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Health Care reform allowing, President Barack Obama will leave behind the detritus of legislative guerrilla warfare and a blizzard that froze the nation's capital to head for vacation. He is going home to the place he was born: Hawaii.
The state remains proud of its native son, no matter how many national debates he may spark. Nevertheless, Obama will be coming home to a state struggling with the sour taste of recession. Although a forecast this month by University of Hawaii economists predicted that the new year will bring...
"Barack Obama is still a subject of considerable admiration and pride in Hawaii, although his political luster has dimmed a little, as one might expect," says Jerry Burris, a long-time political columnist and the co-author of The Dream Begins, a book about the influence Hawaii had in shaping...
Obama's family visit, like last year's, does not include any scheduled public appearances. Instead, the public will have to rely on the kind of chance encounters that made Obama as much a neighbor as a celebrity: taking in the Honolulu Zoo with his children, walking on the beach...
In Hawaii, the state's most famous local is such a beloved figure that people wear T-shirts that brag about his surfing prowess. Obama is the only President with his name on a Nobel Peace Prize and his face melded with an image of Elvis Presley playing an ukulele...