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Neil Abercrombie: “And I would just like to ask people who -- who have this political orientation towards the President, respect us here in…”

On the recordApril 25, 2011
And I would just like to ask people who -- who have this political orientation towards the President, respect us here in Hawaii. Respect his mother and father. Respect the people that I loved and the people that I knew and the little boy who grew up here in paradise and became president.

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Abercrombie urges respect for Obama and his family amidst the controversy over his birth certificate.

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