OH: Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie on Barack Obama

Neil Abercrombie, who represents Hawaii's first district in the U.S. House of Representatives, visited Ohio early this month to campaign for Barack Obama. He spent a day joining Ohio AFL-CIO President Joe Rugola on his walk to highlight closed factories and lost jobs in Ohio (see http://labor2008.typepad.com/oh/2008/10/ohio-afl-cio-pr.html) and also took some time to talk to Labor 2008. Congressman Abercrombie, was a friend of Barack Obama's parents and knew Sen. Obama as a boy, has a pretty unique perspective into what Obama would bring to the presidency and why union members should support him.

Thanks to Congressman Abercrombie for his time.

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[garwoodv6]

Hmmm... what a difference two years makes! "Pookie", aka BHO, has certainly proved himself to be anything but a unifier...

Odd too, is how Abercrombie, now the Governor of Hawai'i, was all about opening more official state document filings of BHO's history a la his original long-form Birth Certificate, until BHO and his family took their Christmas 2010 vacation in Hawaii. Now Abercrombie is back-pedalling on most everything he has said in support of Obama...

[DoknDoLpress]

exercise ... neil ... your not healthy enough to be our next gov. .go, run with linda ... xoxnanette

[menehune59]

Neil Abercrombie is so right about the value of 'lokahi'! I'm so lucky to know such a great man here in Hawaii.