A man walks into the office U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie where a poster of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. is displayed Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 in Honolulu. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a white mother and a black father who had met in Russian class at the University of Hawaii. He was an island boy most of his first 18 years. His mother's charitable work, his multiethnic friends and the economic gap between his family and his classmates at the island's most prestigious private school _ he attended on scholarship _ helped forge Obama before he left for college on the mainland. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)