Honolulu, United States (AFP) — by Jerome CARTILLIER Hawaii was never Barack Obama’s political stomping grounds — that was Chicago. But his childhood in the Aloha State helped fashion his worldview, and instilled in him the need to sometimes look at unfolding events, and himself, with a bit of distance. The only American president born in the Pacific island paradise — nearly 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) from the nation’s capital — Obama is proud of […]