oped: This is BS! here we go again...now we the people will be stuck with hundreds of thousands of dollars sending AF1 back to Hawaii to pick up Moochelle from her extra curricular activities...enough is enough folks...this must end now...let her book on United,American or any other Airlines and pay her own damn way back to DC !
Washington (AFP) - US President
Barack Obama arrived back in chilly Washington on Sunday after a 16-day
holiday in his native Hawaii, but his wife Michelle was not with him.
Obama
swapped the sun-dappled golf courses of tropical Hawaii for a
Washington in the grip of an Arctic cold snap this weekend, and faces a
tough political season ahead.
The
US president left Honolulu's Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Air
Force One just before 9:00 pm on Saturday (0700 GMT Sunday) with his
daughters, before arriving in the US capital eight hours later.
"As
part of her birthday gift from the president, the First Lady will
remain in Hawaii to spend time with friends ahead of her upcoming 50th
birthday," a brief White House statement said. Michelle Obama's birthday
is on January 17.
Obama arrived in Hawaii on
December 21 along with Michelle and daughters Sasha, 12, and Malia, 15,
and enjoyed several rounds of golf during his stay including with New
Zealand Prime Minister John Key, a rare vacation encounter with a
foreign dignitary.
The Obamas
stayed at a rented house near a US Marine Corps base on the northeastern
coast of the island of Oahu, located about a dozen miles (20
kilometers) from the state capital Honolulu, where Obama was born.
Obama's
approval rating is languishing at near record lows and he is locked in a
Cold War with a surly Congress. He needs quick victories in the run-up
to his State of the Union address at the end of the month, observers
say.
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