VIDEO: President & Michelle Obama eat lunch in the Asheville RAD

By GottaLaff

President Obama & his wife Michelle came back as promised to eat Barbeque at 12 Bones in the Asheville RAD. (River Arts District) He tried the Blueberry Chipotle & she, the Brown Sugar Rubbed Ribs with greens & baked beans. We are honored to share our neighborhood with the First Family.

Wow that sounds good!

I never get tired of watching the Obama family, especially at casual restaurants. Why is that?

And now I'm hungry. Thanks, Obamas.

Obamas to vacation in North Carolina

It'll be fun to see how they spin North Carolina into some commie lovin' fascist state. Oooh, after a quick googling I find that NC has a Democratic Governor & LT Gov, so obviously the President is playing favorites. There, I did Hannity's job for him and now I expect a check.

Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama is taking his family on a mini-vacation to Asheville, North Carolina, next weekend, the White House confirmed in a statement.

Obama had been planning to take his wife and two daughters on an official trip to Indonesia and Australia late last month that coincided with spring break for Sasha and Malia.

But the trip was scrapped because the health care debate kept the President pinned down in Washington, so First Lady Michelle Obama took the girls to New York for a few days instead. The entire family has not had a vacation together since the holidays in Hawaii.

Obama, who will vacation in Western North Carolina from Friday until Sunday, has sweet memories of the state dating back to the 2008 campaign.

Raw Video: Obamas Attend Easter Service in DC

Obama's just a dad... and the president

By GottaLaff

The Obamas have emerged as a kind of neo-1950s vision of America's first family.
Olivier Douliery / Abaca Press / January 5, 2010

I needed a diversion... a positive one. This is as close as I could get:

Instead of reflecting their barrier-breaking distinctiveness -- the first black president, the first first lady with a high-powered executive career -- the Obamas have projected a carefully crafted image of ordinariness.

What has emerged is a kind of neo-1950s vision of the first family as the embodiment of traditional "American mom, dad and the kids" values. [...]

The image seems to be working. [...]

In Gallup polls, her favorability rating has shot up since moving into the White House, climbing 20 percentage points in March 2009 from its 43% low in June 2008.

President Obama’s favorability is at 72%, according to a Gallup survey this month.

"I think the American people appreciate the normalcy, and that's part of why his likability remains high," said Leonard Steinhorn, a communications professor at American University in Washington. "He's a guy who likes to go and get burgers. . . . He wants to be with his kids, wants to go on dates with his wife."

You'd never know that from the press he's getting. All we hear about is what a failure he is, how he's running the country into the ground, how he's getting nothing done, and that he's a Muslim dictator who wants to rule the world.

Imagine, all this is ineptness in one measly year. The three years he has left in his first term are ignored. He can't possibly improve anything in the time he has left. The first year is all that counts, he's officially a lame duck.

It's amazing how 72% of those polled overlooked all that.

Raw VIDEO: Obamas Serve Meals at Soup Kitchen

By GottaLaff



What socialist, fascist Muslim terrorists the Obamas are, giving food out to hungry Americans when they could be hoarding it:

President Barack Obama honored Rev. Martin Luther King's legacy by serving meals to the needy on Monday.

Obamas in, reality stars out in desirable neighbors poll

OMG, what has this country come to? We'd rather live next door to a FascistMooslimSocialist family and a couple of those there gay gals (and Sar) than quality "family values" folks?

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Americans would most like to live next door to the Obama family. But a reality star like California's "Octomom", or Jon and Kate Gosselin and their brood of eight would be a big turn off, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha, came top of a poll that asked Americans who would be their most desirable celebrity neighbor.

The U.S. first family were followed by TV chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi, who tied with Republican Sarah Palin, in the poll by online real estate marketplace Zillow.com.

(snip)

Nadya Suleman, the California single mom who this year added octuplets to her existing brood of six children, topped the worst celebrity neighbor poll with 17 percent of votes.

Suleman, dubbed "Octomom" by the U.S. media, was followed by recently divorced reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin and their eight kids.

In a reflection of her tendency to polarize Americans, Sarah Palin, the former Republican vice-presidential contender who has five children, also came third in the worst neighbors list with 11 percent of votes.

Friend of Obama hurt in Hawaii

Just now on MSNBC they said that POTUS cut his golfing short to go back to the compound due to a friend being injured. They said it is not a family member and that there are police and an ambulance at the home they are staying at. I'll follow up when I get more.

ADDED-

HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) - A friend of President Barack Obama's family received minor injuries during the first family's Christmas vacation in Hawaii on Monday, White House aides said.

Aides said no one from the first family was hurt in the incident, details of which were not immediately available. But the incident created a stir when several police vehicles and an ambulance were called to the rental home on the island of Oahu, where the president and his family are staying.

Video & Photos- Obamas visit troops at Hawaii base's Christmas chow-down

Via this article in the Honolulu Advertiser.

Raw Video: Obamas Arrive in Hawaii for Vacation

Raw Video: President Obama Watches Brother-in-law's Team

You can tell who the real basketball fans are in that family.

Photos & Video: White House Hallowpalooza

More pics here.

PhotObama: Halloween edition

By GottaLaff

Boo!

(click on image to enlarge)

They look great no matter what they're wearing.

Photo- White House Releases Portrait of First Family By Annie Leibovitz

What a lovely pic.

Raw Video: Obamas Visit Washington Landmarks

I think it's really neat how they seem to really enjoy the sights in D.C.

Raw Video: Father in Chief

Yesterday he was hanging with the patricians, today it's a soccer field.

Barack Obama's Irish Ancestors Reformed 19th Century Health Care

Dude, I'm telling you people I've got to be related to Obama, Kilkenney is like 30 miles from my family's ancestral home. (Castledermot)

President Barack Obama's Irish American ancestors were pioneers in 19th century health care reform.

Film-maker and historian Gabriel Murray, who found Barack Obama's great-grand uncle's tomb in Kilkenny, Ireland, uncovered the surprise links while he was researching his new documentary, "Obama's Irish Roots" (visit www.olympia-films.co.uk for more information).

One of Obama's Irish American cousins Jackson Brown Baxley (1814-1896) founded the Maryland College of Pharmacy and succesfully lobbied for the registration of pharmacists.

He was the first commissioner appointed and the first president of the Maryland Board of Pharmacy.

(snip)

So, Obama's (other) ancestors pushed for new public hospitals funded by the state to provide cheap health care for the poor.

In total 22 members of the Baxley dynasty practiced in Maryland as doctors, chemists, and health reformers.

Obama's cousins would also go on to push for other improvements in medical care.

They lobbied for the introduction of clinical medical education and practice which gave students first-hand experience in the diagnosis and treatment of patients.

Pic via Reutters.

VIDEO: President Obama & Daughters Go Shopping In Martha's Vineyard

By GottaLaff



Slow day today, so here's another chance to wonder how Malia can only be eleven years old.

President Obama takes Malia & Sasha and their cousin Suhaila Ng shopping in West Tisbury.

Raw Video: Obamas Go Casual for Lunch Out

Malia sure does have that "tween stare" down pat.

Holder of this sign being investigated: "Death to Obama. Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids.”

By GottaLaff

What an utterly sickening excuse for a person. Investigate, incarcerate, throw away the key:

The Secret Service is investigating a man who authorities said held a sign reading "Death to Obama" outside a [Sen. Ben Cardin] town hall meeting on health-care reform in western Maryland.

The sign also read, "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids," referring to the first name of President Barack Obama's wife, said Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Peter Lazich.

These disturbing incidents seem to be multiplying by the day. And we're worried about a swine flu epidemic?

Video- First Grandmother speaks of life in the White House

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