When he was just a fairly senior member of the House of Representatives it probably passed most people’s notice that Neil Abercrombie was actually friends with the president’s parents when they all were students at the University of Hawaii. If you want to get a sense of what Barack Obama Sr. was like, a good person to interview is Abercrombie. Here’s an example from a Time profile of Obama’s mother that was published in April 2008.
“He had this magnetic personality,” remembers Neil Abercrombie, a member of Congress from Hawaii who was friends with Obama Sr. in college. “Everything was oratory from him, even the most commonplace observation.”
Obama’s father quickly drew a crowd of friends at the university. “We would drink beer, eat pizza and play records,” Abercrombie says. They talked about Vietnam and politics. “Everyone had an opinion about everything, and everyone was of the opinion that everyone wanted to hear their opinion—no one more so than Barack.”
Neil Abercrombie in no longer a congressman. He’s the governor of Hawaii, and he’s pretty annoyed with Donald Trump:
A testy Abercrombie, referring to Trump as “a serial bankrupt,” tells Hawaii News Now, the online news outfit for KGMB and KHNL, that he was in Hawaii at the time, and knew Obama’s parents as students at the University of Hawaii.
He says Obama’s parents introduced the newborn Barack to him and other friends a few days after he was born.
“We not only saw him and were with them, but were introduced to him of course at our gatherings, our student gatherings,” he tells Hawaii News Now.
Abercrombie also calls the latest Trump birther eruption “simply reprehensible” and an insult to Obama’s late parents.
But what does The Donald care? It’s just more attention for him.
But dontcha know, the Constitution clearly says that a black man cannot be President and live at the White House? None of those fancy-dancy latte liberal amendments to the Constitution change that. The Constitution says that black folk exist for the purpose of apportioning Representives among the states (at a 3/5ths ratio) but not for the purpose of actually voting. What are you? Some kind of ACORN veteran or something?
See. It’s right here:
That’s what’s called going back to the Founders’ intent. Other persons participate in the process only to be counted for purposes of direct taxation.
And when it comes to the Founders’ intent, facts don’t matter. Just ask America’s pre-eminent Constitutional scholars: Antonin Scalia and Rush Limbaugh.
Well, he had to find a new way to draw attention. Teasing his hair and You’re fired were getting old.
I read in a credible source that is roadkill on his head.
The longer the republicans waste their time on this crap, the better. They’re making themselves look like total idiots.
Lol, and they especially don’t matter when dirty fucking hippies like Neil Abercrombie voice them.
After all, if you google Neil’s name, this is the first link that shows up:
Hippie Gov. Neil Abercrombie: I Saw The Baby Obama! Yeah, And I Saw Elvis!
there are dozens of pages of links like that.
See, this is the problem with Donald Trump and the rest of the elite conservative establishment from big states—they don’t understand anything about what life is like in small state “real America”—so let’s break it down for them.
Hawaii had about 600,000 residents in the early 1960s. In a small and new state like that, most of the future rulers go to the same (public) university.
And it’s not a big university campus like UT-Austin, or UM-Ann Arbor. It’s a small university campus.
So things like the future congressman/governor partying with the parents of the future president happen—all the time.
It’s about racism–pure and simple. Listen to the rest of Trump’s interview, with dog whispers from “the Blacks (sic) love me” to how he is going to “talk to the Chinese” and “take (sic) the oil from Iran.” He is appealing to every would-be bully in the country, who wants to feel big without any justification to do so.
I don’t know why we want to get tied up in the details and why we don’t just back off and see this “candidacy” for what it is, the representation of all that’s hateful in American politics today.
My bet’s on Lawrence O’Donnell, because in today’s real estate market I don’t think Trump has enough liquidity to finance his own campaign.