Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American PresidentPosted in Articles, Barack Obama, Media Archive, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2012-09-06 20:27Z by Steven |
Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President
U.S. News & World Report
2012-09-05
Lauren Fox, Political Reporter
The details of Bill Clinton’s youth, along with a number of his hobbies while in the White House, often led some people to call Clinton “America’s first black president.”
Now that the country’s actual first black president has been in office for some time, California Rep. Mike Honda, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, wants to draw attention to whom he says is America’s first Asian-American president: Barack Obama.
“Everyone looks at him and says he’s black and he’s white,” Honda says. “He’s Asian in his upbringing. You cannot come out of Hawaii and not have an Asian approach to things.”…
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