Obama Hawaii

Sam Stein

Emanuel Heads To Africa As Blagojevich Report Drops

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics


With the Obama transition team set to release an internal report regarding the extent of its interactions with embattled governor Rod Blagojevich, one...

Other Shirtless Presidents (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 01.23.2009 | Style


Though Monday's shirtless Obama pictures created quite a stir, the President-elect wasn't the first world leader to be snapped half-naked. Here's a lo...

Jason Linkins

Politico Explores Ramifications Of Obama's Beachwear

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.23.2009 | Media


Via Wonkette comes this latest exercise in journalistic superfluousness from Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown, TOTALLY nailing down the high-wire implic...

Obama Offers To Buy Beer For Photogs Following Him

CNN | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics


Many Republicans already believe President-elect Barack Obama has gotten a free ride from the national media, so they may not be happy to learn the in...

Presidents On Vacation (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 01.23.2009 | Style


On vacation this week, President-elect Obama has captured the world's attention by debuting his impressive upper body and lunching on something called...

Markets Crash on Pictures of Obama Losing Shirt

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics


Andy Borowitz

The pictures depicting a shirtless Mr. Obama wandering about on a deserted stretch of beach stoked fears that the U.S.'s financial woes were deeper than previously reported.

Obama Hawaii Gym Workout: Thanks Troops

AP | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics


KANEOHE, Hawaii — President-elect Barack Obama personally thanked a handful of military service members after a morning workout. Obama was up e...

Obama Shirtless In Hawaii (PHOTOS)

Bauer Griffin | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics


UPDATE: BAUER GRIFFIN'S SITE HAS HAD SOME TEMPORARY SERVER ISSUES, BUT KEEP TRYING FOR MORE PHOTOS From Bauer Griffin: Barack and his gals (wif...

Obama's Hawaiian Holiday: Spam Sushi, Golf, Offers To Buy Beer For Reporter

Huffington Post | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics


The pool report on Obama's holiday vacation in Hawaii today has some amusing accounts of his spam sushi lunch and a confession that he's not very good...

Obama In Hawaii, Rents Beach Home In Low-Key Town

AP | AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics


KAILUA, Hawaii — While on vacation in Hawaii, the Obama family is staying in a $9 million single-story oceanfront home in a laid-back neighborho...

Obama Going To Hawaii For Christmas Vacation

Marc Ambinder | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics


President-elect Barack Obama will spend the Christmas and New Year's holidays on an extended vacation with his family in Hawaii, Democratic sources co...

Obama Described By People Who Know Him Best From Hawaii To Senate

Guardian | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics


Schoolfriends remember his love for comic books, basketball and teasing the girls. A former boss recalls him as a young man running a community projec...

Obama the grandson replaces Obama the candidate

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics


HONOLULU — Barack Obama, briefly a grandson instead of a candidate, spent some quiet family time Friday with the ailing woman who helped raise h...

Obama Arrives In Hawaii

ABC/NYT | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


From The New York Times: HONOLULU -- On a whirlwind trip back to Hawaii, Senator Barack Obama spent more than an hour visiting his ailing grandmother...

Cokie Roberts Attack Ad

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics


Matthew Filipowicz

Last week when Cokie Roberts attacked Obamafor vacationing in the "foreign" and "exotic" land of Hawaii, most of us just assumed she was schilling for McCain. But she was schilling for something entirely different. Just watch.

Obama Bodysurfs In Hawaii (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama continues to enjoy his Hawaiian family vacation in advance of the Democratic National Convention. Thursday the candidate for president we...

Obama's Hawaiian Vacation (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics


***See Obama Body Surfing on Thursday*** Barack Obama is enjoying a break in Honolulu, Hawaii in advance of the Democratic National Convention. As see...

The Exotic Candidate Is The One With Eight Houses

Bob Cesca | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics


Bob Cesca

The barbecue media script for this election has crow-barred Sen. Obama into the incongruous frame of the exotic effete elitist, irrespective of the fact that, on all counts, he's absolutely none of those things.

Barack Obama Joins 2.5 Million Fellow Americans In Vacation Elitism

Oliver Willis | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics


Oliver Willis

So, the idiot meme du jour is that Barack Obama is once again going back to the well of elitism by going on vacation to Hawaii. Really.

Obama 'Ohana: Democratic Nominee Gets Warm Welcome In Hawaii

Kathy Harter | Posted 09.10.2008 | Home


Kathy Harter

It was part stump speech, part homecoming. It was probably also a necessity. His only other scheduled appearance is a fundraiser -- $2300 for the cheap seats and $10,000 per person for a private reception, out of reach for most of us and by invitation only.

GOP Takes Aim At Obama's Education

Politico | Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics


Even as Barack Obama takes eight days off from the campaign trail to vacation in Hawaii, where he lived for much of his youth, the Republican National...

Obama Comes Home

Jeff Chang | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics


Jeff Chang

Here was a genuine keiki o ka 'aina, a child of the land, Hawai'i's own. Instead of playing to their needs, Obama played to their dreams.

Obama Begins Weeklong Vacation

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics


HONOLULU — Barack Obama's presidential campaign has taken him across the country and finally for the first time on Friday it brought him home to...

Obama To Be Greeted In Hawaii By Homecoming Rally

Chicago Sun Times | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics


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Obama To Visit Grave Of Grandfather, Who Fought In WWII

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics


TNR's Michael Crowley notes that this will "make for a fascinating political and cultural moment": To underline his own family's military pedigree, O...