voices.washingtonpost.com - 12/22/2008
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By Philip Rucker HONOLULU -- President-elect Barack Obama spent his first full day in Hawaii working out with his wife, Michelle, ordering local delicacies and playing 18 holes of golf on a rolling green set against the backdrop of a volcanic mountain range. As he began a 13-day vacation in ...
starbulletin.com - 12/21/2008
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President-elect Barack Obama arrived in his native Hawaii
yesterday for a holiday vacation that begins a month...
before he takes the oath of office. Beneath overcast skies, the president-elect's private United Airlines charter plane arrived at Honolulu ...
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Obamas begin isle vacation - Hawaii News
swamppolitics.com - 12/30/2008
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by Mark Silva Has Barack Obama got game
on the golf course? It's hard to tell, standing...
back as far as the "protective pool'' does. But the reporters assigned to the president-elect's Hawaiian vacation have reported seeing the Illinoisan on ...
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Obama's golf game: 'Better than bowling'
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As Economy Crumbles and Hungry Homeless Freeze in the Streets of Chicago, Dear Leader Obama Plays Golf in Hawaii
JammieWearingFool —
... Just imagine that headline and indignant howls of feigned outrage if a heartless Republican were to go play golf and luxuriate at a $9 million mansion in Hawaii while the continental United States shivered in the wake of record cold. Heck, I didn't know this guy had ever picked up a golf club before. Heaven help us if we have to go through Clinton-like stories about his links prowess while he racks up 18 mulligans every round. Obama, a left-handed golfer, sported black shades and wore a white polo shirt, brown cargo shorts, short white socks and golf shoes. About midway ...
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... Of course, sometimes it will be hard to distinguish gossip-blog emoting over our new, sexy C-in-C from pool reports published in the Washington Post, as is the case today: ...
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