Obama's Hawaiian Roots Help Shape His Political Beliefs
Growing up with the "Aloha Spirit" helped make him the candidate he is today
Reader Comments
Obama Sucks Butt!
Obama is nothing compared to McCain....if he wins im moving to Canada! Whoohoo!
The president we need NOW!
Very seldom do candidates of great intelligence, insight and patience come along. We need such a leader after Bush and Cheney. They have put our country and the entire world in a precarious place. Vote for a gifted and insightful candidate, and elect BARACK OBAMA!
Patricia
Senator Obama. Please keep Senator Obama here for Illinois State, senator Obama
Dear People, when you think that you could not achieve some tasks or multiple tasks, please do Not think that nobody else could achieve since people are different , there are way smarter people out there and Sarah Palin are among them. Please do research in quantum, metaphysics about that truth.
Obama could be Senator , at the best!
Please vote for President McCain and Vice President Sarah Palin. Thanks. God Bless America Forever.
Career Politicians
I'm telling you most Americans have had it with career politicians. It seems that all the promises of the campaign go awry after elected. It is so predictable!
I think Obama may have the right idea about the direction the US should be heading. He's not a career politician yet, and he has youthful energy to pursue his plan of a more inclusive and diverse US.
His incendiary desire to create change for all and not just a few has grabbed my attention.
Obama is Aloho spirit
Hawaii is the most diverse state in the Union, for sure, and Obama is true to the Aloha spirit.
Hawaii is the melting pot of the Pacific, as New York is for the East Coast. That's what I love about Hawaii!
Regarding "And the other side's story"
SHAME ON YOU !!! For mis-representing McCain's divorce from his first wife !!! Amounts to a lie. He divorced Carol 7 years after he returned from Vietnam. His first wife Carol has been quoted by "The Huffington Post" as saying "Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. 'I have no bitterness,'she says. 'My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn't the reason for my divorce.
'My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.'
TOTALLY DIFFERENT SCENARIO THAN YOU ATTEMPTED TO PORTRAY !
... RE: And the other side's story.
Dear G_d !!! I had no idea.
The part about McCain's former wife is almost impossible to believe. I've been Republican all my life. But, I like the kind of man Obama APPEARS to be. Time will tell.
R
obama gifted up bringing
You say he has aloha spirit. He would not have been classified as a local. To send him to the north shore he would not have been welcomed by the locals.This is a fact no one will bring up.I know this I served there in 82.He would be an outsider
...and the other side's story!
Some true and enlightening facts many do not know about the "Straight Talker" -- After the Vietnam war ended McCain's wife and mother of his children, Carol McCain, was in a horrible car accident in which she was disfigured. McCain quickly found a new woman to marry -- Cindy McCain --- a young beauty-queen and heiress to a beer fortune. He promptly dumped his crippled wife Carol for her. Interestingly, this created a rift between John McCain and Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Ross Perot, whom the McCains were friends with prior. Ross Perot actually paid Carol's medical bills, and the Reagans found her work in government to help her get by after John left her. There's another myth about McCain -- that he turned down an admiralty to run for senate. In fact, McCain graduated 4th from the bottom at Annapolis - a school he would never have qualified for without a father and grandfather who were admirals. He crashed his airplanes upwards of 4 times prior to Vietnam and then once famously, when he was captured. Eventually, he left the navy because it became apparent to him he would never be promoted to admiral. Also not publicized are McCain's activities as part of the "Keating 5" who were tied up in campaign finance illegalities in the early 90s for which he almost went to jail. This was the genesis of McCain's attempts to restore his credibility and integrity in Washington by fighting for campaign finance reform. He also said that he never really loved America until he came back from Vietnam. Do we really want another warmongering spoiled child of privilege as our President and Commander in Chief? You don't have to whisper if its true.
