President Barack Obama visits the press cabin on Air Force One during a flight en route to a town hall style meeting about the economy in Elkhart, Ind., Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has given the Camp David mountaintop retreat rave reviews after his first visit there.
Obama called the hideaway in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains “beautiful” as he talked Monday about his weekend visit to the presidential retreat with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia.
“It was beautiful. The girls just had a great time. They had a lot of fun,” Obama told reporters as he flew from the nation’s capital to Indiana for a town hall-style meeting on the economic stimulus bill pending in the Senate. “You can see during the summer it’s going to be a nice place to spend a lot of time.”
Obama said he hit a few golf balls and played a little basketball while there.
Accompanying the first family were a friend of Sasha’s, and a friend of Michelle Obama’s who brought her two kids.
“So it was nice,” Obama said.
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1 Anonymous // Feb 9, 2009 at 9:29 pm
The Republicans just don’t get it. The people have overwhelmingly indicated that we want change, not politics as usual. The stimulus package is not perfect but is a great start. Changes can and will be made as time goes on. This will get things moving now and set up things for long term improvements. Bush’s plan, supported by his party, got us in this mess. He and his friends, and the upper class got richer while the rest of us got poorer.
Bonus money is supposed to be paid for a job well done. How can these CEO’s justify taking bonus money when they have bankrupted their compaines? No bonus money should be paid until the company is financially stable and any bailout or subsidized money has been repaid, with interest.
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