{"id":1160,"date":"2016-01-15T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T11:33:26","slug":"palm-jumeirah-barack-obama-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/the-news\/palm-jumeirah-barack-obama-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Jumeirah Home for Obama? Maybe Not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the Palm Jumeirah be the new home of US President Barack Obama?<\/p>\n<p>While common sense and logic screams no, that did not stop social media lighting up like Oxford Street for Christmas on&nbsp;the &#8220;news&#8221; that&nbsp;Obama was buying a Dh18 million Palm Jumeirah mansion.<\/p>\n<p>It took XPRESS newspaper to squash the story by simply contacting the property owner and CEO of the Ocean View Real Estate Tim Boswell who clarified that no such deal ever took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t had that many Americans viewing my property, but I would definitely recognise this American in my house,&nbsp;Boswell told the paper, who added the property hadn&#8217;t even been sold yet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1164\" style=\"width: 791px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1164\" data-attachment-id=\"1164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/the-news\/palm-jumeirah-barack-obama-home\/attachment\/onh1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"781,478\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"onh1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The villa on Palm Jumerah that Barack Obama will not be buying&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The villa on Palm Jumerah that Barack Obama will not be buying&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1-300x184.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164\" src=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1.jpg\" alt=\"The villa on Palm Jumerah that Barack Obama will not be buying\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1.jpg 781w, https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1-180x110.jpg 180w, https:\/\/palmjumeirahguides.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/onh1-360x220.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The villa on Palm Jumerah that Barack Obama will not be buying<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn a serious note, I know that a man of Obama\u2019s stature will send his \u2018people\u2019 to view the villa before buying it, but we are not aware of any such leads. My villa has been up for sale since the last six weeks and I can assure you no presidents have viewed it so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, media reports said that one of the US Navy\u2019s top commanders, Rear Admiral Rick Williams, was relieved of his post after he queried why Navy forces had been sent to Dubai on a \u201cObama house hunting mission\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US officials, however, said the Admiral was fired due to misuse of his work computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the Palm Jumeirah be the new home of US President Barack Obama?<\/p>\n<p>While common sense and logic screams no, that did not stop social media lighting up like Oxford Street for Christmas on&nbsp;the &#8220;news&#8221; that&nbsp;Obama was buying a Dh18 million Palm Jumeirah mansion.<\/p>\n<p>It took XPRESS newspaper to squash the story by simply contacting the property owner and CEO of the Ocean View Real Estate Tim Boswell who clarified that no such deal ever took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t had that many Americans viewing my property, but I would definitely recognise this American in my house,&nbsp;Boswell told the paper, who added the property hadn&#8217;t even been sold yet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The villa on Palm Jumerah that Barack Obama will not be buying<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn a serious note, I know that a man of Obama\u2019s stature will send his \u2018people\u2019 to view the villa before buying it, but we are not aware of any such leads. My villa has been up for sale since the last six weeks and I can assure you no presidents have viewed it so far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, media reports said that one of the US Navy\u2019s top commanders, Rear Admiral Rick Williams, was relieved of his post after he queried why Navy forces had been sent to Dubai on a \u201cObama house hunting mission\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US officials, however, said the Admiral was fired due to misuse of his work computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Palm Jumeirah Home for Obama? 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