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

On the recordSeptember 17, 2015
I would just like to ask people 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 Barack Obama and his family amidst political criticism.

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