HONOLULU (SR) - Photographs of a bathing suit-clad President-elect Barack Obama surfaced Monday showing the shirtless Chicagoan and his wife, Michelle, at their Hawaiian vacation home.
Reporters, photographers and television camera operators traveling with the Obamas have been banned by the Secret Service from approaching the oceanfront estate in nearby Kailua where the family is vacationing. But an enterprising paparazzi photographer wearing a Hawaiian shirt apparently strolled along the beach, saw the Obamas, took out his long-lens camera and started shooting.
The photographer was less than 200 feet from the Obamas, but the Secret Service agents guarding the property did not ask the photographer to leave the beach.
"There was tacit approval that he was able to shoot what he could shoot. It's a public beach," said the photographer. "So I snapped away. Barack was seemingly indifferent, but Michelle came over and struck some really hot poses - the camera loves her."
President-elect Obama leaves workout First Lady-elect Michelle Obama strikes pose
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