Thread: Ambulance summond to Obama compound

'Personal matter' summons ambulance to Obama compound

Updated 6m ago

KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) — President Obama abruptly ended his golf outing and sped in his motorcade to his compound Monday after he learned a child of a a friend was injured while playing on the beach.

Members of the first family were fine, a White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of a reluctance to discuss personal matters involving the president.

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Journalists when they returned to the secured neighborhood where Obama was staying saw an ambulance speed past with its lights on. The ambulance then left the neighborhood with a black sedan trailing.

The president was playing golf with friends from Chicago who joined him on his holiday vacation. The White House is not identifying which friend's child was injured.

After a brief delay, Obama returned to the course.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... ance_N.htm

I wonder if the friend was Valarie Jarrett.

What's the big secret?

After all, obama seems to have no compunction in involving himself in OUR personal matters....like health care.

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HONOLULU, Hawaii (CBS) ―


President Obama left a golf course abruptly while vacationing in Hawaii on Monday after a child on vacation with the first family suffered an injury on the beach.

A senior administration official said that the incident did not involve any member of the first family, and that a young family friend traveling with suffered a minor injury. Sources say a child friend was injured in a "surf board mishap" while playing on the beach, but no additional details on the injury were reported just yet.

The official says the president broke away from his golf game because the father of the injured child was with him on the course.

CBS 2 has learned some members of the first family were with the child at the time of the accident. The official said the injury was not serious and no members of the first family were hurt.

The official refused to identify the injured child or first family members who were there.

Journalists when they returned to the secured neighborhood where Obama was staying saw an ambulance speed past with its lights on. The ambulance then left the neighborhood with a black sedan trailing.

The president was playing golf with friends from Chicago who joined him on his holiday vacation. The White House is not identifying which friend's child was injured.

After a brief delay, Obama returned to the course.

http://wcbstv.com/breakingnewsalerts/pr ... 94219.html

They will probably invoke the HIPPA statute requiring privacy. However, that sure didn't apply to Cheney's friend who was injured from the hunting accident.