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Yeah he flashed the Shaka. Perhaps the only President to do it and mean it. [youtube]kuECVACmJhs[/youtube]
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 8, 2012 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE 18TH ANNUAL GALA OF THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CONGRESSIONAL STUDIES Ritz Carlton Washington, D.C. 5:46 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Thank you. AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody, please, please, have a seat. Have a seat. You’re making me blush. (Laughter.) Mahalo! AUDIENCE: Mahalo! THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you, Norm, for that kind introduction. More importantly, thank you for your lifetime of distinguished service to our country. I want to thank all the members of Congress who are with us — including two people who are fighting hard every day on behalf of every member of this community — Judy Chu and Mike Honda. Give them a big round of applause. (Applause.) Now, I am thrilled to be here tonight because all of you hold a special place in my heart. When I think about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, I think about my family — my sister, Maya; my brother-in-law, Konrad who’s in the house somewhere — (applause.) I don’t know where Konrad is. My nieces Suhaila and Savita. I think about all the folks I grew up with in Honolulu, as part of the — (applause) – AUDIENCE MEMBER: Aloha! (Laughter.) THE PRESIDENT: As part of the Hawaiian ohana. I think about the years I spent in Indonesia. So for me, coming here feels a little bit like home. This is a community that helped to make me who I am today. It’s a community that helped make America the country that it is today. So your heritage spans the world. But what unites everyone is that in all of your families you have stories of perseverance that are uniquely American. Some of you — those from Hawaii or the Pacific Islands — (applause) — live where your family has lived for generations and your story is, in part, about keeping alive treasured native traditions. But for others, your story starts with ancestors who, at some point, left behind everything they knew to seek the promise of a new land. Maybe the story traces back a century and a half, to the laborers who risked their lives to connect our coasts by rail. Maybe it begins with one of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who, decades ago, made the tough journey to Angel Island. Maybe the story starts with your parents. Or maybe it starts with you. But here’s the thing. No matter when it began, no matter where it began, your stories are about someone who came here looking for new opportunities not merely for themselves, but for their children, and for their children’s children, and for all generations to come. Few of them had money. A lot of them didn’t have belongings. But what they did have was...
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Obama taps Jim Yong Kim, a Korean American to head the World Bank. The president of Dartmouth College has a great resume and seems fit for the job. (Dawn – Jim Yong Kim)
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Jeremy Lin wants to meet Obama one day soon. It’ll happen. (NY Daily News - Jeremy Lin)
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BS: Jeremy Lin. Obama: — doing good. And I knew about Jeremy before you did, or everybody else did, because Arne Duncan, my Secretary of Education, was captain of the Harvard team. And so way back when, Arne and I were playing and he said, I’m telling you, we’ve got this terrific guard named Jeremy Lin at Harvard. And then one of my best friends, his son is a freshman at Harvard, and so when he went for a recruiting trip he saw Lin in action. So I’ve been on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon for a while. BS: Are you taking credit for “Linsanity”? It kind of feels like you are a little bit. Obama: I can’t take credit for it, but I’m just saying I was there early. BS: I’m surprised you didn’t steer him toward the Bulls. [Laughter.] He was floating around and getting waived by teams. Obama: Well, we’ve got this pretty good point guard on the Bulls as well. So he might not have gotten as much PT as he did. But look, it’s a great story. And what’s interesting is the fact that somehow folks were missing it in practice. I mean, that’s what’s interesting. Because you got to assume that during scrimmages he was running that pick-and-roll pretty well. And it is a terrific story. He seems like a wonderful young man. And, look, it elevates this great sport all around the world. It can’t hurt ratings for basketball in China.
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