Obama's Sunday: Basketball At University Of Chicago, Haircut In Hyde Park

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama dropped by the University of Chicago campus Sunday for two hours of basketball with friends.

Obama, who's spending a long weekend in his hometown, headed out Sunday to indoor basketball courts where he has played before. Aides did not say who played hoops with the president.

After the game, Obama stopped at his barber's apartment for a quick haircut.

Obama and his family plan to return to Washington on Monday.

Comments

[WFV]

10:28 AM on 02/17/2009

It's good to be home, isn't it? I, for one, am jealous.

[larry278]

11:13 AM on 02/16/2009

Prez Obama has allowed me to understand the lyrics of, "Home Sweet Chicago", in a different way. The same thing goes for whom ever wrote the blog for HP. Thank you. It's a blues lover thing. The blues live & change. That's what makes the blues an art.

[devadasi]

01:12 PM on 02/16/2009

Exactly! It's all a work in progress!

[NCRDIBULL]

08:10 AM on 02/16/2009

Speaking of U of C ,, remember that job Michelle had at u of C hospitals , where she magically had her salary doubled , when her husband became senator? Well since she resigned , the hospital realized that the position is not one that needed to be filled ..

[OutragedMom]

08:16 AM on 02/16/2009

Maybe because we are in a recession and everyone is cutting back, including hospital chains?
What a snarky comment.

[LiberTLover]

10:19 AM on 02/16/2009

They created their name to indicate the content of their posts. Considerate really, saves one the time of reading them.

[jazabelz]

10:00 AM on 02/16/2009

And how do you know any of this? Did Rush or Oriley tell you?

[Lillopa]

05:19 AM on 02/16/2009

Republicans had 3 weeks to" read stimulus" and never read it with all their aids they have. Never read it Republicans are saying now ----had 3 weeks and just voted NO NO NO HOW MANY TIMES? Republicans only had to read 10% of final last changes.
If Republicans had been working on the stimulus instead for 3 weeks , instead of campaigning for 2012 . It would of only taken repulbicans an hour read!

A lady in Washington proved it! Read the whole stimulus bill through the night "not ever seeing" it for the first time and handed in a 10 page report to CNN with the winners and losers in the bill~ more republican bull crap~repulbans are liars and actors!

[pupbayer]

07:14 AM on 02/16/2009

Sorry to burst your hate-filled, biased bubble but NO one in Congress read it.

[NCYvonne]

07:43 AM on 02/16/2009

Well, that really makes it bad, doesn't it? Republicans spend every waking hour railing against a bill they haven't even read?

[DontselltheUS]

02:58 AM on 02/16/2009

Loved your video!

[Rockster]

11:41 PM on 02/15/2009

Jealous, hating Caucasians. You would find fault w/ anything he did. As my aunt used to say, "don't ever concern yourself with what white people think of you. They will always find something wrong. Good advice.

[PippiLongstocking]

06:49 AM on 02/16/2009

Lol.

[judiNJ]

12:39 PM on 02/16/2009

No, no. I am a white, older lady who just adores our President. I voted for him in our NJ primary and have had an Obama08 bumper sticker since Jan 08. I also raised money for him and sent more that $1,000 of my own money to his election campaign. Many, many of us Caucasians are strong Obama supporters. I lost my beloved Bobby Kennedy when he was assassinated in the 60s and have not had as much respect for anyone since then till our President Obama. Do NOT think we white folks do not support or love this wonderful man!

[Kartoffel]

10:27 PM on 02/15/2009

This is hilarious. Barack's stimulus legislation, which was allegedly so nail-bitingly urgent that Congress voted on it Friday night WITHOUT READING IT, so urgent that Congress broke its promise to have the bill posted online for 48 hours before voting so as to let the American people read it -- that selfsame piece of earth-shatteringly urgent legislation will now be sitting on Barack's desk until Tuesday so he and Michelle can take a three day holiday. Apparently the man is so arrogant he doesn't even care what any of this looks like to the public.

[DMHendrix]

10:48 PM on 02/15/2009

Any person in Congress that voted on that bill without reading it has NO excuse. Its been written for two weeks. They had plenty of opportunity. The only things added were changes and amendments, so the argument doesn't hold water...any more than it did when they used the same excuses for not reading the war resolutions or the Patriot Act.

The moaning and groaning, whining and complaining and all the crocodile tears in the world doesn't change the fact that the bill passed.

Deal with it.

[Kartoffel]

10:59 PM on 02/15/2009

Changes and amendments are insignificant? A lot of posters on liberal blogs are saying the amendments were significant enough to neuter the bill, and I don't doubt that if the stimulus fails you'll be right here on HuffPo posting about the evil amendments that sabotaged Barack's glorious stimulus bill. And in any event, if Barack had no intention of signing the thing until Tuesday, what harm would there have been in letting the senators have the weekend to read the text of the bill that they were voting on? Not to mention letting the AMERICAN PEOPLE have 48 hours to read it, as Congress promised.

Tell me, please, what harm would it have done?

[readyfornewleadership]

11:15 PM on 02/15/2009

selfsame?? get over yourself.

[Kartoffel]

11:36 PM on 02/15/2009

Billiant. You really put me in my place. Your post has caused me to rethink my entire political philosophy. Thank you for your words of wisdom.

[prosha]

09:32 PM on 02/15/2009

Being all green and everything, did the Obama's purchase carbon offsets to cover the many tons of carbon that he and posse spewed for a long weekend back home? Shared sacrifice and all that.

[RoseHussein]

04:13 PM on 02/16/2009

We could have the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES fly with a commercial company, but I'm thinking that would be a NATIONAL SECURITY issue. Why is this even an issue.

And yes, I was shouting.

[falls1105]

08:41 PM on 02/15/2009

Good job thanks for sharing

[scottMontgomery]

08:12 PM on 02/15/2009

What he's accomplished is unprecedented and instead of harshing on Obama playing basketball why not throw that anger where it should land; on Wall Street and the republican senators you may have voted for.

[RoseHussein]

04:15 PM on 02/16/2009

Here, here!

[jedi penguin]

06:21 PM on 02/15/2009

Basketball!?!? He was playing basketball? My church is a couple of blocks from that court, and we watched almost two dozen cars get towed this morning... just so he could play basketball? He's got to learn that Hyde Park is a highly residential area and not do stuff like that. If there isn't a court in the White House, it should be easy enough to put in.

*shaking head*

[notsostimulated]

07:07 PM on 02/15/2009

Change you can count on!!! In the middle of an economic meltdown our president is MIA. Did he attend church services this morning? Probably not, because he is a fraud.

[coco51]

07:17 PM on 02/15/2009

Did you just say the President is MIA? AND YOUR CONGRESSMAN WAS IN CHURCH RIGHT?

[rdiaz921]

07:42 PM on 02/15/2009

he won.

[buzzygirl]

07:38 PM on 02/15/2009

Keep on hating. You must have some serious heartburn from all that acid build up.

[jedi penguin]

11:22 AM on 02/16/2009

Wow, what a well reasoned response to a simple query of whether it was TRULY necessary to tow dozens of cars for the sake of a basketball game! I don't hate anybody; I just think that Obama should be more aware of how extreme the Secret Service can be.

[ztower]

05:55 PM on 02/15/2009

If only Congress had realized the Prez was taking the weekend off, they could have actually read the legislation before voting.

[eltopo]

06:17 PM on 02/15/2009

Why would Congress start reading bills now, all of the sudden?

[notsostimulated]

07:05 PM on 02/15/2009

He is such a fraud. I'm so glad I did not vote for him.

[coco51]

07:20 PM on 02/15/2009

Your one vote didn't stop his win did it? This is a Federal holiday just in case you missed it, your Congressman and Representative aren't in DC. One more question, why was Lindsey Graham and King on national television talk shows this morning instead of working on the bill? BECAUSE IT'S SUNDAY AND IT'S A HOLIDAY WEEKEND!!!

[coco51]

07:26 PM on 02/15/2009

And he's committed fraud how? Happy to say sitting on your vote didn't make a difference.

[Just2stressed]

05:39 PM on 02/15/2009

Hey STALKERS, you forgot to tell us what time in went into the John and what color his poop was.

[shakennotstirred]

05:23 PM on 02/15/2009

My tribute to the Obamas.

Watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXP-OcJzleo

[Xylem44]

05:40 PM on 02/15/2009

Beautiful!

[Okieborn]

05:43 PM on 02/15/2009

JUST HOW GREAT !
THANK YOU !!!

[adabar]

04:56 PM on 02/15/2009

How nice dearest POTUS. Stay safe. God is watching over you but I beseige you to also apply wisdom. We need you to be safe... With much love