ABC’s GMA Looks At Obama’s Hawaiian Christmas Vacation

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At the top of Monday’s ABC Good Morning America, co-host Chris Cuomo teased a story on Barack Obama’s Christmas vacation plans: "And Aloha, President-elect Barack Obama says Mele Kalikimaka on a bright Hawaiian holiday. We'll take to you to the $30 million retreat where the future first family is spending Christmas." Later, fill-in co-host Elizabeth Vargas introduced the segment: "Barack Obama and his family arrived in Hawaii over the weekend to a multi-million dollar ocean-front home, where they will spend Christmas." At no point in the story did anyone contrast Obama’s lavish getaway with the tough economic times. In fact, Cuomo seemed to dismiss any such criticism at the end of the segment: "I can already hear the rumblings, ‘who paid for the house? Who paid for the house?’"

The report on the Obama vacation, by correspondent Yunji de Nies, seemed more like an episode of ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ than a news story: "The Obamas are waking up to this, Kailua Beach, with 2 ½ miles of pure white sand. At the end sits the family's vacation paradise...The Obama's, along with close friends, rented three houses, worth more than $30 million. Each, a spaces 5,000 feet, with waterfalls and a lagoon pool that flows throughout." de Nies talked to the owner of the resort, David Zimel, who remarked: "It's a home fit for a king. It's a place where royalty actually gathered. So it's -- I think it's pretty fitting that we'd have our next president spend some time here and try to relax."

de Nies also discovered an Obama-tourism industry developing: " If Mr. Obama ventures out to the places where he grew up, he may now find company...Barack Obama bus tours are springing up." She talked to one tour guide, Dennis Lynch, who explained: "I can't explain the joy and satisfaction that we have from a local boy who is now going to be the 44th president in a few weeks." de Nies continued: "The favorite stop? The site of this first job, where tourists can taste a new Obama-inspired flavor, ‘Whirl of Change.’" One happy customer proclaimed: "Change tastes good."

Here is the full transcript of segment:

7:00AM TEASE:

CHRIS CUOMO: And Aloha, President-elect Barack Obama says Mele Kalikimaka on a bright Hawaiian holiday. We'll take to you to the $30 million retreat where the future first family is spending Christmas.

7:17AM SEGMENT:

ELIZABETH VARGAS: So many people are heading home for the holidays, including the president-elect. Barack Obama and his family arrived in Hawaii over the weekend to a multi-million dollar ocean-front home, where they will spend Christmas. ABC's Yunji de Nies has a closer look.

YUNJI DE NIES: The Obamas are waking up to this, Kailua Beach, with 2 ½ miles of pure white sand. At the end sits the family's vacation paradise.

DAVID ZIMEL [PARADISE POINT ESTATES]: It's a home fit for a king. It's a place where royalty actually gathered. So it's -- I think it's pretty fitting that we'd have our next president spend some time here and try to relax.

DE NIES: The Obama's, along with close friends, rented three houses, worth more than $30 million. Each, a spaces 5,000 feet, with waterfalls and a lagoon pool that flows throughout. Dave Zimel's company owns two of the homes and says the future first family is pleased.

ZIMEL: They smiled a lot.

DE NIES: After a flurry of press conferences last week, Mr. Obama is laying low on the golf course, and this is the only suit he's expected to wear.

[FOOTAGE OF OBAMA IN SWIM SUIT]

DE NIES: And when it comes to food, the president-elect loves this Hawaiian favorite, plate lunch, two scoops of rice, macaroni salad, and meat. And don't forget the shaved ice. If Mr. Obama ventures out to the places where he grew up, he may now find company.

DENNIS LYNCH: Good afternoon and Aloha.

DE NIES: Barack Obama bus tours are springing up.

LYNCH: The unit he lived in on the front right.

DE NIES: Tour guide Dennis Lynch says he's got the best job in town.

LYNCH: I can't explain the joy and satisfaction that we have from a local boy who is now going to be the 44th president in a few weeks.

DE NIES: The favorite stop? The site of this first job, where tourists can taste a new Obama-inspired flavor, 'Whirl of Change.'

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Change tastes good.

DE NIES: The family will be spending Christmas here and this could be the carol they sing that morning:

UNIDENTIFIED SINGER: Mele Kalikimaka.

DE NIES: A very Mele Kalikimaka, indeed. For Good Morning America, Yunji de Nies, ABC News, Honolulu.

SINGER: Say Merry Christmas, Say a Merry Christmas to you. Mele Kalikimaka.

VARGAS: Okay, that sun and sand looks really nice right now. The Obamas will stay there until New Year's Day and then head back to Chicago and then D.C. for the girls to start school.

CHRIS CUOMO: I can already hear the rumblings, 'who paid for the house? Who paid for the house?'

VARGAS: It's an awfully nice house.

—Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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Nothing but the best for our

Nothing but the best for our KING!

Who paid for the house

Who paid for the house damnit?!

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Obama's Vacation

Watching CNN this morning in a doctor's office I couldn't help but notice they kept emphasizing over and over that Obama was on a "working vacation."

I can't recall that phrase used every time President Bush went to his ranch in Texas.  In fact I recall a lot of criticism of all the "time off" the President had taken.

Guess there's no rest for a messiah.

Exactly. Here, Slate is

Exactly. Here, Slate is accusing Bush of causing 9/11 because he was on vacation. Here is USA Today questioning whether Bush is taking a too-long vacation. Here is where Bush is accused of "A war President missing in action" because of his vacation. And here, Bush is accused of breaking a record, by non-performing while on vacation.

However, Bush's vacations were in Crawford, not at a multi-million dollar beachhouse in Hawaii. And I haven't heard one single negative thing about Obama's "much-needed" vacation (because he was tired); nor one single positive thing about Bush's vacations.

Who the hell ever listens to the MSM anymore, anyway?

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Hmmm, I am shocked. For

Hmmm, I am shocked.

For some reason I envisioned them ladling out gruel to homeless folks in a South Side soup kitchen.

I'm sure they'll at least tip the little people (hey, that was the name of Brian Keith's TV show shot in Hawaii wasn't it?) generously.

BTW, who did pay for the house? 

Yet another mystery concerning the Obama Messiah? 

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Ladling gruel

Al Gore had carbon offsets/credits.
The Obamas bring you......drumroll please....
Caring Credits!!
Yes folks, you too can pretend to care about poor people!
For the exceptionally low price of your eternal soul, self-respect and dignity, you too can loll in self-indulgence and pomposity while your Caring Credits purchase the adulation of idiots everywhere!
Available exclusively at ABC, CNN, CBS,NBC, MSNBC, and other fine bullshitters.
(this offer is void where prohibited)

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Aww...Come On!!!!

That was FUNNY! Anyone?
*crickets chirping*
D@mn it! They told me if I could make it here, I could make it anywhere....sob...

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Obama's Hawaii vacation

Let him enjoy  his vacation with his family.   He

campaigned hard for two years, and really wanted

this job.   As of January 20th, he's not going to know what hit him.  He's gonna have to be on the

job 24/7, make a lot of important decisions, and

won't be able to go uhhh,  uhhhh,    I uhhh.

Won't be able to sleep late and can't wait to see

that black hair turn completely white.   The job

has a way of aging presidents unmercifully

quick.  Soooooo enjoy Hawaii while you can

Obama, the honeymoon is almost over.

 

And he can forget about

And he can forget about having his waffle.

 

He can't vote present anymore.  And as another poster said, when the first major crisis hits we'll find him underneath the Oval office desk curled up in a fetal position sucking his thumb and whimpering.

Scuba

He's just too worn from ducking and diving while "present". He was positioning himself to be able to take any position that was useful when it came time to run.

"Does anyone really know what he stands for?"

 

Obama must be getting sore from the constant...

...journalistic Lewinskys.

CHRIS CUOMO: I can already

CHRIS CUOMO: I can already hear the rumblings, 'who paid for the house? Who paid for the house?'

Short answer = Big 3 Auto, with a caviot of lowering the "loan" stipulations come next year.

Also, I enjoyed Cuomo's snide comments, as if it has now become taboo to inquire whether we have some quid pro quo going on here with elected officials.

I wonder if the house was

I wonder if the house was comped so that they could forever say, "President Obama slept here" (Because he will be more historic than George Washington after all...)

Obama sure needs a vacation...

after all his hard work in the Senate.

It's just a coincidence that it just happens to be when he promised to release his report on the Blago scandal.

"Sorry...President-elect Obama isn't available today..."

Hey, do you think Bambi

Hey, do you think Bambi might do a Fujimoro?  When the scandal boils over he flees to his home country?

While the Obamas are

While the Obamas are enjoying their multimillion dollar Hawaii vacation we can rest assured that they are 'keenly aware' of the suffering of the American people. As they loll on the beach counting the myriad ways the 'man' is keeping them down, we will struggle to stay in our homes, clinging bitterly to our guns and religion, and freezing our @sses off in the latest wave of global warm, cool, uh climate change.

Let us gird our loins. (Ooh, ooh Sheryl! There's your tagline!)

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Hi chooselife3x

I am absolutely amazed at the hubris involved in this whole story.  Obviously he has no clue the image he presents, all he cares about is that he has moved on up ~~to that DEE lux apartment in the SKY-YYY~~~  and doesn't have to answer to anyone for anything he does.

I like the tagline... only being slightly dyslexic I read it grid our lions, and at first I was a little confused.

Good morning BFF!

If he were smart, he and the family WOULD be ladling gruel in a soup kitchen for the holiday! The press would be tripping over their tongues for at least another month!
On second thought, thank gawd he didn't do that, we'd all drown in the collective froth and drool. *shudder*

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Naw... why change tactics at

Naw... why change tactics at this point when being selfish and arrogant has worked so well for him so far.  And besides, I hear that some of those people in those soup kitchens don't smell too good. Michelle's nose couldn't get more scrunched so if she smelled anything bad her face might crack.

You ain't kiddin'

I'm not generally one to comment on a woman's looks but....geez.
You've got to think a lot of hateful thoughts for a long time to make your face carry it like that. Scary.
I'll bet Barry has a hard time maintaining that 'unflappable calm' when she's pissed. Now THERE is an amusing thought. Imagine the captionfest.....

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Wow! A $30 million dollar

Wow! A $30 million dollar retreat.  Sounds like Obama is palling around with capitalists!

David Zimel, who remarked:

David Zimel, who remarked: "It's a home fit for a king. It's a place where royalty actually gathered. So it's -- I think it's pretty fitting that we'd have our next president spend some time here and try to relax."

I guess he needed a fitting place from which to start his rule of the American peasants.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Dan... Always remember...

Dan...

Always remember... "The way of Communism is peasentry"

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Mele Kalikimaka

Mele Kalikimaka Mo'i Obama

that's gotta be something close to 10K per house per week.  Some rental agency is having a very merry chr- ... holiday.

"part of what I'm hoping to introduce as the next president is a new ethic of [government enforced] responsibility" - B. Obama

So it's OK to say Merry

So it's OK to say Merry Christmas now, as long as it's in Hawaiian?

What happened to the funeral of Obama's Grandmother?

Pardon the directness, but I think it's fairly clear (to me) Obama is a bloodless, pretty cold bas***d.

I did note him on the TV yesterday, doing some weird exercises with a golf club.

But you recall the Granny he threw under the bus. She died just before the election... anyone remember that?

Did he go to the funeral?

Anyone see it reported by our magnificent media? Did the compasionate one rush to visit her grave/rememberance plot once he arrived in Hawaii?

Please don't tell me she's in COLD STORAGE until he can fit a date in his busy diary. That would be HIDEOUS.

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same...
Yours is the earth and all that's in it...

Good question JB

I've been wondering about that myself. Why isn't anyone looking into that? Is she even really dead?

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

choselife -- maybe Obama has

choselife -- maybe Obama has secretly gone to Hawaii to look for the real killer?

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same...
Yours is the earth and all that's in it...

JB LMAO!!!

Wonder how many Caring Credits it costs him to ignore ALL those relatives.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Please don't tell me she's

Please don't tell me she's in COLD STORAGE until he can fit a date in his busy diary. That would be HIDEOUS.

Well its not that hideous, we actually waited a few months after my stepdad passed to bury him.  He was creamated almost immediately as per his wishes but he did not specify any place to plant him.  It took almost 2 weeks for me, my brother and sister to hash out what we were to do with his remains.

And because the place was in Arkansas and my brother was in Japan and sister in Vegas it was almost 2 full months after he passed til he was in the ground.  We also allowed some time so some of our other relatives and his friends to come if they wished.  So it is not inconcievable that plans have been made for future internment to fit the living's schedule.

Remember the funeral and services are for the living because teh dead dont care at this point.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

dan -- that's sounds quite

dan -- that's sounds quite different.

I suspect you dealt repectfully with your late step-dad's body and arranged for his cremation in good order, no doubt with the trappings of a religious ceremony if he was that way inclined?

The later interment/burial of the ashes is always sometime after the cremation anyway. Recently my uncle died, and we had the funeral service at the local church, followed by cremation at another location

His ashes were buried a couple of weeks later at a Garden of Rest.

My serious point was that there is some differnece between that and keeping your gran in cold storage as if she's a crime victim, to fit in with your schedule.

The fact that we have heard nothing makes me suspect this is waht has happened.

Of course, if we had a real press, they would ask him. Respectfully. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope so.

If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same...
Yours is the earth and all that's in it...

Well, it's no longer of any

Well, it's no longer of any such importance I suppose to Obama.

Have you noticed when he threw her under the bus several times, she never said a word to discredit him? There wasn't even a "How dare you!" from her. When she died, she died at a time RIGHT before the election. I apologize in advance for sounding horrible, but it just seems a bit too neat. I am not thinking he DID something to cause her death, but more of that she was a willing participant in order to get him elected. His grandmother's death seemed to try to get pity points. Remember that Obama's mother, grandmother, and grandfather were Communists. I have noticed in the history of Communism that they will do anything to further their agenda. It's sad but true. If Obama did not exhibit pandering the way he does, I wouldn't think this at all. However, since he does, I can't help but have it cross my mind.

If he did bury her, he probably did it without a peep from the willing mass media as her usefulness is now over to him. The cause has been forwarded. Sad, but I wouldn't be suprised if it was true.

Interesting. I did a search on Google and I found that the Obamas requested a private burial at an undisclosed location in general, which is nothing out of the ordinary, but at the same time Obama doesn't like to disclose much of anything. He loves the press and basks in it, but he forgets that they want to watch him constantly 24-7. It seems like he wants to turn it off and on, to control.

It will definitely be interesting.

Search here.

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New BARRKY tour of ...

... "the places where he grew up".  Except you can't see the hospital where he was born BECAUSE IT ISN'T THERE!  BARRKY YOU ARE A FAUX-PREZ and an ILLEGAL ALIEN to boot.

"It's a home fit for a king..."

Oh, of course it is...NOTHING is too good for our Dear Leader, "The One," the Obamessiah.

If this were a Republican we were talking about here, the MSM would be screaming about this!

 "...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

What happened to the DC

What happened to the DC (Blair House) crisis? I thought they were gonna have to live in a car for a couple of weeks so the kids wouldn't miss school.

Wait, how many times did

Wait, how many times did Bush go to an expensive luxury rental property on his vacations in the 8 years he was President? 

 Who actually did pick up the tab, after all the same congress that chided the Big 3 Auto Execs when they used private Jets have nothing to say about the money being used for this???

 

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."

More filthy hypocrisy and

More filthy hypocrisy and msm bias...

At times like this with our so called depression the msm swoons about everyday....and any repub president elect had done this, the msm would have followed the $$$ and still be pillorying said candidate, 24/7.

Makes me sick.

Nice he is over there to-boot when he declares Rahm/others innocent tomorrow with he, The Chosen One's so-called investigative report.

Isn't it convenient.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Some Inconvenient Truths...

Former Kailua resident here.

It's a great, funky little town. Has been for decades. It's one of the only towns on the entire island of Oahu that hasn't been over-developed. When I made my first return visit there a few years ago after having not seen the place since 1966, I was amazed at how little it had actually changed. Kudos for that.

However...the media isn't reporting the drug addiction problems the area is going thru with Ice (crystal meth). Kailua's had major problems with that. The house we rented right on the beach (about 2 blocks from where Barry is now) was visited by a meth-head our third night there. When we recounted the incident the next morning to the friendly guy living in the house across the alley, he just laughed and said "I can't even leave my sneakers out on my front step. They get stolen". He was a retired FBI agent.

Just last weekend, the entire beach was closed-it had flooded with raw sewage which turned Kailua Bay light brown. Kailua's ancient public sewer system is legendary-much of it is over 50 years old and a lot of it has never been upgraded. They have been upgrading the section along the ocean for 5 years now, and it apparently never ends.

The place Barry is staying was once the estate of Harold Castle. He owned basically the entire town, starting in 1917, and donated pieces of land in town for assorted churches and other institutions. As his bio says:

"Mr. Castle donated land for churches of all different denominations because he felt that churches would bring congregations, congregations would bring stability, and that would benefit the community that was growing around them."

He also donated the land nearby to the US, and it's now US Marine Corp Base Hawaii (it used to be called Kaneohe Bay MCAS).

Castle also donated land near the churches for the hospital that bears his name. Castle Hospital, later named Castle Medical Center, is sadly basically only known for being the place where The Man Who Shot John Lennon worked before he left for New York and his date with history. Chapman's wife in fact still lives in Kailua.

Hey Del... Thanks for all

Hey Del...

Thanks for all of this great information you provided, I sure wouldn't have known zilch about any of this if it wasn't for you.

Castle sounds like a very interesting man.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Stay in Hawaii

Obama should just stay in Hawaii and govern from his throne.

Wondering

 

The money that is being used for the Hawaii vacation must be  left over cash from the obama campaign if people are wondering.

He sounds like the holiday guy type. LOL....

 

 

ChoseLife3X,

I laughed at your caring credits joke. 

This is mean, but I hope that sanitation system burps while O&M are frolicking in the waves.  This overindulgence is disgusting when the rest of the U.S. are tightening their belts this Christmas.  Their big huge jet that they chartered to get them out there left a huge carbon footprint, too.  Oh well, maybe that will warm things up around here, as I'm sick of subzero temperatures. 

 

 

Karin

THANK GOD!
Those crickets were really starting to get to me.....
Someone once told me I had an ascerbic wit and I've never gotten over it....
He also told me I over use the trail off......
Dammit!

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Good morning Chose

You made me look up the word acerbic. Acid tongue describes any woman when she gets mad. Just like all women my wife was very good at it.

You women on this site are also very accurate with the darts you throw. Don't change and don't lose your wit. Things would be very dull if we were all the same.

Have a merry and peaceful Christmas. Be blessed.

Better to be trailing than trolling, so I'll be trailing off now.........

Dadgummit

I use a cool word and manage to drop an extra letter in it. Shoulda used the Preview option. Now I'm gonna have to go crawling back to every lib I've gleefully dissected and admit I misspelled something. D@mn!
Good to see you around cocodrie.
Thanks for the kind words.*preening* Did I mention I'm also VERY good-looking? Humble too. ;-)
God bless and a Merry Christmas to you!

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

Oh MY GOD.

Fred Phelps was talking about picketing Obama's grandmother's funeral.

Starting link here.

Phelps is certainly batsh!t insane. I guess this jerk wanted more variety in his life.

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ~ Winston Churchill

Nero fiddles while Rome burns

While the rest of us struggle to survive from week to week, "Ears" and his family go out to beautiful Hawaii and tell us to "let 'em eat cake". Yep, Nero fiddles while Rome burns...if any Republican did this, you'd know what would happen.

The Messiah's Story

I have said this on another thread on Newsbusters,  but it is worth repeating.

What traditions are the Obamas teaching their children while they laze in the sun? Will there be a crib, a manger, a story about the first Christmas?

What about the sound of reindeer on the roof?

This is outrageous of the first family. The worst part is that they are telling other American families that Christmas is not worth celebrating. I detest these most prominent secular-progressives.