AMERICAblog: Hawaii Senator Akaka tells Cokie, we're patriotic Americans too
jescot
· 1 year ago
Good for Akaka ! I hope more Hawaiins are outraged including that punch guy !
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
We really have become a nation of fucking idiots when ANYONE suggests that Hawaii is exotic or foreign. Oh wait...that's right...real Americans only live in fly over states...yes darlings, they are flyovers....that vast wasteland out here where the main cultural institution is the corner Baptist church choir singing really tacky hymns written by unschooled composers of the early 20th century and the local lighted football stadium with the titty brigade wriggling on Friday nights and makin' all the daddies horny.
GOOD FUCKING GOD
martha
· 1 year ago
And we learned in Hillary's campaign that politicians should pander to "hardworking Americans" which translated means "white rascists".
interlude
· 1 year ago
Cokie doesn't live in a fly-over state....SoCarolina is hardly fly-over, nor DC
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I think the term 'fly over" is a pejorative. It means that people going from NY to LA only see these states as insignificant except during election years. I don't think it's geographical.
interlude
· 1 year ago
i know, but still...
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
She rents, by her own admission, a house every spring on Pawleys Island, 20 miles south of Myrtle Beach, a superaffluent enclave where the houses rent for up to $8000 a week during peak summer season and houses on the water are north of 2 million dollars. Wikipedia updated to include this info.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Pawleys Island is 92% white according to the latest census (7% black).
WillySF
· 1 year ago
If you live in Manhattan or Miami Beach, South Carolina is a fly-over state. Sorry.
kattywacky
· 1 year ago
Thank you Sen. Akaka for standing up for our state and the right of Obama to visit his hometown and his family. Cokie should apologize to Hawaii. What the heck were Akaka and Sen. Inouye doing in World War Ii, anyway - fighting for a foreign country?
Cokie seems to think a presidential candidate should only do things that she deems politically expedient. No wonder politicians have a bad rep.
Rab
· 1 year ago
Hey Cokie, your'e a millionaire, thats pretty exotic for most Americans, I think we should vote on whether we'll let you live in the U.S. or not.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
You know, me and the missus just got back from our vacation in a place called Middle-of-nowhere-Kansas. I can't tell you how much fun we had in the 105 degree heat and the 98% humidity, why some mornings it didn't do any good to towel off after a shower. And fun? Let me tell ya how much the kids and the missus enjoyed the tour of the popcorn manufacturing plant! And there wasn't a palm tree or some exotic bush blocking our view of the incredibly flat countryside that seemed to go on for about a 1,000 miles in any direction! So flat you could look straight ahead and see the back of your own head! Whooo boy! And that's why you won't be acatchin' any of us going anywhere else!
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Cokie Roberts is reasonably well off and must have vacationed at one time or another in Hawaii as it is considered a very desirable vacation spot. That she would still refer to it as exotic and foreign says something about her attitude toward "brownies" and "darkies". Sigh!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Cokie Roberts: "Oh, outrigger boy! A Big Mai Tai for me and the hubby, Steve! And tell that dusky hula girl over there to bring us a super-size pupu platter! We're on vacation from smearing Obama at ABC and NPR, and we deserve it!"
brb915
· 1 year ago
Her myopic view of these United States is a disgrace----I guess she couldn't quite wrap herself around that Gold Medal 4 x 100 relay; after all one of those talented young men was "exotic".
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
She'd better stay out of California, since it has so many minorities it can't get any more "exotic."
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Thank you, Only Senator Whose Name is a Palindrome!
gumbygirl
· 1 year ago
Well, close to the only one ! I am referring to "Buttub" McCain!
eagleye
· 1 year ago
The bias and corruption in the corporate media is the # 1 obstacle to positive change in this country. Until we fix that problem, we're going to be fighting an uphill battle. Thank the gods for the blogs... !
and the part about this that makes her statements "super stupid" is that his family is there. Hello, Earth to Cokie. When people go on vacation to visit family...they usually go to where their family is....in Obama's case, that would be Hawaii. yes, unlike John "I'm not allowed to have unsupervised contact with the press" McCain Obama was born in the U.S.
So Obama should have gone on vacation to Myrtle Beach? um he has no family there, he has no particular reason to visit a golf resort if he is not an avid golfer. Unlike McCain he actually married and is still married to the mother of his children and maybe, just maybe he gives a shit about his family and wants to spend some time with his family after being on the campaign trail for months. Take the kids to see Grandma...how is that a bad thing. I suppose Grandma should move to South Carolina to make Obama look more 'murkin.
No mention about how this is his first real vacation in about a year, whereas McCain has to be in before the street lights come on and is only allowed to camaign from 9am to 3pm so he can make the early bird special at Denny's.
who the hell wants to visit S.C. if they don't HAVE to? I don't know about you, but not too many black folks really want to go hang out in a formerly slave state unless they have family there. S.C was one of the main entry points for stolen Africans to enter the U.S. and go on the auction block. yeah....that sounds like a fun vacation for the kids.
"and right here is where they lynched Great-Great-Great Grandpa Mutumbo/Buddy"
I think the right is still trying to paint Obama as a "foreigner" with a funny name who doesn't look like the other presidents on our money. frankly, they are playing the "race" card without actually playing the race card.
Cokie needs a slap upside the head with a brick. stupid cow.
LeesiD
· 1 year ago
Now if McCain took a vaction to Panama the place where he was born...That would be something! *laugh*
mirth
· 1 year ago
Yea! A longer comment from you...and deadly, just like your briefer ones.
ron071
· 1 year ago
Remember that the media takes ORDERS from their execs. and owners. The orders have been to assist McSame and down Obama. It's up to the voters to not be fooled for a third time. Yes, don't be fooled for a third time.
MORE PAIN?????VOTE McCAIN!!!!!!!
donotmakemecomedownthere
· 1 year ago
(from the last Cokie thread:)
“For somebody who has been called ‘elitist,’ going to Hawaii is not exactly going against type,” [Douglas Schoen, a pollster for Clinton’s reelection campaign] said. “I would rather have him going to national parks.”
Hawaii has two National Parks (Haleakala and the Hawaii Volcanoes). Kansas has none.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Touche!
gumdrops
· 1 year ago
Didn't Dorothy go to some "theme" park...over a rainbow?
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
yeah and what an idiot for going home....ever been to Kansas? Sadly it gets to vote in national elections.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Kansas is only remotely appealing in sepia tones; in living color, meh!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
had a boy friend in wichita...flew there once....when we landed a guy sitting near me said...."shit Toto....let's turn around...."
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
oh good GAWD! at this point, the only thing that is keeping me sane is Americablog and the 538.com website where I can see that we are Obama is ahead in the polls.
stupid!!!!
Hawaii foreign...whatever.
reminds me of a Jeff Foxworthy story he tells about how one of the first things he did when he made some big money was to take his extended family to Hawaii. It was quite the event as the trailer residents used Coleman coolers and trash bags for luggage. He states that when they landed at the airport one of his relatives asked "When we gone change our money to Hawaii money?"
brb915
· 1 year ago
attaboy
WillySF
· 1 year ago
Kansas does have lots of really lovely and humble people living there. There's not much to see, to be sure. And it is truly a terrain unbroken by nothing taller than a fence post. But kinder people you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. Yes, I had the occasion to travel to Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Indiana. These may not be tourist destinations, but there's a reason why we call it the "heartland".
I'm a San Francisco native and a city boy. I refer to the Sunset District as the "suburbs". But I cannot deny my family's midwestern heritage. Those values have stuck with me throughout my life, and I am grateful for them.
WalterP
· 1 year ago
Cokie Roberts repeated her stupid comment about Hawaii on NPR this morning. Would it even cross anybody's mind that HA was "exotic" or "foreign?" Most Americans would love to vacation there, if they haven't already. This seems like the most pathetic attempt yet by MSM to portray Obama as foreign.
brb915
· 1 year ago
Go to NPR.com and voice your gross displeasure-----------I just burned up the airwaves with mine
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Roberts says she rents every spring on Pawleys Island, 20 miles south of Myrtle Beach--a superexpensive white enclave. She is attacking Obama for not vacationing where SHE does!
JennieB
· 1 year ago
I guess someone should tell all those unpatriotic Americans who served on the Pearl Harbor Naval base that they're, well . . . unpatriotic. And exotic. And maybe a litle scary.
LeesiD
· 1 year ago
Where is the same scrutiny to McCain for taking plenty of time off on his ranch in AZ or going to Maine to play golf with former President George H.W. Bush.......and on the campaign no less! Cokie Riberts is an ignoramous~!!
gumdrops
· 1 year ago
Can I ask what Alaska is?
moreleesafer
· 1 year ago
an extension of Alabama-I lived there for a short time and when someone asks me to characterize the inhabitants I explain thusly:
Alaska is populated by folks from Alabama who thought that law against marrying your cousin was WAY to strict.
fostert
· 1 year ago
I thought Alaska was for people who don't like living in tiny, overcrowded states like Montana.
scooter in brooklyn
· 1 year ago
she works for a fucking mouse and she calls obama exotic? wtf?
jr
· 1 year ago
"you're not white. you're not American"-Cokie Roberts to Senator Akaka
ron071
· 1 year ago
Cokie is trying to keep her job which requires saying anything to down the Democrat. CNN even questioned the need for any vacation due to the crisis in Georgia while Bush vacationed in China. These absurd attacks clearly reveal what the media has become.
ron071
· 1 year ago
Cokie Roberts has really decended to the depths in her criticism of Hawai i as Obama's vacation spot. This comment proves the media's desperation to say absolutely anything to aid McSame. They simply are obeying instructions of the corporate elite who want to keep Republican control of government. CNN even questioned the need of any vacation for the Obama family due to the problem in Georgia. Who's the president anyway? Beware the media bias as it has reached desperation levels.
WANT MORE PAIN????????? VOTE McSAME !!!!!!!!!!!!!
martha
· 1 year ago
Yea, THE PRESIDENT is on vacation at the Olympics during a crisis but Obama who can't do a thing should cut his vacation short! We found out last week that Clinton and McCain both think painting Obama as "exotic and not one of us" is a good campaign stragedy. The amazing part is that Cokie Roberts, a "serious journalist" would so transparantly shill for McCain with this taking point.
ron071
· 1 year ago
Martha: Clearly, Cokie Roberts is not a real journalist if she behaves like the Republican shill that she is. She is also a closet racist at heart who only now has peeked out from the closet. There is no espect for shills hiding behind journalistic robes. Ron
How DARE Obama vacation in exotic Hawaii, that tropical Eden, when he should be at home "on top" of the Georgia-Russia war like Sen. McCain; he should be at home being "presumptuously" Presidential formulating foreign policy!
FunMe
· 1 year ago
There goes Cookie's credibility.
I guess cookie just Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
sconset
· 1 year ago
Thanks for putting this statement by Akaka up--I think Cokie is upset because she had to return to Washington from Nantucket (go to Plum TV and click on Nantucket and watch the 10 min. interview she did with Matthews) to appear on "the little greek boys show on ABC and then on NPR on Monday.
Is it me or is the word "exotic" suddenly a slur--because it is being tossed around by several in the media?
Obama has to be exhausted from all of the campaigning and the endless demands that are being made on him--I just hope that his family can have a very peaceful and restful week together.
since1792
· 1 year ago
Four words.
Cokie Roberts Dot Com -
Also I noted that someone changed her wikipedia entry already to reflect this nonsense.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
And I just did a revised update to reflect the NPR appearance today.
since1792
· 1 year ago
nice job!
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
On wikipedia? Good for you.
cksy
· 1 year ago
KarenMrsLloydRichards (re: comment from about 20 hours ago), did you say you changed wiki on cokie to reflect her recent statements? i just went there and it must have been revised. well that's no surprise, the repubs must be practicing their revisionist history skills for when W. leaves office.
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Correctomundo; I will be submitting a revision at a later date, when my Cokie Roberts Wikipedia Nemesis (could be Cokie herself!), is asleep at the switch. My revisions have been deleted 3 times in the space of 24 hours.
mweholt
· 1 year ago
And, uh, the Little League team from Waipio, Hawaii, just today won the Western Region Finals of the Little League World Series competition and will be traveling to Williamsport to compete with the Eastern Region champions.
To coin a phrase: "Is that American enough for ya?"
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Cokie's from Louisiana.
She's obviously trying to hide her FRENCH roots!
gaiilonfong
· 1 year ago
Cokie the hagg reTHUGlican has been demeaning Dems for years. She is an abomination....another Nantucket biatch elitist putrid troll......she lives on the same street as Carly"Worse CEO EVER" Fiorina and Tom Brokaw....nuff'said
ultraducharme
· 1 year ago
Ferchrissakes - the USS ARIZONA WAS ATTACKED THERE.
Cripes, she just assaulted the place where WORLD WAR TWO STARTED as a foreign villa.
Forget tourism - just say she hates World War Two vets.
(It's fun to practice thinking like Republicans)
rexkc
· 1 year ago
If McCain had decided to vacation in Hawaii it would have shown character or courageous, or some such drivel. The double standard from the Against Barack's Campaign (ABC) Network is almost expected now.
Bobby
· 1 year ago
Cokie Roberts needs to be roasted at the next luau.
CPinHI
· 1 year ago
Having her there at all would spoil everyone's appetite ;-)
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Akaka means "as shit" in Italian. If the guy from Hawaii wants to be taken seriously, he needs to change his name...just sayin...
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
I think the people of Hawaii do take Sen. Akaka seriously, seein' as how they first sent him to Congress in 1976 and he's been there, as a congressman or senator, ever since.
donotmakemecomedownthere
· 1 year ago
"Akaka is a Hawaiian name ... means 'a rent, split, chink, separation; to crack, split, scale'."
Your screenname means "a servant who cleans up dirty plates and dishes" in English, and to think you could have chosen any screenname and settled on something that means you clean up other people's undigested shit. Just sayin...
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I once was a busboy. I did a damn good job. I don't denigrate anyone who works for below minimum wage.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I was a busboy, as well. It doesn't change the fact you clean up other people's undigested shit. I don't know many people who aspire to be a "busboy" but it is an ends to a means. I did it, and so did almost 90% of my other friends before they turned twenty. Some have to do it longer, and since I'm a Democrat, I FIGHT for those people to get more money for minimum wage. You seem to be supporting those Republicans who DON'T support those busboys with any kind of extra money per hour. Don't try to infer I don't care for them just because I'm slamming you in the same sense you slammed Akaka by making fun of his name.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
Yes, and FDR's middle name Delano means from the anus (del' ano) in Italian as Mussolini liked to dwell on. So what's your point? The words for fox and trip in German are slightly funny sounding in English so should the Germans come up with better words to your ear? Grow up, fergodssake! What's your family name, Snopes?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Now, why would I want to grow up and miss all this fun?
ron071
· 1 year ago
How can media stooges convince Americans that the Bush/Cheney/McCain/Republican years of disaster were just a bad dream? Can the people be frightened or conned for the THIRD TIME? I surely doubt it and give far more credit to the people than to consider them so easy to dupe AGAIN!
WANT MORE PAIN ?????? VOTE McCAIN !!!!!!!
rexkc
· 1 year ago
Somehow visiting your grandma is now considered exotic when you're a shill for the GOP on the ABC Network.
falloch
· 1 year ago
Funny, there's plenty of Hawaiians who would prefer to see Hawaii as a foreign country, i.e. NOT part of Amurka. Perhaps Cokie can be their advocate...
Actually, Hawaiian Sovereignty is all about giving Native Hawaiians sovereign rights over themselves, just like every other native group in the nation (i.e., Cherokee, etc.). Hawaii would still be a state, just like every state on the Mainland with reservations is still part of America. That's what the Akaka Bill is for, anyway. I don't doubt that there are more radical elements in the movement.
falloch
· 1 year ago
Point taken CPinHI! Sorry, just got a bit carried away ...
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
NPR needs to have Cokie apologize for calling Hawaii "exotic." Its unacceptable, and quite racist.
howdydostu
· 1 year ago
NPR's biography says that Cokie Roberts was appointed by George W Bush to the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. She and pundits like her are responsible for the horrible things that have happened to the American people over these last 8 yeras. We must be vigalent and expose these people for who they are at EVERY oppertunity! Email "NPR"...Email "This Week at ABC"... . She should acknowledge publcly Sen. Akaka's statement and apologise to the good people of Hawaii! Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall Las Vegas, NV 9142
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Pretty fancy name. Are you guys attorneys or something?
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
If Hawaii had oil Republicans, like Cokie, wouldn't be calling our pacific island STATE "exotic."
ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith)
· 1 year ago
Next to be made "exotic" California and the all the Northeast from Massachuesetts down to around Maryland, you know, cause no good hard working murkins live in "those" states. Seriously, seems like whenever anyone gets on TV and starts waving around flags the only acceptable places to be from are the deep south or the midwest. The funny part is, most of the US population lies on the coasts, not in the supposed "heartland" or in "the south". There's a reason why NJ, NY, and CA have such a huge number of electoral votes. It's time for us folks living on the coasts to take this country back, we've let the NASCAR/Faux news set have it to long and they've done nothing but play with the toys and not clean up the mess afterwards. Maybe its time for a little latte drinking, arugula eating, and dare I say it, yoga practicing to be brought back into the halls of power, I think I've had enough of the fake southern drawls, bbq for every meal, pseduo-patriotic pandering for a lifetime thank you.
You would think Hawaii paid its dues by now being one of the few US territories to say it was attacked by foreign armies in the last 100 years, but apparently, they aren't quite murkin enough. Perhaps its because too many of their people have too much melanin, or maybe its because they haven't allowed US industry to destroy all of their wilderness yet (give it time though, the one thing we can do is chop down a forrest or two to make room for a factory or a condo!).
This not particularly PC rant is basically my way of saying I think its time to start giving some smackdowns to the ignorance becoming so pervasive in our culture. I'm tired of making excuses for the fact that I actually read above a 5th grade level and I do laugh at the stupidity that is put forth as news and public policy today. Obama isn't perfect but at least he represents a lot more of what the world and this country really is, not a homogenous made-up-facade trying to remind people of an older time that probably never was, but a real, worldly, complex person who understands that people have a variety of opinions, looks, and needs and we can't run this country as a one-size-fits all oligarchy.
howdydostu
· 1 year ago
Thanks for saying out loud what I feel sometimes....But I'll always feel leary about painting people and places with such a wide brush. In California, when a disaster happens, it takes MONTHS not YEARS to rebuild and put our lives back together. In Massachusettes, gay men and women can marry legally...they have the LOWEST divorce rate in the country....so, .who really believes in the sanctity of marriage....Massachusettsians or Alabamans? Southerners have a great sense of patriotism and love our country a much as we do....many of them, I know, are as embarressed for what Bush has done to this country as you and I are! Try not to be so consescending. I share your frustration. Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith)
· 1 year ago
I hear what your saying, but the whole point of my rant was to use a very big brush and talk in generalities. Folks on the left spend so much time trying to parse things and be PC that we lose the war for the battles. IMO it's time to step up and call it the way it is, the civil war in many ways never stopped, and has morphed from a simple slave/soverignty issue into an almost bipolar country.
My point? Of course not all southerners are as bad as they are portrayed, just as not all of us on the coasts are a bunch of tie-dye wearing communist hippies. However, the GOP has learned long ago that people vote for themes and symbols, not the micro-managed parsing the Democratic party seems averse to stick with. We need to start using liberalism as a weapon and coallese, and, stop with the I'm-OK-you're-OK tendancy that leaves us wondering how a great candidate like Obama isn't killing McCain in the polls. The answer, as ugly as it is, is starring liberals right in the face and it has very little to do with his skin color, age, or even background. IMO, the answer is that the GOP isn't afraid to lump people together, play on their fears, and use group-think to make patriotism a way to enforce conformity, not true love of country. Dems have a choice, either play the game better, come up with a way to beat the GOP tactics, or lose again.
myqueen7
· 1 year ago
Thank you Senator. It's going to take a lot of reinforced education this election cycle. There is an extraordinarily large amount of ignorant people in the media masquerading as "political analyst and strategist." God help all of us if they should succeed with this inflammatory line of attack!
cokey
· 1 year ago
She reminds me of those "good news bad news" jokes without the good news. She's ready to dump on Obama no matter what he does. To think I once respected her (though not too recently).
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
That seems to be Republican and establishment strategy: to dump on Obama no matter what he does. They all must be running scared.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
As Obama said, they take pride in being ignorant.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
This is good! Has this hit the main stream media yet? That's what I'm concerned with! Has it hit main stream media yet?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Its too exotic for Cokie unless your pulling down $15K+ for a speaking fee...
sconset
· 1 year ago
Howdydostu: Thank you for writing about the gay marriage issue in Massachusetts. Remember how Romney said it would destroy the sanctity of marriage--we have the lowest divorce rate in the country and we also (contrary to what the Wing nuts say) the largest group of people who regularly attend church on a weekly basis.
Thanks for pointing out the facts.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
Cokie Roberts just made a complete jack ass out of her self.
My god, what a stupid bitch she is.
bosdav
· 1 year ago
Little Miss Cokie thinks any blue state is "exotic". Honey, your political bias is showing, you may want to tuck it back in.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
There's also a bias out there which I hope is going to be turned on its head this year, namely, that the South is the fulcrum of this country, that the South only is what matters in an election, that the other 3/4 of the country doesn't count
ChrisS
· 1 year ago
Given the facts (plural) that Cokie Roberts' father was a member of the U.S. House when Hawai'i was admitted to the Union, and was later the Majority Leader of the House, and that her mother was a decades-long (and highly respected) member of the House and later a U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, you'd think she'd know better than to call one of the United States "foreign."
And as to the term "exotic," I'm also from Louisiana like Ms. Roberts' family. Unlike her, I actually grew up there (not her fault -- when your parents are among the finest statesmen and stateswomen this country has ever produced, they tend to get drawn to Washington, D.C.). But, sweetheart, if "exotic" was a problem, Louisiana's tourist industry would die a quick and painful death.
And -- at the end of the day. Barack Obama is taking his wife and children to visit his grandmother in the U.S. state she lives in. By what stretch of the imagination is that grounds for criticism????
When I heard her comments about Hawai'i, I started trying to find out who managed the debate in the House on admitting that state to the union. There's a good chance it was her father. Still researching that one...
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
This is great! My husband sent an e-mail to ABC because you can't write Roberts directly, and he told her that she was the unpatriotic one because Hawaii is a pivotal scene in American history and that thousands of American servicemen are buried in Hawaii, USA both under the water and on the land.
cksy
· 1 year ago
KarenMrsLloydRichards (re: comment from about 20 hours ago), did you say you changed wiki on cokie to reflect her recent statements? i just went there and it must have been revised. well that's no surprise, the repubs must be practicing their revisionist history skills for when W. leaves office.
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GOOD FUCKING GOD
Wikipedia updated to include this info.
Cokie seems to think a presidential candidate should only do things that she deems politically expedient. No wonder politicians have a bad rep.
And that's why you won't be acatchin' any of us going anywhere else!
Seems someone has an agenda.
So Obama should have gone on vacation to Myrtle Beach? um he has no family there, he has no particular reason to visit a golf resort if he is not an avid golfer. Unlike McCain he actually married and is still married to the mother of his children and maybe, just maybe he gives a shit about his family and wants to spend some time with his family after being on the campaign trail for months. Take the kids to see Grandma...how is that a bad thing. I suppose Grandma should move to South Carolina to make Obama look more 'murkin.
No mention about how this is his first real vacation in about a year, whereas McCain has to be in before the street lights come on and is only allowed to camaign from 9am to 3pm so he can make the early bird special at Denny's.
who the hell wants to visit S.C. if they don't HAVE to? I don't know about you, but not too many black folks really want to go hang out in a formerly slave state unless they have family there. S.C was one of the main entry points for stolen Africans to enter the U.S. and go on the auction block. yeah....that sounds like a fun vacation for the kids.
"and right here is where they lynched Great-Great-Great Grandpa Mutumbo/Buddy"
I think the right is still trying to paint Obama as a "foreigner" with a funny name who doesn't look like the other presidents on our money. frankly, they are playing the "race" card without actually playing the race card.
Cokie needs a slap upside the head with a brick. stupid cow.
MORE PAIN?????VOTE McCAIN!!!!!!!
“For somebody who has been called ‘elitist,’ going to Hawaii is not exactly going against type,” [Douglas Schoen, a pollster for Clinton’s reelection campaign] said. “I would rather have him going to national parks.”
Hawaii has two National Parks (Haleakala and the Hawaii Volcanoes). Kansas has none.
sitting near me said...."shit Toto....let's turn around...."
stupid!!!!
Hawaii foreign...whatever.
reminds me of a Jeff Foxworthy story he tells about how one of the first things he did when he made some big money was to take his extended family to Hawaii. It was quite the event as the trailer residents used Coleman coolers and trash bags for luggage. He states that when they landed at the airport one of his relatives asked "When we gone change our money to Hawaii money?"
I'm a San Francisco native and a city boy. I refer to the Sunset District as the "suburbs". But I cannot deny my family's midwestern heritage. Those values have stuck with me throughout my life, and I am grateful for them.
Alaska is populated by folks from Alabama who thought that law against marrying your cousin was WAY to strict.
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the Republican shill that she is. She is also a closet racist at heart who
only now has peeked out from the closet. There is no espect for shills
hiding behind journalistic robes. Ron
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I guess cookie just Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Is it me or is the word "exotic" suddenly a slur--because it is being tossed around by several in the media?
Obama has to be exhausted from all of the campaigning and the endless demands that are being made on him--I just hope that his family can have a very peaceful and restful week together.
Cokie Roberts Dot Com -
Also I noted that someone changed her wikipedia entry already to reflect this nonsense.
did you say you changed wiki on cokie to reflect her recent statements?
i just went there and it must have been revised.
well that's no surprise, the repubs must be practicing their revisionist history skills for when W. leaves office.
To coin a phrase: "Is that American enough for ya?"
She's obviously trying to hide her FRENCH roots!
Cripes, she just assaulted the place where WORLD WAR TWO STARTED as a foreign villa.
Forget tourism - just say she hates World War Two vets.
(It's fun to practice thinking like Republicans)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaka_Falls
WANT MORE PAIN ?????? VOTE McCAIN !!!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Hawaiian_sovereign...
She and pundits like her are responsible for the horrible things that have happened to the American people over these last 8 yeras.
We must be vigalent and expose these people for who they are at EVERY oppertunity!
Email "NPR"...Email "This Week at ABC"... . She should acknowledge publcly Sen. Akaka's statement and apologise to the good people of Hawaii!
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
Las Vegas, NV 9142
You would think Hawaii paid its dues by now being one of the few US territories to say it was attacked by foreign armies in the last 100 years, but apparently, they aren't quite murkin enough. Perhaps its because too many of their people have too much melanin, or maybe its because they haven't allowed US industry to destroy all of their wilderness yet (give it time though, the one thing we can do is chop down a forrest or two to make room for a factory or a condo!).
This not particularly PC rant is basically my way of saying I think its time to start giving some smackdowns to the ignorance becoming so pervasive in our culture. I'm tired of making excuses for the fact that I actually read above a 5th grade level and I do laugh at the stupidity that is put forth as news and public policy today. Obama isn't perfect but at least he represents a lot more of what the world and this country really is, not a homogenous made-up-facade trying to remind people of an older time that probably never was, but a real, worldly, complex person who understands that people have a variety of opinions, looks, and needs and we can't run this country as a one-size-fits all oligarchy.
In California, when a disaster happens, it takes MONTHS not YEARS to rebuild and put our lives back together.
In Massachusettes, gay men and women can marry legally...they have the LOWEST divorce rate in the country....so, .who really believes in the sanctity of marriage....Massachusettsians or Alabamans?
Southerners have a great sense of patriotism and love our country a much as we do....many of them, I know, are as embarressed for what Bush has done to this country as you and I are! Try not to be so consescending.
I share your frustration.
Stuart & Robert Wyman-Cahall
My point? Of course not all southerners are as bad as they are portrayed, just as not all of us on the coasts are a bunch of tie-dye wearing communist hippies. However, the GOP has learned long ago that people vote for themes and symbols, not the micro-managed parsing the Democratic party seems averse to stick with. We need to start using liberalism as a weapon and coallese, and, stop with the I'm-OK-you're-OK tendancy that leaves us wondering how a great candidate like Obama isn't killing McCain in the polls. The answer, as ugly as it is, is starring liberals right in the face and it has very little to do with his skin color, age, or even background. IMO, the answer is that the GOP isn't afraid to lump people together, play on their fears, and use group-think to make patriotism a way to enforce conformity, not true love of country. Dems have a choice, either play the game better, come up with a way to beat the GOP tactics, or lose again.
God help all of us if they should succeed with this inflammatory line of attack!
Thanks for pointing out the facts.
My god, what a stupid bitch she is.
And as to the term "exotic," I'm also from Louisiana like Ms. Roberts' family. Unlike her, I actually grew up there (not her fault -- when your parents are among the finest statesmen and stateswomen this country has ever produced, they tend to get drawn to Washington, D.C.). But, sweetheart, if "exotic" was a problem, Louisiana's tourist industry would die a quick and painful death.
And -- at the end of the day. Barack Obama is taking his wife and children to visit his grandmother in the U.S. state she lives in. By what stretch of the imagination is that grounds for criticism????
When I heard her comments about Hawai'i, I started trying to find out who managed the debate in the House on admitting that state to the union. There's a good chance it was her father. Still researching that one...
did you say you changed wiki on cokie to reflect her recent statements?
i just went there and it must have been revised.
well that's no surprise, the repubs must be practicing their revisionist history skills for when W. leaves office.