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Greetings,
Mr. Madden said: "This is a candidate who went to a ritzy private high school in Hawaii before going on to Columbia University and Harvard Law School".
Mr. Obama attended Punahou School in Honolulu on scholarship because he was the child of a single mother and could not afford it. Do your homework.
Here is a statement by Obama to Sen. Inouye about that:
Inouye said before his state’s Feb. 19 Democratic caucuses that voters know Obama was born in Hawaii and graduated from one of its high schools, “but he went to Punahou, and that was not a school for the impoverished.”
Obama responded to Inouye’s comments in an interview with KITV the Saturday before the caucuses.
“Shame on Danny for trying to pull that stunt,” Obama said. “I went to Punahou on a scholarship. I was raised by a single mom and my grandmother.”
Mr. Madden, the statement in your article was prejudicial. You gotta cut that out. But then you knew that, didn't you?
Journalists are supposed to strive for fairness, they are not supposed to editorialize, that is for the editors. Jsut like they said in The Wire, it starts with little things.
