'Barry' learned to like Punahou

[ellisonz]

'Barry' learned to like Punahou

By Sudhin Thanawala
Associated Press

In 1971, a 10-year-old boy named Barry Obama enrolled at the private Punahou School and entered an unfamiliar world of privilege where he initially felt out of place. But he kept those feelings to himself and eventually prospered at the school.

Obama came from a modest background; suddenly his peers were the island's richest and most accomplished students. Around that time, America Online founder Steve Case, actress Kelly Preston and former Dallas Cowboys lineman Mark Tuinei attended the school, which offers kindergarten through 12th grade on a lush hillside campus overlooking the Waikiki skyline and Pacific Ocean.

Arriving after living four years in Indonesia, Obama felt like a misfit in his Indonesian sandals and old-fashioned clothes, the Democratic presidential contender recalled in his 1995 memoir, "Dreams From My Father."

Most of his classmates lived in "split-level homes with swimming pools," he wrote. Obama lived in an apartment near school and worked at a burger chain and Baskin-Robbins before graduating.

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[Muttocracy]

1. he should stop by a burger place and an ice cream store on his PA bus tour! nt

[babylonsister]

2. How 'bout hot dogs and bowling? Yes, he already did! nt

[ellisonz]

3. He should work the drive through at a Scranton McDonalds for a day!

;-)

[Orsino]

4. A president who actually had to work fast food.

Could be great.

[ellisonz]

5. Barry has a customer service personality.

[bellasgrams]

7. If you think working in a fast food joint is great you need to

read how Hillary put herself through law school. Very good read and she has kept her work ethic in tact.

[panader0]

6. Proud Punahou alum Class of '68

[MaryCeleste]

9. Punahou grad here as well

I knew him in HS too. I think the some of the articles about him then verge on fawning...

[Cha]

8. So interesting, the story, ellisonz..thanks.

Turns out Senator Inouye had to apologize for the remark about the Punahou School and Obama..which I thought at time was totally dissing a school on Hawaii to try and make Obama look bad just 'cause he supported the vitupertive liar, hilary clinton.