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Sat Apr 22, 2017, 01:21 AM

Apr 2017

Cokie Roberts on Obama's vacation: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state," but it looks "foreign, exotic"

On the August 10 edition of ABC's This Week, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- who was born in Hawaii -- for "going off this week to a vacation in Hawaii," which she said "does not make any sense whatsoever." Roberts stated: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place." Roberts continued: "He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he's going to take a vacation at this time."

https://mediamatters.org/video/2008/08/10/cokie-roberts-on-obamas-vacation-i-know-his-gra/144326

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Hawaii fires back at Jeff Sessions after he called the state 'an island in the Pacific Ocean' [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2017 OP

When I read what he said, I felt like he was Raine1967 Apr 2017 #1

Well Obama grew up there so of course the US should sever relations with it. Kablooie Apr 2017 #17

Is there a sane, capable person in this WH? nt jrthin Apr 2017 #2

No. 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #3

He's an inbred piece of shit. roamer65 Apr 2017 #4

Nothing else seems to cover it. Judi Lynn Apr 2017 #5

bet the racist can't play a banjo, so is there anything he can do besides making everyone's Motley13 Apr 2017 #27

I am taking a class from a faculty member raised in Alabama. Now retired. Just LuckyLib Apr 2017 #24

What an arrogant ass! SCVDem Apr 2017 #6

He can't acknowledge what he is unable to understand. eom IllinoisBirdWatcher Apr 2017 #7

Levin cubbies01 Apr 2017 #8

That puts him in the certifiable range. Jeez. Welcome to D.U., cubbies01. Judi Lynn Apr 2017 #14

Maybe Mr. Sessions should be worried about TREASON turbinetree Apr 2017 #9

Another SNL routine with Kate McKinnon as Sessions! CTyankee Apr 2017 #21

After seeing what Maddow said tonight about the properties turbinetree Apr 2017 #29

Sessions is a bad case of Little Man Syndrome benld74 Apr 2017 #10

Well Obama was born there so it's another country - remember? nini Apr 2017 #11

I was thinking that myself. Doreen Apr 2017 #12

Onionesque headline: "New Evidence Barack Obama born on an Island in the Pacific!" Girard442 Apr 2017 #18

OMG!! that is so hilarious. Doreen Apr 2017 #23

You joke, but... NYC Liberal Apr 2017 #30

What does Cokie have to say about Trump's vacations? yardwork Apr 2017 #33

Next up: Jeff Sessions' Alaska - "A real, real cold place up thar North a ways..." Aristus Apr 2017 #13

But Alaska gave the GOP their hope for women crazycatlady Apr 2017 #26

But Alaska has snow... Steven Maurer Apr 2017 #34

Why not a series of tubes? Mendocino Apr 2017 #15

they're not a REAL state, you know, like KANSAS Skittles Apr 2017 #16

Of course they're foreigners... El Mimbreno Apr 2017 #22

People are Majorly Pissed Dammit Jim Apr 2017 #19

Sad that the Attorney General doesn't understand this. Could it be because Obama was born there? George II Apr 2017 #20

Kick ck4829 Apr 2017 #25

Frightening that such a stupid and racist man as sessions is anywhere near our government Eliot Rosewater Apr 2017 #28

More racist idiocy from the Russia-loving Southern White Christian Little Man dalton99a Apr 2017 #31

Jeff Sessions, I christen thee "ULSWALD." Paladin Apr 2017 #32