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Obama Back Home for Christmas This Year

The President's Kailua vacation complex, Dec 2009. The beach was kept clear by the Secret Service.

The word is out that President Obama and his family are coming home to Hawaii for Christmas again this year. The Kailua complex that he's rented for the last two years has been sold, although it's still available for rent. But any definite plans on where the President and his family will be staying have not been made public yet.

The Los Angeles Times has a story on the Kailua property, with an excellent photo taken from its yard.

The 5,000-square-foot property, recently sold to Glenn Weinberg of Baltimore for $6.9 million, has five bedrooms and four outdoor entertaining areas, and it's available to just plain folks for $3,500 to $6,000 a night, depending on the season and length of stay. (The minimum is a week.) The Obamas paid their own way, property manager Allison Pettersson said.

Read more . . . [Los Angeles Times]