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POSTED: 11:34 a.m. HST, Dec 30, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama deviated from his usual vacation workout routine today.
Rather than starting off the day with a workout at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, as he has every morning since he's been in Hawaii except Christmas Day, Obama instead traveled across the island to Punahou School, his alma mater, to play basketball.
Obama's motorcade left his rented Kailua residence at 9:39 a.m. to begin the trip over the Pali Highway to Honolulu.
As his motorcade left the Kailua compound, a small throng of demonstrators had grown to about 10, waving signs that read, among other things: "No U.S. support for Israel," Free Palestine" and "Gazans need food, medicine, not war."
Obama was sitting in the rear on the passenger side of his black sport-utility vehicle, and was not visible to the protesters, who were on the left side of the vehicle as it exited.
Obama was wearing a baseball cap , sipped from a bottle of water and looked straight ahead as the vehicle passed the demonstrators. He did not acknowledge them.
On the opposite side of the street from the demonstrators were a handful of onlookers, with one group of four sporting Punahou attire and holding a sign reading: "We love you Obama Ohana."
The motorcade arrived at Punahou School at 10:19 a.m. The vehicles were met by a few hundred students, parents and administrators at the private school, which is on its winter break.
Punahou spokeswoman Laurel Bowers Husain said the students were members of various sports teams who had finished practice and began milling about amid the tight security. Obama is a 1979 Punahou graduate. Many of them waved as the vehicles passed.
Aides said Obama was accompanied by friends Martin Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker, Greg Orme and another high school friend, Mike Ramos.
President-elect Barack Obama deviated from his usual vacation workout routine today.
Rather than starting off the day with a workout at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, as he has every morning since he's been in Hawaii except Christmas Day, Obama instead traveled across the island to Punahou School, his alma mater, to play basketball.
Obama's motorcade left his rented Kailua residence at 9:39 a.m. to begin the trip over the Pali Highway to Honolulu.
As his motorcade left the Kailua compound, a small throng of demonstrators had grown to about 10, waving signs that read, among other things: "No U.S. support for Israel," Free Palestine" and "Gazans need food, medicine, not war."
Obama was sitting in the rear on the passenger side of his black sport-utility vehicle, and was not visible to the protesters, who were on the left side of the vehicle as it exited.
Obama was wearing a baseball cap , sipped from a bottle of water and looked straight ahead as the vehicle passed the demonstrators. He did not acknowledge them.
On the opposite side of the street from the demonstrators were a handful of onlookers, with one group of four sporting Punahou attire and holding a sign reading: "We love you Obama Ohana."
The motorcade arrived at Punahou School at 10:19 a.m. The vehicles were met by a few hundred students, parents and administrators at the private school, which is on its winter break.
Punahou spokeswoman Laurel Bowers Husain said the students were members of various sports teams who had finished practice and began milling about amid the tight security. Obama is a 1979 Punahou graduate. Many of them waved as the vehicles passed.
Aides said Obama was accompanied by friends Martin Nesbitt, Eric Whitaker, Greg Orme and another high school friend, Mike Ramos.
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