his name was common place in the islands for sure !!

sad to hear of his passing

I think his democratic originally was more like Kennedy
the ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for the country type of democrat

being from Hawaii and a few here who might have also lived most their life there or even more than a few years know the islands are not the mainland !!! they maintain much of the 3rd world culture and values and the Japanese folks still have Japanese values same as Philippine folks and mainland folks etc.. so the ideas of how we live our lives in the Islands can never really translate to mainlanders that easy so I can totally see how he was a democrat and a great guy

I had a lot of liberal friends but they never let it change them or get in the way of things !!! if all of them could be more like that we would not be so divided