Obama event in HawaiiYep, I watched her say it too. Cokie said Hawaii was too exotic. It was an ignorant thing to say. Obama visits the place he was born, his hometown, the place his grandmother lives, one of the United States, and it's called foreign.
Media tweets repeating Karl Rove's almost hypnotic spell that he's cast--Obama is foreign. Obama is unAmerican. Obama is The Other. Cokie made my official biased against Obama list in my sidebar. She's there with ABC's Jake Tapper. It's good to know who's biased, then when you read what they write, you can consider the source.
HA: A group called Asian Americans for Obama sent out a media alert yesterday with the headline, "BREAKING: Hawai'i is a State," as U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka and others defended U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's decision to spend a weeklong vacation in the Islands.
Obama had another casual day yesterday: Visit his grandmother at her Makiki apartment again, watch a movie at the Ward Complex theaters and go to dinner. But his choice of vacation destinations — his hometown of Honolulu — prompted ABC News' Cokie Roberts to twice call Hawai'i a "foreign" and "exotic" vacation destination for the man who wants to be president.
"I know his grandmother lives in Hawai'i," Roberts said on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. "And I know Hawai'i is a state. But it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach if he's going to take a vacation at this time."
The folks at MyrtleBeach Golf.com ate it up.
