Obama spending Valentine’s Day weekend golfing with Hawaii friends
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Secret Service members keep a watchful eye while President Barack Obama arrives at Palm Springs, Calif., International Airport aboard Air Force One today.
President Obama is golfing with his usual group of Hawaii friends in California this weekend ahead of a big international summit with the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations.
The summit, which begins Monday at the 200-acre Sunnylands estate, is the first time the United States has hosted the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
In meeting with the leaders of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, Obama will address a group that represents a population of more than 620 million and a collective economy of around $2.4 trillion, the third largest in Asia behind those of China and Japan.
Geographically astride the world’s busiest and most strategic shipping lanes, the region is the fulcrum of the administration’s rebalancing toward Asia.
While the leaders will certainly discuss regional security issues, including territorial disputes in the South China Sea, North Korea’s nuclear program and counterterrorism, they will devote equal time to economic issues, including the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Ahead of the meeting, the president arrived in Palm Springs today at about noon and headed to the Porcupine Creek golf club in Rancho Mirage, where he played gof for about six hours with Punahou School friends Greg Orme, Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos.
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Obama is in the midst of a weeklong visit to California. He spent Thursday raising money for Democrats and was likely to spend the weekend playing golf before welcoming the Southeast Asian leaders.
Today, the president designated three new national monuments in the California desert, expanding federal protection to 1.8 million acres of landscapes that have retained their natural beauty despite decades of heavy mining, cattle ranching and off-roading.
The designation was requested by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who for a decade has sought to protect land that wasn’t included in the 1994 California Desert Protection Act. That measure covered nearly 7.6 million acres, elevated Death Valley and Joshua Tree to national park status and created the Mojave National Preserve.
He also taped an episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and recited a love poem he said he had planned to deliver to the first lady in person.
Obama is spending another Valentine’s Day apart from his wife Michelle.
“Michelle, this Valentine’s Day I’m going to treat you right. I’m going to make you some zucchini bread. Then I’ll spread out some veggies on a plate just the way you like them,” he said. “Then I’ll give you a massage while you watch ‘Ellen’s Design Challenge’ on HGTV. Because I love you so much, I Obamacare about you more than you even know.”
Turning serious, Obama said: “Michelle, I’ve made a lot of great decisions as president. The best decision I ever made was choosing you. Thanks for putting up with me. I love you.”
Mrs. Obama surprised her husband earlier in the broadcast by popping up on tape to recite her own poem. Sunday is their final Valentine’s Day as president and first lady.
“Roses are red, violets are blue, you are the president and I am your poo,” she said, joking about writing the ode while doing 100 pushups to help get her “creative juices” flowing.
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The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, New York Times and Tribune News Service contributed to this story.
37 responses to “Obama spending Valentine’s Day weekend golfing with Hawaii friends”
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What’s a poo?
There once was a POTUS named Poo
Who never knew quite what to do.
So he spent all our money
And thought it was funny
As doing a poo in your shoe.
GOOD! I LIKE IT!
..and, on another note: “The Free Dictionary” defines: “poo”
Also found in: Acronyms, Idioms, Wikipedia.
poo
(po͞o) Slang
v. pooed, poo·ing, poos
intr.v.
To defecate.
tr.v.
To defecate in (one’s pants or bed).
n.
1. Excrement.
2. An act of defecating.
Now tell us what FARKWARD means?
Poonahou is as useless as they come.
Allie poo, Hawaii loves you.
We can’t stand you!
Poi. Opakapaka fish. Oranges. POO?
she said “I am your boo,” not “poo”!!! :/
Ya might want to re read the last paragraph – boo. :-O
I am sure this would not be the first time the SA made a typo. lol
lol won’t be the last – but I’m seriously thinking this was done on purpose in the same vein as Sam Ting Wong…
Only on October 31st.
I will be so happy to see him out of office–maybe we can balance the budget. Check your favorite search engine: Obama family spent $1.3 BILLION last year–I am so happy he’s for the middle class.
And maybe one day, you’ll return from fantasy land where Obama didn’t cut the deficit he inherited from a Republican administration. Because in reality, he’s cut the budget deficit, much like the previous Democratic POTUS did before the Republican president started two unfunded wars…in addition to an unfunded drug plan…in addition to lowering taxes on the wealthy (thereby increasing the deficit even more)…in addition to helping crash the economy worse than any time since the Great Depression. But enjoy your fantasy world.
went from a bad Bush administration to a much worse Obama one.. now how much debt is there? World way less safe and way worse race clash, police are the bad guys, and plenty illegal aliens.. way to go, Barry
lol, you are just jealous as under Obama the budget deficit has been reduced significantly. In fact last month the federal budget was balanced. But you go ahead and vote republican. Vote for the party that now believes deficits don’t matter when they are in power and who transformed a federal budget surplus to a 1.4 trillion deficit over a period of 8 years. Just love republican fiscal responsibility.
Keep drinking that Kool Aid and feel the Bern!
Yellow snow, too.
You’re always happy no matter who is the President.
Actually under Obama the country is moving towards a balanced budget. Jan. had a balanced budget for the month. But you go ahead and criticize our debt which has been caused mainly by republicans.
Please read “And then the ceiling came down” or ANY book on the recent recession and THREE names pop up: Clinton, Dodd and Barney Fink.
I think Michele meant she is Obams’s POOH bear , like Winnie the Pooh, and not poo, which is what you find dropped in a turlet or laying out on a Kakaako or Chinatown sidewalk.
agree
Bear? Like the bear stock market that we have now?
Of course, while the nation suffers!
Us millionaires are not suffering.
On our dime. The “conference” is nothing but a cover for his Palm Springs vacation with another of his 1% friends. You would think having it here would save the ASEAN countries some money (after all, he’s just going to shaft them like he’s done to all our other ex-allies), but, no. It’s all about him. Meanwhile his grafter wife and kids are in Aspen on our dime.
The 1st Kids and 1st Lady were born in cold climes an prefer skiing rather than warm clime like Palm Springs where the POTUS is playing golf with his Hawaiian cronies as usual crowing/lying about their high school conquest like teenager do. Probably smoke a bit of refined pakalolo like in the ole days.
He’ll go down as the worst President in American history.
Did I read correctly? He played golf for SIX hours? OMG! His golf game is like his presidency…Horendous! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
That was on the first hole!?
I would like to know who paid for Obama’s Punahou School friends, Greg Orme, Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos, to travel to California for the golf outing. And I would like to know why Obama stills hangs out with a guy who was arrested for soliciting a prostitute in China Town, namely Bobby Titcomb.
I have nothing against being homosexual but his public facade of being a lover boy is an insult to everyone’s intelligence
Then, Obama said to Michelle — Bye, I need to go golfing, maybe see you later!
Once Trump gets in……little golf for Trump and a growing deficit under his watch.
““Roses are red, violets are blue, you are the president and I am your poo,” she said, joking about writing the ode while doing 100 pushups to help get her “creative juices” flowing.”
Posting it here for posterity. 🙂