Matthis Chiroux en route to NY after several days protesting President Obama
Matthis Chiroux, dressed in fatigue cut-offs and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)
T-shirt, is hobbling on crutches, owing to a grim-looking wound that travels up both sides of his right leg, outside the equally grim Kennedy Plaza bus terminal in Providence on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
“I got this in ‘Nam, man,” he jokes. Actually it’s the result of a biking accident on a recent trip to upstate New York with friend and fellow activist, author Naomi Wolf. He fell 25 feet from a bridge and broke bones in six different places, and says he has his military training to thank for avoiding knee or spinal injuries. He was celebrating his general discharge from the US army, after a five-year tour in Japan, Germany and Afghanistan.
Mr. Chiroux, 25, traveled from Brooklyn to the Vineyard Tuesday to endorse the actions of activist Cindy Sheehan on behalf of IVAW (he is on the board of directors). Read More…
Crowds gather for glimpse of the Obamas. Photo by Jaxon White.
The reservation book was full and the dining room was packed at Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs Tuesday evening, when Secret service agents came in at around 7 p.m. when and told owners Susan and Pierre Guérin that President Obama, his wife Michelle and several other guests were coming in.
A reservation had already been made for the Presidential party but under a different name.
“We didn’t know he was coming in, we had about thirty minutes notice,” he said. “It was a big surprise.”
United States secret service performed a security sweep of the restaurant and obtained a copy of the restaurant’s reservation list for the night. Only those on the list and with proper identification were allowed into the restaurant from that point. Read More…
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Have you seen/made/are you currently waving any Obama-related signs? Send us your photos to: news@mvgazette.com Read More…
He did wonder aloud whether he should say it … shhhh, don’t do it, Rush … but oh, no, he did it. Rush Limbaugh admitted he has a friend, and this friend, “one of [his] really good friends,” owns a golf course on . . . Rush, say it isn’t so . . . yes, on the Vineyard.
That’s Marxist Vineyard, for anyone who did not listen to the big man refer to the Island as such at least six times on air today. He did not identify the friend or the course. But Rush — who did reveal that he, the elite Big Rush himself, has flown to Marxist Vineyard “a number of times” — declared this to the Limbaughers listening:
“Now, there are two golf courses up there but ‘the’ golf course on Marxist Vineyard is owned by a friend of mine and I’m told that arrangements have been made that Obama and his merry band of golfers is going to show up there a couple, three times this week.” Read More…
President Obama waves during nine holes of golf Tuesday morning. Photos by Allen Green.
President Obama shot nine holes at semi-private Vineyard Haven golf club Mink Meadows Tuesday morning, following up on a full round at Farm Neck club the previous afternoon.
Though scorecards are as yet unavailable for either day’s golfing, Mr. Obama’s game has earned him the nickname First Duffer among the traveling press pool.
More pictures after the jump. Read More…
A nice face: Oak Bluffs school principal Laury Binney. Photo by Mark Alan Lovewell.
Oak Bluffs elementary school principal Laury Binney learned almost two months ago that his school might serve as a media center for President Obama’s visit, but he only learned he was to meet the President about two hours before it happened.
After the end of Mr. Obama’s brief press statement, a little after 9 a.m., the President took a couple of minutes to thank Mr. Binney and his assistant principal Jennifer Arnold, for making the school available.
“He talked to us for a couple of minutes. He was very casual, very cool,” said Mr. Binney. Ms. Arnold said she told Mr. Obama that her son had campaigned for him in Ohio.
“He said to tell my son thank you,” she said. The President also complimented Mr. Binney on his looks, according to Ms. Arnold.
“He said Laury had a very nice face, and that he must be a good guy,” she said. Read More…
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This post was written by Mike Seccombe on August 25, 2009
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As part of a series of excellent reports which brought life to the less-than-dramatic official movements of the President Tuesday, Christi Parsons of the LA Times slipped up with this description of the President’s vacation abode:
A partial description of the farm where the Obamas are staying: it is a large property with rolling fields surrounded by thick stands of trees, dotted with empty silos and a couple of what look to be fairly new tractors. There’s a dirt road drive leading from the main road to an old barn with weathered brown shingles, and as we waited for the motorcade to depart a lone bay horse was standing nearby swatting flies with its tail. The presidential part of the motorcade came out of a dirt drive from a different part of the property. Read More…
President Obama and Ben Bernanke at the Oak Bluffs school temporary briefing room
President Obama briefly interrupted his Vineyard vacation Tuesday morning to announce the re-appointment of Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke for another term, in a statement made to the press.
Mr. Obama, accompanied by Mr. Bernanke, entered the temporary media center set up at the Oak Bluffs school shortly after 9am to read a brief, prepared statement lauding Mr. Bernanke’s work in managing America’s financial crisis. Read More…
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This post was written by Mike Seccombe on August 25, 2009
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Marine One on approach to Martha's Vineyard Airport yesterday... or so we thought. Photo Allen Green
In what is no doubt the first of many revelations by the national media here to follow the Presidential vacation, the Obamas apparently touched down Sunday at an airport in Vineyard Haven.
The New York Times, the LA Times and others reported that the Obamas landed at a secret, hitherto unknown Vineyard Haven airport.
Even Island paper The Martha’s Vineyard Times was in on the scoop. Read More…
Obamas touch down at Otis Air National Guard base
...and board Marine One bound for Vineyard
Marine One flanked by helicopters on approach to MV airport
Vineyarders give warm welcome to Presidential motorcade
Otis photos by Jaxon White. Vineyard photos by Allen Green
