The president spent most of Tuesday in Oak Bluffs. He picked up a lunch of fried oysters, fried shrimp, onion rings and french fries from Nancy's Restaurant and went to the nearby rental home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who also vacations on Martha's Vineyard. He burned it off by playing basketball at an Oak Bluffs school with White House aides Marvin Nicholson and Sam Kass, a chef, and Chicago buddy Eric Whitaker. Mrs. Obama did not join him for lunch.
The president and first lady have also eaten dinner at three of their favorite island restaurants. The list includes Sweet Life Cafe in Oak Bluffs, State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury and Beach Plum Inn in Menemsha, voted most romantic by Martha's Vineyard Magazine.
And they've done some mixing and mingling at a cocktail party Monday at the home of campaign adviser Broderick Johnson and his wife, NPR journalist Michele Norris, and Wednesday evening at the waterfront home of Comcast executive Brian Roberts, where they spent nearly two hours at an unspecified event.
Obama played golf twice at Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown: on Monday in the rain with Washington power broker Vernon Jordan, former U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Allison Davis, another Obama associate from Chicago, and on Wednesday with Kirk, World Bank President Jim Kim and the Comcast executive.
On
his first full day on the island Sunday, Obama settled in at Farm Neck
Golf Club in Oak Bluffs with Nicholson, Kass and Robert Wolf, a Wall
Street consultant and Obama campaign fundraiser who sits on the
president's export council. Wolf also served on Obama's jobs council and
economic recovery advisory board.
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