What? Am I American???
On the August 10 edition of ABC's This Week, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- who was born in Hawaii -- for "going off this week to a vacation in Hawaii," which she said "does not make any sense whatsoever." Roberts stated: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place." Roberts continued: "He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he's going to take a vacation at this time."
And you can tell I'm from Hawaii, I don't even know where the hell Myrtle Beach is... Oh, it's in South Carolina (just looked it up on the Internet). Why the hell would anyone choose to go to South Carolina over Hawaii?
So Obama's staying down the road from where I live. Keep hoping to run into him at Longs or something, but so far, no such luck. I read in the paper this morning that he went to my gym on Sunday morning. Crap! Do you know how long it's been since I've been to the gym on a Sunday morning? If I had stuck to my old schedule, I would have seen him. Now I'm sad. Oh, well. I could still run into him at Island Snow...
My mood: foreign and exotic