Michelle Obama: Not ready to leave 'Trying to mount a coup'

[Pirate Smile]

Not ready to leave
'Trying to mount a coup'


President Barack Obama walks with daughter Sasha Obama through the Honolulu Zoo in Honolulu on Sunday. AP Close

HONOLULU - On the last day of his Hawaiian vacation, President Barack Obama declared that he did not want to go home.

Asked during an after-hours tour of the Honolulu Zoo if he was ready to head back to Washington, Obama and his family replied in unison: "No!"

"Let's stay," first lady Michelle Obama joked to reporters. "We'll all stay. Are we all in? I'm trying to mount a coup."

The president spent some of the final hours of his 11-day trip at the zoo, on the golf course and visiting the cemetery where his grandfather is buried.

Obama's Sunday began in the way he started each of his vacation days: at the gym. Afterward, he played 18 holes on the Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course with his friends Marty Nesbitt of Chicago, and Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos from Hawaii.

Obama's motorcade then headed to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, where he spent about 10 minutes before heading over to the zoo to meet up with his wife and daughters Sasha, 8, and Malia, 11.

Just as when they went to the movie "Avatar" and went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay and had a picnic on the beach, the first family had the zoo all to themselves as the sun set over the Waikiki tourist attraction.

Wearing a black polo shirt with dark olive slacks and sandals, Obama walked with Malia as they checked out the white-handed gibbon, ring-tailed lemur and the Francois monkey, according to a pool report. The first lady walked with Sasha.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0110/not_ready_to_leave_62cb1800-f71f-4ef3-a54e-b049dc0766ff.html