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