Posted on 09/26/2007 12:45:21 AM PDT by yorkie
Senator Barack Obama is set to break away from the conventional campaign trail and give equal priority to winning the votes of Asian American-Pacific Islander groups, including the Filipino community.
The strategy will build on Obama’s ties to Asian culture, a fact that the prospective presidential candidate has been faulted for not highlighting as much as his having a Caucasian mother.
“Not too many people are aware that Barack had an Indonesian stepfather and has an Indonesian American stepsister living in Hawaii,” said Wilma Chan on Saturday, September 22, during the initial strategizing meeting of Northern California’s Asians for Obama movement held at her residence in this city.
Chan was a three-term member of the California Assembly, representing the 16th district that includes Alameda, Oakland, and Piedmont. She served as majority leaders from 2002-2004, the first woman and first Asian American to hold the position.
The gathering also became the forum for announcing the appointment of Chan as advisory council leader in charge of Obama’s Northern California campaign. Present were members of the various teams working the Bay Area districts, cities and towns, and neighborhoods.
“Barack Obama’s closeness to Asians is rooted in Hawaii where he was born and spent a good 18 years living amid the islands’ cultural and ethnic diversity,” team leader Wayne Nishioka added.
Obama was born to Barack Obama, Sr., a Kenyan immigrant in Indonesia, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while they were attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The couple divorced when he was 2 years old.
Later, his mother married Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia by whom she had a daughter, Maya. The family then moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools. He later returned to Honolulu to continue his studies until 1979, when he moved...
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Those Rascally Racist Democrats again.
Instead, why don’t we focus on the fact that we are ALL Americans - not black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Martian etc.
Great point, Paisan.
Exactly.
I went to the University of Hawaii, two of my kids were born in Hawaii, I moved to Indonesia on a project, met and married my second wife there (she’s Indonesian by birth) had two kids with her and adopted a third, feel a kinship with the cultures of the Asia Pacific region, and relish all kinds of south-east Asian food.
But I wouldn’t vote for Barak Obama if you put a knife to my ribs. Or Hillary Clinton or John Edwards for that matter, and it has NOTHING to do with race, gender, culture, place of birth, school ties, or sentimentality of any kind.
It’s because he, she and it are all opportunistic, socialist scumbags of the first order.
If he somehow gets elected, will he be the first Asian president and the second black one?
Will they play to his Muslim roots?
Now, this all could make Hillary just a little nervous; though she knows as do we; that she has nothing to worry about.
LOL on 'it'. . .in particular. Beyond that, the truth of these people for sure. . .'hurts'.
I'm sorry, but Obama is not one of "us." Never was.
And neither is Hillary, regardless of how much money she took from foolish Asian people who thought she gave a damn.
. . .and focus on 'why' we have diversity in the first place. 'Freedom'. . .and opportunities. Let us keep that way.
It is not 'diversity' that made America great; it is the 'why' that brought diversity to our shores, to begin with. . .
But Libs of course, do not want a 'one'. ..a united. . .America.
Their MO is to divide. ..and conquer. Their success depends on a hyphenated-America.
Gabba Gabba Hey! A really disturbing film, btw.
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