: Lou Cannon's bio...

Does Obama have hidden talents? New Years Eve may bring em to light
Barack Obama may have some talents that the rest of the world doesn’t know about but only a few friends and family members are going to see them. The Obamas and their friends were to hold an annual talent show Friday night to celebrate New Year’s Eve, a White House spokesman said. No word on what talents would be on display. Thoughts, anyone? Does Obama’s famous speaking voice also carry a tune? Meanwhile, the president has been busy golfing, dining out and reading on his vacat...

Vacation Reading
Obama reads three books during Hawaiian holiday. Still holding at the rental house. This from WH spokesman Bill Burton: Tonight , the President will be spending time with family and friends and later they will have the annual New Year's Eve Talent Show. And here are books the President has been reading. Get The Page delivered to your inbox. newsletter today!...

Our cost for Obamas Hawaii vacation: $1,474,200
Our cost for Obama’s Hawaii Vacation: $1,474,200 Eh, what’s another million and a half dollars when we are paying for it anyway? It’s not like Obama has to foot the bill for this.  According to The Blaze, the cost of Obama’s Hawaii’s Christmas vacation is costing us (the tax payer) $1,474,200. And this number is actually on the low side as it doesn’t take into consideration other, unreported costs such as security costs and office space rentals. FWIW, secur...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
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...

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 hits the town in Hawaii, extends vacation
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama hit the town Wednesday night, taking his wife and friends to dinner at one of his favorite island restaurants. A crowd of onlookers gathered as the president's party arrived at Alan Wong's Restaurant, an award-winning eatery in the neighborhood where Obama grew up. The president's Motorcade passed the Honolulu apartment where his late grandmother once lived and the Baskin Robbins Ice Cream shop where Obama worked as a teenager. Wong is a favorite of the O...

Obama hits the town in Hawaii, extends vacation (AP)
Honolulu – President Barack Obama hit the town Wednesday night, taking his wife and friends to dinner at one of his favorite island restaurants. A crowd of onlookers gathered as the president's party arrived at Alan Wong's Restaurant, an award-winning eatery in the neighborhood where Obama grew up. The president's Motorcade passed the Honolulu apartment where his late grandmother once lived and the Baskin Robbins Ice Cream shop where Obama worked as a teenager. Wong is a favorite of the ...

Obama hits the town in Hawaii, extends vacation
Honolulu—President Barack Obama hit the town Wednesday night, taking his wife and friends to dinner at one of his favorite island restaurants. A crowd of onlookers gathered as the president's party arrived at Alan Wong's Restaurant, an award-winning eatery in the neighborhood where Obama grew up. The president's Motorcade passed the Honolulu apartment where his late grandmother once lived and the Baskin Robbins Ice Cream shop where Obama worked as a teenager. Wong is a favorite of the Oba...

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...

A Bit More Vacation for the Obamas
President Obama apparently hasn’t had his fill of golfing, shave ice and swimming and snorkeling with his girls. He’s staying in Hawaii an extra day, the White House reports. Mr. Obama and his family - Michelle Obama, the First Lady, and daughters Malia and Sasha - who are vacationing in the quiet town of Kailua on the windward side of the island of Oahu, initially planned to return to Washington on New Year’s Day. Then, when Mr. Obama arrived, the White House announced he...

Obamas New Years Eve: Time for a Talent Show
Yahoo! Buzz President Barack Obama and his family will celebrate New Year’s Eve in Hawaii with a low-key tradition: A family talent show. White House spokesman Bill Burton wouldn’t say what talents might be on display. But a Time Magazine story from 2009 said First Lady Michelle Obama is known for her hula-hooping skills and her husband is known to croon among friends. The First Family has been on the Hawaiian island of Oahu for more than a week, spending time barbecuing with friend...

Utility wins rate hike, decoupling approval
The state Public Utilities Commission has given final approval to Hawaiian Electric Co. to increase its rates for Oahu customers by 5.7 percent. The utility has been collecting the rate increase on an interim basis for more than a year. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday the Regulators also approved a new method of rate setting that is designed to encourage the development of Renewable Energy. The method called "decoupling," eliminates the economic incentive for Hawaiian Electric to se...

TV Crew Covering Obama Claims Mistreatment...
HONOLULU -- A public access television crew complained of police mistreatment Thursday, after trying to get a picture of President Barack Obama. Just after dawn Wednesday, the three-woman crew for a Big Island public access program called "We Are Change Hawaii" drove up to the barricade near the president's Vacation Home in Kailua. Host R.J. Hampton was told they couldn't stay, so she spoke into the video camera as she returned to the car. "OK, you know it Obama we're OK with you, you OK with us...

Also on Obama's Reading List
In addition to non-fiction books on Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, the White House says President Obama is also reading two novels on his Vacation in Hawaii: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell and Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carre. Interestingly, the New York Times reports "the president's wife makes a brief guest appearance in the LeCarre book; in one passage, characters cannot visit the gardens of the Champs-Elysees because 'Michelle Obama and her Children are in town...

Update on President Obama's New Year's Eve Plans and Vacation Reading List
HONOLULU, Hawaii -- The White House says the president will be spending time with family and friends on the last day of 2010 and then later they will have the annual New Year's Eve talent show. The president has been spending time on his Vacation playing golf, going to the beach and visiting friends, and he's also catching up on some reading. ...

First family sets N.Y. Eve talent show
KAILUA, Hawaii, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The first family planned to spend Friday evening with family and friends in Hawaii and hold their annual New Year's Eve Talent Show, the White House said. President Barack Obama worked out Friday morning and White House spokesman Bill Burton said the president and First Lady Michelle Obama will spend New Year's Eve with family and friends. The White House released the list of books the president is reading during his Vacation - "President Reagan -- The Role...

Michelle Obama's Top 10 for 2010: 'Let's Move!,' Dancing in India, and That Spain Vacation
First Lady Michelle Obama's 2010 included a clearly defined high (the launch of her "Let's Move" anti-childhood Obesity campaign) and a notable low (her Controversial Vacation at an expensive resort in Spain). The year also marked her first solo international travel, to Haiti and Mexico, and having the very cool experience of Paul McCartney singing "Michelle" to her at a White House concert. Here are Mrs. Obama's top 10 for 2010: On Feb. 2, Mrs. Obama formalized her healthy eating and exercise a...

UKs Daily Mail Outraged By Size Of Obama Motorcade
The Brits have a bit of Motorcade envy, it would seem. The UK’s Daily Mail has done some car-counting in Hawaii, and concluded that President Obama ’s 10-car Motorcade (about five times the length of the typical Jaguar-and-a-police-cruiser affairs the British prime minister gets) had “provoked fresh outrage…after taking a 20-man Motorcade to visit a childhood friend during his lavish Christmas holiday in Hawaii.” The Daily Mail describes the outrageous way the moto...

US-Venezuela row heats up, US revokes envoy visa
Stumble This! Diplomatic tensions between Washington and Caracas were rising as President Hugo Chavez rejected a newly appointed US ambassador and Venezuela's Envoy had his US Visa revoked. Only hours after the US State Department said Wednesday it wanted to maintain diplomatic links with Caracas, deputy Venezuelan Foreign Minister Temir Porras said on his Twitter account: "I can confirm. USA revoked the Visa of ambassador Bernardo Alvarez." Venezuela's Information Ministry later confirmed Porr...