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Obama becomes an island boy immediately upon touching down on Hawaiian soil. In August, when he returned for a family vacation in Honolulu, Obama was quick to mention the local restaurants where he ate when he was growing up and the food he had been craving on the campaign trail. He even used the common island greeting "Howzit," a Pidgin English version of "How's it going?" "How's everybody doing today?" Obama asked the crowd that turned out to greet him. "Howzit?" Then he talked about going to lunch: "I might go to Zippy's. I might...
...welfare. Seven years old when his alcoholic father, George, died of a heart attack, young John and his two elder sisters were raised in a state-provided house in Christchurch by their Austrian-immigrant mother, Ruth, who made ends meet by working long hours as a cleaner. "We always ate and we were always happy," says Key's sister Sue Lazar, "but there wasn't a lot of money for clothes or anything like that...
Meanwhile, in Miami, in a carpeted ballroom at the Jungle Island tourist attraction, stoked Obama supporters drank beer and wine and ate flan while watching election results on CNN and MSNBC. After the Ohio win was announced, all hell broke loose. "O-Ba-Ma!" they chanted. It was a diverse crowd: Cuban Americans who had voted Republican until this election, Hillary Clinton supporters who carried buttons for her in their pockets and traditional party liners wearing jeans and drinking beer. Many wore "I Voted for Change" stickers. In a corner, Eloisa Hidalgo dabbed tears as states began coming...
...audience in the hockey stadium ate it up. "He's a turkey!" one man shouted. "Cook him!" went another. Presidential candidates or their running mates from either party have rarely stopped in Indiana this close to Election Day, because they had little reason to. The Republican bastion hasn't voted for a Democrat since LBJ in 1964. So the very fact that the McCain campaign felt it had to dispatch Palin to rally its base showed just how vulnerable the GOP is this year. "Everything is showing this thing is absolutely in a dead heat, and suddenly, Indiana makes...
...tapped as insurance for banks willing to adjust mortgages in a loss-sharing agreement. The FDIC would guarantee any losses on loans readjusted for homeowners who can show a 38% debt-to-income ratio, similar to what the FDIC worked out for the 60,000-odd bad loans it ate when it closed IndyMac bank...