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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...
Of course, Democrats are thrilled by the homecoming, no matter how private it is because Obama is good for business. "It's great for tourism because the president of the United States has his pick of locations," says Brian Schatz, chairman of the Democratic Party in Hawaii. "That he chooses...