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Punahou gets Inouye apology for Obama barb
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Feb 26, 2008 12:28pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Honolulu Advertiser
U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye has written a letter of apology to Punahou School for comments he made about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, a Punahou graduate, before the Hawai'i Democratic caucuses last week. Inouye, in an interview with The Advertiser before the caucuses, said: "If you ask the people in Hawai'i what they know about Barack Obama, I think the honest answer is, 'Very little.' He went to school in Hawai'i but he went to Punahou, and that was not a school for the impoverished.
Obama, who was born here, was asked about Inouye's comments in an interview on KITV: "Shame on Danny for trying to pull that stunt. I went to Punahou on a scholarship. I was raised by a single mom and my grandmother." Several people criticized Inouye's comments in letters to the editor and in posts on The Advertiser's Web site. |
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