Posted on 10/10/2012 11:05:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Talk a little bit first about Punahou, the school you guys went to -- what it was like, what it looked like, how you guys all ended up there, what the environment was like.
Yeah, to me, Punahou represented the best of students that had potential. It was a very high-standard type school. I do remember that even as kids we were always thinking about, man, I'd really want to go to Punahou because that is the cat's meow. It seemed as though everybody who was anybody had a kid in there or two. …
How about Barry Obama? How did he fit in?
You know, when I first met Barry, obviously he stood out because he's half-African American, and at the time there were just a few or handful of blacks, as it were, on campus. I never really put him in a different category than any of us, because we're all multiracial. I'm Polish and Chinese. It's not uncommon in Hawaii to have these races that just like to mix it up.
But at the same time, Barry, he looked black. In our day it was kind of cool to have a friend that was diverse and out of the ordinary. It wasn't the exception, but it was more the rule, that you had to be mixed to feel mixed in with the mixed races. And Barry was very gregarious, very happy, very outgoing. He was very, very easily [sic] to befriend.
And how did he fit into the school? Did he have problems? Was he considered to some extent the smart kid? What was he considered?
You know, Barry, to me, wore a lot of hats...
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So the summary of the article is that in Jr. High and High School he was a smooth-talking pothead who liked basketball. Doesn’t seem like he’s changed all that much.
Good summary.
So... Barry wasn’t a ‘disadvantaged YUTE’ like he claimed ?
Fewer people liked him then and more people dislike him now.
Who paid for this exclusive private school.?
Later in the article it is mentioned his grandparents and Zer0 lived in a tiny apt.
So, either the grandparents sacrificed, scrimped on themselves to send Zer0 to his school or someone else paid the bill.
I'm very curious.
“So the summary of the article is that in Jr. High and High School he was a smooth-talking pothead who liked basketball. Doesn’t seem like he’s changed all that much.”
Bears repeating.
Wow. We had groups like that in high school. I didn’t hang around with them because they were always stoned. We called them losers.
Most of them are teachers now.
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