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Offline thundley4

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Obama's childhood home might become landmark
« on: April 07, 2009, 08:52:30 AM »
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HONOLULU (AP) — It's no Mount Vernon, but the Honolulu apartment building where President Barack Obama grew up might become a national landmark.
Hawaii lawmakers are pushing to put the 12-story, 1960s-era building on the National Register of Historic Places.
The building is the first childhood home of a U.S. president that's a high-rise rental.
Obama was born in Honolulu and lived in a 10th-floor apartment in the building from 1971 to 1979, when he graduated from high school.
His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, rented a unit in the building for 41 years until she died just before Obama was elected president last year.
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No doubt that he'll be on Mount Rushmore before long.
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Re: Obama's childhood home might become landmark
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 10:18:33 AM »
Oh God, doesn't anyone in political power in this country have sense anymore?
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Re: Obama's childhood home might become landmark
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 10:33:08 AM »
I would agree with some modification:

Have it razed and the ground sown with salt and a marker erected, "may the blight never rise again"
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Re: Obama's childhood home might become landmark
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 10:59:59 AM »
I was expecting it to be some mud hut in Africa.   :fuelfire:
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Re: Obama's childhood home might become landmark
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 12:51:48 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on April 07, 2009, 10:59:59 AM
I was expecting it to be some mud hut in Africa.   :fuelfire:

His family was well-to-do......it was a packing crate.
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Re: Obama's childhood home might become landmark
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2009, 04:35:10 PM »
anyone else notice how he didn't move into his "childhood home" til he was 9-10 years old?  that means he was born at that age, right? :uhsure:
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