Barack Obama's Hawaii

[mucifer]

an interesting article in the Chicago Suntimes:

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/hoekstra/1305807,CST-NWS-hawaii30.article

November 29, 2008
BY DAVE HOEKSTRA Staff Reporter [e-mail]

HONOLULU -- The boyhood home of President-elect Barack Obama is in the cradle of Manoa Valley. The lush, green neighborhood is set between Waikiki Beach and Mt. Tantalus. When trade winds roll in, they meet the mountain. and moisture falls like glitter. The sun hits the precipitation, which creates rainbows on a near daily basis.

There is no other presidential site like this in the United States.
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In his book "The Dream Begins: How Hawai'i Shaped Barack Obama," author Stu Glauberman looks at the president-elect's relationship with the island.


Between 1964 and 1967, Obama lived in a beige four-bedroom home at 2234 University Ave. with his mother, Ann Dunham, and her parents, Stan and Madelyn, who became known as "Toot." (Tu-tu is Hawaiian for grandmother.)

Stu Glauberman of Honolulu is the lead author of The Dream Begins: How Hawai'i Shaped Barack Obama (Watermark, $17.95). He looks at the now-historic site, built in 1947, and says, "This is what the adult Barack Obama describes in his memoir as the comfortable rambling old house in Manoa. These were his happy days as a toddler. It's the house Gramps and Toot bought."snip

[mkultra]

1. dont forget to check out the good books about Hillary

on sale now.

[demwing]

2. OMG. Rest it please.

IMO, that was without class.