Posted on 12/31/2008 9:20:45 AM PST by FocusNexus
When many islanders look at Barack Obama, they see not only the next president, but a skilled bodysurfer, a man who flashes the "shaka" or hang loose sign, and someone who wears the same rubber slippers they do.
Hawaii is overflowing with pride that a son of the islands who shares their culture and traditions is going to the White House. Now that Obama is back in the islands for the winter holidays, the state is giddy.
On Tuesday, supporters squealed, screamed and shouted "thank you!" when he visited the Honolulu Zoo with his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.
In some ways, locals are still trying to get used to the idea that someone born and raised in this small, isolated island state is going to occupy the Oval Office.
Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961, two years after Hawaii became a state. He lived in Indonesia for four years when he moved there with his mother and stepfather, but spent 14 of his first 18 years as an island boy.
Many in Hawaii feel a powerful affinity for Obama even though he moved to the mainland to attend college in 1979 and has since only returned for vacations.
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AUDREY McAVOY giddy to have Obama in Hawaii.
No one else gives a rat’s ass.
I guess it will be a while before we have another grown up in the White House. Are there many grown ups left if politics? In general?
“Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961, two years after Hawaii became a state.”
Is there a reason we didn’t wait longer to annex the state?
It just gets better & better.
Audrey went way out of her way to describe the conditions of the skilled bodysurfer’s birth. Glad thats all cleared up.
Where’s the BARF Alert?
“No one else gives a rat’s ass.”
LOL! Neither do I. Apparently this is news.......
It’s going to be a loooong four years.
“On Tuesday, supporters squealed, screamed and shouted “thank you!””
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For what, specifically?
Oh wait, I get it.
Finally at long last, payback to the evil, repressive haoles...
Yes, it’s all good.
Sounds like Audrey has a crush on Shelli’s man...
“Where’s the BARF Alert?”
I figured it was unnecessary, the title was obvious enough by itself. “Hawaii giddy...” ;)
Barry has spent most of his life on the Mainland.
And some of the 14 years he spent in Hawaii were in an admitted haze of drugs and alcohol.
Bernard Goldberg has a new book coming out-
“ A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance
Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media .”
Mr Goldberg wrote this before the most recent rash of homoerotic media reports from Hawaii.
Some of which should have come with an R rating.
For retch.
Sometimes you can't buy a house without getting a couple roaches with it.
Egh, good point. But still....
Barack Obama a native son to Hawaii
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-hawaiidec30,0,4103843.story
“Locals here sometimes call Barack Obama a kamaaina, the Hawaiian word for native born or one who has lived here for some time. Chicagoans, of course, think of him as a South Sider who often wears a White Sox cap.
Both are correct, and both also illustrate an increasing pull on the future 44th president from those who want to use his native-son status for their own marketing advantage.
So far, Chicago seems to be winning the battle. But Obama’s 12-night vacation on the island of Oahu has again raised Hawaii’s profile as an integral place in the narrative of his life.”
Alaska ambivalent about having Palin back home on the last frontier
AP via Google ^ | Dec. 31. 2012 | AUDREY McAVOY
When many Alaskans look at Sarah Palin, they see not only the next president, but a skilled hunter, a woman who wears fur to keep warm, and someone who wears the same insulated boots they do.
Alaska is in conflict as they send their governor to the White House. Some conservatives are giddy with the idea that a daughter of the state who shares their culture and traditions is going to the White House.
Many others are worried. “I still don’t think she is qualified, and she’s unlikely to help get us out of the mess the nation is in today” said Sharon Bigbottom, the finance chair of the Alaska Public Employees Union. “I’m worried she’s going to bring the kind of sleazy corruption that has been dogging her in this state to the whole nation.
Still, on Tuesday, a tiny group of supporters squealed, screamed and shouted “thank you!” when he visited the Juneau cultural museum with her large family. Other crowds looked on worriedly, and insiders questioned who was paying for the large outing.
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He loves Hawaii except you know returning for his Grandmothers funeral.
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