stephanie
02-27-2008, 07:22 PM
shame on him for insinuating the boy king is an elitist...
Tue Feb 26, 4:09 PM ET
HONOLULU - Sen. Daniel Inouye has apologized for suggesting that Sen. Barack Obama's private high school in Hawaii was elitist.
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Inouye said before his state's Feb. 19 Democratic caucuses that voters know Obama was born in Hawaii and graduated from one of its high schools, "but he went to Punahou, and that was not a school for the impoverished."
"To suggest that Punahou maybe set his life plan in place, I find it very interesting," Inouye said in an interview with The Honolulu Advertiser.
The Democratic senator is backing Obama's presidential rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Inouye apologized in a letter to the president of the Punahou School, according to Jennifer Sabas, his chief of staff. The letter was sent to Punahou President James Scott late last week, Sabas said Tuesday. A copy and a short note were delivered to Obama as well, she said.
"It was just a misstatement," Sabas said. "It was never the intent to disparage Punahou in any way. It is without a doubt one of the finest schools in our nation."
read the rest...Obambam is very upset about this......:laugh2:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/ap_on_el_pr/obama_inouye
Tue Feb 26, 4:09 PM ET
HONOLULU - Sen. Daniel Inouye has apologized for suggesting that Sen. Barack Obama's private high school in Hawaii was elitist.
ADVERTISEMENT
Inouye said before his state's Feb. 19 Democratic caucuses that voters know Obama was born in Hawaii and graduated from one of its high schools, "but he went to Punahou, and that was not a school for the impoverished."
"To suggest that Punahou maybe set his life plan in place, I find it very interesting," Inouye said in an interview with The Honolulu Advertiser.
The Democratic senator is backing Obama's presidential rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Inouye apologized in a letter to the president of the Punahou School, according to Jennifer Sabas, his chief of staff. The letter was sent to Punahou President James Scott late last week, Sabas said Tuesday. A copy and a short note were delivered to Obama as well, she said.
"It was just a misstatement," Sabas said. "It was never the intent to disparage Punahou in any way. It is without a doubt one of the finest schools in our nation."
read the rest...Obambam is very upset about this......:laugh2:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/ap_on_el_pr/obama_inouye