Looks like President Barack Obama is coming back to Hawaii for Christmas again this year.
Residents in the Kailua neighborhood where Obama usually rents a house tell Hawaii News Now that they’ve been given maps detailing high security areas beginning around Dec. 17 through early January.
The Hawaii-born Obama has been coming to Hawaii every year with his wife, two kids and family dog for the holidays since he was elected in 2008.

Obama at a golf course in 2008.
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