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...lapel, walked onscreen, and informed the viewers of channel K5 that he was ready to be president. Not president of his student body—he had done that already. President of the United States of America. It was Chris’ first talk show appearance. Andy Bumatai, a Honolulu comedian, had heard about the local kid with Oval Office dreams and invited him for a chat. With the cameras rolling, the 17-year-old settled into an armchair next to Bumatai. “Chris, I want to ask you,” Bumatai said, leaning forward...
...Klein may have had his greatest election cycle since he first began covering presidential campaigns in 1976. In addition to TIME's celebrated political team, the magazine and TIME.com had 30 correspondents and reporters following the vote on Election Day, from Miami to Billings, Mont., from Roanoke, Va., to Honolulu. And that included our Africa bureau chief, Alex Perry, who spent election night with Obama's extended family in Kenya...
...When her daughter had a baby and dropped out of college at 18, Dunham got a job at a bank, becoming the family's primary breadwinner. When Obama's mother returned to Indonesia, a teenage Obama wanted to stay in Hawaii; Dunham made space for him in her small Honolulu apartment. She was "the one who taught me about hard work," Obama said, accepting his party's nomination in August. "She poured everything she had into...
...Less than two weeks ago, Obama had suspended his campaign to make a 22-hour trip home to Honolulu for a last visit with his 86-year-old grandmother, who had been in poor health for a long time. The Illinois Senator learned of her death around 8 a.m. on Monday, but carried on with his campaign schedule without making it public until late in the afternoon. "He was prepared for it, and he knew. I think he was very, very gratified that he had been able to say goodbye," his chief strategist David Axelrod said, in explaining Obama...
...With reporting by Dan Nakaso / Honolulu...