REGAL R&R: Obamas live like royalty on lavish Hawaiian holiday

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Washington Times:

History will record that on the 12th day of his latest Hawaiian vacation, President Obama tweeted about Obamacare.

 

That was one of the president’s few visible acts of official business during his 16-day holiday retreat before he and his family return to Washington on Sunday. The president’s winter recess has rivaled just about anyone’s dream getaway, filled with endless golf, dinners at high-end restaurants, snorkeling at a closed nature preserve and a private, after-hours visit to a spectacular zoo.

 

The president’s aides say he is always on the job, even in the Pacific paradise. Mr. Obama has received daily presidential briefings complete with the “threat matrix” — secret guidance culled from intelligence agencies about hot spots around the world.

 

The president also issued a statement about ailing former first lady Barbara Bush, took part in a conference call about Sudan, signed a handful of bills, called senators about a contentious bill and received updates on terrorist attacks in Russia.

 

Otherwise, the trip has been an unbroken stretch of luxurious living for the president with his family at a beach house in trendy Kailua, an oceanfront neighborhood in Oahu where the homes rent for $3,500 per day — more than many families earn in a month. The Obamas are paying for the $56,000 cost of the rental home, although taxpayers foot the bill for the first family’s travel on Air Force One — which, at more than $180,000 per hour, makes for a couple of million-dollar flights.

[nickydog]

America's version of the Nomenklatura. And Obama has the gall to talk about the gap between the rich and the poor. I don't know why I read this stuff. It just sends my blood pressure through the roof. He says they don't go to church because it is disruptive, but they close a whole zoo so his family can visit it, and an entire bay so they can snorkel.

 

On a totally unrelated note, we lived on Oahu in the late '60's and I frequently took my 2 little ones to that zoo. It was free admission in those days and a nice reason to get out of the house. What amazed me most was they had a robin included with the other exotic birds. I would stand in utter fascination looking at that bird that was so common in the Midwest where I grew up.