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A member of Marine Corps Base Hawaii security held back traffic for President Barack Obama’s approaching motorcade while on base in Kaneohe Bay Sunday.
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A woman held a message to the president as his motorcade passed by.
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President Barack Obama played nearly five hours of golf Sunday at Marine Corps Base Hawaii as he continued his annual Christmas vacation.
The president’s motorcade left their rented Kailua vacation home for the Kaneohe Klipper course just after noon. His group included Hawaii friends Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos; Chicago friends Dr. Eric Whitaker and Marty Nesbitt; and aide and frequent golf partner Marvin Nicholson.
Obama left the course at 4:55 p.m. and was back at the house on Kailuana Place five minutes later.
It was the fifth round of golf for the president since he arrived late on Dec. 20.
The president last golfed on Thursday at the tough Koolau Golf Club. He played the Marine base course on Monday and on Dec. 21, the day after he arrived in his birth state.
He also played at the Mid-Pacific Country Club in Lanikai.
Earlier in the morning, the president went for his usual morning workout at the gym at the Kaneohe Marine base. The motorcade whisked Obama through the tranquil neighborhood, past a few joggers, dog-walkers and phone camera-wielding onlookers, and onto the base.
He spent 82 minutes at the gym, returning to the Kailua home at 9:15 a.m.
Along the motorcade route, a woman held a sign supporting the president’s Affordable Care Act.
The administration on Sunday announced sign-ups for health insurance through the federal government’s rehabilitated website passed 1 million thanks to a December surge. Combined with numbers for state-run markets due in January, that should put total enrollment in the new private insurance plans under Obama’s health law at about 2 million people through the end of the year, independent experts said.