Politics | President Obama Obama Quietly Turns 52 Hits Camp David for the weekend By Polly Davis Doig Posted Aug 4, 2013 12:48 PM CDT Copied A sign wishing President Obama happy birthday hangs on a neighbor's fence near his Hyde Park home, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) What do you get for that leader of the free world who has everything? Apparently a weekend at Camp David and a round of golf with old friends will do it, reports the AP on the occasion of President Obama's 52nd birthday today. The White House is staying pretty tightlipped on any other plans, and Obama is due back in Washington this afternoon anyway. Politico has a gallery of Obama's birthdays past here, while if you truly have entirely too much time to burn, the White House offers up its 52 favorite photos from the president's past year. Or there's always this. Read These Next 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. We knew Letterman would pipe up about Colbert eventually. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. The humans survived this flight; the deer on the ground didn't. Report an error