Posted on 11/02/2008 11:38:43 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Mark Whitaker, head of the NBC News DC bureau, got off today's laugh line when he described Barack Obama as having "lifted himself up from the streets of Hawaii."
Oh those mean streets of Hawaii. You know, the sort pictured here at the Punahou school that Obama attended from 5-12th grade. While attending Punahou, Obama lived with his grandparents. His ill grandmother has been in the news lately. But how many readers are aware that grandma Dunham was . . . a vice-president of the Bank of Hawaii?
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Obama, up from the mean streets ping to Today show list.
That’s pretty hilarious, actually ... STREETS OF HAWAII ? ?
I think this must be added to the dictionary - beside “Hyperbole.”
The other day, I forget who it was on CNN, but they said:
‘Obama is just a great, great American story...McCain’s story is good too but Obama’s is a great blah blah blah’
I don’t understand how Obama’s story of palling around with terrorists can even compare to what McCain is done.
This is a double post Gov.
Another FReeper beat you to your own article. ;-)
“Obama, up from the mean streets ping to Today show list.”
All that living in a natural paradise with girls in bikinis gets tough. I don’t envy anyone who has to grow up there!
Obama primarily grew up in Indonesia as a child. He was given his entire adult life by rich people looking to capitalize on his being part black. He has earned very little of what he has been given.
“I don’t understand how Obama’s story of palling around with terrorists can even compare to what McCain is done.”
Yes but Obama is half-black!
A lesser man might have joined a gang of hula-gans...
Give me a break. I too attended Punahou School from 5th grade to graduation a few years before Barry graduated. It is one of the most elite privileged schools in America. Where he lived just down teh street was fronted by one of the welathiest chirch’s in Hawaii (Central Union, next on his way to school was Kapiolani Hospital, the best in teh state for child care, then two blocks by apartments and a Catholic school (Maryknoll) to the walled and gated fortress of Punahou. This guy has nothing at all to complain about. It is absuyrd that this radical Marxist race-baiter is even close to winning a national election. He is an absurd liar and panderer.
Some pretty tough customers in that crowd. Some of them are walking on the grass.
To the hateful left being a hero means fighting against our military, not fighting for it.
Obvious gang territory. Some kids wearing red and others, blue. Oh! The Humanity!
Can’t..stop...laughing.....
.......the streets......gasping for air....
..the streets of Hawaii....bwhwhhhhhaaaaaaaa...
God love ya Mark- I needed that!
Sorry, I hit post instead of spell...
Give me a break. I too attended Punahou School from 5th grade to graduation a few years before Barry graduated. It is one of the most elite privileged schools in America. Where he lived just down the street was fronted by one of the wealthiest churches in Hawaii (Central Union), next on his way to school was Kapiolani Hospital, the best in the state for child care, then two blocks by apartments and a Catholic school (Maryknoll) to the walled and gated fortress of Punahou. This guy has nothing at all to complain about. It is absurd that this radical Marxist race-baiter is even close to winning a national election. He is an absurd liar and panderer.
That Punahou High School is a regular Hell’s Kitchen.
Did they find an Hawaii Five-0 episode with Barry in it?
Did Punahou give out many scholarships? Both Barry and his sister Maya (9 years younger) went there, and I find it hard to believe they both merited scholarships. He doesn't mention the word "scholarship" anywhere in his fictionalized memoir, but he has insisted since then, that " "I went to Punahou on a scholarship. I was raised by a single mom and my grandmother."
I snooze I lose!
Yup. Current tuition is about 3x that of UH - for kindergarten!! I just checked the website - 16K for K-12. The private Christian school my kids attended in Mililani was less than half Punahou’s cost. I had to take them down to Punahou occasionally for an event, though... quite the place. Now if he’d grown up in Kalihi or Waianae, I might sympathize but Manoa and Punahou? Riiiiight....
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