Photo of the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery in Honolulu. Image by JPhilipson
I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii, and I know Hawaii is a state. But …Cokie apparently believes that there are “real” Americans, and then there are a lot of other people who somehow ended up with the right to vote for our president.
- Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (aka "Cokie") Roberts, explaining why Barack Obama looks like an elitist for visiting an American state during an American election.
Hawaii is a state. It’s people are Americans. Just because they don’t live like Cokie doesn’t make them some sort of exotic, foreign tribe.
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