Michelle Obama helps kids track Santa Claus (AFP)

Michelle Obama Helps Kids Track Santa
(NewsCore) - First Lady Michelle Obama on Friday assisted in tracking Santa Claus on his journey across the globe, surprising Children who called seeking information from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on the jolly man's journey, Fox News Channel reported. While on a 10-day Vacation in Hawaii with her president husband and their two daughters, Obama answered telephone calls for 40 minutes answering questions about Santa's whereabouts. Starting about noon local time, NORAD c...

A quiet and private Christmas Day for Obamas
Honolulu — President Barack Obama spent a quiet Christmas in Hawaii Saturday, a rare bit of Privacy for one of the world’s most scrutinized men. The president is staying at a luxurious oceanfront home in Kailua with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. The first family celebrated Christmas with a small circle of friends and family, including some of Obama’s childhood friends and the president’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives here on Oahu, the island whe...

A quiet and private Christmas Day for Obamas
HONOLULU (AP) - President Barack Obama spent a quiet Christmas in Hawaii Saturday, a rare bit of Privacy for one of the world's most scrutinized men. The president is staying at a luxurious oceanfront home in Kailua with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha. The first family celebrated Christmas with a small circle of friends and family, including some of Obama's childhood friends and the president's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives here on Oahu, the island where Obama was born a...

Obamas' Christmas: Steak Dinner and Michelle Tracking Santa
Steak, roasted potatoes, green beans and pie were on the Christmas dinner menu for President Obama and his family Saturday. On Christmas Eve, Mrs. Obama helped kids track Santa Claus' travel around the world with the assistance of NORAD radar. For years, the Obama family has traveled to Hawaii, Obama's native state, to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. The Obamas' are staying in a rented a house in Oahu about 12 miles from Honolulu. In years past, Obama would also use the trip to visit his g...

Michelle Obama helps kids track Santa Claus
First Lady Michelle Obama assisted the US Military in tracking Santa Claus on his gift-bearing mission across the globe, in a popular Christmas Eve tradition begun more than half a century ago. While on a 10-day Vacation in Hawaii with her president husband and their two daughters, Obama fielded telephone calls for 40 minutes from Children seeking information from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on Santa and his reindeer. The US and Canadian defense command has set up a te...

Michelle Obama helps kids track Santa Claus
First Lady Michelle Obama assisted the US Military in tracking Santa Claus on his gift-bearing mission across the globe, in a popular Christmas Eve tradition begun more than half a century ago. While on a 10-day Vacation in Hawaii with her president husband and their two daughters, Obama fielded telephone calls for 40 minutes from Children seeking information from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on Santa and his reindeer. The US and Canadian defense command has set up a tele...

Quiet, Private Christmas for Obamas in Hawaii
(AP) Honolulu - President Barack Obama spent a quiet Christmas morning with his family Saturday, a rare bit of Privacy for one of the world's most scrutinized men. Obama was with his family in the same oceanfront neighborhood on the island of Oahu last December, when a 23-year-old Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a plane bound for Detroit. The incident raised questions about the nation's terror readiness and consumed the rest of Obama's Vacation. This year's presidential holiday is ...

Obamas Spend Quiet Christmas With Family and Friends
The White House said the first family would be joined on Christmas Day by the president's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who lives on Oahu, the island where Obama was born and spent most of his childhood. Several of Obama's childhood friends are also in town, along with family friends from Chicago, his home for most of his adult life. On the first family's Christmas Day menu: steak, roasted potatoes, green beans and pie. Thus far, Obama's excursions in Hawaii have been mostly to the gym and golf cou...

The First Lady on the Trail of Santa
Honolulu - While President Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha slipped off to the beach on Christmas Eve, Michelle Obama, the First Lady, took care of a little holiday business: answering telephone calls from Children inquiring as to the whereabouts of Santa Claus. The first lady participated in the “Tracks Santa” program, run by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, known by its acronym, NORAD. The program began in 1955 after a youngster in Colorado Springs, Col., dialed a mi...

Michelle Obama Fields Calls for Santa
Some kids who call NORAD on Christmas Eve to find out where Santa is hang up as soon as a volunteer answers the phone - probably because they expected a recording and not a real person, Veteran Santa trackers say. There were some especially awed kids Friday, when one of the people answering the phone was First Lady Michelle Obama. A telephone link from Hawaii, where the Obamas are on Vacation, allowed her to pitch in with volunteers at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., who were answering phone c...

Quiet, private Christmas morning for Obamas
HONOLULU (AP) — President Obama spent a quiet Christmas morning with his family on Saturday, a rare bit of Privacy for one of the world's most scrutinized men. The Obamas are renting a luxurious oceanfront home in Kailua for the third straight Christmas. The president's Christmas wish this year may simply be to have a quieter holiday than last year, when a 23-year-old Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a plane bound for Detroit. The incident raised questions about the nation's ter...

The Obama library
A brilliant story for politics' slowest news day from Carol Lee, who's making good use of her junket reporting trip to Hawaii: Honolulu — As President Barack Obama prepares to battle with Republicans for a Second Term, another fight is already brewing: where to enshrine his legacy once he leaves office. The effort to play host city to Obama’s Presidential Library ...

Surfing Santas hit waves on Florida's Space Coast
People dressed as Santa Claus carry surfboards and float in the waves in Cocoa Beach, Fla., on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 at Surfin' Santa George Trossett's beach house. Nineteen surfing Santas brought some cheer to beach-goers as they hit the waves on Florida's Space Coast. Water temperatures were in the 60s when the group gathered with their boards Christmas Eve, but they were undeterred. They wore red suits and beards. One surfer had a board covered in wrapping paper. Another donned a life preser...

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. “Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. “Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ “Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? “VIRGINIA O’HANLON. “115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.” VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not co...

Hullabaloo
Christmas Night At The Movies Somewhat naughty and not so nice By Dennis Hartley Not the Coca-Cola Santa: Rare Exports It’s official. I now have a new favorite Christmas movie. John Carpenter’s The Thing meets Miracle on 34th St. in Finnish writer-director Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a wickedly clever Yule story that spices up the usual holiday family movie recipe by folding in generous dollops of sci-fi, horror, and Norse legend. The twist here is that our protag

Class vs. Crass: Hillary Clinton vs. Michelle Obama at Christmas
Tags: Did Michelle Obama really put a Drag Queen on the White House Christmas Tree?, Hedda Lettuce White House Christmas ornament, Hillary Clinton as First Lady White House Christmas, Hillary Clinton White House Christmas themes, Michelle Antoinette Obama and drag queens, Why do Michelle Antoinette Obama and drag queens cross paths so frequently? As First Lady, Hillary Clinton set themes for each White House Christmas that celebrated America, honored traditions, and remained decidedly non-poli...

Obama's agenda calls for quiet Christmas
President Barack Obama travels in a Motorcade through the neighborhood where he is spending his holiday Vacation in Kailua, Hawaii, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. President Barack Obama's Christmas wish may simply be to have a quieter holiday than last year. Obama was with his family in the same oceanfront neighborhood on the island of Oahu last December, when a 23-year-old Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a plane bound for Detroit. The incident raised questions about the nation's terror rea...

Obamas agenda calls for quiet Christmas
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama’s Christmas wish may simply be to have a quieter holiday than last year. Obama was with his family in the same oceanfront neighborhood on the island of Oahu last December, when a 23-year-old Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a plane bound for Detroit. The incident raised questions about the nation’s terror readiness and consumed the rest of Obama’s Vacation. This year’s presidential holiday is off to a far more low-ke...

Where's Santa? Ask Michelle Obama (Politico)
HONOLULU - While President Barack Obama took his daughters to the beach, the First Lady played the role of Christmas elf, surprising little girls and boys inquiring about the whereabouts of Santa. "Hello, this is the first lady, Michelle Obama, with NORAD, tracking Santa. How can I help you?" she said, taking a call from an 8-year-old boy named Max from Los Angeles. It was a decidedly different greeting than other families across the country got after some confusion about which was t...

Santa Norad Tracker 2010: Michelle Obama Helps Kids Track Santa Claus
PETERSON Air Force BASE, Colo. — Some kids who call NORAD on Christmas Eve to find out where Santa is hang up as soon as a volunteer answers the phone – probably because they expected a recording and not a real person, Veteran Santa trackers say. There were some especially awed kids Friday, when one of the people answering the phone was First Lady Michelle Obama. A telephone link from Hawaii, where the Obamas are on Vacation, allowed her to pitch in with volunteers at Peterson Air ...

Dorian de Wind: NORAD Readies to Track Santa
One of the most interesting and exciting assignments during my U.S. Air Force career was my tour of duty at the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) complex some 1,400 feet beneath granite Cheyenne Mountain, south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the height of the Cold War. I still remember walking or busing through the long tunnel, entering the "vault," then waiting for the 25-ton steel blast door to close behind me and hoping that the other 25-ton blast door (the one leading to the unde...

Judge H. Lee Sarokin: What Do Sarah Palin and Marie Antoinette Have in Common?
They both said: "Let them eat cake!" Somewhere in the Constitution, Sarah Palin has found the "God-given" right to be obese. Michelle Obama's initiative to improve Children's health by encouraging better diets and sufficient exercise is mocked by Sarah Palin as just another intrusion by government into the daily lives of our citizens, and this effort apparently is especially abhorrent by depriving children of their just desserts. Although Ms. Palin claims to read "all" of the Newspapers, she a...

American Way: Sarah Palin sees fat chance of winning the White House
For those Americans letting out their belts a notch after Christmas and regretting that extra piece of pumpkin pie or three, political salvation is at hand. By the logic of Sarah Palin, festive over-indulgence is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, it is an exercise of the God-given right to stuff one’s face. Over-eating is patriotic, a sign of resistance to the inexorable growth of Big Government and the Nanny State. Perhaps the former Alaska Governor believes that the fat vote (let’s face...

Merry Christmas In America
As my Grandchildren and I cuddle together on Christmas Eve night and look out the window scanning the dark sky for Santa Claus, I will hug them and tell them Santa Claus is as real as the snow silently falling to the ground outside. With great anticipation, we will sit close together and stare into the heavens searching for Santa Claus and his sleigh being pulled by flying reindeer. In my own grandfatherly way, I will tell them that Santa Claus will live forever in the hearts of those people wh...

Michelle Obama helps out Santa tracking hotline
US First Lady Michelle Obama has surprised Children by answering their calls to a system that tracks Santa's global gift-delivering progress. Mrs Obama took calls to Norad's Santa hotline for about 40 minutes. Norad, the US and Canadian aerospace and maritime defence system, says it uses its radar and satellites to track Santa. The North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) has been tracking Santa since 1955. It is believed to be the first time a first lady has taken part. The No...