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CHILMARK, Massachusetts (AP) President Barack Obama on Saturday left Washington for his familiar spot on Martha's Vineyard for a two-week summer vacation, which comes as the U.S. is engaged in airstrikes against Islamic militant targets in Iraq.
Obama, along with wife Michelle, daughter Malia and dogs Bo and Sunny, arrived at a Coast Guard station on Cape Cod before heading to the island off the Massachusetts coast. The presidential motorcade wove its way around Martha's Vineyard before pulling down a secluded drive that led to the Obamas' rented vacation house.
The president spent just 30 minutes at the house before taking off for the golf course. Joining Obama for a round at the Farm Neck Golf Club were former NFL player Ahmad Rashad, NBA player Ray Allen, and Cyrus Walker, the cousin of White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Obama has spent at least part of his summer in Martha's Vineyard each year he has been president except 2012, when he was running for re-election. In an unusual twist, he's breaking up his vacation with a two-day return to Washington midway through the trip.
Obama's advisers have been cagey about why the president is returning to Washington, saying only that he plans to hold in-person meetings at the White House
The president typically keeps a low-profile on his annual summer vacations, making the occasional visit into town and playing several rounds of golf. But he will headline a Democratic fundraiser on the island Monday night.
Before departing Washington Saturday, Obama told reporters that he was ready "to not have a suit on for a while."
If you include this 2-week vacation, the President will have taken 141 days of vacation since he was sworn in.
At the same mark in George W. Bush's presidency, he was at 378 days, and had taken 57 trips in 5.5 years to Crawford, TX.
At this rate, Obama will have to turn his 8th year as President into a vacation just to catch Dubya, and that guy had 2 wars, Hurricane Katrina and a crumbling economy happening.
President Obama?s Martha?s Vineyard trip will mark 141 days of vacationing - Finance Post
If you include this 2-week vacation, the President will have taken 141 days of vacation since he was sworn in.
At the same mark in George W. Bush's presidency, he was at 378 days, and had taken 57 trips in 5.5 years to Crawford, TX.
At this rate, Obama will have to turn his 8th year as President into a vacation just to catch Dubya, and that guy had 2 wars, Hurricane Katrina and a crumbling economy happening.
President Obama?s Martha?s Vineyard trip will mark 141 days of vacationing - Finance Post
I had no idea Crawford TX was a hot vacation spot.
Dunces trying the moral equivalence thing and failing. Bush worked at Crawford. Obama seems to work at fundraising and golf.
If you include this 2-week vacation, the President will have taken 141 days of vacation since he was sworn in.
At the same mark in George W. Bush's presidency, he was at 378 days, and had taken 57 trips in 5.5 years to Crawford, TX.
At this rate, Obama will have to turn his 8th year as President into a vacation just to catch Dubya, and that guy had 2 wars, Hurricane Katrina and a crumbling economy happening.
President Obama?s Martha?s Vineyard trip will mark 141 days of vacationing - Finance Post
I had no idea Crawford TX was a hot vacation spot.
Dunces trying the moral equivalence thing and failing. Bush worked at Crawford. Obama seems to work at fundraising and golf.
If you include this 2-week vacation, the President will have taken 141 days of vacation since he was sworn in.
At the same mark in George W. Bush's presidency, he was at 378 days, and had taken 57 trips in 5.5 years to Crawford, TX.
At this rate, Obama will have to turn his 8th year as President into a vacation just to catch Dubya, and that guy had 2 wars, Hurricane Katrina and a crumbling economy happening.
President Obama?s Martha?s Vineyard trip will mark 141 days of vacationing - Finance Post
If you include this 2-week vacation, the President will have taken 141 days of vacation since he was sworn in.
At the same mark in George W. Bush's presidency, he was at 378 days, and had taken 57 trips in 5.5 years to Crawford, TX.
At this rate, Obama will have to turn his 8th year as President into a vacation just to catch Dubya, and that guy had 2 wars, Hurricane Katrina and a crumbling economy happening.
President Obama?s Martha?s Vineyard trip will mark 141 days of vacationing - Finance Post
I had no idea Crawford TX was a hot vacation spot.
Dunces trying the moral equivalence thing and failing. Bush worked at Crawford. Obama seems to work at fundraising and golf.
What's the material difference between golfing and pretending to be a rancher?
i am guessing you are too fucking stupid to know, there was a "mini" oval office in his Crawford home.
Obama leaves DC for Martha's Vineyard vacation
i am guessing you are too fucking stupid to know, there was a "mini" oval office in his Crawford home.
Link?
Obama leaves DC for Martha's Vineyard vacation
Where he'll continue to work just as he did in Washington, addressing the same issues, communicating with the same administrators, and issuing the same orders and instructions as if he were in the White House.
No modern president goes on 'vacation.'
i am guessing you are too fucking stupid to know, there was a "mini" oval office in his Crawford home.
Link?
Obama leaves DC for Martha's Vineyard vacation
Where he'll continue to work just as he did in Washington, addressing the same issues, communicating with the same administrators, and issuing the same orders and instructions as if he were in the White House.
No modern president goes on 'vacation.'
All true, but you libs always made a big fricken deal of it whenever Bush went to Crawford. Its just payback, and you assholes started it.
Obama leaves DC for Martha's Vineyard vacation
Where he'll continue to work just as he did in Washington, addressing the same issues, communicating with the same administrators, and issuing the same orders and instructions as if he were in the White House.
No modern president goes on 'vacation.'
All true, but you libs always made a big fricken deal of it whenever Bush went to Crawford. Its just payback, and you assholes started it.
If you include this 2-week vacation, the President will have taken 141 days of vacation since he was sworn in.
At the same mark in George W. Bush's presidency, he was at 378 days, and had taken 57 trips in 5.5 years to Crawford, TX.
At this rate, Obama will have to turn his 8th year as President into a vacation just to catch Dubya, and that guy had 2 wars, Hurricane Katrina and a crumbling economy happening.
President Obama?s Martha?s Vineyard trip will mark 141 days of vacationing - Finance Post
I had no idea Crawford TX was a hot vacation spot.
Dunces trying the moral equivalence thing and failing. Bush worked at Crawford. Obama seems to work at fundraising and golf.
What's the material difference between golfing and pretending to be a rancher?
