RUSSIA INSIDER – Just as they did last year, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin chose to spend Christmas 2016, their last sharing the world stage together before Obama leaves office, in strikingly different ways.
Obama elected to utilize the last of his days of taxpayer-subsidized travel by taking his eighth and final all-expenses-paid deluxe Hawaii “Christmas” vacation. There was no lack of top-level entertainment for the Obamas as they spent over a fortnight marking the holidays in style, as the Washington Times reported. CONTINUE READING