Obama promises to show off native Hawaii at APEC 2011

[pampango]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gwxU8EmoqpcxAwzYwyKWGN9slDOw

"US President Barack Obama promised to showcase his home state of Hawaii's rich culture and heritage when he hosts the 2011 Asia-Pacific summit, the White House said Thursday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement that the summit would take place in Honolulu on November 12 and 13, 2011. The president "looks forward to welcoming his fellow APEC economy leaders to the state where he was born and to showcasing Hawaii's rich cultural heritage and hospitality," Gibbs said.

Obama teased world leaders when he announced the Hawaii summit at the last APEC meeting in Singapore last November that they would have to wear loud shirts and grass skirts, in the traditional group photo featuring local dress. The annual spectacle has seen leaders in a variety of costumes, from leather bomber jackets in Seattle in 1993 to calf-length silk tunics in Hanoi in 2006, and Peruvian ponchos in Lima.

"The United States is a Pacific nation whose economic ties to the Asia-Pacific region are strong, enduring, and critical to the prosperity of the American people." Gibbs said the United States would use its chairmanship of APEC to highlight the "vast potential" the Asia-Pacific region holds for US companies and workers and to help shape the region's security and economic future.

This year's APEC summit will be in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, a gathering Obama is expected to attend. In 2012, Russia will host the gathering in its Far East city of Vladivostok.

[rfranklin]

1. Yes, but will he show the long form birth certificate?

A lot of folks would be crushed.

[Kingofalldems]

2. K and R for the Birthers---Complete Idiots

Read it and weep.