Obamas Surprise Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder at Hawaiian Home
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Steve Jennings/WireImage(HONOLULU) — President Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia paid a surprise Saturday afternoon visit to the Kailua home of Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder. The Obamas and Vedder are relative neighbors on Oahu, since the first family also rents a place nearby on the north shore.
Vedder was a prominent supporter of Obama’s two election campaigns. In September 2012, he headlined a $20,000-per-person fundraiser in Tampa, Fla., which the president attended and helped raise close to $2 million.
After Vedder performed an acoustic set at the event, he famously broke out a Hawaiian-made ukulele and joked, “It’s got a little birth certificate right in there!” – a reference to those widely refuted claims that Obama was born overseas.
The White House did not allow press coverage of the visit.
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