Obama spends first day of Hawaii vacation golfing
JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARADVERTISER.COM
President Barack Obama talks with Sen. Brian Schatz, left, Honolulu mayor Kirk Caldwell, and Gov. David Ige after arriving from Washington D.C. aboard Air Force One on Friday, December 16, 2016 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii.
President Obama is spending the first day of his holiday vacation in Hawaii at the golf course.
His golfing partners today are Bobby Titcomb, Joe Paulsen, Michael Brush and Luke Rosa.
They are golfing at the Kaneohe Klipper golf course.
The First Family touched down in Hawaii just before 11 p.m. Friday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
The Obamas left their Kailua vacation rental at 9:56 a.m. and arrived shortly after at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
According to White House travel pool reports, a small group of protesters held signs at the end of Kailuana Place calling for the closure of Guantanamo, clemency for Chelsea Manning, “End Gaza Blockade” and another sign reading “8 Years Waiting, Stop and Talk.”
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First stop , get his drugs .
welcome home Mr. president!
E komo mai e Mr. President. Aloha Kakou!
Come on Allie, Hawaii is not his home. He doesn’t live here, pay State taxes, own a home. His home is the murder capitol of the United States, Chicago. Go home.
She doesn’t live her either.
Neither does les. Aloha les.
Nanakuliboss, front and center.
“Welcome Home” ???
Are you in Kenya Allie ?
Manoa…
Manoa, Indonesia ?
Do you ever stop lying? Ever?
“Eight o’clock in the morning, a month before he becomes President of the United States, and the first thing he thinks of is to set his stubby lil’ fingers firing away in pursuit of a petty feud that began almost 30 years ago. This is manic behavior of the worst sort. Or, more precisely, of a worse sort, because I fear we haven’t come close yet to seeing what the worst sort of manic behavior out of this guy would be. For example, can you imagine what his reaction will be if some murderous gang of idiots makes a try at one of the properties bearing his name? We could lose a damn hemisphere.”
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a51584/trump-manic-behavior/
hold on to your aluminum hats SA nut crackers…… you will look back at the Obama years with longing. Alooooooha
Klipper is good! Have fun!
I was not a big fan. But I appreciate him a LOT more now, that we’re about to have another Dubya in office. OMG. He can’t even spell his tweets. Economy be doomed. We’re all doomed. War is hell.
He couldn’t wait another month for his permanent vacation. Instead he was compelled to spend >4.5 million of our tax dollars to come here now. And look at all our crony local DEMS sucking up & smiling away…lol
Hey Mr. President, did you get our underwater drone back yet?
Latenightroach Go back in your hole!!!
Already there trulies, inside of your head 😉
With your brother kakaroach.
peotus trump tweeted china and they are returning the drone..opala was on the fone with his dealer
auwe
His Precedential statement: oh so forceful……. yeah he got it back.
hahahahaha
dear dear deep diver – this is from his own web page.
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
We should tell China that we don’t want the drone they stole back.- let them keep it!
Please, just stay on the golf course for the next four weeks. Merry Christmas.
Amen. Any stupid president who backed Cadwell for mayor when he has single handedly put Honolulu to the breaking point with the disaster called rail can take a hike in my opinion. Go deep into the mountains and stay there Mr. President. Punahou gave us a terrible football coach in Chow, a more horrible and lying basketball coach in Arnold and now Barry boy. No more Punahou guys please thank you.
Obama has been a decent president. He was given a plate full when he first came in and look at his record. Dow up to almost 20. unemployment down and the deficit cut by well over half. Time will tell if the Donald can equal Obama’s record, surpass it, or if the economy will go to hell in a hand basket. Considering that the Donald will be pushing Voodoo, I believe the economy will be heading south.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll pick up some SPX puts right away. I’m gonna be rich…!!!!
Our charismatic son of Hawaii, who did not come here for Pearl’s 75th is back here later for his vacation. I think history will remember our President as a charismatic, first black president, but should also show the deltas such as the mis-management of the federal govt. With scandals such as the VA, OPM, Affordable care, etc…he was one of the poorest executive branch managers we ever had. Not sure if he can take credit for economy, a lot of that may be due to a congress that not let him have much of anything. His true legacy is his presidency is giving way to Trump, a dubious honor at best.
Try Fox News for the truth.
LOL Schatz and Caldwell are like “You wearing my shirt man!”
Have a great time First Family.
Nanakuliboss throwing one luau for the first family at the SI shelters. Kalua spam, day old rice. Malia and Sasha going ewww.
I hope Morimoto does take out for him tonight. Didn’t appreciate the cell phone jamming technology last year when I was next door.
Right, because it’s more important for each and every one of us to have our precious phone at all times and all hours of the day and night than to have our president be secure.
Wow dude you have no Aloha – they are not just telephones any more. Care givers have vital services connected to these things that can get disrupted. Others have lifeline services that connect directly to the hospital. This is Hawaii not the mainland. Barry is secure here and blocking cell phones does not do a thing to make him more secure.
Morimotos closed a month ago, so I think he’s not gonna eat there this trip.
Go home soon!
Don’t forget Island Snow tommorrow. Island mango rainbow is great.
Of all the trips to Hawaii, this one is not appropriate and is definitely a waste of tax payers dollars. He’s “retiring” in a month and he takes a vacation paid by the government/us. That’s “milking the system”.
No shame!
It is rather unbelievable.
milking the system is DT’s rejection of the White House for his golden tower that we have to pay to protect –
Money well spent.
Wait till trump rape your taxes. Lol, most trumpies here said trump is a genius for nor paying taxes for 20 years. Trumpies always say they also take the max exemptions and tax credit. Then cry that their 5 cents is use on POTUS. LOL.
Nanakuliboss, why do you care. You don’t pay taxes. It’s the other way around. And no lie. Welfare check direct deposit?
Obama to the Three Stooges: Good luck getting the Rail Fail through under the next administration…
There you go folks. One picture explains all you need to know why this city and state is so messed up.
Yup. The caption should read: “Let the brown nosing begin.”
$4.5 million? Budweiser beer paid $5.2 million for every 30 second TV commercial during this year’s 2016 NFL Super Bowl — and they had 10 commercials. So Barry’s return gets our Hawaii in the news every day he’s here —World wide! As the HTA says, we all benefit from his family vacations here.
Trouble with your theory is anybody with a brain wants nothing to do with him.
It’s eating up these haters. Whining for 8 years
Lol. They will whine for 4 more years while the trumpf grab um by their little peen hammers.
At least he’s not spending all his time appearing at ego-tripping victory rallies a month after the election — a time to be devoting full attention to the upcoming transition — like a certain someone I hardly need to name.
Trump won.
Oh, you mean the THANK YOU tour that PE Trump is heading up? After putting in a full day of work. I don’t recall any politician ever doing that. Barry went on an Apology Tour after his election. Sec. Clinton held a party for her top tier donors that resembled The Blame Game Pt. 2. Or, as one guest quipped “It was like a wake with a band.”
You on your game as usual! ^5
January 20, 2017 #MAGA
Sure didn’t see opals thanking anyone.
But I guess you like being worked.
go home opala..you’re a disgrace to hawai’i..no come back
adios!!
Look in the mirror you’ll see the disgrace of Hawaii. Please leave the State you show no Aloha.
Keep on diving until you cannot come back up. It’s a bitter pill for you to swallow but President Obama is leaving office at the top of his game. Highest approval ratings since Clinton.You are the man and black lives starting with you does indeed matter. Mahalo nui for your eight years of unprecedented leadership and for anyone who disagrees fu-k you.
SA..you permit this kind of liberal profanity now?
No class keaukaka can’t handle the loss and continues with the racist comments. The ignore button is badly needed.
I’m just enjoying watching the Chump enhance his swamp while flipping the bird to all you idi-ts. Don’t see no plain folks in his meetings just more of the mega rich whose only wish is that you all disappear until 2020. Like the saying goes Chumpsters should be seen but not heard
I hope they didn’t lose his prayer mat and bong going through customs. I actually hope I see his convoy this time, so I can make a big “L” with one hand and give him the middle finger with the other. If my taxes are funding this $4-million trip and $90-million for his past Kwanzaa vacations, that’s the least I can have.
Go to Chicago your real home and vacation. It is funny too see Schatz, Caldwell and Ige smiling like possums eating ….. they are sucking up to the wrong person.
Trump is the man now and may cancel all Federal monies to the rail when he learns of the gross mismanagement by Hawaii. He will be appalled at the waste of money
and should call for a Federal investigation of the Hawaii rail officials and project before one more federal cent is spent on the Honolulu rail system.
don’t be so mean….we are proud of him!
As a life long resident of this State, I am not. You have to have been around to experience Reagan era to understand…it was a wonderful time. If you took the initiative you did well. Regardless, Aloha means welcome and it also means good bye. I send the the later to anointed one.
Except you are wrong. “Reaganomics” was disastrous as was the stock market crash that trashed a lot of people’s retirement accounts. Who can forget President Reagan, in the early stages of dementia, falling asleep at the Iceland Summit and none of his aides could wake him.
Look at the sorry as.ses he is associating with
A perfect kakistocracy if there ever was one.
First year in his Presidency we read and hear a lot of his sister and her family ! Does he still keep in touch with her? Are they still close as we were led to believe? Or is she a non-entity with no use after he was re-elected? She was pretty and seems very nice!
Listen:
KA-CHING, KA-CHING, KA-CHING !!!
That’s the sound of money leaving the Tax-Payer’s Account.
Running the well dry, squeezing the last drop of blood.
Then.. back to Chicago !!!
Cmon,retirees and retired government workers pay squat taxes. If fact with SS and Medicare, you guys owe the working folk because we are supporting you. You guys are ripping the system.
Ha! I paid more in taxes last year than you paid in ten years. Yeah I’m retired but I got a good education and have a very good income also. You supporting me? Get real. Of course, I wouldn’t mind having the 50K+ in taxes back just to make what you say true.
What the hell are these three blunders laughing about?
That The Chump is going to crash and burn.
Mele Kalikimaka!
Less-les they are laughing at you.
You too if you actually pay taxes.
The greatest president to have ever served. In good company with Kennedy and Clinton. It’s all downhill from here back to the feudal system. All you suckers will get what you deserve.
Delusional ! ^^^^
Kennedy and Clinton? You’re serious?
KK check out Cal Coolidge and Ronald Reagan, tell me what you think then.
Regal had dementia in his 30s. Acting and boozing the lifestyle.
Wow. Judging from most of the comments here, I don’t think Hawaii should be called the Aloha State any more.
sad but true
The Chump does not know aloha and so does his subjects
Chump couldnt be worse than crapwell
Because too many haloes. No Hawaiians no Aloha.
Haoles
Racist, silly comment. All races are capable of aloha.
Give him a break. He was calling me a “halo.” I think that’s kind of sweet.
Isn’t that the truth. I wonder how many of these nasty commenters live here. I hope none
Most of them do so get used to it. Can’t wait for a visit from a real leader. Welcome President Trump. Aloha
sarge is a military transplant. Hey go swim at sharks cove. Take les with you.
Obama ignoring three politicians trying to kiss his behind. He just wants to play golf, eat at Alan Wong, enjoy his private beach and talk to his friends.
And puff.
GASP!
((cough))
Didn’t the Governor get the memo to wear his Sig Zane shirt?
The three stooges greet the President.
President Obama is the people’s champ.
More like the people’s chump. His 8 years of governing by executive order will soon be wiped out by the Republican controlled U.S. House and Senate. His legacy will be failure and a spectacular wipeout of the Democratic Party on the mainland.
Are Schatz and Caldwell wearing the same shirt? Guess Ige never got the memo.
The most vacationing president ever!
You are just completely wrong. Please stop making up “facts.” George W. Bush took the most vacations while in office. More than 407.
As far as golfing goes:
“That title falls to Woodrow Wilson, who reportedly played about 1,200 rounds during his presidency. Dwight Eisenhower is the runner-up at 800, according to his memorial commission.”
(reported)