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Seriously: Cokie Roberts

Posted August 11, 2008

Seriously?

Barack Obama "going off this week to vacation in Hawaii does not make any sense whatsoever. I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place."

—Cokie Roberts on ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Aug. 10, 2008 (TPM TV)

Reader Comments

Cokie Roberts Mother...

In reference to Ms. Thomas's comment "If you're Mother was still alive...", Cokie Roberts' Mother is still alive. She is Lindy Boggs and is approximately 92 years old.

Cokie Roberts

Ms Roberts,

I thought you were an analyst, not a talking head. I used to admire your reportage. Your crack about Hawaii not being an appropriate vacation spot for Senator Obama smacks of ignorance, stupidity, and just plain crassness. Why can't the man visit his family in one of the united states of America, without being thought elitist? It's a state, for heaven's sake, and one of the most important in relatively recent American history, thanks to Pearl Harbor. I hope by this time you've managed to pull your foot out of your mouth and get your brain working properly. And provide analysis rather than idiocy.

cokie on hawaii

clueless

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