Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible

by Babel-Fish | August 22, 2008 at 04:46 pm

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I for one would like to see a colored president to show that the racialism of the past has been eradicated. I like to hear what Obama say's its actually inspiring but of course this is all about making a personality and getting votes. It sad to think that most politicians lie to achieve position and power and when they do they neglect the people that voted for them and pay back their main backers the cooperate companies. This Washington Post story is an interesting look at Obama's life.

On weekday mornings as a teenager, Barry Obama left his grandparents' apartment on the 10th floor of the 12-story high-rise at 1617 South Beretania, a mile and half above Waikiki Beach, and walked up Punahou Street in the shadows of capacious banyan trees and date palms. Before crossing the overpass above the H1 freeway, where traffic zoomed east to body-surfing beaches or west to the airport and Pearl Harbor, he passed Kapiolani Medical Center, walking below the hospital room where he was born on Aug. 4, 1961. Two blocks further along, at the intersection with Wilder, he could look left toward the small apartment on Poki where he had spent a few years with his little sister, Maya, and his mother, Ann, back when she was getting her master's degree at the University of Hawaii before she left again for Indonesia. Soon enough he was at the lower edge of Punahou School, the gracefully sloping private campus where he studied some and played basketball more.